 It's World Glaucoma Week, or should we know about this disease? An expert joins us this morning on the breakfast to tell us just that. Also, on the breakfast ahead of the all-important World Cup playoff between Ghana and Nigeria, a former ego is set to make an unexpected return to the team with this course's prospects on the breakfast. And we have incisive analysis of the headlines on today's national dailies. This is The Breakfast of Plus TV Africa. Good morning to you. We're glad to be back on your screens right here on what is an interesting edition of The Breakfast of Plus TV Africa. I'm Kofi Bartels. And I am Mesa Bokoz. Beautiful Friday morning. Fantastic mercy. It's been an eventful week. We've had very incisive discussions on this programme and today we're running it all up with an important look at a disease that affects a lot of people. And from what I hear, some people who have glaucoma do not know. They have to be talking to a guest. I can't wait for him to be with us so we can know some more about this. Not all the time we talk about politics. These are the important issues that affect the lives of people. But let's start off with a look at the stories that I've been trending over the past 24 hours. And a very interesting one will roll you a video and this is something that you can never write up. Like we normally say, you can never write a script. It just writes itself. One of the trains, a train that was travelling from on the Lagos Ibanu Express route or the train route rather was said to have gotten stuck and it ran out of fuel. Over the last week and I had a cancelled flight. And here we have the video. I had a cancelled flight. What happened? I was told that there were technical issues but some people suspect that a cancelled flight was around the country due to a scarcity of A1, jet fuel. Now we have a train running out of fuel in the middle of nowhere. And this is user generated content. You can see the pictures right there. But the video itself says a story. I don't know if we can roll that video but if you hear what the passenger said in the video, it's quite funny. They had to bring a pickup truck. You can see some expatriates there as well. They had to bring a pickup truck loaded with a barrel of diesel. And that was what they were able to now roll on the ground and then they put a tube into a hose into the barrel. They were able to now, with their hand, you can see them pump the petrol into the train. And the guy who was with the phone put it up this user generated content online and said, you know, in case you're planning to buy a train in the future for yourself, this is how you fuel it. We're stuck in the middle of nowhere. The train ran out of fuel. We had to wait for them to bring the petrol or diesel, whichever it is for us before we can move them. Thank God, I think they're safely in Lagos now, but this is bizarre according to some. Very unfortunate. Very, very sad incident that happened yesterday but a lot of people would want to say that this is not necessarily, you know, having to blame the government on this one. I mean, it just shows failure of administration. The same thing as having your generator. Yeah, it's bad, but it happens. It happens across, you know, parts of the country. But it's not an excuse. I'm trying to say that let's not blame this on, you know, scarcity of jet A1. That's not the case. Someone just failed at their job and that's exactly what happened. Because you're supposed to understand, you know, it's like you have a generator. You have a car. And you know when you're running down, you know, you're going empty. You know when the tank is full, you know what you're supposed to do. You know that before you turn on the generator, you know the basic maintenance culture that we carry out. For those who own the cars, I'm sure this would not be like an excuse. So you understand. So I understand that this feels scarcity. We have aviation scarcity, the fact that it's on the high. But you want to agree with me that this is a government corporation. I mean, so it is not acceptable, but it happens. It just shows you that. Let's not begin to say, oh, it's Buhari's fault now. Or, you know, the governor of League of State or we blame those who should or we blame Desmond Elliott. We blame Desmond Elliott. So it's not part of that. So what you're saying is before you embark on a journey, you should do your calculation. Imagine if this was an airplane. No, imagine what would have happened. You know, it's funny now because it's funny now because within have any casualty. I mean, just imagine that it's nowhere. This is Niger and you hear of a lot of insecurity issues. I mean, bandits could come up. They probably would be smiling. They would probably be running a helter-skelter. So it just shows you that we need to do a lot. I mean, we can't just wake up and act like. Yes, we understand that from time to time we've had in parts of the world where these things happen. But I mean, it's not an example because these things happen and that's why I would always say that leveraging so not necessarily saying you have to. So if this has happened before, how do we prevent it? It's the same thing. It's the same. We don't learn from our mistakes. We don't learn from our mistakes or the mistakes of others. I mean, the fact that you have a car, you own a generator. Generator said, I remember back then just being at home, you dare not even go to the generator. Mom would actually ask you have you checked? Is there oil? So you need to do all of that. And so who actually went on to send the train? It's a very big risk. What if something happened? You know what some people were saying? And this is a fantastic point you've raised. Before you set out on a journey you have to do your preparations. And imagine if this was an airplane that lost fuel, where does it feel in the sky? They'd come down. The aviation sector has to be you have to be on the money. You have to plan. You have to be very careful. They're very, very strict in their standards. Unfortunately the rail sector is run by government. You know, some days ago I was thinking about it, because looking and running sector through the courier companies in Nigeria, just to do some back to know which one can courier something from me from Lagos to Calaba. You know, because we know how the roads are and all that. So I wasn't sure who. And I've had a very, very nasty experience in one transport company that I caught courier my stuff from Podhakot, from Lagos to Podhakot. And from December to June 25th till now it's not arrived. So what I did was I had to start going through the Instagram posts of these courier companies, because they're dealing with Nigerians, really. To know which one has the fewest complaints. So I can't use them. I came up, I chanced upon an article talking about Nipost and how the failure of Nipost had led to a lot of both international and local and even mushroom courier companies coming up. And I'm like, wow. So I started reading about things that caused Nipost to fail. You had even people's items being stolen in Nipost and stuff like that. So I don't know whether this what we see now is one of the evidences we know of the ineptitude of government when it comes to running things. We have the aviation sector, Nigerian area is gone. We have the postal sector, Nipost is gone. We have the aviation sector, Nytale gone. We can go on and on and on. And now we have the rail sector lots of investment. We're taking loans from the Chinese and