 On the breakfast, the Nigerian Medical Association has urged the federal government to ensure the payment of newly approved hazard allowance to its members. Is another strike possibly brewing? We also look at the Afghan Democratic Congress, which has made the headlines again this time for the wrong reasons. The National Working Committee of the party has suspended 17 state chairmen of the party. And the ADC get its house in order in good time for the 2023 presidential election. We'll have in-depth analysis of some of today's papers going through the front pages of the National Daily as always. We call it off the press. We're glad to be back with you this morning right here on the breakfast. And plus, if you have guys a brand new morning, a message looking so bright and really punchy today. Thank you. Your red, bright red suit. All right, we're back. Interesting conversations. I think it was quite interesting. Like we say, 24 hours is a long time, you know, in this country's fast stories, I could say. There's no dull moment, really. Of course. No dull moment. And we'll prove that to you as we start our top training segment. It was about whether the Qatari government had asked our president to comply, reapply or not. Well, our top training segment is up next. Of course, we'll do that and then get to the papers. And a bit once again, you're welcome. Let's see, Bopu, what is the president doing for you? But whether the president is on the top training again, just like he has to be, where, you know, we talked about he's being rejected or access to visa doha and it will be rescheduled. But this time it's not about that. It's actually on a positive note, even though a lot of persons have not accepted it as very positive. The president is scheduled to address the high level general debate of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly. And that's scheduled for September 21st. So a lot's happening in September. Right. And that is the UN General Assembly, I believe. All right. We'll get to the one you see on your screen shortly. Yes. So the UN General Assembly is coming up on the 21st of September in New York. Of course, it's a highly anticipated yearly event. Highly anticipated yearly event where presidents of the world gather to discuss the important issues of the world. The influence of the UN is not as it used to be. It's a bit less felt, even if you want to look at it recently as the days of butchers-butchers galley. But this is the United Nations General Assembly, not the Security Council, the General Assembly. It's a normal thing. All right. It's a normal thing. There's no big deal here. We hear that a revised provisional list of speakers released from the Office of the General Assembly president on Tuesday showed that President Buhari will be the first speaker on the second day of the gathering. The nations of the world who are member states of the United Nations, how their leaders speak at the UN. Even the ones who have sanctions on them, even the ones who are pariah, they will be allowed to attend the UN General Assembly even if they have a travel ban. They'll be allowed to go speak, you understand. The days of the military are, I think, if I'm not mistaken, our leaders spoke. Maybe one or two didn't go to the UN General Assembly, but largely you have, I mean, look at former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, even with all the sanctions on Cuba, he always found his way to the UN General Assembly. Robert Mugabe with all the sanctions on Zimbabwe then, you know, because of the land farmers and what you call the land crisis, he still found his way to the UN General Assembly. Most times the place is sometimes, sometimes the place is empty because people will be sitting out for a long time. They have to go out and a leader could be there for a while, you know, ranting about something that doesn't consent anyone, maybe about nuclear weapons or about socialism, you know, it's usually a talk show. But usually, if you look at it, I know that there's been several reactions following all of this. Activities have been stated to start from the 12th through, you know, that period. 12th, up until you have 13th, what have you till about, you know, 20 something, 27 thereabout, this event would actually happen. But like you have rightly mentioned, you know, it's no longer the same as it used to be. I don't know if it has always been the same. So if you follow the generation, I mean, the reactions that we're getting, all of the buzz on social media, some people are saying why would the president, I mean, really, what is he going to talk about? Who's inviting the president to talk about it? You have mentioned those, I mean, presidents of countries that have been on the sanction over time. It's a normal thing. Now, this is, so some people have cited the fact that the UN had recently made a comment on the release of Namdi Khanu and, you know, why would the president be invited? Why would the UN invite? Well, you need to know this. This is like explaining a gross, I mean, understandable, a gross lack of, and it's understandable, you know, gross ignorance of how things work. You know, they don't understand how things work. And, you know, it's the same thing that seeps into the conversations online about the national polity, you know, for instance, okay, we're talking about foreign remittances, oh, sorry, the diaspora