 Welcome back to The Breakfast in Plasti, Africa. It's time for us to take you through the pages. We call it Off The Press and we have Chris Muandu who's in standby. He joins the conversation in no time. Good morning Chris, it's good to have you join us this morning on the papers. Good morning wonderful people. I hope you had a nice night. Yes. I hope you have power supply, you have lights where you are. I hope you have power supply, you have lights where you are. I hope you have power supply, you have lights where you are. Right now anybody who touches my power bank will have a fight with me. It's nice to be here this morning. Yes, we thank God. Alright so it's good to have you join us for the paper review. We're set up for the leadership as always looking at the banner caption. Now the bold caption says, states crumbling under security. Economic crisis, governors won. That's a bold caption. Underneath you have several riders. They say, Lament vat stamp duty administration. Politics around parry club refund. Skewed federal system has eroded states identities. One would be thinking that state governors would be agitating if the solution will be restructuring. If the solution is that states should be able to control their resources and the architecture in the states. That's what they should be lobbying for. But it feels like they're more concerned about the handouts and how all of this really happens. Away from that you have the NLC-BACS ASUS strike as students consider vocational skills. Very important. Aviation field scarcity, we have only three days to shut down operations. Which will mean that Nigerians would probably have to, I mean those who have the means and can afford to travel by the air. I mean using the airways would probably have to go through the roads if that really happens. Away from that you also find APC6 vacation of court or the stopping convention. The convention for the APC is slated for the 26th of March. But there's a lot of ranker going on in the APC at this point. Consumers to pay more for manufactured goods. That's also another one. And just before we move away from the leadership you have the federal government, CBN to finance 75,600 NPA beneficiaries. We'll see you here. 2023 in Nougu West PDP. Chidz Ikori Madu over zoning denial about Kiaris wife slums as NDLEA opposes BO4 husband. And that's it on the leadership this morning. Let's move on from the leadership to look at the headlines on the front page of the Guardian newspaper. The big one. CBN in fresh plan to wean banks off cash. Handling risks and costs CBN in fresh plan to wean banks off cash handling risks and costs with the following writers. Moves to license shared cash hub operators are considered areas with large banking activities to accommodate individuals, corporate entities with huge cash needs and restricted to transaction not below 500,000 Naira. The editorial on in the paper. The Guardian newspaper this morning is on Russia Ukraine war titled Russia Ukraine war and biting realities in Nigeria. Sure to make for an interesting read more from the paper. Amid costly diesel grid collapses 24 hours after Jenko's warning. Amid costly diesel grid collapses 24 hours after Jenko's warning. Outrageous asu extends strike by two months. PDP not your personal property. Obasaki hits back at Wike. Of course Wike also replied him and it's been back and forth between the two Esquire bed mates. Aba Kiaris wife slumps in court NDLEA demands husband remand husband six others. Kiaris at airports as fuel scarcity disrupts operations and Nigeria may lose 170,000 boroughs per day as Shell and Agile Béclair force measure. These are the headlines on the front page of the Guardian. Let's take a look at the punch you see for this morning and the board caption for the punch says blackout as national grid collapses. Federal government summons emergency meeting that's it. Underneath discourse alert power consumers as 19 power plants record zero outputs. Federal government TCN, Jenko's, NNPC oil firms others hold marathon session. Major firms public institutions suspend services as blackout lingers. This is a lot you know to deal with at this point in time dealing with fuel scarcity, hiking, you know the price of you know fair transportation firm and a noun you have to grapple with you know the blackout. Wike Obasaki continue verbal war governor's alleged betrayal on guarded comments and also you have reps NNPC intervene as flight cancellation leaves passengers stranded. Federal government may spend 83% of revenue on interest in 2022 says the International Monetary Fund the IMF. And underneath you find a picture representing you know what happened yesterday. Confusion as Kiaris wives slums in court suspended DCP remanded. And 12 days to convention APC holds farms, governors and divided I'd like to take that again. 