  док고 etwa ドン ドン bachat xônn  d dopamine  dvp  dvp  dvp  dvp dvp dvp dvp dvp dvp dvp dvp dvp dvp dvp dvp dvp dvp which is 9 pm to 4 pm. No sale of petrol outside those hours. So... We don't cancel that one. We don't buy six times these now. All right, let's get to the crux of the matter now. We're starting off with the punch newspaper and it talks about power outage disrupts APC rally, stops Buhari to Nobu's pitch. Well, that's what you find there. APC national working committee to probe incidents as Bauchi rally successful, really. So what's the probing about? That, you know, because if you live in Lagos, I mean, recently Kofi, I really don't know, remember the other time you talked about where you live and the fact that, you know, power is always constant. I don't know if that's the case. Buhari supporting to Nobu directed governors to ensure victory. You also find CBN Baz Abulja Lagos POS operators. That's according to the report you find on the punch regards cash swap. CBN Baz Abulja Lagos POS operators. Federal government forecast fresh flooding in Plateau by outside orders. Lagos project jobs or Lagos project jobs as president opens rice meal and sea ports. Nigerians now have alternative to PDP APC, the Kwankwasso is quoted to say. Well, that's the much we can take this morning on the punch. We go to the nation news, a few of the headlines, a big one there, Buhari's declaration in Bauchi. Tiniwee's incoming president. So what the president is saying, why North should vote for ex-governor PDP abandoned region to Boko Haram. That's from the Pauchi rally. Caught to DSS charge terrorist negotiator Tukul Mamu. Caught to DSS charge terrorist negotiator Tukul Mamu. Some of the headlines. Look at some other system premises. Well, let's turn our attention to the daily trust news people. Nigerians fear massive losses debt line draws the near. We're talking about the old Niren note. Business owners give January 20 feet as debt line. Business owners give January 20 feet as debt line. And food prices stores traders reject all notes. Family reject all notes as bright price or really. NPC begins training of 786,741. You know, workers for the census. Excitement is Buhari Commission's 1.5 billion Lekidipsi port. Orhanese places that is 7 million are bounty on iPop leader. And passengers or airline counts losses as passengers stranded as workers ground the airport. These are some of the headlines on the daily trust news people this morning. Very quickly take a few off the front page of the Vanga or the Guardian rather 65 million narrow losses. NPA shots Lagos port over Buhari's visits. It's quite interesting. Freight forwarders kick as cargoes get trapped. Police unleash dogs on them. Buhari Commission's 1.5 billion dollar Lekidiport Lagos rice meal. Excuse me. Lekidiport can handle four times a papa tin can cargoes. I don't know who said that but that's what someone at the commissioning said. Quite interesting picture of President Buhari with the governor of Lagos state, Dakbar beauty governor, a basic governance from the southwest part of Nigeria with him. We can also see a picture of stranded passengers at one of the airport Lagos airport over that same suspended strike. All right, tell look at more of these as we go on as well. PSE denies supporting elongation of IGP's tenure. Nigeria records 123 confirmed cases of the Theria and 38 deaths. Some of the headlines on the front page of the Guardian. Let's bring in Chris Kendi Wando at this point. Chris will start with the story on the front page of the Guardian. We hear that apart from the roads that were shot or close to public vehicular and human traffic yesterday because of President's visit. He is saying he's going to Senegal by the way. I don't know if he's coming back to Lagos to continue the commissioning today because there's some things he's meant to do today as well. But apart from the roads that were closed, we hear that the NPA shot the Lagos port. This is the Niger Port Authority total closure of the Lagos port following the President's visit. 65 million Naira lost yesterday as cargoes got trapped is what they are saying. There was a total closure of the facility and restriction of access to the port by users. What are your thoughts on this development? Yes, thank you, we need to put certain things into perspective. I was listening to you put a few before the commencement of the NPA headlines. And you were talking about the issue of the roads, the movement, but something is obvious that both of you seem to, it seems that you don't go beyond the territorial land, Negi and Iboyi as big boys and big girls. You don't go beyond that. Don't be too sure, Chris, don't be too sure. Yeah, you know I'm very sure because from what both of you are saying it's obvious you don't go beyond that. There's a lot that have been put in place for those in terms of the roads for the benefit of our viewers watching us. Now, if you move on that as it will see that after the second tour gates, that's supposed to be the second tour gate through Leki, up to Ajah, moving to Sangotedo, down to Aweyaya, there is massive construction going on. In fact, if you are used to VGC, if you get to VGC, you may not know this because there's also a very big impute here. Well, Ma'am, this is here. She didn't say anything. Thank you, Chris, for the information. This is here. Wait, wait, let me enlighten you a bit. Because she stays there. Yes, that road has been expanded and that I think is part of the development. But the key one is not equal to that. The key one is that the route from Ijebudi to Aweyaya has