 Welcome back is to watching the breakfast and plus TV Africa. We're ready to look at the national dailies And of course what headlines are contained on the front pages of these newspapers? We have the interesting ones for you I'm glad to say I guess Legal practitioner to Nikola Oli is already standing by to do justice to the headlines to Nikola Oli. Good morning to you Thank you very much for your time Thank you So we'll start things with a look at the leadership newspaper First off and of course some interesting headlines coming in the leadership the big one there a siege on a boujard They've already called it siege on a boujard military police Scale-up operations against terrorists and so I don't know if we can call it a siege as it now To Nikola Oli is here for that reason you tell us well, of course a picture of the five released Kidnapped victims those who were on the Kadrona bound train who were kidnapped and has spent months in Detention finally gaining freedom. This is the the fifth or the fourth batch so far Released from captivity there. This was in a top-trending segment earlier more from the paper commonwealth games Nigeria wins gold and bronze and discus silver in weightlifting It's interesting to see some of these are individual sports given the country glory not football I'm sure that I freely we do better in these spots. We should focus on them as well a Deborah I will implement committee's report Tamboa this talking about a young girl who was killed in suck in us in so-called to state after Saying some things about the Prophet Muhammad and sort of a religious killing the government government to say that they will implement the committee's report pension fund assets rise by 843 billion era in each one two thousand and twenty-two. That's the first one first half of the year Two weeks after P&B's intervention FG assu fail to resolve impasse and it's You know it begins to ask or make you ask it do the president's words matter Whether if he says do something they will automatically do that it's two weeks since he He made some statements about this situation He's also directed that a minister of education be directly in charge of the negotiations Nothing has happened till now. The road has been further extension to the strike 2023 what the Nigerian children want is at the back page of this newspaper I pity Nigeria's next president says a good me a picture of Sheikh Gumi there And of course, I'm sure to make for an interesting read the details on page six of that newspaper 233 local governments in 32 states are prone to flooding This is coming from NEMA the national emergency Management agency we move on from the leadership to the punch the punch also Has some a security-flavored twist to its lead story terror attack NRC suspends Ligas Kano, Ajau Kuta train services. It's what the paper is saying terror attack NRC suspends Ligas Kano, Ajau Kuta train services. That's the national Niger railway corporation And the riders to that gunman shoot at passengers cars buses at Ajau Kuta a six vigilantes fear killed travelers panic and Another one there corporation stops Ligas Kano route to avoid attacks in Mina Kaduna and Titans Security, so I'm well. It's difficult to fly by air and also by road It's also difficult to fly to travel by by by rail only God knows how people will be moving across the country more from the paper Impeachment showing car backs lawmakers against Buhari Kerosene hits 80 narrow 800 narrow per liter Nigerians phase hard times Tinnable's government will be fair to all shatima Bank borrowing from CBN rises 27 percent to 4.5 Trillion narrow, I do hope that the banks will not be the next sector to face hardships in the current Economic challenges Nigeria is facing. We all cannot afford any more More from the punch or show a PC members protest demand Germans sacking On the hospital Russians fuel patient dies during surgery. It's an all too familiar tale 21 killed in Ligas cross river crashes FRSC blames fog indeed the fog is a is a big issue when traveling Especially in the morning and late at night in that part of the country UK Licenses to 166 Nigerian doctors in two months and the LA dismantles Ligas a number of drug labs Arrests barons. It's a it's an interesting one So some pictures of the drugs in the labs in Ligas, and it's a worrying worrying piece of information Over to the nation this morning Some statistical, you know figures coming from the nation. They've been able to break down the the ionic water registration stats State by state and most of the papers have been doing analysis Since yesterday, so they devote some part of their front page to that indeed the elite story goes with that Ligas cannel top registration Eqiti by Elsa Yobi Gombe have the least voters ionic begins cleanup of voter register, of course, the Northwest Now has the largest number of voters indeed. It already had the lead Even with the ongoing Registration is CVR the just suspended CVR the Northwest also led in the number of newly registered voters the Northwest led and the northern part of country Topped the southern part of country need people have been looking at it that way north versus south It's an interesting way to look at it more from the nation newspaper Buhari assures states facing terror attacks of support Does that mean mean anything to you? Flood to hit 233 council areas in 32 states Nema warns 21 die in Ligas road accident To barons chemist held in raid on Uncurymary labs, right? This is crystal meth in the southeast of Nigeria. It's called Uncurymary It's a You know popular a amongst the youth in the southeast. It hasn't been given to it This is not to say it's used only south in southeastern Nigeria But of course the pictures were on the internet with this crystal meth being seen It's dangerous drug that can drive you crazy Gunmen kill seven guards. All right, it's another one there and the final few stories from the nation bullets From terrorists guns still in my stomach five train hostages Free and this is the gentleman one of the five who we talked about earlier Saying the bullet is still in his stomach. My god. This is really scary Strike federal government with holding our salary since February says asu Government side waiting for the most report says and gigi. All right. I wonder what that has to expect I mean the he said that labor laws Stipulate that no work. No pay. I guess we'll talk some more about this when it comes on Pelosi arrives Taiwan despite China's warning and the Chinese have all of a sudden this declared They're gonna have