 Now, one in five adults and one in 10 children and teenagers are projected to be abyssed by December 2023 in 10 high-birding African countries if no robust measures are taken to reverse the trend. We are calling for action to tackle rising levels of childhood and adult obesity to reduce the stigma faced by people living with it. Why is Roman Abramovich taking a back seat? What does this mean for Chelsea? As we look at the actions being taken backward from Chelsea, will it affect the day-to-day running of the club and the future? We'll be seeking answers for all of this. And like always, we will be reviewing the front pages of major dailies across Nigeria with the nanolists. Welcome to the breakfast and plus TV Africa. I am Justin Acadone. And I am Messi Boko. It's a beautiful Friday morning and it feels really great to be back on your screen. Yes, it is Friday, mercy and we are thanking God, TGIF. What are you doing for the weekend, Mercy? Nothing. I'm trying to get some rest. Just rest? Of course. No plans to unwind, to lay your head back and all of that. You look very funny. Okay, just gonna rest. You're gonna have a rest of the weekend. Well, for me, I have a wedding to attend at. It's just one of those weekends when you just want to be with friends and family. Great time, but I have some time to rest and basically get more sleep and be back here. It's a good one. It's a good one. It's part of a lifestyle adjustment that we all have to make sometime because of the hustle and bustle with a city like Lagos when there's so much going on. At the end of the week, you just want to take our time and just relax. It is a good one. I think I really appreciate what you want to do for the weekend. A lot of things that happen in Mercy like holidays are so top trending. There's a video, you know, making the round in social media and some security guards were caught dancing. I don't know why you're laughing. It is funny, but at the end of the day, I thought it was just entertaining, you know, but eventually they were sacked. I'm sure you watched the video now. In my opinion, Mercy, you know, sometimes there's so much hardness, so much going on in Lagos. Sometimes you just want to relax and if you think maybe dancing, you know, would bring you some relief, you should. And besides, I feel it's just a way, in my opinion, though, I don't, I felt that SAC was a bit too harsh for them because it is a nature. So some people might see it as a way of them entertaining guests and some people might be, I want to go to that particular each where those security guards entertain us with dance moves, although some might say it's unprofessional that they should be at their post and doing their job. But there's a long as nothing all right went on. So why not? Mercy, you're laughing. I don't know. I'm enjoying it. Just look at the steps. No, and you know, but looking at that, that's particularly true. Yeah. Why are you laughing? It feels like I'm actually... They're getting into the groove. No, wait. It feels like I'm actually patronized. I mean, it looks like a very familiar... You've learned the dance move. I don't know. I'm not sure. It looks... You know, I've been trying to figure out where the particular sport is. You would go there if you noticed. No, necessarily, because I don't want to start bringing down any brand and anything, but let's leave it at that. Okay. But I was really trying to figure out, it feels like I've actually been in the particular sport. So yes, your thoughts have actually aligned with a lot of Nigerians who say, hey, there's really nothing wrong to dance and that was too harsh. They were just dancing. They didn't kill anyone. And at the end of the video, if you actually saw that video to the end, you still find out that he was still opening the door. He's still doing the jobs. Yeah. So I think, you know, let's look at it again. So he was dancing and then I think he still responded to the door. Let's see. So he opened the door and then someone walked in. They have got moves. Oh. To the left. To the right. Come on. No. But you want to also agree with me that organizations actually have their own rules and regulations and rules of engagement for me. The job is done. It doesn't matter how you get it done as much as the job is done because when I saw the video at first or not necessarily, I'm not sure I saw that particular part where he opened the door. That means he didn't fail on his job. Yes. Now the question a lot of people have been asking is, you know, your job description does not entail, it does not include, because for every time you get a job, I mean, you go to an organization and you're asking, there's a job description, you're being given what to do. And so, you know, they might be, they are really right. As much as we are also, you know, looking at it, oh, there's a lot going on in Niger, but the question you want to ask yourself is this fast food, you know, that hired this young man or the security organization that hired this man, did he include that they were going to be dancing? I know. But another thing also should be, did they also, did they fail at their job? I mean, like I said, I could still see him taking the door, opening the door. And so he meant that he was doing his job, however you get the job done as long as the job doesn't feel, it's done. There's this, I don't know, sometime here in Lagos now, you know, as a last man or road safety official, that's really prominent, a longer, is it, Ikej or Laos area. If you pass that route, you know, he still controls traffic, you know, and he was commanded, I mean, fine. He was in the job, traffic was moving and people were happy. People, I mean, tensions were believed. No, no, there's a particular, there's a particular traffic word in that, in a particular state, I mean, to be very precise, in Cross River State, Calabar, there's spots around the zoo access. The young man there is always very happy. And then there's also another police officer in that, so there are two, you have a police officer, usually if you find her in different spots, she is always very joyful. She does it, you know, with a lot of, you know, drama, she's very dramatic with it. Sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean that some music she's dancing to, but like I said, she's very dramatic. I was not part of their rule book and then traffic was too heavy. Like we would always say, you can't say, I mean, plus TV Africa has her own rules of engagement and expectation. I just felt they should