 On the breakfast, vandalism of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NMPC-limited depot responsible for petroscursity in parts of the country. Also on the breakfast, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities asked who paid November's salary in four eight months of arraias withheld. We'll ask them back on another industrial action. And don't forget, we'll also be looking through today's newspapers and analyzing the biggest stories of the day. Well, let me say a compliment of the season. Welcome to a brand new day. It's the very first day in the month of December and it's the breakfast. I am Messier Boko. It promises to be another great day with exciting conversation lineup of it. As always, we start off with our top trending. That's issues that have gotten a lot of Nigerians reacting, engaging in different strata, be it social media, offline and what have you. Now, one of that is that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NMPC-limited, has finally provided the reason for the recent fuel scarcity being experienced in Lagos, Abuja and other parts of the country. Now, according to the NMPC, the blame fuel scarcity, because I've been very curious and I'm sure that if you're curious why there's been petrol scarcity, I'm sure that you have an answer now. Whether or not this is something to go by, it's another conversation entirely. So the NMPC says that fuel scarcity and long queues at filling station on some road, we can actually blame that on some of the road projects and constructions that you have going on, especially in Lagos. And in other parts of the state, I'm trying to wrap my head around that. He said that the gridlock is easing as NMPC has programmed vessels and trucks to constrain depots with massive loads out from depots of various states being closely monitored. Now, it might also interest you to know that sometime the oil marketer's association of Nigeria had talked about the fact that Nigeria should be ready to buy this product at any price. And that's because of the cost of transporting it. They were going to add an additional 13 naira, the cost of transporting the product to the different locations. And so it might also be expensive and what have you. Another is that the same major oil marketer's association of Nigeria had a few days ago mentioned and said that they were working with the NMPC to improve the distribution of petrol across the country. They said that their members would be working late night during the weekend to bridge the product supply gaps and push out more products than it should have been. Normally these were some of the reactions for all marketers and what have you. Now an NMPC also said that they have a national petrol stock of over 2 billion litres, which is equivalent to over 30 days of sufficiency. And the big question is why is there still scarcity? Now with the reason that the NMPC has given, do you want to ask yourself if that's something to go by really? Because fioscarcity has become a normal practice, an event in Nigeria. It seemed to be something that has become part of our system and it's normal to just have fioscarcity, but it's really stressful and very saddening. And for the queues from my observation around some parts of Lagos, I don't think that it's the construction that's the problem. Now I have seen several filling stations that are shut down entirely. You don't have any sign of anything going on, no human being whatsoever. Some of these filling stations are across some cities, especially in Lagos and not even selling. And you see the queue, for instance this morning, I saw a very long queue and that queue is not because of the construction, because at the time you can't even find any construction what's going on. People are queuing up to buy petrol because they are hoping that this filling station would be open so they can get the product. I'm just really wondering how that is a problem. It's very unfortunate. For a country that's an oil producing country, for a country as Nigeria, we have all it takes to refine our products and what a view. And then you have the NNPC giving this excuse. I really don't know how that valid is, especially when you have the oil market as a society. You have the major oil market as complaining of the cost of landing and also the cost of buying and also the fact that they're also working to project and put out this product out there. It costs a lot of concern. If we have this amount of petrol or fuel, two billion litres of it, how come we still have the issue of scarcity? And is it really true that we're experiencing the scarcity because of the construction work? Because whenever you have all of the queues, it's because people are queuing to buy petrol in different filling stations. And in most cases you don't have a lot of them selling. And so it's a lot to grapple with. But I really don't know if the government and those who are stakeholders understand the pain that the people have to go through. The fact that the cost of transportation will be on the high. And you don't even want to compare that to the fact that the current reality of the people in terms of salary and revenue, it's also on the increase. And so it makes it quite difficult. It makes life very stressful and very difficult for a lot of persons. But what exactly is going on? Why do we constantly have fears? Especially when we're in this period, it's the first period, it's the first of December. It feels like it's a trend, it feels like it's a pattern. Now on the other hand, you have the market is saying, well, we're not hoarding the product because that's the blame. People are saying it's usually because there's need to maximize profit. And so you have stakeholders hoarding this product so they can actually maximize profit. You know, the detriment of who? The common man. Very sad and unfortunate. Away from that, there's also another picture that made it another conversation that's on our top trending. There's a Photoshop picture of Tunable, Bolatunable on a card see visit to US President Joe Biden that surfaced online. I'd like to read a tweet, how he, you know, the tweet that generated that controversy. So it came from a handle, Kennedy Non-So, at Kennedy Non-So too. That's the Twitter handle that said, happening now at official bat on card see visa to US President Joe Biden. As part of his US international agreements or engagement. And he said, Obediots say Tunable cannot visit US based on his indictment. He cannot visit the United States based on his indictment. He's there right now, live with US President and let your be visited too. He also went on to say more people. There's a lot that goes on on this, you know, space, especially Twitter. But, you know, how far can we, you know, go on with the issue of disinformation that will actually have an effect on, you know, on a polity and what have you. So don't forget that Nigerians are very smart people. Don't forget that we have very, very intelligent people and people who are very sweet with the Internet and understand the dynamics of, you know, things. So when you think that you can deceive the people, there was immediately a sudden reaction as regards to the fact that this is not, this is a Photoshop picture. And this actually is not true because this didn't happen. So it was Photoshopped from the original picture where you have a certain person who visited Joe Biden. And that's what you can see. And if you look at it really, you don't even need to be an expert. You will see that it's probably very Photoshopped. You don't know what's going on, but we have a lot of work to do when it comes to the issue of disinformation in our space. Quite unfortunate. And then the same Twitter handle, Kennedy, he had to switch grounds. He said that, oh, this is actually the handiwork of a certain supporter of a certain candidate. That's of course the obedient. And that was the thought. But if you'd like to check that out, I'm sure you can check the, you know, the handle Kennedy Non-Soul on Twitter and you'll see all of the reactions and comment. And that's so much we can take this morning on a top trending. We take a break and when we return a bit of time for us to go through, you know, the front pages of National Dailies, we'll call it off the press. Please stay with us.