some some training exercises for their military in islands all around Taiwan So I'm sure that that is one to watch a terrible support groups Merge that's another one as well to look at and the final paper on our table this morning is daily trust with some interesting Stories and they trust over the past two days and weeks. They've always seemed to have a different twist Compete to the other papers. This is the lead story as you can see on the front page Travelers stranded as dollar shortage hits banks. I can't access I Can't access for forks to attend to my health abroad says patient fake applications are nightmare banks And we're tackling the menace CBN. I wonder if it's a fake application. So truly a dollar Shortage being the nightmare of the banks, but there you can see that even the patient who wants to travel abroad for treatment cannot Access foreign exchange to travel abroad. It's really sad more from the daily trust 52 vehicle assembly plants shut down $1 billion investment in jeopardy FG to take health insurance contributions from HMOs custody FG to take health insurance contributions from HMOs custody. That is worrying Sakura to govern ship APC inches towards victory as affection tsunami rocks PDP How party accounts feel misinformation ahead of 2023 elections the paper has something on that Indeed the running mate on the presidential ticket of the Labour Party recently came out to say something about that Buhari no single country can contain insecurity How vigilantes beat Quranic teacher to death in Kano and long tipped as Tina boo's campaign Let's quickly bring in to Nicole. Well at this point to Nicole. Well, let's start with them The the business story there as which is the lead on a fun page of the daily trust talking about Dollar shortages what are your thoughts on this people are not able to travel abroad like you see for treatment because you don't have the forex available What general principle of economics is that It is what you produce and let's put I will bring you the quantity of dollars That you might have in your CBN So do there are purchases You want to make from abroad Since my dear I didn't producing too many goods We rely on the petroleum products the export of petroleum products So in our current So if we are able to sell the petroleum products in the quantity in which you require to sell it So as to have the coincides Savings with regard to following the chain then There's not any anybody can do to solve that problem the second area is People who are based abroad Nigerians who are based abroad They run it a lot of Art currencies home So people in Nigeria to their people in Nigeria And then for investment And also to take care of their siblings You and I do know most of these people Not their jobs done in the COVID-19 pandemic And the economies in those selling place countries Are just gradually picking up So let me tell you home Which is a substantial part of the foreign exchange that CBN used to domicile are no longer coming in Of course we are in a moving move that There is security in the Nigerian region Which is affecting The quantity of petroleum products Now we are producing Of course opaque is also there So give you The quota that you are allowed to sell in the international market All these things are not available to us despite the fact that the world between Ukraine and Russia is affecting the supply of gas and the supply of petroleum products around the world simply because We as a nation are not prepared to take advantage of the shortages That is coming from this world because You don't just wake up overnight and begin to make a spot You need to Have planned for it. You need to have Client who will buy from you. You need to have the ships that will transport the oil With the different markets around the world I'm not to show Nigeria has made them all the necessary infrastructure So be able to benefit from the war between Ukraine and the Soviet and Russia this in a nutshell It's a summary without great economic complication for what is causing the dollar shortage Nigeria is a renter economy if it's not a protected economy that transports anything and then All the things that we use domestically virtually almost 95% of the things that we use domestically including toothpicks are imported to Nigeria without quality So if you have that kind of situation in your house you are likely to be facing the falling the same shortages that we begin to witness lately not too long ago the Fibian accused the our NMPs are limited that it is because they are not limited the falling the same that the N have brought into the Fibian cover that's why Nigeria is no longer having as much money as they should have and the Fibian has come out to deny that in the last 6 months they have limited this is also a month of money for the Fibian cover just by the challenges that they also face either with transporting the goods they have brought or selling it in the international market the lessons to learn from this is that Nigeria must find the way back to becoming a country that produces goods and services internally and there is also very minimal products and goods that it is unable to produce Alright interesting Tunde Koala let's stay with the Daily Trust they talk about the HMOs in the country which are source for people who work in public and private institutions to have health insurance bearing in mind the failure of the health insurance scheme that has failed over the years now the federal government has come up with a new organization agency called the National Health Insurance Authority following the signing into law a new law by President Manbua recently and fresh information revealing like the paper says on its front page that the federal government will take health insurance contributions from the custody that's the money we pay I mean I subscribe to an HMO the federal government is taking this money from the custody of the HMOs they want to take the money just a few lines from the paper it says the Director General of the National Health Insurance Authority Prof. Mahmohamed Sambo has revealed that the federal government will take health insurance contributions from the custody of the health maintenance organizations called HMOs he was speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at a sensitization workshop for journalists on the NHIA Act he said the money will now go directly to healthcare facilities and do you suspect that this may may change may affect you know the current HMO delivery or HMO services in Nigeria I mean negatively or