 of the press where we get to take a look at major headlines on the dailies. We got with us today a cheap lecturer from the Nandini Institute of Journalism, G.D. Johnson. He's going to be joining us shortly. But first, let's begin with the punch, major headline. Kano confirms 10 dead, 400 hospitalized, Legas across river, Sokoto 1 residents. We've got three riders to that story. 50 undergoing treatment for kidney related ailments. That's coming from Kano. Don't take products not approved by NAVDAC. That's coming from Legas. And then this one here. Killer drink can get to or shun from Kano. This is coming from Oyetola's aid, and it's very alarming. Also we have a number of pictures here. And it says Legas begins construction of a 37 kilometer real mass transit, okay? You'll want to get the details of that, right? Just go to page six. Also below that, we have Ganduja, Kano stakeholders and Dangoti Bois Rift. Okay, now this particular story splashes across most of the front pages. Wonder why it's like a clash of the titans. But we also have this one here, Nigerians lament as officials, racketeers exploit passport applications. Also we have a Buhari returns after a 15 day UK medical surgeon. We have this one here, controversial payment. RCCG petitioner apologizes as fashion life faces Senate. That might prove to be interesting. We also have this one here, suspected headsman kill another Barakwa farmer in Oyel. And then Ferragaman demands NIN, approves seam activation registration. Above the mast head, experts blame insecurity, low production, forks as inflation hits 18.17%, page 22 for that. And then we have this one here, Nigeria's exact crude oil production volume unknown, that's coming from the 80, printed 60 billion Naira, CBN falls of Basiki, our government team stand, there's still this back and forth between the Basiki and Ferragaman. Last but not least, nine power plants shot FG apologizes for outages. All right. And I'm moving on to the nation. Newspapers, government to place sugar wheat on forest restriction. Also, gunmen posing as burial party, kill three policemen at a checkpoint. Shiroro, eight gas power plants break down. Experts say inflation's rise to 18.17%, a cause for concern. Killing of soldiers attacks in Oweri, worry governors. Also, EFCC gives a Korocha bail. Gunmen hoist Biafran flag in Anambra town. Others this morning, that's from the president now to the IG, don't fail Nigerians as President Buhari returns to the country. We can also find here, CBN states must start paying $2.1 billion budget support loan. And also, MFLA talks tough and knocks on Basiki, Apex banks action to help bad economy. That's from the CBN governor. News seem registration to resume on Monday. The ban was lifted I think yesterday. And also 10 dead and 500 hospitalized in Kano state. Lagos begins construction of Agbado Marina rail line. Those are the big ones on the punch news for this morning. Okay, so I've got a daily independent major headline, NAS under pressure to pass electoral act amendment bill. Got two writers to that story. PDP, NCF, others are speedy passage, CSOs to occupy NAS after Ramadan. Above the masthead. Some will look kicks of construction of real mass transit red line. Sex, CBN working on cryptocurrencies, trading regulation, that's coming from Uganda. Also, we have this one here. Purchase in power dips, further as inflation hits 18.17%, Ganduji, Reconciles, Dengote Bois. Insecurity now, Nigeria in agony pains. It's time for national healing. This is coming from Haneze. We also have this one here. Gunmen killed three policemen. It said petrol van ablaze in Eboni. And then the IMF says that Nigeria, others need $245 billion external funding in five years. All right. Judy Johnson, good morning once again. Good morning, it's pleasure to be joined. Good morning to our viewers all over the world. All right, there's a couple of interesting ones. I'm gonna show you where you would want to start from. It's the... What we have in Kano concerning 10 people dead and 400 hospitalized. Yes. It's a major concern that that's a pandemic. It's something which we should rest flag on. On that particular issue, I can't imagine that happening in any other society where 10 of their citizens would die and 400 people hospitalized. And that's just an official figure. We don't even have to be a great figure. And all those products managed to get into the country and to get into circulation without the necessary agency doing their duty legions in preventing that to happen. It's a cause for concern. In other time, those agencies will pay because people will go to court and they will sue the agency. So government and they will sue whoever is a provider of that services. We shouldn't be losing. The life of every Nigerian is very, very important. And what demonstrated that is this variable about one lawsuit, where the shepherd left 1990 to just go after one. That happened in Nigeria. Even if 20 got missing, the Nigerian government and the Nigerian society would not bother. We'll just say it's 20 out of 100. Let's continue with our lives. I think we must... The Ministry of Health must rein in on this particular matter. And agents of government like Natak must do something. So that we don't have a spread of this particular epidemic spreading to become in a pandemic in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa. And