have been warned or something. You never can tell, maybe they have actually put out the warning, but for me, so looking at that video, we could still see that they were doing their job. I mean, the doors were being attended to and if they did not fail at their job, then they didn't deserve to be actually, you know, sucked and all of that. Because some people, I saw a lot of reaction yesterday. Some people are saying, oh, you know, if you were hired to do XYZ and you were not doing another thing, and then you missed the goal. Imagine that you were playing Chelsea and Liverpool, and then the goalkeeper decides to dance to Ameno and then there's a goal, right? But look at this again for a second. I think this is the part that a lot of people are not paying attention to. But like we always say, I mean, it's the organization. This fast food, they have their rules of engagement. Did they fail at their job is another thing that we probably cannot even tell if they had been given warning and asked that this is not part of your job description description as much as they're happy. But I'm sure that this young man, you know, will not be stranded. They would definitely find their food. Yeah, they're very happy looking and very passionate about the dance. They've got very good. Maybe maybe they just get signed up to one of this dance academy or dance video or anything. Because I, for one, I can't even dance to save my life. All right, we'll move on away from that. There's another story at friend and reps are rejecting Bill to bar office. Oh, there's from studying abroad. That didn't come to me as a surprise because, you know, they feel that our education standards, you know, are not really as competitive or, you know, apart with those abroad. So, you know, why would they want to stop it when they know that they can easily travel? So the thing for me is that you should know what the issues are. Fix the country, fix our education so that way you will not even need to go abroad to study. Before now, Nigeria used to have a very wonderful educational system. We had exchange program with them, foreign and national who come to us. But all of that is just changing message. We talked about education yesterday. We're talking again today. We are something like broken records. Really, I am tired. No, but we will never stop. We will never stop until we get to a point where we understand the importance of education. Have we asked? I mean, look at the costs that we have to incur in evacuating our students from Russia every time, every other time. You have a lot of peasants, not necessarily political office holders, awards of children who want to leave the country and go seek quality education outside. I just thought that it would just be an opportunity, you know, for lawmakers to actually look at the essence of all of this. The point is we need to look inwards. We need to be self-sufficient and self-reliant. We can constantly. Someone put out a post yesterday. I think it's a Nollywood actor. And he talked about the fact that he's not willing to send his children, his children to go study abroad. Not that he can afford it, but he thinks that it's patriotic to have your kids actually study in Nigeria. So primarily, because he got a lot of Nigerians talking, it's that this bill would have actually gotten to a point where it holds people accountable. It would just make us say, OK, if this is the case, whatever it takes, we're going to fix it. We're going to fix it. I tell you every other time, have you ever wondered why people want to go out? Because first of all, you want to look at the environment. At the time where I was a student of the University of Calibre, I remember I had a counterpart, a very good friend, who was still in Ghana. And he was studying in Ghana. Sometimes we probably just have those conversations and call. He's like, oh, I'm still in school. I'm still in class at this time of the night. He says, everywhere's lit. That's number one. He says, everywhere's lit. Conducive involvement. So go to our universities. This is not talk, say. This has nothing to do with ASU. Take a look if you want to. If you can, just visit each universities across the 36 days. And look at the state of infrastructure. It is horrible, including the university that I graduated from. There's nothing to write home about. You will still be saddened by the fact that in the 21st century, I mean, when are we even going to get our 21st century? We still have a lot of people still sitting not on the desk. They'll probably be on the floor in the university. I know. No, so it's bad. So let's even begin to talk about the chemistry labs. Let's begin to talk about all of the labs. I did management information system back then in school. I think I was in my second or third year, sometime in 2000. Management information system was about computers, and how computers make your work, or management's work, and very easy. Mercy then, I didn't even get to see a computer. The only thing they showed us then was just a diskette. Oh, you were very fortunate, in my case. In my case. And I will always say this. So I had this lecturer because he had to do with introduction to computer. And it was a compulsory at the time. So you have those very compulsory courses. And then so this lecturer walked in, and he walked into the computer hall and everywhere. And then he said, well, today we're going to start off with this, just imagining that you had a monitor in front of you. So I was wondering, what does he mean? We should have a very wild imagination to do that. Now, it becomes very difficult for persons who had not seen a computer or seen a monitor before. I was privileged. I mean, it was a privilege that I had seen a computer before, I owned a system. And so it wasn't difficult. But for me, it was just like, how do you tell us to imagine that there was one in front of us? So you were going to be telling us what we don't know. The point is to be very realistic. The state of our, let's look at the infrastructure. It's nothing to write them about. No, it's not at all. The environment is not conducive. The school environment is not lit. You walk into the lecturer's office, or offices. You'll find out that there's so much. There's no power. How do you even want this lecturer to function? How do we even get there? It's not very conducive. And sometimes you find out that these lecturers are very aggressive towards your students. Oh, they take it out of our students. So all of that is very, I talked about it. We