 Today on the breakfast, more than 100 Chibo girls are still missing after being adopted by Boko Haram in 2014 and many parents are concerned that the Nigerian government has lost interest in their plight. Also on the breakfast, Christians and Nigerians join the rest of the world to make a Good Friday to commemorate the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. We also will bring you the latest update in the exciting world of sports. We'll be reviewing the biggest stories making headlines across major dailies. Good morning to you, this is the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa this Good Friday morning. My name is Justin Akadone. And I am Messi Boko, good morning and thanks for joining us. Good Friday to you, Messi. Good Friday to you. Have I ever gritted like that before? Don't be comical. No, today is Good Friday, it's actually a Friday and it's a good one. It is the holy weekend and Messi, have you been very holy this week? It depends on what holiness is. Holiness not doing bad things in quotes. So what is bad things? Things that you might not be proud of. I don't know what that means. It's not about messes, not about us but it's Good Friday and Good Friday is the day that Jesus Christ died on the cross of Calvary. It is a very, very important day in the Christian Dam. But also it's been eight years since the Chibo girls were abducted and after that over a hundred girls are still in captivity. Remember the sign bring back our girls, the hashtag that trended that eventually became a national movement, an international movement and yet these girls are still in captivity. Some of them that these are, though some have been reunited with their parents. Being in captivity for just one day, it's like very, very hellish not to talk of being in captivity for eight years. It is a complete trauma and these girls, they might have been married up, they might even have kids as it is. Messi has been eight years since the Chibo girls were abducted and the parents actually had a protest just yesterday and they say that the government similarly don't care about the agony. It's really a very sad, unfortunate incident that's happened and the fact that government has constantly said they're making efforts to ensure the return of these girls. But the question is eight years after, what is the fate of these girls? So it's really very, very sad situation. I mean eight years is a long time. Now the question you want to ask is are these children still alive? At this point in time, they probably would have become adults, depending, I mean if you look at the age bracket at the time where they were kidnapped, but moving forward you also want to look at the issue of the kids and children that have been kidnapped afterwards. The figures seem to be on the high, the statistics is on the high. If you look at the data that's been made available and it just shows that we haven't really paid attention to what has happened over time and it doesn't really seem that there's a willpower from the side of government. I will always say this, once upon a time we talked about the safe school initiative. The idea was to ensure that you have perimeter fencing. And yes, and several, I mean we're talking about millions and billions of naira that's been spent on that particular adult, it's been approved. And so how do you even juxtapose that, you know, with the reality that schools have actually been shortened down? So it calls for a lot of concern, worry, reset. It is really a very sad one because I can only imagine, you know, the trauma that the parents, the families, their relatives, friends of them, these young girls would be going through, you know, ATS. They might be looking for some sort of, you know, some sort of relief and not knowing what's going on with their children being girls. It is something very alarming. But let's go talk to what's trending in Nigeria, in the world, and across some social media spaces. Funke Akindele is in the news. But before we get into her, a Twitter user raises false alarm. And just how far can people go, you know, about them chasing clout? She posted a video or she posted some Twitter saying that she was kidnapped, that she, you know, was raped. She even posted, you know, the number of her so-called alleged kid in an apartment. Over time, she now said it was all a hoax. She was doing that to, you know, chase clouds. But while we're here, from what we understand, she is in police custody. Massey, just how far, what people go about chasing clouds? So first of all, people, we need to understand that the issue of rape, I always say this, I remember a time where it was on radio and then my colleagues would probably want to make, I think it was about this time, the issue of Fatou Ibo. Oh yeah, I remember, yes. Top on the trend. This issue is a very sensitive issue. Very, very sensitive. Very careful when you talk about rape, when you talk about religion. This issue is a really very sensitive. And because you have a lot of persons who have actually been abused and a lot spent going on, you just need to be careful how you do all of this. But it's a good one. A lot of persons are saying, we hope that the Nigerian police will be very swift in all the situation because, you know, the swiftness in responding to this is up. But I think that it's very okay. People need to learn a lesson. So this might just serve as a deterrent. How do you go ahead, whatever the case might be? And you understand the fact that we're in a very sensitive period, a period where there's so much insecurity. So, so, so much. A period where we're talking about the issue of rape, we're talking about kidnapping. It's on the house and you can't actually just wake up and put that out. Even as some people saying, at the end of the day, it was more like I needed to put this out as a way to escape whatever it was. But really, it was actually a deliberate and conscious decision. Maybe you would have actually put a course, some course across to support system that you have. It would include your family, friends, or members of your church, if you attended church or mocks or whatever it is, rather than putting that out. Now, these will constantly make nonsense of the efforts of people who are... You remember the time where the train attack happened, right? And there was the doctor that died. She tweeted saying, we have been attacked. Yeah, the attack, yeah. I've been shot. Please pray for me. Some people thought that this is a joke. There's some sort of a hoax, yes. People thought it was a joke. How can you be short and then you're still tweeting and typing? It doesn't make any sense. And looking at the comments that was being generated from the particular tweets that she put out, you would also see some persons who were laughing at it because some people say, OK, how are you