you think this is a welcome development because I mean my HMO gives me everything I want and it's quite easy and it's quite fantastic if you ask me um you know this didn't begin now some time ago or a few years ago the Minister of Works Mr. Alaki Fashola has come out to say that the federal government who are going to borrow money that has been saved by the pensioners which is domiciled in the account of the pension providers and this money what the pension providers do with them is to invest them so they will be able to generate profit or dividend whatever you may want to call it so that when people retire they will be able to access whatever money they would have saved so if the federal government is again talking about taking the money such as the health insurance people and domiciled in CPM or in its own account and all that it could be seen as another form of borrowing by the federal government before now too some set of the federation have been taking money in the cooperative account of the different workers in the different ministries when you and I do know the cooperative savings is the private savings of the different workers that we have all over the country but the question to ask your services if the federal government that says it is broke that it is finding it difficult to end they are now finding a change are taking the money that pensioners have saved with their pension providers now goes ahead to take money with the health insurance people and also begin to take money that are in the cooperative accounts of different workers and all that a government that has come out openly to declare that it is broke your guess is good as mine now this guy is not taking when you as the health insurance saver when you as registered with the HMOs is ready to access the money and the federal government is unable to make the money available to the health insurance people or to the hospital you want to get your treatment then it means your money will never be gotten again because it might be difficult for the federal government to make the money available when it has openly declared that it is a bankrupt that it is not any enough money so sadly the debt portfolio that is carrying on the set I am not too sure that it is carrying news for the different health people are safe with health insurance people I am not also sure that it is carrying news for the pensioners all over the country I am also not too sure that the people who say that the cooperatives are in the best of times with the policies that the federal government has been evolving it is a form of confiscation of money that has been said by the different workers all over the country which they may never get again if the resources of the federal government if there is no improvement in the economy of the federal republic of Nigeria so we are in for a very pumpy times in Nigeria we just pray that God will and the country survives a bankruptcy that it will find itself today I wonder when they take these monies from these places how it will affect the delivery of these services they are telling us the head of the agency tells us that the money is going directly to the hospitals so it will make it faster and easier that is what the world is telling us when they were taking the funds some of the funds with the pensions service providers when they were taking money when state government were taking money from the wallets of the cooperatives in their state those are the few things they told the workers have they been able to make those monies available with the cooperatives society have they been able to return the money when it was required or needed seamlessly so the pensions that these providers are understandable to hide the real intentions of the federal government which I think it is not fair the federal government is finding it difficult to get money to borrow from outside the country and they are now looking in what to borrow from workers and also to add the central bank of Nigeria to use ways I mean to make money available to her to be able to meet his obligations either in terms of salary payment in terms of importation of goods and services or for the running of the government alright maybe the federal government should start to go fund me account so that people can donate money but some will say you know this is even some have been praying for the day when it would not be profitable to be in government where you get into government there is no money you have to think and then you know people will begin to say you know what I am not going to contest for any office and then you begin to see that people who have ideas will be the ones contesting for offices not those who want to go and steal big funds because these funds may not be available as they used to be but I doubt if this will happen you know this will talk of all let's pray that there will be no money in the country with the government so that people who have purely noble motives will go into government to go stand for elections and all that do you think that will happen in the future if this trend continues Well it is not impossible not impossible in the sense that we as a nation begin to quote our quote according to the size of our clothes we have to begin to make the foundation for a producing economy we also must quote our tastes in terms of importation for necessary good services and of course the political engineering which I don't see coming forward in the nearest future what do I mean by political engineering I have compared the times without members that we could make a fitting for being members of the entire assembly in most of these states a part-time affair in which when people win the elections and go into the entire assembly they run at the stage in accordance to the number of citizens that they do they will pay 15 and lower transportation and lower if they have to stay in a hotel they have to tell a woman she should be paid of course we also have to go to the federal level in which the national assembly the House of Rep the Senate you pull this down maybe to a unicameral assembly the national assembly and then also reduce the number of people who go into those assemblies you could have one senator per state and two out of the rest of the state so as to reduce the varied costs because in the humble opinion the national assembly is a money-gottler that gives very little or no dividends of course you also have to reduce the executive of government so that maybe instead of adding ministers from each state of the federation you could just have