12 days to convention APC holds farms, governors divided and in quest you have Sylvester died of pneumonia leading to a disease as a doctor. Rumored planned please strike fake mischievous. That's what the false headquarters is quoted to say. And you still have underneath the several interesting headline but we'll just take one or two and move away for the want of time. May parents beg federal government. Parents beg and federal government demands met. Nigeria reports 1060 polio cases. Varian heat 29 states and the FCT. This is some of the headlines. All right, we'll birth with the daily independent with follow headlines on its on its front page. The banner caption there with a kicker as a strike extension and the headline stakeholders blame federal government. Urge quick resolution of on pass stakeholders blame federal government. Urge quick resolution of on pass and the following writers still front page of the daily independent. Say government needs to be proactive to end strike worried over students elongated programs education standard. Most demands raised by academic union have been met says federal government. More from the daily independent fuel scarcity airlines threatened to shut down in three days. Fuel scarcity airlines threatened to shut down in three days. And by also blast cuts oil export by 25,000 barrels per day as E&I declares force measure. Inaq asks APC PDP to obey court orders. Electro guidelines for wonders which are caught orders. They're talking about if my belongs to that category. You can read the details of that on page seven of the daily independent. Governors state attorney general brainstorm on criminal justice VAT and bill plea. Abakari knows fate March 28 as wife slumps in court. These are the details of the headlines rather on the front page of the daily independent. Let's turn attention now to Chris Kende Wando on guest analysts on off the press this morning. Mr. Wando the airlines in Nigeria have told us that you'll thinkable can happen. And that being that no airline will be flying from any of the airports within the country. That is something you could never have imagined your thoughts on this. Yes, something never imagine banks very, very avoidable. As of this morning, there's been an update on that news. As of yesterday, the chairman of APC said that practically I have just three days of aviation fuel before shutting down. The news coming in this morning is that the NNBC, which is the sole reporter of Jet A1, I've come up to say that they will try to supply the airlines Jet A1 for three days more at the rate of 500 Naira. Presently it's going for about 700 Naira and that is where the problem is. And they last have to get it from that point that irrespective of what they're going to do that is not profitable. And instead of them to start risking the lives of Nigeria is better that they just shut down onto something new. And I watched the DJ of NCA last weekend, the one of the national activities station, who also raised this concern that in the next few days, if nothing is done, that they will practically shut down the airspace from the airlines. Because when you start having this problem, then we're going back to days of air view crash, days of EAS crash, days of Danak crash, and other crashes that happen in the past because most of the airlines were caught on a show. That is where we find ourselves. But as I said, that could have been solved because as we have it presently, it is only the NNPC that imports jet A1. I was also watching the, also listening and watching the, is it a bit of the general of the oil marketer's association, who was saying that the last time they had the opportunity of importing jet A1 was about four or five years ago. And what is happening is that licenses are being given to people that are not involved in the evasion industry. You know the way we roll in Nigeria. And that in itself, what they just do is they don't have anything, they don't have any stake in the evasion industry. They probably sell those licenses or sell those allocations to people. They continue to have middlemen meddling in the past of now that is going for about several hundred years. And that doesn't, and it was as a question, why is that not affecting what is happening to the international airlines that are coming to Nigeria. And he said that they have a contract with international airlines to sell at 400 Naira. And as it were presently that they are losing because they are buying at 600 and some of them buying middlemen for 600 are supplying to show. That is a contract they have with the international airlines. But I don't know what is going to happen. He said that the NNPC is thinking of, NNPC and the minister is thinking of the possibility of now adhering to the request of the airline operators to import this jet A1. Kofi, what we know is that most people don't understand that jet A1 is not just only for airlines or for planes. You can use jet A1 as kerosene in the house to look at consumption for your consumption, but you cannot use kerosene because that was what I understand. I read about this. You can use jet A1 as kerosene in the domestic. So what we have now is that Nigerians are competing with airlines for their products as domestic because we don't have kerosene in the country. So it's becoming a very, very terrible situation that I hope that something we give and the authorities in question will be able to do something about it. But that is Nigerian. We don't have lights. We don't have petrol to move around now the aviation. What he means is that we have been totally shut down. And good enough, Kofi, I will advise you. You can buy a bicycle because you will come to a point that all we've all resolved now is using bicycles to move around. It's quite an unfortunate situation. And of course the House of Representatives is brokering something between the NNPC and the oil marketers. And like you said, they are saying they can provide at $500 now for the next three days, which means six days. But after that, what happens? What happens after that? And it's so sad to hear you say that they have a contract with the foreign