 The movement for the survival of the Ogoni people, MOSOV, has alleged the misappropriation of 800 million dollars meant for the cleanup of Ogoni polluted environment. MOSOV urges the president, Tinugu, to immediately set up a panel to probe the mismanagement of the said fund, calling for the immediate dissolution of all government structures of the project. We will look at the issues surrounding this cleanup by MOSOV. Subsidy removal on premium motor spirit PMS, or the wise known as petrol, and the jostle towards right pricing of electricity may have triggered a major shift in the pattern of energy consumption with about 75 percent of households now exploring solar as their alternative sources. Today on the show we will look at the possibility of solar energy being a possibility in all homes in Nigeria. Of course, we will have the headlines from off the press what are the national dailies saying today. A very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on the breakfast. My name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. Today is Tuesday and every Tuesday rather we think about technology and a lot of people have said the myriad of problems that we have in Nigeria can be solved by just using technology. It offers a solution for all Nigeria's problems. Whether you want to talk about importation, whether you want to talk about sensors, whether you want to talk about elections, whether you want to talk about even road transportation and everything or transportation generally or everything in our everyday life. Technology will come to the rescue if we can use it well and respect it well as well because when we say that people are the problems that we face in Nigeria it means that the people need to respect the technology if we want it to work otherwise it will not work. Whatever you put in like the say in computer jargon, garbage in, garbage out. Technology has the solution to all our problems but are we ready to adopt these technological solutions to the problems that we have and if we adopt these technological solutions to our problems are we ready to respect the outcomes that we see. Today we are still grappling with whether or not we had a good election. We have the story or the report from the EU which has been rejected by the federal government anyway. But one of the things, the major things that was addressed or was spoken about in that report was the fact that some of the things that could have given us a very good election like the technology that we were supposed to have deployed, we didn't really show transparency in it and so we messed up, if that's the word, permit the election that could have been the freest and fairest. But the federal government has said no, that is not it anyway. So they said that that report is nothing to write home about, they don't believe in that report. Well, it depends on where you stand, whether you stand on the side of the federal government that says the election was the best election or you stand on the side of the opposition. I'd like to call everybody else the opposition to say that the election was not as good as it should be because if the technology that was deployed was used to the letter and respected and the outcomes also respected then we wouldn't be talking about what we're talking about today. So technology offers a solution to Nigeria's problems but how much are we ready to respect those outcomes that the technology will give us to solve our problems? Well today is another very wonderful day, a beautiful day to get up from wherever you are and go to work. Yesterday it was really, really terrible for the people who were going to work, especially those who were going towards the Victoria Island, Lekhi from the mainland. It was really terrible, at least in the early hours of the morning. That was because there was a truck on the road on the third mainland bridge actually that carried what we normally call in Nigeria as pure water and it crashed. I don't know how that happened. I don't know how the truck fell on third mainland bridge. Was it trying to manoeuvre? There was no bend there. There was nothing there. I just do not know how it happened but it did happen and that made traffic to be a little bit something else, a little bit more legacy if I can use that word. But today it was free and I hope that even at this time it is still free on the road. So wherever you're going from or you're coming from, be sure that today is a little bit better than yesterday. At least at the time I was passing, the roads were free enough to get to the office. So we heard another very disturbing news yesterday that a story building collapsed in Abuja and I do not know why this keeps happening in Nigeria, a story building collapsed in Abuja. In some other countries they have ed tremors, they have ed quakes, they have so many other natural disasters that make houses to collapse. In Nigeria it's just no disaster. Is it because the sun is too high? No disaster at all, no natural disaster at all and buildings collapse and most times they say it's because of substandard materials that are used. I don't know why people who are contractors contracted to build these buildings are left to work the ed if things like this happen. They say people are trapped but there's a possibility that trapped will lead to dead. There's a possibility because people were working on site when this building collapsed. That's four story building that was supposed to be used as a hotel, it just collapsed like that. And that was immediately after the person who is in charge, the engineer in charge just left the place. So many people currently as they say trapped in a four story building that collapsed in a life camp, Jaby on Monday in the federal capital territory in Abuja. The building was said to be meant for hotel accommodation and it trapped many on-site workers. And it occurred at about 4 p.m. while the workers were working at the site shortly after the engineer left the site when the casting work was going on. You see and reports say from eyewitnesses data it was because of substandard materials that were used to build this hotel and we keep hearing this all the time. I would like a situation where once we hear this we hear the next