saying you're being raped and you're being kidnapped at the same time and you have access to your phone? Your phone. And you're tweeting about it. We need to understand that we're in critical times and these times we need to be very sensitive with the things that we do. Because you know what this would mean? So at a time where you say the truth, it would be difficult for people to... Because you're making nonsense of it. So if another person not tweeted it or have been kidnapped, how many persons will respond? Some people will think that this is another joke. I want you all to be rescued because you might think that might just be another joke. I just think that and if Twitter, it's now the medium where we can get across because Twitter is very powerful. I'm saying social media is very powerful, right? But that microblogging platform is very, very powerful and that's why you have Elon Musk's on the particular one that's going on. But we need to be very careful. So we don't even make nonsense of everything that's going on. You could see the response time. You could see the chat. That's because Nigerians are on top of the issue. People are very alert. The issue of security and all that. And you cannot joke with a thing like that. I wonder why she would even do that. It's a very serious thing. Yes, that process is crazy fast. The fact that the men of the Nigerian police force, I mean, she would be the police's invited, how she's been arrested, the issue of false information, false alarm, it's okay. It's very okay. On the other hand, the person she visited at that certain address also would also be a pre-handed or would have a sacrificial for restraining because one of the issues that she raised is the fact that she's been restrained to leave. So there would also have to answer issues. Like I would say, yesterday we talked about some certain sensitive issues and I would say that we need to do better as a people. Let's walk on ourselves as human beings and be better people and understand that beyond everything, beyond the fact that you're a woman, beyond the fact that you're a governor, beyond the fact that you're a president and any other thing, you are a human being and you need to be treated with decency and respect. We need to come to the point of humanity and that's the most important thing for me and that's what I think. Well, it is very important. If we all remember very vividly what happened with some popular actor, one of them, the cast members of the empire when he raised a forced alarm, when he talked about being a victim of hate crime, how he orchestrated the crime and everything and the police went searching and went digging. Time was wasting resources. I mean, how can someone just do that? For his case, he won't tell you, it was not comfortable with his space but this case of a motor or sea, she actually was chasing Cloud. Well, things people would do for the last... No, it wasn't that he was chasing Cloud. Then who would he contact? What was said was that she visited there and her visitors or persons she actually visited didn't want her to leave at the time. So it was more like I would have to make this tweet so I can get out. Why lie? We can't necessarily see. But I think that there are other options. She would have called, maybe screamed or something if she was not comfortable with her. Not necessarily even screaming. I mean, if you even had the time. So because we also... There was an audio that was put out, some response from the brother. As soon as that went viral, you need to understand that the social media is very powerful. And very wide and very fast. It travels so quickly. So a lot of people, including members of her family, got that particular tweet and they reacted. They started making calls, putting calls across the please. I think it would really be wrong. It is really wrong that you put out false information and give false... You just make up some story for whatever it is and then get people to that panic. I mean, you also need to see a video. I don't know if you saw that. The mother of... The mother was kind. Everyone, you know what you've got a lot of expenses? Making people worry over her. I mean, it's not... Sometimes people should realize that whatever they do, whatever they say, some decisions they make, it's not just about them. It hovers around them, their family members, their friends and people who are associated with them. So sometimes before you take any decision, before you say anything, all this being conscious of the people that would be affected by the things that you are doing. Let's go ahead. So apart from that, you also need to understand how this microblogging, like I said, we're in a very sensitive time. It's very sensitive for us as a country. We're grappling with a lot of issues. So you talk about the issue of insecurity. It's on the high. We talk about kidnapping. It's something that happened almost on a daily basis across the country. And for someone to put that out on Twitter, it costs a lot of consent. So what you have actually done is you have raised a false alarm. You have actually made people to believe that this is it. And families, you know, got into action. The family started making calls. The mother was destabilized. Imagine that the mother collapsed. You don't even know the health condition of the woman. And she collapses because of all of that. If you think that you've been restrained, we just need to do better. For me, I think that as human beings, as a people, we need to do better with ourselves. We need to just be responsible for our actions. How do you even get into a company of people who would not even let you, when you say you're about to take a leave and they say you can't take a leave? So I mean, we need to do better and not even do that. It makes, it doesn't make sense. Now, what would happen if you have someone who is genuinely in trouble or is distressed and puts out another tweet again and say, I have been kidnapped. Someone help me. A lot of persons will just think, oh, this is another, you know, hoax. And no one will really pay attention. So, but at the end of the day, what we're saying is, please, let's be very careful. I mean, careful. Let's also be very cautious. Let's be, you know, very conscious as well with our actions and in our actions. Because at the end of the day, it trickles down to everyone around us. And we're the time we were trying to save our country from all of the things that we're experiencing at the time. And it would not be good. But I'm really proud, I would say, whatever it is she has to face, she has to face it. It's a good thing that the Lagos State Police has actually said, okay, we're going to hold down the account of false information. All right. We're just hoping that, you know, judgment would actually be fair. Whatever punishment will be meted