been completed. The fact is that the Bogustek government left by Dapa Beodu has constructed from Ijebudi to a certain point, okay, on that as it is, there Legos started there from a leko, a leko, if you know a leko very well, leko, down to Ekweyaya. So that as it has been opened up is a large response of route. So what that means is that very good, majority of the vehicles coming from the south east, south, south and the rest of them that are coming, especially tankers and the rest of them that come through the only access through Berga, entering to Ojota, going through Apapa Oshu, the expressway and also for those of you that are also in the mainland. When you come to, when you are going to come to Joelekba, you see that line up of tankers from there up to Apapa that will not happen again if that's the mechanism. So they have no business coming into because they come through that place, enter from Ijebudi as it is, through Ekweyaya and they clear out from there. So that vehicle also the trucks are going to be lifted from the deep sea. So there's a lot of questions but that does not necessarily mean that or that you will not have trucks coming also on this other as it is. So a lot of, a lot has been put in place in that but definitely the fact remains that there is going to be a huge regular traffic on that route. Once that deep sea has been opened, don't forget the airport is also coming there. There is another airport that is coming there. There with the refinery, the Dangute refinery it is going to be a hell of traffic. Bex, it will be is that which the opening of, the president have is just, we commissioned that as it is from Eleko to Ekweyaya. That is one of the project is into commission. So I think it's well thought out and they have solutions to some of this. It might not be total but it's also to resolve the problem we presented those of us in the mainland I have been heading to Apapa. Most of those traffic we can move to that as it. Okay, but the government of Lagos state did say that they were going to ensure that the access route to the port was changed to six lanes. And it's what we're wondering if that has been done. Yes indeed you are right. No, but Chris, Chris. Especially from Ajah to Eleko. So, so. Can you tell us, are you aware of that if that has been done? I mean, Kofi, just before, just before Chris, you know, I mean continues with his thoughts it's a good thing that you mentioned that but not as you have thought that we don't move around. I have of recent time move around that particular route. I mean, if it's the same route you and I are talking about the same route that if you're coming, you know through Ekweyaya if you're coming from Bini or you're coming from Asaba you have to navigate that way you know through Ekweyaya. If it's the same route we're talking about I don't see any six lane construction there. I know that there's construction going on that's going on but you know it's some part of the road because you still have some part of the road that's not been graded. So you have sand and you know what it is that you're you know driving your vehicle on this sand that you find in the beach. So I'm just wondering and the construction you know we there's also a diversion just like you have mentioned around the VGC access which is you know the aspect of it but you know that's been going on for a long time and we don't even know how fast you know we're going to get to that point because it looks like 2023 might come to an end and that project is still you know going to be worked on. So we're still you know trying to understand how government seem to manage the movement of you know goods, peasants with all of these projects they're very good but how do they intend to manage that with the poor road network? The essence of that project is to ease off the concentration in the mainland. That is a problem they need to ease off the concentration why you are having so much traffic is the fact that let's take the tankers everybody come from across Nigeria to Apapa to come and pick fuel that is a major problem and you continue ask yourself why is this so and the problem is also because most of the other refineries are not working if the refinery in worry is working those in the south side and south is to go to worry if the one in Kaduna is working those coming from the north we go to Kaduna we go to Kaduna and there's supposed to also be one in worry so those are the issues everybody comes into that so the essence is to be able to then the seaport practically the seaport in Nigeria none of them are functioning except that of Apapa there's supposed to be one in Koko there's supposed to be one in Kalaba there's supposed to be Potakots also are supposed to have one even Onisha there's supposed to be a port in Onisha that has not been judged so you can see that massive movement so what they are doing now is trying to now focus and make sure that they move some of these things to their land towards the equal area so that you call me you don't need to call me to the Kuduru Road you don't need to call me to Lagos if I express way since the way that place is shown they are moving some of these things away from there then also realize that we only have one airport if you are living in Nigeria or you are living in a quay or you are living anywhere and you must catch a flight going out of Lagos either internationally or locally it's either you are living by 2am to pick a flight a local flight to any part of the cotton from there as is but with the cargo airport that the airport that you are also living in that also is so