 It's the breakfast and plus TV Africa will look at the pages for national dailies as always we have G.D. Johnson and standby And he will be helping with the analysis of the top stories on our pages. It's good to have you join us this morning. G.D. Johnson Good morning. Thank you. Good morning coffee. Salam alaikum. Alaykum Salam I don't know what it's gonna say But it's great to have you join us this morning at start of with the Nigerian Tribune And as always Focus would be on the top stories now looking at the banner caption adult rated fuel and NPC files claim for damages against suppliers Quite interesting cues will disappear by next week. Kara is quoted on that Give up petroleum ministry PDP tells Bowery saying you need to leave it federal government wants peaceful resolution with arse you Strike unfortunate. That's what the Minister of Education is quoted to say as EFSE ok's 1.71 trillionaire contract for transportation Education ministries you also have on the front page of the Nigerian Tribune Eight killed has gone men attack cattle market in our beer state Very sad. You also have Underneath attack on northerners in our beer enough is enough northerners or not in collision ones Correctional service reps the probe utilization of 165 billion narrow budgetary provision That's what you find there and just before we move away from the Nigerian Tribune What I'm definitely told us on roomout presidential ambition Committee of France It gets very very funny and drug trafficking you have Carrie Bauer Confess working directly with the cartel in Brazil and Ethiopia the ND la is quoted on that Extern exonerates Agencies official and promises Blind justice for the inductees That's also on the rider underneath the boat caption One minor three commuters killed and two others injured in play to a more tecune arrest truck with 63 nodding Nodding is a motorcycle is in a motorcycle in on-dose state So Ludo makes all and the minimum qualification for political appointees These are the headlines on the Nigerian Tribune Interesting. Let's go over to the Guardian with the following stories or headlines on its front page Osho primary Jagaban the house of commotion now the paper has interesting headlines today this one seems to be a sort of like a Report on what's been happening so far in the ocean APC or show primary Jagaban the house of commotion. That's a quite an interesting somewhat sensational headline There's a special a special on Abercarie what they call the big story In the Guardian Abercarie in the eye of the storm and they call it the big story on page pages Four and five so the paper is devoting two pages to that particular one. I'm sure make an interesting read very interesting one at the top of top of that Picture we K denies traveling with PDP governors to Europe to select presidential candidate That's a real estate governor having to come out to deny story of details of that on page 27 of the Guardian newspaper at the bottom of the front page this headline real sector Fault is as GDP grows by 3.4 percent Of course some business and economic analysts, you know saying yes indeed The GDP has grown. In fact inflation has also dropped slightly But they're not seeing the impact and the effect, you know in the in the real terms But we have more stories come out on the front page of a Guardian They Nigerians who had never seen 5,000 narrow met government by finance minister Ganduja extends olive branches court upturns ruling recognizing Shekarao's APC faction some some hints in the You know the olive some hints rather in the in the public domain or in the corridors of the political Sphere saying Shekarao might be Considering a shift to another party at our group. I just a PC PDP to back Igbo presidential Candidate. That's an interesting one. I don't a group urges PDP APC to back Igbo presidential candidate Flutter wave has been making a wave recently Doing big things and this one says Flutter wave makes waves at three billion dollar Acquisition that's quite interesting and hoping fully the government is watching will latch on to such a sector To improve the Nigerian economy. Those are stories coming on the front page of a Guardian Away from the Guardian newspaper. Let's look at the leadership The banner caption says Ainec may shift 2023 polls if President Mohammed Buhari signs electoral bill after Tuesday and let's not forget that 360 days before the polls now just shortly after the 2019 elections Ainec had stipulated that the on the 18th of February 2023 will be the next elections, but they're still insist that without the electoral bill amended there will not Go ahead. There will be no timetable, but I constantly would hold on to the words of the Commissioner for Education Fess is a courier who was on this platform and he told us that Ainec had you know all the structures within Ambience, I mean within her capacity to act whether or not the timetable would come And so but fingers are actually cursed and let's see how all of these things unfold as we proceed Okay, so you have provisions a new electoral bill request 360 days before polls That's what you have and I pack see will society organization calls for urgent action No electoral acts no election timetable the Commission in six insist no compensation for victims of a cohe building collapse That's what you find federal government signed 9.3 million pounds agreement to build 23 solar mini grids Very interesting absolute prepares for strike as NLC backs as you You also have northern governors celebrate Aisha Buhari at 51 Talking about the wave of the president and drug saga, please Commission suspend Abba carries men Well, he's not been who he's been suspended, but he's not been dismissed That's what you find an APC crisis Gander J flows Chakarau at Apio courts where you told I wouldn't return for second term I regret your law is quoted on all of that now This is some of the headlines on the leadership this morning and we round off when we look at the stories coming the front page of the punch Newspaper there's a picture there. Of course yesterday the National Youth Service Corps members 2021 batch a stream to you know now they have batches and streams Passed out and you can see pictures of