out, will be fair. All right, let's move on. Funke Akindeli, or Funke Akindeli, the husband, the family is under these JJ skills. X, Y for alleged ex-wife posted a video warning the actor's family that if you, in quote, mess with me, I'll also mess with you. She actually posted a video, a picture rather, of the family of Afouken Akindeli with the twins. You know, for a while, she has not revealed the identity or the faces of her children. But someone went ahead to post a picture. She had come out on social media, not so long ago, in an interview, to explain why she, you know, is actually keeping the identity of her children private. She says she is in the news, and a whole lot is seen and known about her. But her children are just children, and they are entitled to their privacy. And when they eventually grow up, and would want to say or show or reveal themselves, it is left for them. But after that interview, from what we've seen so far, the husband's an ex posted a picture of the family, she, the husband, and the twins. After what happened between the son, who lived with them for about two years, claiming that what we see on social media is not exactly what is happening with the family, he went on to alleged that the marriage is about heating the rock. So there's a lot, some people will say, why are we having this particular trend? If you notice right now, there's a lot to spin bought to the fore. So you have a family, I mean, there may just be someone anywhere, random peasants or individuals, you just have people anywhere. But at the end of the day, boom, you'll have information that you are not supposed to have. Apparently this time, nobody knows about anybody's story, and anybody's struggle, because we understand that life is not perfect. I understand that life is not perfect, and you can't have perfection. There's no perfect government, there's no perfect system, there's no perfect marriage, there's no perfect workplace, imperfections surrounds everything, and so perfection will just be an illusion. But however, I think the social media has actually made it very prominent for a lot of people to bring their cases out. So you just have people taking advantage of that, oh, there's social media. It's as though almost everybody has something to be talked about. So you bring out your issues, because you cannot say that people, the family's steps on, once upon a time there's a man and a woman, there's a man who left his former wife, and he gets married to another woman, and then he has step-children, and something happens, step-children are really pissed about step-mother, and drama all around. But social media has become very powerful. We're in that particular era where technology, and you have a lot of developments coming, and people are taking advantage of this to put out issues. It boils down to a lot of people will say, what is the culture for us? What has become our principle? What do we even believe in? It's really difficult to say what it is, but when we expect it to be a family, a family is very strong. I mean, it's not just something different. That whatever differences that we have, we're able to sort it out without having to bring it to the public. But however, it's in the public, and now people think that the best way to put out issues is to put it out in the public. And you know, when you put it out in the public, you have it out. It's as a social media quote to sort out all of it. No, even if it doesn't necessarily solve that out, but I think that constantly the human nature is wired to get all of that validation, and get all of that. Right. Yes. That's how we're wired. We get all of that. Oh, okay. So this was really bad. How could she have done this? The validation that we constantly have been wired to want to receive is what we're pushing us. So because you probably may not have people support you, maybe members of your family support the action and different spaces. And then we think that we have a space where we can express ourselves and then we get people who would say, oh, this was really wrong. And then you get all of the supports, you get all of the likes and get people, you know, tilting towards your side and supporting you. And that's it. That's just a human element. But we need to find the way, you know, to control it. It's quite unfortunate these days we're getting information of things that we necessarily did not subscribe to. Things are not the dream thing of our business. Have you done what to say? So at this point, what do you even now say? It's quite sad because you understand that Funkie recently had talked about the fact that she doesn't want to put out, she talked about the reason why she doesn't want to put out the pictures of her children. So she doesn't want to reveal their identity. Now on the other hand, you have someone who's put out the picture. And I know a lot of persons, including you, I know, you zoomed the picture, you wanted to see the face of these children. Why has she been keeping them away from all of them? It's the fact that this just means that they're kids and they're kids. And if you're sorting out all the issues that you have, baby, mama, drama, issues within the family, step children and all of that, don't bring children into the conversation because they are just kids. If you want to sort out your issues, sort it out amongst yourselves and don't, because at the end of the day, you're staying with them for the rest of their lives. So it would necessarily not be, so I'm not there. I really don't understand what happened. As much as we will probably get stories from different parties, but you also need to understand that when people are hot, people are hot and then we want to go to any extent to get back to you. And these are the children, that's what, some sort of vengeance? We need to get revenge. And she understands the fact that Fouquet has been very, very particular about putting the identity of her children out there. Recently, I'm not mistaken, I think just recently, there's also that report and post where she talked about the fact that I can't put out my, the reason why I constantly have to let my kids not be out there. And so they understand all of this and put it out and you know, boom, it's what it is. But like I say, we need to be better humans. We need to do better as a people. We also need to understand that as long as we exist as human beings, there'll always be conflicts. We just need to find a way to resolve all of this. But that's the much we can take this morning on top trending on a good Friday, by the way. I hope these issues have been very good, but we'll definitely return on Monday with more interesting conversation, topping the charts across different parts of the country. Now we'll take a break when we return the show continues right here with our paper reviews. Stay with us.