 Welcome back to the breakfast is time for of the press. We take you through the pages of a national dailies and as usual on Thursdays We have Ezekiel. Yeah, I took good morning. Ezekiel. Yeah, I took and thank you for joining us Pleasure as well. Okay, so let's start off with the daily Trust I beg your pardon daily independent newspaper this morning Let's find out what's making it. What big stories we have on the daily independent Now on the daily independent newspaper the banner caption reads the federal government to tow Legas Ibadon abuja Kanu roads and second Niger bridge That's about caption on the daily independent Hashtag and says protests federal executive council Raises please salary by 20% Okay's new federal civil service framework It's underneath the boat caption for That particular one APC has taken Niger 20 years backward says River states governor. Yes, I'm wiki. That's what you have Justice orderly's house invasion federal government arrange 15 suspects Bandits kill Kaduna lawmaker very sad inflation rate drops to 15.40% in November Senate approves Buhari's fresh 5.8 billion dollars loan requests and that's also Not interesting caption But for Buhari terrorists would have declared Islamic State Ministers quoted says president living and daring legacy of security and social cohesion That's also on the net not entirely below the paper this morning and you also have we are aware Bandit's tax villagers Niger government or government state government is quoted To say that and I met once of impending poor Visibility this is some of the headlines on the daily independent newspaper this morning Away from the daily independent our next part of call is the leadership newspaper The banner headline for this morning a bandit's collect levis in Niger state government confirms with some writers there Says a farmer spade terrorists to harvest bandits kill Kaduna assembly member and Surgency terrorism won't disappear overnight. That's attributed to the federal government insists a government is working hard to tackle Antiquity About that one just below the must head 2021 how CBN disbursed two trillion nine two six zones That's just below the must head of the leadership newspaper All right on the left strip there Federal government to tall legas a bad non-canal abouja roads Lassa fever kills two medical consultants in Nassarawa Jacob Zuma back to jail for corruption charges only 6000 out of 30,000 primary healthcare centers are functional according to reps election costs 400 billion narrow census fund delay passage of the 2022 budget North Central reject a PC chairmanship position eyes Presidency those are all of the stories you can find on the leadership newspaper. There's first day money All right, let's move away from the leadership newspaper and check out the punch now the board caption hashtag North is bleeding protests Federal government on the attack as DSS, please disperse arrest Demonstrators as a boat caption you find underneath that boat caption. You also have several riders The first says protest organizers arrested in Sokoto Kaduna Kanu Amnesty International is quoted and UN says 2.9 million people displaced in North states petition signed by 28,000 No president has funded security agencies like Buhari says lie Mohammed That's the minister of information cultural. You also have case rise 107 inbound passengers test positive for COVID-19 in one week You that's according to the minister of health You find that also and federal government debt servicing gobs 2.49 trillion narrow in nine months according to the Department of debt management National Assembly members fear and for DSS over you tight kidnapped warning okay You also have another caption here Assumments Saturday and decides on planned strike over of a field agreement and Let's see if we can take one or two just before we move away from The pouch newspaper this morning heavy security is federal government Arranged 15 suspect over orderly's home raid might just be dominating all of the papers this morning and reps or the probe of Navies eight 195.3 million dollars equipments contract to foreign firm Assembly laments has bandit killed lawmakers or lawmaker on Kaduna Highway and Woman jailed seven years for stealing and selling baby for 300,000 Accomplice remanded now. This is some of the headlines on the punch newspaper and finally I will move on next to the nation The main headline for this morning Presidency knocks or bus on your orders over attacks on Buhari critics over heat and polity says minister One trillion narrow CBN a FC NSIA fund for Lagos Ibadon Road and Others above the must hand of the nation newspaper 15 suspect a rain of a siege to orderly's home 98 million dollars Islamic Bank loan for education in Oshun eight others Gunmen impose ransom on farmers harvesting crops Lagos begins prosecution of COVID-19 rose the photos answers protests requests police salary goes up by 30% Those are the stories you can find on the nation newspaper this morning All right, let's have a Zika. Yeah, I took join the conversation this morning. Thank you for joining us. We do appreciate your time Zika There's always thanks for having me ever my pleasure Okay, so let's go straight to the crux of the matter now. Let's start off with Start off with the daily independent newspaper federal government to tow Lagos Ibadon Abuja Kano roads and second Niger bridge Yeah, I Think that this government should get Away, I don't want to say get out as fast as possible So that we can start to have proper governance This government needs to leave as soon as possible and Nigerians need to wake up so that They can be properly informed on management of expectation a Reasonable father will tell the family Exactly what his income is Relative to the priorities of the family Then the child will see reason why he or she can only