donations, relations. So, it arises, nothing wrong with, I didn't know the Nigerians. It's about black and white. What is on paper, you know what I'm saying? You just, sentiments don't win. Exactly. And that's why it's interesting. There's nothing here. And that's why it's interesting to know that, just like you have mentioned, you know, if you follow the trend, or I mean, if you understand black and white paper, what exactly are we talking about? The body, the united nation as a body, you know, that existed shortly after, you know, the civil war. And they came together to see the world was trust me, I remember the civil war because of Nigeria, but it's the war we're talking about. I didn't know you were that much. I didn't know you were that much. No, no, no. I never experienced a civil war, but my grandmother told me a couple of stories. The thing is, the UN body, for those who are saying that the president should not, I mean, why would the president be invited and whatever you, Nigeria became a member of the united nation as soon as she became independent. I mean, 1960, October the first, so we became a member up until now, and it's just important that people come together. The purpose of the UN had been that, the issue of, you know, protecting a life-said property, you know, global security and prosperity amongst other things, amongst other issues, relations with other nations has been the focus of the united nation. But I think that the conversation should be, you know, moved towards whether or not the UN had lived up to her expectation, the reason that she was created. They always say she. I don't know why we use a she to describe every other thing. No, no, we're not arguing about that. No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying. I'm just saying it's a she. If she won't call it she, it's okay. No, but usually it's easy to say it's a she. It's like she was created. It's interesting, before we move on to the next, it's interesting, yes. You know, you know, the UN General Assembly is where leaders of even pariah nations, you know, nations who are even under sanctions going to talk, you know, I remember, you know, over the years you see images of, of some people dozing off. Because some of the leaders who get onto something people don't understand, you know, and you know, some of the leaders maybe, I don't know what, what's, what's, what's, I don't know if they're, you get onto things people don't understand. You see some of the, the delegations dozing, falling asleep on their chair like this, because this bitch is going left right, you can't trace it. So all you have to do is probably use, I mean, of course, they'll put their, their, their air piece together in temperature, interpretation of if it's in maybe Spanish. You know, so it's, it's a, a concoction of, of different leaders. It's not just the president. You have a lot of them, you know, this is a 77th session, Joe Biden will be there. But one thing about the General Assembly is that is a platform where the, every leader is, is male equal. Every nation is made equal. It's not a security council. Every leader is made equal. And every country will be represented to have this. It's not a World Cup that the, the Suprago's have missed out on, you know. So, so this is where every country becomes the same. Of course that's, that's, that's, that's the essence of it. But just before we move away. Your right, even the worst, if you don't like what the president is talking for you, he's the president of the country. You know, this is not the most important. There are other serious issues. You know. But for me, there's nothing that will come out of this for me. I'm quite interested. It's not to ops. And then the, the president will feel a, a life of ambition and just to be there, you know, but there's nothing, you know, that comes out. The, the meetings that hold behind the scenes are the, of the General Assembly. Those meetings by lateral and multilateral meetings, I think are even more important than the speech. The speech for me is always important to show, showcase yourself and just, you know, sell yourself and please. But I think the meetings also, a lot of things are signed and decisions are reached, high level decisions are reached at General Assembly. Well, I would say that that's something, you know, to go with, but if you look at the assembly, the gathering and the essence that you have, the UN as a buddy, my question over time has been about why they exist. And that's a conversation for another time, but it's all encompassing because if you say that we come together for global peace and security and ensuring that that's, you know, friendly relations among other nations, helping others, it's like, you know, let's come together and ensure that everywhere is peaceful, the world is peaceful. We can't experience what we experienced before. We're talking about the first world war now, the after effects and the aftermath. And we're saying we need to correct all of the errors. But after now, you know, prior to that time, we've experienced, you know, different phases and up until 2022, when a different dimension and dispensation, whether or not we're having, you know, the conventional war or not, but are countries of the nation not experiencing war? What is the, what's the essence of, you know, that gathering really? Like I already mentioned, it's a conversation for