the other interesting story from Kano is the Kano Steak Holder bringing an end to Tanguti and Hua, that's not the bringing an end to the face of. The face of is they are trying to solve the personality problem, but there are deeper issues that are involved. You recall that last week we spoke about it was Major Headline Dignist, but when Emoire wrote to respond to attempt by Tanguti and Flamish to get Emoire license being withdrawn from sugar refinery as a result of Emoire's refusor to increase the price of sugar because of Ramadan. Beyond the face of a preservative personality, the difference is between Tanguti and Hua because they are from Kano. There are deeper issues that we must look into concerning concerning concerning that we love them to reconcile, but they must not reconcile to the detriment of an average Nigerian. They must not reconcile to a small Nigerian when in perfect competition. We don't need a do-pulling. A do-pulling, we always create a problem whereby the consumers will be at the masses of just few producers. We don't need a do-pulling, we don't need an oligopoly. Government deregulated the teleconceptor to end the monopoly. Now we have perfect competition in the teleconceptor that you can afford to choose any network that you like and that's the way issue of it in every sector, sub-sector of our economy moving forward. It was a good news also that the president returned after 15 days, 15 days back to Nigeria, but the other side of the story that I find very, very funny is the order. I don't know how many order the president has given to Inspector General or police that he has appointed since inception of his administration in May 29, 2015, that he gave him an order to ensure that there's security. If you give an order and you don't provide the enabling environment, you don't provide the necessary resources for whoever you have appointed to work, you are just giving an empty, an empty, an empty order. I think the president need to sit down and have a review of the security situation. It is not possible for any Nigerian to travel anywhere without first looking at the risks involved in traveling. You see, I traveled last week, and my tire got punctured between because of our expressway. I didn't wait because I was the only one in the car. I didn't wait to change the tire. I drove with the punctured tire back to Lagos until I got to Bega, right from Majibwa. I didn't stop anywhere because I was the only one. I was the only one in the car. Well, it's better for me to be safe than for me to be concerned about the economic implication of damaging the car, or damaging the tire. That's the experience. I remember a student of mine that traveled to the East and then was coming back from Oreg. The president drove back to Beanie with the punctured tire in between Oreg and Beanie because he didn't wait to change the tire. That's the security situation. And I don't know how the governors and the president can justify the security votes. They are collecting month in, month out, day in, day out. We saw a situation that headers, suspected headers, kill farmers in your state too. These security implications will definitely affect your economy. We are complaining that, oh, Twitter came to establish the headquarter of their, the original headquarter in Ghana. Why would you establish a business? You are looking for foreign direct investment in your country. Why would an average foreigner be interested in investing in Nigeria? When even Nigerian in Diaspora that wants to come back home, don't want to come back home again because of the security issues in Nigeria. Some of them want to invest in their cultural sector. Some of them want to invest in other sector that will boost the economy. Some of them want to invest in real estate in their, in their, in their, in their own country. But it can come, it can come back home because of the security situation. Now, if Nigeria in Diaspora can't come home, you expect the foreigner to come and invest. So if you don't resolve the security issue, it has economic implication. It has political implication. It has psychological implication. It has social implication. Every family is affected. If you travel anywhere, people are not at peace until the year from you. You'll be monitored from, from bigos to wherever you are going in any part of the country. Another story is the economic story, concerning the economy, which is the brick part between the central bank of Ghana and the do-state, the do-state govna. Where the do-state govna said, last month Ferragome, Ferragome had to print 60 billion naira to cushion the effect of what the state, which here will be disbursed, because I hate the word here, will be disbursed to state and local government from the federation, from the federation account. I think it's the central bank of Ghana that has come out to see something. It is what Abaseke has said. I think the person that should come out to see something, the central bank of Ghana just had an agency is in charge of the monetary policy. It is not in charge of the fiscal policy. The fiscal policy and the monetary policy coordination lies with the Ministry of Finance. Now, we have not heard anything from the Ministry from the Minister of Finance. We have not heard anything from the Minister of Economic Planning, contrary to what