airlines to supply at $400 an hour. What happened to pricing in dollars? So anytime a thing goes up, you can still make your money. It's quite unfortunate and really sad. And like you said, the nation is shut down really. Is it a power sector shut down? For the business people, how are they going to buy the highly priced diesel? The spending is between huge amounts of money. Let's not even go there. So it is a dire time. Before Messi comes in with the next headline, what are your thoughts on Mr. President hopping on the plane and jetting out of the country when Nigerians were in the middle of gripping a fuel scarcity situation that affected them in very, very terrible ways? I've always been one of those that believe that we've always been autopilot. I'm using the evasion term again. I know that yourself and Messi understand what I mean by that. When you're in a plane, you know when a plane is like you are flying from here to United States. It gets to a point that where the pilots get tired and although they have to pilot and respite, they put it, there's a level at which they fly. They just put it on autopilot that the pilot doesn't have to get himself engaged in the activities of piloting the plane. And the plane can move for hours without anybody. And that is what we find ourselves. The President, are you talking about the economy? Are you talking about petroleum? Are you talking about evasion? What of the level of insecurity? It's like the country is being leveraged. Although the President said, yes, the Vice President is in charge, but it is not transmitting power to the Vice President because there's a limit to what he's doing. It's just like my local palace where he said, if you won't give me gold, give me with your rope. No, give me rope. No, give me gold. Don't go rope. If you understand what I mean, so that is what is happening. So there are certain decisions that the Vice President might not be taking without the President. So we are the fate of, I just pray that we'll be able to survive the two weeks or three weeks and say we'll be the way. When he comes back, then we'll start the best, even at that. You see that, even in terms of politics, all of them are moving now to London. All of them, the senators are now moving to London. We want to meet the President on the issue of APC Convention coming up. I don't know what to do this month. Maybe we all have to start going to London to charge our phones because it's like that's where they're at. Can you even afford this? Can you even afford this? You know when Timayah, you know they will stop by Timayah now. When he said, you wake up, you go to US and London to charge his phone and come back the next moment. Maybe that's what we need to do because even if you fail to rush the generator in the house, what will happen? Govay, as we are talking, have not had life for some days now. Let's just look at it now. It's a good thing that you have mentioned that it's on the punchy sweeper. It talks about the blackout as the national grid collapses. According to reports, this would be the second time for 2022. The federal government has actually summoned an emergency meeting and we're asking, as always, of what use will this meeting be? Would he solve any problem because we have very technical issues that need to be addressed? Will an emergency meeting fix it? Maybe that would happen. But your thoughts, how did we get to this point? What do we need to do to get out of it? I have the magic of what you do, but I don't think I have. Just like you, I don't think you have as well. We're talking of collapse, second collapse this year. I would tell you that we've had over 20 or 30 total collabs since 2015 and there have been meetings and nothing has been done about it. The one in Icruidu collapsed. All over, it collapsed. The most annoying part of it is that we are not even transmitting enough. We are hovering between 4,000 and 3,000, which can never get it. A country like South Africa is about 30,000. We are the most populous country in the whole of Africa. We generate, but we cannot be able to transmit up to 5,000. Now everything could last. Why would it last? Because when the burden, it is just a mathematical system. If you have a lot of burden on that, on the J-posts, the power stations could last. We've said that let's not look quarterly. The Mambila has been there for years and I think it's hydro. Some people believe that we're able to put up that of Mambila that it's a possibility that we have enough to put it into the national group. We are not doing that. What we're doing is just managing what we have at the end of it or equal. Even if they do the images, you have the images and they bring it up. I can tell you that in the next few days, it will collapse again. We are not doing what you are supposed to do. We are not building more. That was the time when the minister, I can't remember his name now. He was former vice chancellor of the University of Nigeria Suka. I can't remember his name now. One pro. He had what he said and he's not able to. He said there are witches and wizards in the power sector. And I don't know where the professor got his idea of which are witches and wizards in our power sector. That is it. A country like Ghana, a country like Benne, a country like Tobu, even Niger and Chad are having steady power supply. Do you know that we're also transmitting power to some of these neporary countries in West Africa when we don't even have enough of our own? That