the passing of parade in Lagos Abuja in Joss Interesting to know what they're coming to meet in the country after service Let's look at a big headline from the punch newspaper federal government PDP Clash as economy grows by 3.4 percent highest in seven years It has a following writers. This is the voodoo economics of Buhari when you talk of economic growth economic growth it must have a direct impact on the lives of the people PDP and Another one we have an opposition that doesn't want to hear anything good about the country and this administration Live Muhammad interesting more headlines from the punch. I read a show allow yetola's aid Disagree as minister accuses governor of waging war writers Minister wanted the third term through or yetola Governors aid I told my successor not to destroy my legacies says ex-governor All right another one from the punch NNPC shifts debt to fuel importation probe to national assembly page 30 and has details Drug business PSC. That's the police service commission orders fleeing ASP's arrest. They got to and they also told the police to You know take action on one But there's one that is at large and so they've told the police to tell them when they catch him So PSC orders fleeing ASP's arrest suspense carries associates another one customers kicks or customers kick over silent hike electricity tariff amid fuel scarcity my Strike FG interreligious council meet ASU next week Yesterday the Minister of Education said that He's been looking for the ASU officials and they are nowhere to be found and also the minister of an ASU called that a childish comment in their response and the minister of For labor and employment increasing he said as far as he was concerned as we're not on strike They won't leave because going by the agreement they signed with this interreligious advisory council If they want to go on strike they have to inform him in writing and they never informed him in writing So as far as he's concerned they don't leave There's something that he said I listened to the the minister yesterday, but Really, yeah, I don't know if we take that very serious. Yeah, let's look at some more headlines That's just a way of information so that I guess unless it will have a sort of a ground to to comment on this We move on to the final few headlines from the punch newspaper Cash transfer some Nigerians haven't seen 5,000 and I before says minister Oh, no housewife Bates starving husband with hot water fleas victim dies really sad budget amendments in sessions based on Nigerians demands reps reply buhari a Chora government to head or Chora governor to head OSU APC primary committee Four friends a torture 28-year-old to death over missing phone Device found on chair and finally fish out Elijah fishermen's killers in by Elsa Repstel police. Let's quickly welcome Ginny Johnson guest analyst on After-press this morning, Mr. Johnson. Good morning to you doctor Johnson. Good morning. Good morning. All right This is not a headline, but it's it's it's interesting. What are your thoughts on the passing out of this NYSE? Batch, you know yesterday all over the country Um, I would like to you to share your thoughts on what you know the prospects are for them. Yes Well, um Well going by the report which We saw in the punch in his report with respect to the economic growth We're witness. We looked at economic growth would translate to To improve in standard of living create opportunities And job opportunities and employment opportunities And incentivize and small and medium-scale enterprise in the country so that these graduates that were released yesterday From the NYC from the hundred one year NYC program Will be able to find opportunities that they can tap into that's just My my thought on that is just for us to hope that opportunities will be appealing for this young vibrant resourceful Nigerians that are just been released into the liberal market That's that's my take that's my take on that. I wish them all the best and them as As they are sharing into the liberal force and I want them to understand the reality that We're sending them stipend that error from the majority of them has come to an end It's not time for them to fight for themselves It sounds very threatening. All right, let's Well, that's the truth. That's the truth, you know Let's check out the leadership newspaper this morning. Inaq misshift 2023 polls if president Muhammad Buhari signs the electrobial after Tuesday And so we're about 2019 shortly after the elections. Inaq had said the elections the next election would be on the 18th of February 2023 And that may not happen. That's what Inaq is saying There might be no election timetable if you have delays in all of this. What we'd like to show your thoughts What do you think? When does this leave us? I think Inaq was a little time to before I think about three or four electro cycle When there is a time table last year pending the The amendment of the Electoral Act and then we have the national assembly waiting to do the last minute like they did In 2019 before the Electoral Act was amended and it was sent to the president and all models of Analysts stakeholders gave Film CSQs telling it was too late for the president to sign the act in to To sign the billing to into an act of the parliament now we are faced with the same scenario again Now when you commit the same infraction twice, it's no longer a mistake. It's a deliberate attempt I'm not too sure whether there are people in the presidency or those that advise the presidency that Not interested in us having a free and fair election in us having a template that will guide our election Because what does it cause the president to sign the Electoral Act to sign the Electoral Bill into an act That's amended Because the party is what we seem to be having The senate president is powers of rep is from apc apc controls Booth houses the senate and the rep now if with overwhelming majority even majority of the members of your party could pass a bill It's instructive on the president to sign it into an act now the provisions of that bill Are we putting in place a system that make us not to have election in 2023? And it doesn't speak well for the legacy of this