Abaseke has said, except what the central bank of Ghana has said. The central bank of Ghana operates by instruction. It is instructed to do whatever it wants to do. It's not as independent as the chairman of the Federal Reserve that you have been arrested in America where once it's appointed, it's insulated from political control. Whereas our central bank of Ghana is within, is not insulated from political control. So Nigerian deserves the truth to know are we printing money? And a correlation to that effect is for you to see the report concerning the inflation. That inflation has risen to 18.17%. Now that, with that fact, and with that fact you could come to the conclusion that indeed there's too much money in the economy. When you have too much money, pursuing few goods, basic economy, elementary economics tells you that that leads to inflation, that the cost of inflation is that there's too much money within the economy pursuing few goods. You have deflation, whereby there is less money pursuing many goods. So the inflation report, validates Obaseki's position. Why it invalidates that of the Syrians' governor position? Sometimes I wonder whether these people think we are fools and whether the things Nigerians don't have a head. We don't have the intelligence enough to distinguish between black and white, to distinguish between red and blue, or to distinguish between night and day, because the indices are dead. And once you look at the indices, it will give you clear indication of what is happening within the economy. And if we continue to build great money, like Uganda did, like under India made, they will turn to a banana republic. Then there will become a worthless currency, and the value of businesses will drop dramatically. So it's very, very important for critical stakeholders. What is the national assembly saying concern it is? We don't know. Can we really blame printing of currency as the cause of inflation? Yeah, it's a look. If elementary economics will tell you that if you have too much money, pursuing few goods, it will lead to inflation. It will lead to inflation. It's just a basic, it's just a basic index. There are other factors that contributed to that insecurity situation, which has spoken, which has spoken about the lack of investment in critical sectors that we have. We are a consumption nation. We consume everything we have, even from China. All you need to do is to go to Kiari market, or to go to Ladikwa market, or you go to the market in Alon Badagri's express, Alaba International market. Or you see where these goods are coming from. Or you go to Apapa, and you see what is coming in, and what is going on in terms of shipment. Then you need to tell you that we are reliant on foreign consumption. Export at waste, import at waste at our export. Definitely you will affect your cross domestic product. You will also affect your national product. So all those factors will lead to inflation. It's basic economics. There's something that, there's a correction I want to make here. The minister of finance, budget and national planning, Zainab Ahmed on Wednesday said that the federal government did not print 60 billion Naira. She said in her words, that what Mr. Obasaki said was sad, but untrue. So let me draw your attention to some other stories, right? You expressed worries over unknown figures of, you know, those dead in Kano earlier on. But this is another one, unknown figures. Naiti says that Nigeria's exact crude oil production volume is unknown. That's on the punch, the front page of the punch, right? So I want you to take a look at that and also take a look at this one. Nine power plants shot and FG is apologizing for the outages. If you could just take a look at those. I will talk about the power. Let's talk about the unknown. NNPC as an institution is bigger than Nigeria. It has no control. NNPC from time immemorial. Nobody knows what comes in or what goes out at the NNPC. Do you know how many legislative panel, how many administrative panel that has been set up to investigate NNPC? I recall while I was a young chap growing up when the present president was the minister of petroleum in Nigeria in the seventies, where 2.8 billion Naira disappeared in NNPC. That has as far back as then. So NNPC is a bare month. It's a Frankenstein monster that Nigeria has no control over. And some, that was how Naitel was. That was how NEPA was. And that's why when Atiku Abubakar said there is the need for us to privatize NNPC, it was really good. But I think that's the, and later after the election, the vice president came up with the idea that okay, we are going to privatize NNPC. There is the need for government to invest in NNPC and allow private participation to participate in it, just like we have in the telcos. Nobody, they have told anybody, my late father, that every Nigerian we have phone in the telco is not possible because they never live to see what the reinvestment and the revolution in the telecom industry. In Atiku Abubakar, the former Senate president said, when he was minister of communication under Abubakar, that telephone is not for the poor. An average person cannot afford that telephone now. What he said was not possible in the 90s is not possible now. And that's the approach we need to adopt for the telecom sector. Now coming to the power sector, there are three