what I am saying is is a gradual thing that would I would say about 80% of that route has been done I don't know whether I was not counted whether it's 6 or 18 or but I know I have been there of this land they who stayed for a long time Lagos did not just finished joining in a quay and majority of that close to about 80-90% of that route is done it might be expanded with time yeah Chris very quickly please thank you for the information and Messias now also told us where she lives thank you very much but I am why is the city was coming from it should have been there what are your thoughts on on the pension because the paper is talking about a closure or restriction or strict access control that was implemented at the Lagos port which meant that that's PTML area of Tinkan Island since last weekend because the president was meant to visit there to commission lubricant factory set up by MRS today but he's in he went to CityGal yesterday so I don't know how that's going to work and so so we're hearing that the freight for others and you know people who do business they could not access the place in their complaining that's number one number two because looking at what's on the front page of the guardian I want to talk about the rice factory the inimota equal do some people feel it's a not it doesn't make economic sense because we don't have rice we don't plant rice in quantity enough to supply that factory in Lagos you have to bring it from from states outside Lagos so just please talk about those two stories the closure of community what is not necessary that's crippling economic activities of Lagos state because the president is coming to the Tinkan center the president doesn't have to pass through the road all they need to do is have him on a chopper wherever he is he's in a cage and you have him on a chopper he drops he drops there commission what he wants commission and leave that is why if you look at the president of next state once a first one drops you will see a smaller chopper like helicopter I will pick him up and take him to wherever he's going to you don't see him you don't see them shutting down the highway just because the president is coming to a statistic or whatever at the only time I have seen highway short even if it was not even short it was I think it was short it was not even short it was a short was during the burial the burial ceremony of the king of England and you can see where of hours that that here's was moving you still see people moving around and the rest of them but this part of the country we want to play the ostrich but probably it's for security reasons but I know that the government have put so much in place and have been announcement in the first one week on the various diversions that was going to happen in the island and mainland and even the Apapai area and Nigeria's have been told but that is how we roll that is how to play our game here but I believe that shutting down the practically the only one support that we have just because the president is visiting doesn't make any economic sense to alright Chris quickly and messy hall sorry just quickly the earlier one I researched was the yes the rise well well don't forget that the legal state government invested in that rise project in I think it will be one of those states guys they have because they have rise funds in the legal state and it has a a collaboration between the legal state and I think of the state government and so I probably think that they are bringing they bring those rise to the legal states for the don't forget that even if you build that rise in in good there whatever it comes you are still going to transport it back to the legal states and so I don't know the rationale behind setting up that but it will also be an opportunity for them to create job for the Christians and also probably make the rise cheaper in the legal state like I don't know the rationale behind a million having that rise in the petitioning project and now bring it to the gust for million I don't know why so Chris let's look at the punch quickly the punch talks about the power outage that disrupted the APC rally and stops the president's speech and also the presidential candidate's speech to Nobu right there but what's of interest is the APC national working committee's intention to probe I mean I thought that that's how we roll and we know that we don't have a constant power supply is there anything to probe feels like we're you know trying to be very acting different let's say are you not happy that that power went off how can you say that in fact any where the president go they should like to go that is what should be wherever he goes and they are not using generator and they should put him on that power or whatever you call it so that in life person you don't want to spend their confidence in the asshole and also in state houses where you have generator running 24-7 they don't know what we are going through so what I just in fair years it was a picture of what the masses are going to what are you going to prove that the generator didn't work or that the supply went off yes definitely have to if you have been doing what you are supposed to do then you won't have that embarrass me it was very I was happy you know why I'm happy the president didn't make his speech the black bearer of APC also didn't make his speech so let me if you see what they are going to compare with you say you are going to supply electricity to nitrogen for 8 years you couldn't do anything you couldn't increase the capacity and continue blaming where you ask them they say