thing is a contractor has been arrested and prosecuted, sent to jail if possible because if lives are lost it's because of carelessness or selfishness or just wickedness because if you know that for instance a bag of cement should give you from 25 to 30 blocks, max 30 blocks. Do you know that in Nigeria some cement factories use one bag they make up to 60 blocks out of one bag of cement and we're seeing this sometimes you talk to the people who are builders and they tell you that the pillars are what matters if you have a strong pillar it doesn't matter what goes in between the pillars so they can do anything and just feel that it is all right. These things should not continue what if we had natural disasters one day a tremor just comes and the whole buildings in Lagos for instance just crumble because of a little shake. These things are not good if we talk to ourselves as Nigerians if we want Nigeria to be a big country, a good country, a country that we can compare to anyone in the world we have to do a revamp of ourselves. The other day we were talking about someone who stole some things from the rail lines some clips or something they call them and he was removing them from the rail lines that means he didn't care if a train comes a train derails people die he didn't care and a train will carry more than 10 people sometimes more than 100 people he didn't care if 100 people died because he wanted to you know steal those things and make money out of it there's a difference between stealing just being a thief and just being a daylight witch as I would call it because what is that I mean some people steal like some people steal from people who they think that have more than enough it's still wrong anyway the other people steal from even people that do not have anything and you say you're just you're just trying to make a living we have to talk to ourselves as Nigerians let us try to start teaching patriotism from from the cradle because there was a time where people were were taught how to be patriotic to their country in little things that they used to do in the way they stood up to recite or to sing the national anthem the way they surrounded the flag and respected the flag and so many other things you grew up with that mentality that your country was a very important thing in your life and you needed to you know live up to the billing as a good citizen of the country I don't know if those things are still being taught in our schools little things that matter people should be taught to respect humanity people should be taught to love their country and then every other thing like the scripture says will be added on to us we hope we also have a story a trending issue that NLC is to meet with the president Tinobu on a 65 year retirement age now this is funny in France people were protesting because the government said that they were going to add two more years to the retirement age which was supposed to be 60 I think and the government was thinking about adding two more years to them and they protested and said no they wanted 60 it shouldn't go beyond that they wanted to retire at the time that they needed to retire now you ask yourself why would a Nigerian want to serve the government or serve the country or in whatever capacity to find themselves till 65 years when will you retire and have time for yourself and just just thank God that you have done your beat for the country and then you enjoy yourself and one of the arguments that the NLC brought up is that some of the people will not need to suffer for that long after retirement you know because you know that when you retire there's a possibility that you will not even get your pensions you will not get your gratuity at least on time some people die and leave it behind at least I know that I had a sister who retired more than three years ago and she didn't have her benefits and then she died we buried her in me so she just left all the benefits at the time that she was supposed to enjoy the benefits of working for the country she was a nurse by the way so through COVID-19 through whatever pandemic she was there but she didn't get her benefits so this fear is well I would say justifiable because when you're still working there's a possibility or you will be paid your salaries every month but when you retire nobody knows how is it possible to just owe people who are old who cannot do anything who have retired who have served the country for 35 years you still owe them and what do you want them to do some of these people were not even having the wage that was big enough for them to save and now they have retired you're still owing them you're using money you're building some of the governors are building flyover in places where two cars fly it may be a day or maybe a week you're building a flyover in that place a pedestrian bridge in that place where there's no traffic jam I'm just using that as an example some projects are not even necessary but because you want a legacy project you're leaving a legacy project and forgetting that there's also a bad legacy that in your administration people who should be taken care of were being owed their salaries people who are old some of them are up to 70 80 they still have to go and queue on the line to do verification and all whatnot so that you can pay them they are a monthly stipend it's we like we said technology can solve all the problems I was at the NYSE secretary for instance just close to the office and I saw the thousands of NYSE of youth core members just lining up for one signature or one verification one thing or the other that can be done online and I don't know why people are people still keep subjecting others to this kind of torture as I would say if it can be done with technology why bring people together especially at this time fuel subsidy has been removed if someone is coming from a job for instance it used to be 300 400 from a job on the bridge now it's about a thousand Naira so you're coming you're coming and going is 2000 Naira instead of 600 Naira or 800 Naira you can imagine how much is the allowance that they're being paid as core members they have to go to the places of primary assignments as well every day or maybe five days in a week and