another day. Yeah, but you know, but people, people would, I'm sure would have a chill pill when they realize that even Vladimir Putin will be giving a speech. Nobody can stop him. But interesting, do you know that they're going to be talking about? Putin will attend and he will speak. In fact, if he's not taking, Putin might speak after or before the Ukrainian president. So transforming education summit is a bill is billed as a major event at a session and that's really going to be a lot of focus. You're also going to have, according to the shadow, where you have youth as well, leading conversations as we got the education. And a lot of persons are really interested, you know, in seeing what the president's, his speech will be about at a time where you have the educational sector and the lockdown and all that's going on in the system. Yeah, I agree. I mean, the content of the speech is important. The presentation for the world to see, you know, Nigeria on the global stage is important. And what in terms of why is the president being invited is where that's not an issue. You know, it's not, you can't stop him. He's the president. Who is going to speak? Me or you. You understand? So anyway, let's move on. The United Kingdom, of course, has a new prime minister. Liz Truss is the name from a foreign secretary under the administration or in the administration of Boris Johnson. Of course, the British didn't have how they do. And I think you would struggle like if you go down memory lane to find a prime minister who made it through all his terms. So they don't have terms, but you're left, you know, on his own terms, you know, at his own time or her own time. It's usually internal party wranglings and the person is upstaged and has to step down. And, you know, it's not usually, we want to see something, you know, like you have in America in the United States where you do your time, you go, but of course it's parliamentary system based on who wins the election, the majority of the parliamentary vote. But you go back to the time of, I mean, let's just, like I said last time, let's start from just recently, Margaret Thatcher. You know, it's been a scandal, you know, Thatcher tried to stay for some years, good number of years. And that's what she was called, the Iron Lady. Liz Truss is a new British PM. And I think that she'll also eat the same pill that has been dealt or drink from the same cup that has been fed the previous prime ministers. There'll be a scandal, something will come up. The members of party are going to make noise. Is there, okay, here you go. And then she will resign and maybe she'll give a heartbreaking speech and she'll leave, you know. But she has been announcing the members of her cabinet and you have Africans, some Africans who are there, in particular a Nigerian member of parliament. She's a British rather than Nigerian heritage. So we can call a British Nigerian member of, or Nigerian British member of parliament, Kemi Badenok as she's been announced as a member of the cabinet. Badenok was, you can see here, she was on stage there. She was one of those vying for this position of not prime minister, but of leader of the conservative party. Because when you become leader of the conservative party, you then automatically can become the prime minister because the conservative party is the majority in parliament. So Kemi Badenok was, she was in the campaign and there were some hopes that she would win, you know, the conservative party or the Tory vote. But as time went on, it became clear that it was a two-horse race and of course Listerus now came out as the winner of that election. She entered the House of Commons as a member of parliament for Saffron Walden in 2017. She's been also outspoken on issues such as gender neutral toilets and anti-walk, you know, the conservatives who are those on the right. Now, following Listerus's appointment so far, this will be the first time in UK history that the leading cabinet left in the hands of a British prime minister had no white occupying any of the great offices of state. Right, these are the great offices of state. Treasury, foreign office and home affairs. I think the treasury, well, the Chancellor of the Exchequer happens to be someone in Ghanaian heritage, that's great for Africa and Africans. These are the three great offices, Treasury, the foreign office and home affairs and none of them are white, which is strange, so congratulations to Kimi Badenok, she played her cards well and she also did well, merci by coming out as in the top five of the Conservative Party in July that made her go on to the next round of this contest to become the leader of the Conservative Party. And I think that that's why you have the boards because there's a top trending and a lot of persons are reacting to the fact that she's been appointed to this particular position so you would be sure that different reactions and different comments. But like she took to her Twitter handle to, I mean, to verify Twitter handle saying I'm delighted to start my new job and looking forward to unleashing global British full potential so we can create more jobs, more growth and more opportunities across the United Kingdom. It's going to be, I mean, it's really a time where there's a lot of work that needs to be done because of the economic situation right now in the United Kingdom and we're talking about