eat egg once a week and Not every day All it needs is for the father to be trustworthy The father to make food disclosure and the children are not unreasonable. I don't know what to do Nigeria is taking on what they honestly sincerely can't afford and They are giving Nigerians the impression that we don't have a problem as a result Expectations are this high and they cannot manage the expectation as a result. We're just in a state of confusion There's this paradigm that makes it difficult for us to understand if we are rich or if we are poor later On one hand, we say you don't have money to pay minimum wage and things like that On the other hand the flamboyance of the civil servant is actually not sitting Not civil servants, particularly our brothers a public servant It seems my video is frozen. I wonder why this is can you hear me? Okay, good, good, you know is the public servant is not sitting Let me relate it to the pole to the tones If Nigerians know that we need good words They know that the government can't afford to maintain the roads They know that if this road have a PPP sort of arrangement That the road will be in good shape at all times All it needs is for us to put up a little bit of a payment a toll here and there Nigerians will very very very I won't say nicely, but they will understand and take it But when you go into tolling the roads and we look at the budget We don't see the subhead on income that shows the tolls We look at the management of the tolling and we cannot see the transparency the Nigerians do not accept Then I look forward to a new government We hear the people will be Respected the people will be trusted as the people that are interested with power will be trusted so that when they say we can't afford to have Electricity without a cost-reflective tariff we need to have a cost-reflective tariff so that we will have Investors who are not going to be for that Christmas the businessman But we are going to regulate it such that the emerging is not is not excruciating on the people Nigerians will pay for that power at the cost-reflective tariff Then we now go into fuel we tell them we really can't afford this one 1 trillion or no this humongous amount that they are calling every month So please can we we start to you know we Nigerians need to come to a point when when they are leaving their house the switch of all the lights Many of us have lived abroad and we know that they are sitting in luxury that we can afford Even the heater you know the time to turn it on the time to turn it off All the appliances know when to turn it on turn it off But everything is free in Nigeria in a country that they cannot afford I think it has to do with mentality to governance and the fact that we that call ourselves the helis the time has come when we must really wake up and Inform the people properly I think that's my take on the tolling It is necessary if we need it we need it all we need is a Government that will not will not collect money from the people Pocket the money and we're back to status quo. We need a government that we can trust So maybe they should just cool down we can manage the way we are managing until the last two years because you know So they will now con con session these roads to the occurrence collect money for election This will not have the capacity to perform which is what happened to us with the privatisation of electric electricity And at the end of the day with the back to status quo would have lost our money and gained nothing So maybe they should just leave us the way we are when a government that makes sense in my opinion comes They will be able to take these decisions looking at the best people that can run this infrastructure Concession them and we'll have it better in an infrastructure All right, we slide on to the leadership and newspaper and they have security as the lead story They captioned it this way and meet security concerns bandits collect levels in Niger state and government is confirming What's what's your position? Mr? You see when you have a government that believes more in politics than in governance. That's what you have You have a problem in South is the solution to the problem in South is can come You know, there's one of the people that say that the solution will not come overnight. What a lie from the pit of hell I am telling you on good authority and on my honor that Problem in South is can be solved within one month Within one month and I say this with every sense of responsibility It's very easy to do But do they have the political will so that the soldiers are removed from the southeast You spread the soldier you you kind of, you know, it's like you you deliberately plant things in every part of the state You spread the soldiers in and in a country like the federal republic of Nigeria A rioted army Can see certain territories and you tell me that the problem cannot go overnight. It's a lie It's an absolute lie It's because you know, when you see the same when you see a guy dancing He should look well that there's something playing the drums for that for that for that dancer, you know What am I trying to say? Have we sat down to to profile what is emboldening this This bandit Have we really sat down all we hear? Oh, there are moles in the in the military We've been infiltrated that sounds so pedestrian. They sound so so illogical. They sound so uninteresting You're telling me that at the Nigerian army does not have the intelligence They will always be, you know, espionage will always be moles But not to the extent where you nationally accept that we have a problem It's like we're helpless who's gonna help us I the day that we want banditry to stop in Nigeria within ascending limits It will not take a long time. I believe that clearly because all we need is Someone who comes in and these guys know that