critical sector in the power sector. You have the gencos, you have the, you have the TSCOS, the gencos are the generated companies, the TSCOS are the transmission companies, and the TSCOS are the distribution company. The only sector that government has deregulated totally is the TSCOS, that's the distribution company. That's just one of the value chains. There are three value chains. Two of the value chains are still being controlled by government and it was, but we put the claims on the TSCOS now, you see it's better government that is apologizing that there's power outage in nine of the power generating companies because government has not followed through which is the regulation policy in the power sector. And on theories of the power sector, we can never solve Nigerian problem because power is critical to building your economy. Power is critical to this world. I give you an example. Let there be a power outage in the studio, or let there be a power outage here, can we transmit, can people view the programs? A lot of people will have an opportunity to view these programs if we have power, but because we don't have power. So for you to view this program, you must run your own generator. So government has done us to one, a government on our own sector. You provide your own power, you provide your own water, you provide your own, you provide your own, your own bowl, you do your own street, you know, you provide your own healthcare. What is government really doing for Nigerians? What is government really doing? I want us to go back to the petroleum, the NNPC discussion. You, I wanted to quickly also point out that there is a minister of petroleum. The minister of petroleum. It's an aberration. It's an aberration for a president to allocate, you see, you are meant to supervise all the buildings in an area and then you now allocate a particular building to yourself that you'll be supervising it. What time will you have to supervise all those buildings? What time? It's an aberration for the president to have that ministry under his watch. If the president who have that ministry under his watch, I've advocated over time, why did the president put the office of the attorney general to the under the vice president? So if the president, some of us have advocated it, if you want legal reforms, because one of the one of the clamor or the promise is that APC campaign on in 2015 is that there will be judicial reform. The judicial sector will be reformed and then you have a stand, a professor of law as your vice president and someone that has been an attorney general for 12 years in one of the most vibrant state in Nigeria, you have him in as your vice president, you didn't give him, you didn't allocate any ministry to him, then you allocated a ministry to yourself as a president. It's an aberration and I think we need to put an end to that. You just have a minister of state who cannot take decision until the issue gets to the presidency. You know how many agencies of government are under the presidency? Oh my goodness. It's just sad that we will be having this in this age and time. It's like the president of America allocating to his office the office of the defense. All right. If you press them up. Yeah, Judy Johnson, it's a very, very, very interesting Friday morning and I believe that the concerns and the things that you've spoken about, a lot of Nigerians also share similar views with regards moving the country forward. Can we also speak a little bit more on power? How, and I was sharing this earlier, that I think one of the things that we don't have is shame as a country. How do you explain? And do you think that maybe somebody should be fired if we have eight power plants currently dead and one of them is currently in intensive care? Maybe clinging on to life. What do you think should be, or who do you think should answer for questions like that? Well, as a Christian by fate, according to Jewish account of creation, the first thing God used to solve the problem of the world is, let there be light. We cannot resolve our economic problem without light. Until we solve the power problem, this economy cannot grow. And people are benefiting from this darkness because they're agent of darkness. And agent of darkness will leave big money in the dark. So we have nine power plants. Eight is down. And one is at critical condition. What we need to do to solve this problem is that once there's no light, you shouldn't power the state out of the generator. You shouldn't power the presidency. Let them be under the national grid. So once the national grid collapse, the president in Nassau Rdok will live in darkness. The state governors in their previous state houses will live in darkness. The national assembly will be in darkness. So it is an aberration for agencies of government, for arms of government to be powered by power until we take that critical and drastic decision that you know what, we will not allocate money for generator for state house. We will not allocate money for generator for government offices. We will not allocate money for generator for public officials in their previous presidents. Then if it is your power, do we need rocket science to solve power problem? Do we need rocket science to solve power problem? Do we need? We don't need rocket science to solve just to generate power. It's