was something that was probably that one of these West Africa countries was holding billions and billions. I can't remember that story. So what are we going to do? The SMEs are practically dead. The industries are dying. The level of insecurity is on the high. People cannot find jobs. And you ask yourself, and I used to have this feeling that it's also a fume. If some Nigerians go for a bit, find themselves in hell. You know, they say they're heaven, they're hell. Some people won't feel it because already some of us are already in hell. Yes. So when people get here, it's like a location. They won't feel it. And that is the situation we find ourselves and it's that bad. We don't even know who to complain to. The president was supposed to talk, is he not the one in London having his medical gas and chilling out and the rest of it? I leave the rest of it. If he calls back, it definitely doesn't affect him. I'm sure he has light to inform us. The ministers have light to inform us. Legislators have light to inform us because they can't run their funeral talk with power. But you and I, the poor people on the streets, we cannot be able to afford light. Then we have to look, we have to charge just our phone to communicate. Phone, no. I'm not talking about very cool and all that. And you're going to ask yourself, how do we, the question you ask, which I like is, which I'm looking forward to, someone to ask is, how do we get here? And I think that is the question we should be asking them. In any of the presentation, basically coffee, the question is, we're asking everybody, how do we get there? And when you have all these people coming to your stations, ask them the question, how do we get there? Maybe they will give us the answer. Of course, CK and Christian, I don't think I have the answer to that. All right. Chris, CK and I want to, let's just stick with the crisis, you know, in the different sectors of the economy. But with aviation, there's a picture of someone, some of them are painting. It's saying that one of the reasons why the House of Reps has rushed, you know, in a quote, in their words, to wade into this aviation sector crisis, to ensure that at least the airlines can get the fuel to power their jets to fly. For the next six days, it's because this also affects them. I mean, not all of them will have, and the elites in the country, let's put it that way, will be able to afford a private jet to travel all around, even the mayor himself of Cano, the revered mayor, all respect to him, how to use the airpiece. Do you go with that school of thought that the reason they rushed to, you know, crush the price of the jet A1 to 500 per litre, even though Alan Uyama is saying that even without 500, they'll be selling their tickets at 85,000 there for a flight within the country. Do you feel that there's some sort of also personal interest for the elites, especially those in national assembly, looking to this and quickly resolving it, and not, this is not as fast as they acted, this is slower than they acted with the petrol that you and I use on a daily basis. If that's just a conjecture, if they fly out with their village people fly outs, with their constituency fly outs, with those living in their houses fly outs, with their father and mother fly outs, with their sisters fly outs, it's just a conjecture as far as I'm concerned. What we are looking, what we are doing is what I call the evil day. And the evil day, if you don't take granted measure, the evil day will come. Even countries in war, even countries in war are having a nation where they are having electricity. In Ukraine, with all the bombings, electricity, coffee. Electricity in Ukraine, no. Sure you know, you know that one. With all the bombings, all these are our students coming in from Ukraine, which all the bombings, they say they'll be having electricity. They'll be charging their phone, they'll be making calls. We, that's not the situation of war. What other situation is worse than this? Is this not modern war? This is a war, it's a war situation. What are we talking about? So, I just believe that, you know, in Nigeria, joke a lot, we just find, try to find where the happiest people are. Are you sure we don't have our own war? It's just that it's not civil war, but anyway. I said this is war. Hear what I said. I said this is war, that when war situation, even worse war situation than those in Ukraine, the only thing we are seeing is that nobody is bumping up, they hope to have been bumped physically, mentally, even spiritually we have been bumped. And we are so happy that we have... We are not going anywhere now. But Chris, nobody will do you feel sad. The truth is, yes, of course, the fact that we don't have the conventional war being experienced in Nigeria, where you have people shooting and all of that, doesn't necessarily mean that, you know, war does not happen. So war is not only when you have exchanging bullets and what have you. This is also, you know, a war situation as well. And that's because of some structural decadence and deficiency in the system. And if we have to address the issues, we have to go to the root of it. We have to address it from the root. But most times it feels like we are looking at the symptom. You look at the educational sector as shutting down, always on shutdown. And then you look at the aviation sector. It's, you know, might just be going down. Everything seems to be going down. Just maybe the doctors also might just