their time is up Once they know that your time is up. They will leave They will leave it happens You go to an ascending state where it's like the the the the the band is not bandits. The robbers Are taking hold of that state And all he takes is one commissioner of police That is brought to that state and all of a sudden guys say, oh boy, this is gonna hurt. So this man will take nonsense We better relocate they relocate So all we need is is is is a security chief With with with the principal who is the head of state always is a mr. President the commander in chief Calling them and giving them a matching order and saying a private meeting that mr. President has with the service chiefs And it gives them a mandate and say guys look between now and the next six months This is my target. Can you take it? Can you deliver? Can you not? What do you want? What don't you want? If not so Nicely give me your your resignation later I want this thing done enough is enough. I don't want it anymore Six months or you give me your resignation letter and let me see if this will not work What do you need? Realistically I've been in a soldier being a general of commanded things. I know how things work. What are the problems? That that meaning that meeting that should not last more than one hour Where you like they know what they are coming for they they have a brief brief and they are coming and just talk to me It's so precise. It's so on point within months You start to see a complete deep in fact right from the intel those those those those that are infiltrated them We'll go back to the field and say what will I sell that don't change mine though This is not the walk again. No before they come and snuck us out. We better just leave Don't tell me that this insecurity will not leave overnight. I think that's the worst thing you can tell Nigerians and from a government It's an apology Okay Let's also go back to the daily independent newspaper this morning If you look at there's a pictorial representation of the protests that took place In a bouja where you have the banner you could see the caption Northern Nigeria is bleeding. Buhari is sleeping. Hashtag north is bleeding Now underneath you also have but for Buhari terrorists would have declared islamic states. That's according to the minister You know for information right there What are your thoughts on this one? My biggest problem is actually the honest mindset of the minister of information I'll sat down on several occasions and try to like leave my you know My prejudices if I may use that expression and really like just try to imagine What on the mind of this man If he sincerely means the things he says And how well he sleeps at night I just want to know he is honest with himself the minister of information Seems to think that he is Maybe the press secretary Or the personnel media person of mr. President or that he took the oath of allegiance To be mr. President's private staff Or to defend the government In my opinion That is the worst position that a minister of information can take Because at the end of the day you alienate the people And you are called minister of information because we are expected to inform the people To the end that A a a rapprochement a rapport is created between the people and the government I would like mr. Minister to do me a little favor Get an independent person To give you an independent assessment of the mindset of the people towards him and then the government And I've said this thing before on this program and I repeated one of my friends He said that his father gave him Not that he would never forget he says May the man who is always trusted Never lie against you May the man who is always trusted Never lie against you And I want to flip it and tell the government May the man who is never trusted Never be your spokesperson Okay, is it uh, is it coming I took just before you know We coasted down because we're out of time. I'd like you to I totally understand where you're coming from Uh, you know the person of uh, the minister for information line mohammed No, I I understand but let's look at you know, what he has actually said I mean that statement saying that but not for the president, you know Probably there should have been a sub declaration of Islamic state How can you make such a statement in Nigeria? But for the president doing what But for the president doing what Do you know the hurting families? Do you know the pains that people are going through? What is it? What what is the honest thought of an average Nigerian toward mr. President leading from the front? And you come to tell me that but for the president Nigeria would have been an Islamic state by now Let him wait all he needs is to give us Six months into the new administration and then let him come and repeat how Nigeria would have become an Islamic state I think that if we had a common commander in chief that was leading from the front We would not be going through these pains that we are going through I think what this man ought to do is to apologize to Nigerians on a daily basis for the pains that you are going through Apologize to Nigerians on a daily basis Then nothing else in particular who are being killed like chicken who are being displaced like they're not humans This is what this man should be doing I'm telling you don't tell us oh, if not that for the man doing working so hard We would have been an Islamic state by now Absolutely, my opinion. All of that doesn't hold any water. All right. We must say a very big thank you to you We have been joined by Ezekiel Nyairdok and we Have indeed been looking at them the front pages of the daily server. Thank you so much mr. Nyairdok Thanks for having me You're welcome. God bless you too. In a moment today in history December 16 1969 MPs voted to abolish death penalty. Let's see that