it still isn't government house. Government hands. Nigeria Railway Corporation. And this is what we're seeing. But some people online will say no, it can happen anyway. One person commenting said screenshot, gave a screenshot of what happened in Los Angeles when Amtrak train traveling from San Diego run out of fuel on Sunday night. What should we be living by those standards? I don't know whether we should be living by those standards. It's really unfortunate. It's a poor advertisement for NHS. We've been seeing other videos apart from this. Last year, I'm sure you remember, we saw a couple of videos where people got stuck in the middle of nowhere. So I think that this whole culture and this ideology of saying, yes I understand we're taught that in elementary government economics that government is not a good manager of anything. But let's even look at it in its real sense. The people who run the affairs of government are not spirit. They are human beings. And so whether or not we begin to make the argument, it's a human issue. We need to begin to put structure and have, you know, what's it called again? You know, have principles and put out those standards. They are human beings, whether they're in the private sector or in the government sector. And that's what it is. All right. The Nigerian union of road transport workers around the country is just a union of road transport workers. But in the southwest part of Nigeria and in Lagos in particular, it's a different ball game. You know, I've told you previously that I never get at what Legosians used to call, I never really understood what Legosians used to call the Legos Agbeiro. Because where the other parts of the country have lived in, Agbeiro, when you think of area boy, you know, but I got to understand that Agbeiro meant those who load passengers into buses or taxis rather, other various parks in Legos. But it's not a palatable term to be associated with. And of course we've seen the incidents, the violence and internal fighting leading to, you know, gun shots and use of dangerous weapons by the national union of road transport workers in Lagos state, led by the legendary M.C.O. Luomo. You know, this guy called M.C.O. Luomo is sort of a enigma, is an enigmatic figure. You know, even musicians have sung songs that included his name. The famous song by Teni Makanaki, where she said I go call M.C.O. Luomo and I report all of them. So he's seen as someone you can report things to. He's also seen as a political stakeholder in Lagos state, where, you know, the NURTW is aligned with the All Progressives Congress in Tinbu in Lagos state to make sure the way elections. Let me put it that way. Okay? Let me put it that way, for what of the term. Well the police has had to intervene in different skirmishes. The Lagos state government has had to intervene in different skirmishes in the NURTW between NER2W and another union. And some persons have been arrested. But the latest one, of course, that got Tongue's wagging, was the fact that they used the national body of the NER2W, had ordered the immediate suspension of MCLM, his name is Musliu Akin Sonia. They suspended this man for what they called misconduct and insubordination to the union management. Remember, he had led a protest in which he, alongside some of his supporters, accused the union at the national level of unnecessarily interfering in the affairs of the union in Lagos State. So what has been MCLM's reaction? He called on the Lagos State governor to take over all the motor parks. He called on the Lagos State governor to take over the motor parks. That was his own reaction. He said that Governor Song should take over the motor parks and run their affairs. The police in Lagos State in the meantime, released their men and stationed different, policemen at different motor parks in Lagos in a bid to forestall violence. Because of course, if all the most people are not there, some other people will have to take over. And that was a good one, but I saw some police vans moving around Lagos State yesterday. But what we hear also is that the NER2W in Lagos State has withdrawn from the national body and they said they're going to be running things on their own. So it's a dicey situation and we'll be watching to see what happens in this space. Well, I see how all of that pans out. The next on top trending for us is the pageant that happened in the prison. And of course, you know, some people say it's just become a celebrity talking about Chidema. It was, some people say now, you don't have to begin to use the word alleged. She has confessed to that crime. However, the case is still in court and usually when you have a case in court, I mean, it's out of a conversation in public space. But looking at the, I think what's really costing a lot of Nigerians to talk is the fact that yes, it looks as if she's in glam. I mean, it looks as if she's living very beautiful life. If you look at someone committing a crime, should they have all of those privileges? But if you want to really look at it, you understand that the prison is a rehab, you know, it's a rehabilitation center. I understand the concerns of Nigerians as regards how she looks and what's happening. I mean, you're talking about the case of mother here, but well, like we are still seeing cases still in court. And let's see how that pans out. Also, a lot of you football fans express sadness over the news that broke about Romana Abramo, the owner of Chelsea Football Club. Remember, he's been trying to sell the football club for some time and that was also a shock, a shocker having won the club for so many years. And the Romana Abramo ever era in Chelsea is the most successful era in the history of that club. And they actually are living in their most successful moment. They've won the Champions League last season. At the beginning of the season, they won the UEFA Super Cup and then it went on to win the World Club Championship World Club Cup for the first time in their history. Last time they won the Champions League, they didn't win that trophy. And it's caused a lot of people to be surprised that the owner of the club wants to sell the club at this time. But of course, this is not unconnected with what's been happening between Ukraine and Russia. And the expected sanctions on the Russian oligarchs, most of whom have connections to Vladimir Putin. You know, it's a long story. We might go into that at another part of this program. But quite a number of Chelsea fans were not happy with what's going on. So it's not going to be a very easy season for Chelsea right now because we also hear a report saying that they're not expected to sell tickets. It's just going to be quite a difficult time for them. But it was really a great move that Abramo which actually made them move to put up Chelsea for sale. And some people are saying, oh, what does the staff... Because it would actually affect those who walk. It would affect a lot of persons. But you see, it just shows you that one man's action can trickle down to wherever you're the person. But we definitely see how things actually unfold as we proceed in the course of, you know, the show and moving forward generally. All right, that's it on our top trending topic, our top trending segment. It's still the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. I would take a pause now and look at what happened to do in history. And when we come back, we dive straight into the headlines of the front pages of the National Daily. Stay with us.