talked about it yesterday. Yes, we did. There was a video that popped up when you had some professors agitating for space in a university. And it looked like an uncompleted building. So what do you expect? Now, it now falls down on those who cannot afford to send their children outside of this country. So if we have what it takes to fix the country, to fix the educational system, why don't we fix it? Why don't we make it very conducive, let it begin to compete so that we can also have people coming to Nigeria? Because I haven't seen people saying they're coming to Nigeria to study. You know, why? That's what I was saying. We used to have that. The actions program is gone. Everything changed. All of those things that you talked about, we had all of that. Then the schools like Investure of E-Bard or OA, and then Namdezikui, U.N., the University of Nigeria, and Suka, they were like the prominent schools that we had lots of westerners from the western countries come to Nigeria to study. You know, they do some sort of an exchange program. We had all the infrastructure. Fine, there was pre-computer, years and everything. But then we had the basic things. All of a sudden, all of these things just went down the drain. And no talk of maintenance. At the end of the day, we still have students crumbling to seats to even listen to the lecture. I remember back then, we were like eight in a pew doing the examination. We're like, so many people. As at this point in time, just walk into a university. You will find out that people are crowded. There's no spaces. Should we be talking about that? Should we walk into a university, lecture halls, and whatever you, and find out that we're still very behind? We're like 20 years. It feels like we're still in the stone age. People still sit on the floor. This is not a hearsay, but this is a fest and experience. And it's totally embarrassing for a country as Niger. And then we have all it takes. We have all of the resources. But you look at the budgetary allocation of our, you know, at the end of the day, you just shows you that we're not really interested. And if this bill, you know, however it sounds, as long as someone will say, okay, you know, whoever can afford should afford. But it just gives us an opportunity to say, hey, let's fix our education. Let's fix it. Let our kids school here. Let's make it conducive that we begin to have people who even want to less even say that, okay, the exchange program will continue. And then maybe begin to have people from the, you know, the continent begin to patronize our universities. It will make a lot because sometimes when you apply for these universities, I mean, when you apply for admission in some university, that was the time I got admission to one of these universities, that would give you the admission. It's not the problem. You know why you're coming to spend money. You're looking at 14, almost 14 million, 12 million. That's a lot. It is. You know, so depending on how many semesters you, so that's also an avenue that we could also generate revenue. I'm hoping that our lawmakers will begin to look outside of the, I mean, beyond your interest. It's okay. Why can't we make our universities, you know, compete with the global standard, with that of Harvard and, you know, Oxford and all of the very beautiful universities in Europe and all the parts of the country? So we don't have to constantly have ourselves going there. Recently with all of the happenings in Ukraine and Russia, it's been calling for a lot of concern. Why do we have to risk our lives? Why do we have to spend more to go evacuate a student? If it was a better environment here, if the quality of education was better, nobody would want to go out. So I'm thinking that lawmakers would actually, you know, begin to think back and have a rethink. This is not about you. Yes, we know that you can afford it, but why don't we make it look creative? Why don't we see this as an avenue where people can come in and invest in our country as well? So we begin to have the patronage. Let's say yours, you will have people from the United States, the old ones come school in Nigeria, but that has never happened. We had all of that. So we constantly, because every time we leave here, we're taking our monies to go spend in another economy, and it's not making sense. And at the end of the day, they're constantly retaining the manpower and the knowledge. So yes, let's fix Nigeria if we want it to work. All right, we don't have much time on this segment, but lastly, we'll quickly talk about the federal government approving the extradition of the DCP, Abakiri. You know, Mercy, you know, when he was arrested, you know, and detained over, you know, a led drug for illicit drugs and all of that, you know. Well, people, lots of people were saying that it is an attempt by the federal government to maybe delay, you know, his extradition. A lot of people have said that it's just one of those tactics that the government wants to use. And at the end of the day, people might not be eventually, you know, extradited to the country, that's the United States of America, where he's supposed to answer questions, you know, being involved them in Hosh Pop's case. Well, a lot of people have actually talked about the fact that maybe the federal government is also involved. I mean, the absence of interest, because people would say he probably would not have been working all by himself and there are several theories saying, oh yes, you know, when the particular report came out, because first of all, he was indicted. I mean, the fact that he's an accomplice in Hosh Pop's case. And so when you also have the fact that he was also accused of, there were reports that he is also an accomplice or he's a suspect in the case of drug and trafficking, the issue of belonging to a drug cartel and what have you. Some people thought that it was actually some might because this would be a plan not to ensure that he's not been moved out of Nigeria to go fees, you know, and answer some of the questions in the United States. But we can see all of these things playing out. And I would rather say that let the law take its course. You know, let justice actually, you know, prevail however we see the situation. Fingers across will continue to monitor and see how things actually unfold. All right, those are the top trending stories for this morning. We'll take a quick break. And when we come back, we'll be reviewing the front pages of major dailies in a moment. Do join us again.