oh if PDP was there for 16 years where did they do it I had somebody on my program on Friday inside politics we seek here at one of the TV stations which I was there every Friday and the person will say what will APC use to campaign he say oh don't forget that PDP was there for 16 years it's take time for you to be able to ride around I say to take 8 years to ride around is that possible is that what you are going to tell Nigeria why we should go there so what they can investigate from here in Dhonkou they don't know what will be suffering I am present in my house I have not had life past 24 hours Chris if you were happy that there was power outage when the president was about to speak I was not happy about it I am very happy I am not happy about it because it's my president and I don't think that you know that's quite embarrassing if you are president you are not to agree now if you have not the right to go so I am happy that you should take the right to go wherever he is talking so that you can please what Nigerians are feeling and I am not being sarcastic about this I am just being true and that is fine that is what we are going to now there is no petrol there is no electricity you know what you may see you know how much you spend to be able to power the generator in your house you power for your vehicle you go and buy black market I know the problem here is that the police stations are not even selling into jerry cans for you to be able to power your you know that very well so you have to resort to black market for you to buy because if you queue after 4 hours I queue for 4 hours sometime last week to buy fuel then they go to the point I wanted to buy energy for my generator they said they are not selling so I have to look for ways to buy black market but I am still depressed they should take the life I am very happy about it I am not happy I am alright Chris is very quickly the independent national hydro commission on the foreign page of the nation through its chairman Professor Mahmoud Yacobu yesterday said the commission staff remain non-partisan he is always saying he spoke to BBC News Africa he said the election results will be transmitted electronically as provided by law so the headline on the foreign page of the nation is we remain non-partisan INAK assures Nigerians and he says the commission staff will remain non-partisan that is what they are setting up INAK stated and by the constitution the 1999 constitution last month the INAK dependent that is supposed to be independent a lateral commission independent but I left me that independent is not total on to the power to appoint the chairman of INAK is removed from the office of the president I think the national assembly should have the power to appoint appoint the INAK commission because the situation where sitting president appoint chairman of the electoral board that to me is a good partisan but I am happy that the INAK chairman is saying that they have been depended and there will be no partiality I hope that will also trickle down his staff because in the past election we have seen where most of most INAK officials have compromised their job and were not independent and neutral enough and that became a problem and you come to see that a lot of the people that were involved in the electoral practices are not being prosecuted which is why I like this current chairman where he said that he wants the national assembly to pass the electoral commission of France tribunal that is a tribunal that the INAK and NGOs have been pushing for some time now at the national assembly was that tribunal that act is passed and the set of it will save them the problem of going through the records of the courts what how anybody arrest anybody the electoral market just go there and ensure within weeks that that will be taken care of unlike what we have now we are offenses and issue relating to election takes month and every year to be prosecuted I hope that so that INAK will be as independent as supposed to be and very very neutral in the coming election Chris thank you very much he says that long claims that the commission is close to the all progressives congress that we should look at the previous elections the state elections recently that they've been conducting of late he says different political parties have won in different elections in different states so it's not true that INAK is close to APC the ruling all progressives congress Chris thank you very much for a time Chris Candy Wando executive director African governance and leadership initiative which honors Vasum in Lagos so I appreciate your time Chris and enjoy the rest of your week and go yes and go if you take a drive to Awoyaya and there I won't go to Awoyaya sir I won't go Chris Chris Chris last time somebody was in middle with me from Awoyaya or in VI I left the mainland and got to to VI it to aniru to aniru not that construction is going before the person for two hours it told me I am at my junction two hours I am coming out of my junction two hours I won't go there sir hehehehe well we have to go now thank you so much have a great day thank you you too I thank you you know what it means to drive from that axis I really feel for those who stay who live around there may see it's not easy so fingers are crossed then I am just hoping to see all the construction that is going on we have a short break ahead when we come back we look at vision sector issues and of course a strike vision sector labour unions has been called of what's the impact being on the sector 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