about 15 ministers to run the affairs of the government of course some of the benefits that goes to the people in the executive of government today like the president the minister in terms of security votes in terms of compelling them to provide for themselves to feed themselves from the salaries that they have in terms of cutting them the number of vehicles that the minister that the president that the directors in the military can use which are fleets in terms of aircrafts and the support of the president they are not jealous of that you have to reduce the cost of governance and also make government less lucrative for people to go into and of course you must provide a level playing ground there are so many people in Nigeria today who would have loved to participate in politics but because there is no level playing ground because there is no way they could compete effectively with those who are surprisingly rich if you are not very rich it is difficult for you as a person whether as a man or a woman to participate in the nation and win these are areas we can look at to make government both less expensive and also attractive so those who have the trophies born in the heart for those who want to serve the country and not to go into government to enrich themselves their friends and family alright, interesting over to the nation we look at the big one the paper focuses on the election voter registration exercise rather than continuous voter registration registration exercise it has some stats it is doing a comparative analysis figures in ionic voter register what you had in 2019 after the last voter registration exercise before the election and what you have in 2022 at the conclusion of this recently suspended CVR and it says that the legal state and counter state atop the registration as far as the states are concerned some Nigerians also looking at it on a geopolitical basis and if you look at it on a geopolitical basis I'm sure you've seen the stats put out by ionic you can note you would see that the northwest stops the charts leading the southwest or the south south and then you have the southwest as well the states that are driving the northwest we have a legal state and the one driving the southwest is a legal state are you surprised that northern Nigeria had more people turnout I mean of course you don't have to look at this always on a north to the north south basis but this is what people out there in the public space are talking and are discussing so I'm putting it to you are you surprised that northern part of Nigeria had more people come out to register in this recently suspended CVR southern part of the country no I am not surprised when you look at the sense of figures since before independence when you look at the registration since the return of this CVR you will agree with me that the figures that have just been delivered ionic and follows the same pattern of the demographics that we have been seeing in Nigeria before independence go and check the the sense of figures and then the registration figures for the elections between 1939 and 1993 and then in 1999 and then 1993 you will agree with me that Kano Lagos and the south south have maintained the trends that we have seen over the ages the second issue I want us to look at is that it will adhere to me that the people in the northern part of the country do better in terms of mobilizing their people to participate in registration to be able to vote in elections we are at mostly in southern Nigeria are mostly nonchalant with regards to registration for elections when it also comes to voting the ugly brother our ally to make noise already on television on the social media who are ugly commands to vote during the elections it is the market who name the petty trader the transporters and what are they all the farmers are a little command to vote the allies are too big to queue up to stand in the in the rain or in the sound to be able to vote for whatever candidates that they can pay for some of his elections and of course you and I will also know that you have seen a lot of Shabba rattling with regards to religion and with regards to regionalism in the recent time people are talking about Muslim people are talking about the north and the south having the social number of the population are not having it and because of this not as kind of scared the people to vote enough to register also don't forget that the youth have woken up from their slumber and they now say they want to decide the pendulum of victory in the trajectory elections so the influence of the youth the activities of the community leaders in the different parts of the country the activities of the youth religious leaders will be set informed the figure that we have seen being turned out but again sometimes but when you look at the statistics or the figure that has been released the south east is set to have about the youth a number of the people who have registered for this election the reason for this will not be far-fetched most people are very national people they are not domiciled in south east most of them you find them in Lagos you find them in Kano in fact you find them all over the local counties of this country so when you say the south east who are dominated by evil are having the least number of registered voters that statistics may not be actually correct because tribes are never captured when people are registering for an election the thing to drive out is that Nigeria must be working towards evolving as a nation in which not charge dichotomy in which Christian Muslims in which regionalism will not be an issue whether in the nation or whether the decision of amenities but we should begin to do things based on their own merits Thank you very much to Nicola Ole we have over a short time we have to put a plug in this at this time but I want to thank you for doing the analysis to the stories we've raised so far and look forward to having you on the program soon all right it seems to Nicola Ole we've lost contact with him but we'd like to thank him all the same no I'm the army you thank you very much for your time we appreciate you joining us today and we look forward to having you soon again we appreciate your time and also enjoyed your analysis right there we have a short take at what happened in the yes a yes today in history some important events on this day and when we come back from that we'll dive straight into our first conversation looking at the crisis in Nigeria's aviation 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