the cost of leaving amongst all the issues. So yes, she has a lot on her plate. But the boards and the reaction has been that let's not forget that prior to this time, there's been several comments that's been made by Kimi Badenok and she talked about Nigerian politicians or the country being the place where there's a lot of looting going on. She left Nigeria. I think about 1996, if I'm not mistaken, and some people say, hey, it was a time where, you know, we talked about the Abacha, Newton, what a view. It has been it and some people are saying it would never happen in our country. I mean, where you see young persons getting to that position, you see a system where we can't say 100% transparency, but to some extent, there's a fair playing ground, a level playing ground for everyone to come on board and it's quite impressive, we're proud and we say congratulations to her. I really don't know, but she's been very strong on some certain issues and some people have also not really embraced that as a point because of some issues that's just been strong on. What's a good thing? I mean, it's a good thing because, for instance, you see the likes of Atikua Buboka sending a congratulatory message and also being excited. Usually when people are successful, you have all those words embracing and whatever you, but it's good to see that, you know, whatever dreams that she has or have had over the years has been fulfilled in the other parts of the world. I hope that we get to that point where, you know, other persons who have dreams, we get to that point really. Yeah, she's quite young, relatively young. I mean, born in 1980. Her name, Olukemi Olu Fonto Bardinok, but of course, before she got married, she was known as Ade Goke. Ade Goke, born on the 2nd of January, 1980. So she's quite young. I mean, 42 years old and it's amazing. You've given us quite a good, at least brief history of her and it just shows that Nigerians can make it anywhere. This isn't the first time we've had it, we're having a Nigerian British, you know, British of Nigerian origins having the spotlight as far as British politics is concerned. And then there was a time, Chukka Munna, it was, he was an MP, I don't know if you see it, an MP. He was touted as the next, let me say the British Obama, you know, yeah, Chukka Munna. And he had that outlook here and I don't know what happened to his political career. He would have been nice to see him become prime minister, but Kemi Badenok was born in London to Nigerian parents. She spent parts of her childhood in Lagos in the United States before returning to the UK at 16. And after graduating from the University of Sussex, she was a software engineer before studying law at Beck, Beck University in London and later pursued a career in banking. The woman mentioned the names of the companies for now, but she's done well. Like you said, controversial because of her stance. On certain issues. Yes, you know, anti-wok is one. You know, the Conservative Party is the rightist party. It's, I mean, they are the, they are the Conservative Party. So this is what you expect. If you remember of the Conservative Party, you would have a Conservative here. She's also strong in the white privilege. I mean, that's also another one where she's talked about where, you know, to her really, that should actually be faced out. And so you know what that would mean to the history. You know, she's saying that it's like you don't believe in a thing and then why should that be here? It's an ideology that should be faced out. Okay, so she's saying that the white privilege, the discussion about white privilege itself, she's not, you know, think, she doesn't think it's a thing. Yeah, yeah. So this is all the Conservative views, anti-wok, you know, same sex or neutral toilets. So you have male, you have female. Do you have a special toilet for those who see themselves as gender and neutral? You know, if you were feeling in a forms these days, some years ago it was male and female now. It's no longer male, if you can put non-binary, you can put X, you can put, you know. But I will still call you, you know. You know, so when- It's difficult. These are the issues. These are the issues. But we will move on. Congratulations to her. I mean, we won't have time to go into all the details about her in the history biography. But just a quick one. Yes, just a quick one because we're out of time. We're just delving into this one. Kofi, the Kaduna train terrorist negotiators have been arrested. And some people think that this is very commendable. But really, is this commendable? Because over time, a lot of persons have asked several questions. We see and we know we've heard of those who are actually having an encounter. Some people say we have negotiated. I was with this bandit. We went to XYZ places, including even on this platform. We've had several persons. I mean, a couple of them who've actually said, you know, I met, I visited. We had an encounter. Really, if you have a contact with persons like this, I mean, you're negotiating with this terrorist. At the end of the day, because it's a conflict situation, if you talk about conflict situation, you should have a mediator. Who, you know, appointed this person to become mediators, to negotiate with this terrorist. And when we think that because we're looking for the hideouts and where they are, how come we have not made a