wake up at this point again and back on the strike or something. And then we'll just have to, you know, all be grounded. But we will continue to pray as we do always in this country. And one day we're hoping that we would decide not to just pray, but do the work. Let's see, that has always been our problem. We pray. We are the most prayerful nation on earth. Even the Vatican, where Christianity, where I have heard what's up, Americans don't pray as much as we do. If you are talking of prayer, if you are talking of prayer, Chinese people don't pray. But you see how progress is there. The problem is that we have been so focused to a corner that we believe that prayer can suffer. Even the Bible says helping those that help themselves. Oh, it's not in the Bible. That's not in the Bible. The problem is that we have to do the needs. We have to do the, it's not in the Sunday. It has got into a problem. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we are going on a vigil. Who do I help? That's a problem. But Chris, that's not in the Bible. It's just a popular saying. There's no address of that. There's no chapter of that. If you go to the Bible, add it to the one that is there. Add it to this. Okay. Chris, while Nigerians are grappling with these issues that are expected and the politicians to prefer solutions, they seem to be fighting themselves and still focusing on the political matters. Jesu Wike and Gordon Nobasky became bedfellows after Gordon Nobasky left the APC to the PDP. And he, of course, relied on Jesu Wike's endorsement and support to be given the umbrella and to become the flybearer of the PDP in the governorship election. Wike also supported him in terms of campaigning even on the day of election, if I'm not mistaken. But both men have begun exchanging words. Wike fired his first salvo when he had some pretty uncharitable, undiplomatic words for Philip Shuaibu, who is the deputy governor of Eddo State. And that led the governor of Eddo State to put up a press statement which is like so which you hardly see addressing Wike and telling him what to do, you know, it was really, really, really a strong one from Nobasky. They've been back and forth. And the headline on the front page of the Poinsettia newspaper this morning is Wike Nobasky continued verbal war. Governors alleged betrayal on guarded comments. Your thoughts on this? Kofi? Yes, Wike is a governor I have so much respect. But it seems that that man is becoming a bully. And the earlier we tame people like Wike, the earlier the better. The last time I checked, Wike is not even a PDP. In fact, when PDP was formed Wike hasn't even come into the picture. It was from 1999 that he was appointed the chairman of Ubyakbo then what's his name, Amici, Protimies to Capinet and the rest of it. He was not part of those that put PDP. So what is his problem? Why is he bullying everybody? And that's what we ask ourselves. I think we say something. Wike, we jump up and attack him. He's the one attacking Oman. He's the one that is attacking Obasky. He's the one attacking him. He's the national chairman of PDP. What is his problem? The problem we're having in this country is that I think we should call Wike to face his job as the governor of Rabar State and leave other state governments to do their job. What is his business with those states? Is it the governor of Rabar State? Even if he helped, let me tell you something. The fact that you helped me does not mean that you should kill me. So Wike should just talk about this. Kofi, when Governor Tambua moved from APC to PDP all the structure in Sokote State was handed over to him by the PDP. When Matalami moved from PDP to APC all the structure of APC in that state was handed to him. When Wike Umahi moved from PDP to APC all the structure of APC was handed over to him. The same thing with Governor of Rabar State Professor Ayade and so many others. That is how it worked. Since we came in we have not been given the necessary support to be able to move this party forward. And the elected governor came to National Television to say, this is the problem we are having. We need a decision. You jump up and there Chris just a second. He was even calling me and I think it is a high time we start. If we don't continue to look at issues on this basis then we are going to run it over. Wike as I said is the governor of Rabar State. Let me put it as a media person as a communication person. He went to commission Rose and the rest of them. Do you hear the name of that commission? No. What you are hearing is the fact that Umahi is talking about this. I think it is a high time we have to go. Umahi is claiming that of course this is an allegation has the judiciary going by the words he has made is said about the Ebo in state case. But we will be watching the situation. We have Cross River State Ayade saying Wike handed him out of the PDP of Rabar State accusing Wike of meddling in the party. We will continue to watch the situation. Chris Kennedy Umahi is a the tribalized Nigerian Chris K.K. in the Wandoos. No one will go but me speaking to you through me. Chris K.K. in the Wandoos. But without the trouble of Umahi Chris K.K. in the Wandoos is a chartered mediator and what we call a tribalized Nigerian. It's nice being with you this morning. You'll have a wonderful day ahead. Alright, that's the size of it for off the press. Let's tell you what happened today in history and at 8 o'clock. 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