all that so have you factored in that so why not the NYSE just says okay XYZ things you can do online so every month go online do your registration verification and everything and that's it well you're bringing the children to come here some of them will stand for like four five hours just to do something that could have been done online so let us let technology come to the rescue in our daily life in Nigeria unless we do that we will still find problems in almost every facet so the Labor Congress is set to engage President Bola Tinobu as I said on the agitation for extension of civil servants retirement age to 65 65 before you retire and then they are also asking for 40 years in service instead of 35 years in service so if you're young enough and you had your job and then you have served for 35 years they don't want you to retire anymore they want you to serve till 40 years before you can retire but if you were old enough and then you got your job and even at the time of at the time when you get up to 60 years you have not served up to 35 years they want you to serve up to 65 years I wouldn't want to serve up to 65 years from 60 I should be enjoying myself and then having fun with my grandchildren not to be going to work early in the morning like we wake up four o'clock to come to work because we are afraid of Lagos traffic and all that we can't always be doing this and the problem is not in the NLC the problem is in the government that has not put a mechanism in place using technology if possible to make sure that nobody is being owed and then as soon as you retire promptly you're getting your benefits some people cannot even save to build a house some people cannot save to do anything else so they are waiting for that retirement benefit to just get their gratuity go and make a small two bedroom flat for themselves to enjoy the rest of their life here on earth with their wives some people were able to save but a lot of people who were able to save may have caught corners it's not everybody that can do that everybody tells you have a second stream of income but what is where is the time for you to do that if you're a dedicated staff so are you saying that for instance if I'm a broadcast guy and you're telling me that okay we cannot pay you enough for you to save and be looking for brown envelopes how will that affect me and affect what I put out there it will affect everything so if we don't want to encourage evil then we should do the right thing there are some people who are not asking for too much just give them what they desire and a lot of these things can be done with technology I come from a state where my governor then Donald Duke or crossover state brought technology into payment of salaries and I know how much he was fought everybody was saying this cannot happen here because you know when you're giving salaries out in those days the people who were paying you they were keeping some change for themselves and all that and people were making a lot of money and he said no this cannot happen anymore everybody who's working for the state will have to be paid through the bank and he gave everybody that opportunity to just go to the bank and collect your salary and people didn't accept it but at the end of the day everybody enjoyed it so you can start it you can be the revolutionary that can start these and do things the right way use technology to plot the holes to you know Nigeria wants every cover to count and if that has to be done then technology will be employed we're talking about a theft oil theft if you go to Saudi Arabia and every other place that there is oil every drop of oil can be accounted for technologically everywhere it goes whatever is out of the pipelines and everything can be done and you cannot say Nigeria cannot do something like that so when we're complaining about oil theft are we really complaining that it is being stolen or we're just making noise to make people think that we're working because if we want to work if it costs a fortune to put things in place so that no drop will be lost anymore then we know that Nigeria is on its way to becoming the richest country in the world or one of the richest countries in the world what does Dubai have on us what can we not have if we want to put our minds to it it's just technology like I said the theme for today is technology offers a solution for all Nigeria's problems so let us give technology a chance today and in the future to make sure we have less complaints to make about our country well we just also had a story about the girl from Anambra state that Jam says forged her result if that girl is capable of doing that we do not know but we saw we've also seen her side of the story where she got a text message from Jam where she went to print out something from the server and the result that she was given was the one she displayed and then Jam is saying that she forged her result we do not know where that the truth lies but according to the girl also when the scan the QR code when the scan the QR code on her own result somebody else's name appeared with a score then they did an investigation that same person whose name appeared with a score had a different score so what are we doing manipulation or it's just that we do not know how to use this technology then let us employ the best hands that can do this for us and let us never have this issue again if the young girl is saying the truth that means she has been scarred for life how do you call a 13 year old a thief when she's not a thief when she thought that she was she was she had won a victory she said she had always been taking first position from her nursery school day still now and suddenly you just told her that she's a thief she went and forged her results we should never allow this thing to happen but well today is tuesday and it's a day we talk technology but the technology is not going to be what we will focus on today we are talking about mossobs urging tinobu to prove alleged mismanagement of 800 million dollars cleanup fund and also households consider solar electricity as an alternative source of power we'll take a short break see what the weather says and when we return it will be time for the newspapers stay with us