just like the refinery to, it takes us back to if our refineries are functioning, because these things are interrelated. They are dependent on one another. If our refinery is functioning, we generate liquefied natural gas. We could power this plant with liquefied natural gas in order than using dam, using hydro power, hydroelectric system to solve the problem. So there are things that we need to do. And until we do it, it's a step by step procedure. It's about foundation. If you don't do the foundation, you can't put your roofing on the house. So the power issue, we need a drastic situation. And they shouldn't power the state house which you have been in a lot. We shouldn't put money for generator for state houses. This thing you just said about power. I used to have a boss who said he had issues with electricity and he went to a disco to complain and he discovered that they were using a generator set there as well. So I, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, that's, that's. And like, like you pointed out, it's don't rule in Nigeria. You have it's ruling. Are people disciplined? Are people sanctioned? No, it's don't rule. You just had, you have this, you were arrested. You make noise about corruption cases. They were arrested and they will release the person on bail and then we'll go, the litigation will go on for years or what we pass judgment and it will get to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court will say, oh, because of technical issues, like we have for the shipwhip of the National Assembly because of technical issues, the Supreme Court will order for a retryer. I would request, I will repeat the evidence after 12 years, after the witnesses and the rest of it. So we are just, we are just doing that. It's our own local pandemic here in Nigeria. So it's COVID-19, electricity is our own pandemic. Quickly also show your thoughts in a minute. On the nation this morning says, they had gone men hoist Biafran flag in Anambra town. Where do you think we're going with all of this and how can we have better conversations about what's going on in the Southeast? I pray what happened in Yugoslavia does not happen in Nigeria. What happened in Yugoslavia is from Yugoslavia that you have Serbia, Montenegro and the rest of it, they broke up. Yugoslavia are similar attributes like Nigeria and then I hope we don't get to that level where you have high level of genocide, killings and the rest of it because some parts wants to break away from this. We need to have a conversation. Do we still want to continue as a country on North? Until we have that conversation, if we have been this challenge and that and the amount of guns in the hands of eight men in the hands of private citizens in this country. And for about three years ago, no, 2014, 2015, there were a lot of cashment of arms that were seized, that were seized. They were seized and they went and they became customers and they will show it on. They have not prosecuted one person. We have not seen the head. I knew I did more than seven programs on TV and on radio concerning seizure of arms, illegal arms imported into the country. We are those arms. Yet, Nigeria and me does not have arms and ammunition to fight Bukwaram but we have arms and emissions fully distributed across the country. A governor bought 1,0847. You'll recall that is what has happened. The governor of Upmusti, the former governor of Upmusti, yes, call it speedy speedy. The former governor of Upmusti, in the armory of Upmusti, I don't know whether Upmusti was fighting what there. They had 1,0847. What has happened to that? I hope and I pray that we don't degenerate into what happened in Yugoslavia, what happened in Somalia or what happened in Sudan. I'll quickly add this. In 1983, when the president was the military president, we did a campaign to prevent brain drain, to stop the migration of Nigerians to other country. When they say, and true, don't check out. Then you don't need a visitor to travel to Britain. You don't need a visitor to all commonwealth countries. You can do your investigation. Nigerians were checking out. And then government came up with two checkouts. Under this president administration again, with this president-president, you know how many Nigerians that are checked out of this country? Will you leave? Only God will save us from what is happening. And we have not even done a campaign to prevent that. Only God will save us from what is happening in this country. And I believe Nigerians, all you need to do is to take a survey. We deal with younger generation. I teach. Take a survey. How many of them wants to really live in Nigeria? Because their hopes and aspirations have been dashed. There's no opportunity like opportunities in this country. And government was wake up. When people become desperate, then it becomes desperate. Chaos is inevitable. Thank you. God bless you. Thanks a lot for your thoughts this morning and for kicking off our Friday morning with all that fire. It's a pleasure to be with you. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Stay with us. The breakfast continues. So we're coming back after the short break with Today in History. And we're sharing with you things that happened today many years ago. And we're back to the year 2013 to share a very, very sad incident here in Nigeria. Stay with us.