move? But Nigerians have reacted quite differently on this particular one. His name is Tukor Mamu, the lead negotiator between terrorists and passengers kidnapped from a Buja Kaduna train on March the 28th. They've been arrested in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, with his family members. According to the report, he was arrested on the order of the Nigerian government. He was on his way to Saudi Arabia for the hija and was detained at the Cairo International Airport 24 hours. And it's been repatriated back to Nigeria. But others have also mentioned the likes of Sheikh Gumi. He is one person that, you know, has been on the forefront. He's talked about the bandits or the terrorists and every other time, you know, there's several, he's negotiating his meeting with them, his speaking on the other side. In order to ask, are we having a double standard? These are questions. Is there a double standard? If we're arresting Tukor Mamu, how come we haven't arrested the likes of Sheikh Gumi? Well, Tukor Mamu is an interesting character. I mean, he's been, like you said, I wouldn't use the word lead negotiator because that would mean that there is a negotiating team officially, but he's been negotiating a lot, you know, with the terrorists, in particular, those who abducted passengers on this Cardinal Bound train and have held them for months now without release. And he would realize, I think, what people began to see. He's well-known in Northern part of the country. He's a publisher of the Desert Herald. And most times, you know, I mean, in recent times, rather, when you'd see that any of these kidnapped persons had been released by the terrorists, you'd see them taking a picture in an office with a banner at the back that has a camel. Now that is the logo of the Desert Herald. And he began to creep into national consciousness and awareness that, okay, this guy's doing something like this, and people began to take notes. And he was the one who would use his phone or maybe have a member of his staff use their phone to record the statements of the release victims, you know, and kidnapped persons, and even maybe their family members, those who want to say anything. I mean, the gentleman who was shown in the video, the one who was a lecturer, the one who was a doctor, the one who was a professor, the family of four, you know, to the two kids or three kids, the old woman, all these persons were in his office and they were taken, you know, pictures are taken and they made some statements. But the question that some had asked or have been asking is, okay, why don't we have these persons interviewed by the state security services, the DSS, or some government security agency? Why don't we have these persons taken in so that the details they have can help track and locate the terrorists, because I don't know if the authorities have told us they know where the terrorists are. That statement has not officially been made. As far as I know, the last time President Muhammad Buhari spoke about this, he met with the families of the victims after the last release and he said they're doing everything to ensure that they're released. All is not, doesn't add up as far as this story is concerned. Let me do my answer. A lot does not add up as far as this story is concerned and it's just repugnant to a lot of people. It's repugnant because till now, the government has not made any effort to release these kidnapped persons. And till now, we have no official statement from government on the whereabouts of these kidnapped persons. And what we hear from the President is that they've had suggestions as to how to get them released but they don't want to take any rushed action or any action that would compromise the life of these kidnapped persons and would lead to collateral damage. They don't want to have that. But so what else is the government doing? The President informed us that in that last meeting with the family members that they had an agreement with the terrorists. He said, okay, please give us our family members, our wives and children who are in your custody and we will release our victims and get our hostages. Guess what the President said? The federal government of Nigeria chartered the plane to go carry the, pick up the family members of these terrorists from the prisons where they were to go give them, they chartered the plane. And it took them to the terrorists, fulfill their side of the agreement the terrorists refused to release the hostages. So they played a fast one on the government and did something like this. And then the government came to tell us, tell us that, oh, the terrorists played a fast one and also, you know, so who is the government? So people have been saying, Mercy, that maybe even Mamu and Gumi, because Mamu is Gumi's spokesman and Gumi had been the one negotiating. So is Gumi not part of this? You know, so we need to look away because we're out of time. What we're seeing is that the more you look, the less you see. And we'll wait to see what happens. This man was in the country, all this while he wasn't arrested, he entered the plane, went to Saudi area for Lesahaj and then he was arrested. But why the drama? Kofi, we need to move away, we're out of time. We have to go, we have to go. But we'll be back after this break with a look at the stories on the front pages of the papers and national dailies this morning.