president and he's the president That came into office promising to reform the electoral the electoral process because he has suffered Could unquote electoral injustice when it contested in 2003 2007 and 2011 And we thought within having the opportunity to Ascend to the throne of the president's team 2015 to be able to right the wrongs But in 2019 the president failed in doing that. I hope you will not fail in doing this in 2023 However, that is not done And if that bill is signed after tuesday that means that the election will be shifted based on the provisions of the electoral electoral bill before the president You have you have mentioned the fact that you have the apc dominating and being that the apc had promised via the The leadership of president mohammed abu harry to ensure that we have electoral reform But don't you think that politics is taking place over governance because if you talk about having You know an electoral reforms that would help threaten our democracy And the fact that these persons the governors the lawmakers might not be in sync with it It doesn't represent their interests. And so politics is what's actually going on right now with the electoral bill It's not about representing their interest issues that the pc does not have a head does not have a direction Does not have a focus because what is a political party a political party is a group of people coming together Sharing the same ideology the same principle the same value Forming a party Contesting an election in order to win and control Government now if we should come together And they don't have similar interests. Why do they run under the same platform? That's what i'm saying the national assembly is controlled By the apc the presidency is controlled by the apc most of the governors in various states of nigeria are controlled By the apc most of the state as we're saying they are controlled by the apc In actual sense if we want to have an holistic reform or structuring of the nigerian political Landscape, I think there is no party that has the opportunity that apc has in the last In the last 20 years, but what have we seen we have seen where the governor is going this way The presidency will be going this way and then the national assembly will be going this way We are seeing people not being able to coordinate themselves Even a party that is not that has not been able to put his own house in order a party that does not have a chairman That runs with the catheter With the catheter Committee is that a party that will provide leverage for us to run To run to run an election and and and for us to have a peaceful transition when it comes to Elections in nigeria as far as I'm concerned Is is just the party not putting his house in order and as a result of that We have this chaos because there's chaos even within the party with us. You look at one of the reports in the newspaper now in in carno state In carno state there is ongoing contention between shekaral the former governor of carno state And the sitting governor of carno state gandu gp overall controls apc Now you come to ocean state in ocean state. They are having primaries this weekend For they are for the for the for the black bar for the ocean apc for the election Now you are seeing the former governor who happens to be the minister of interior Contesting with his former chief of staff is successor who happens to be chief of staff for eight years Contesting and saying that oh there's no So that is the party that nicanian entrusted They are they are that fate And if someone cannot control his household cannot maintain his household and you are giving that person the Responsibility to maintain the community for you. And that's the reason why we are seeing what we are witnessing nigeria today I'm sure a story headline that is um of in very close interest to you Which happens to be the asus strike and um, of course the punch is reporting that the federal government interreligious Council headed by the Sultan of soko sakato sadha bubukar and the president of the Christian association of nigeria Will meet with asu next week and we had us talk about what the ministers have been saying your thoughts on this That the entire U.S. Committee. Why the meeting most of Most of this entire U.S. Committee are the pro-cancelors of these universities They are the pro-cancelors of the university's traditional relays. I made the pro-cancelors of universities across the federation So the start of shukuda. I'm sure it's pro-cancelor of one of the universities in nigeria one of the Premier universities. We are in nigeria. Why do you have to someone said you don't want to get anything done Set up a committee if you want to waste people time call for a meeting Why do we have to keep meeting and meeting and meeting But they're serving as a dialogue team, you know, they just came up themselves Can and The the muslim community to just see how they can they can impress on the president, you know Soon as a mediating body they they visited the president and he said oh that was I think two weeks ago He said oh he's ready. Um, they they are going to you know, listen to asu and all that before this strike Who fears the solution to the problem of the universities in nigeria is for government to grant them full autonomy Government should just grant the university full autonomy Now there are two things that are involved one The university system does not want government control but university system one government funding You see the university system does not want government control university system wants government funding I think for us moving forward in this nation is for us to grant autonomy To the university system for them to run themselves and for them to generate revenue themselves I don't see I've argued this because this strike or no strike in session strike I was a victim of a strike. I lost 18 months at the university as a result of asu strike majority of those that I asked today in the university system Are my colleagues why we're in the university system and so those in leadership of asu today Why yes, they complain about asu strike and they are also Being part and parcel of what they complain about for us to solve this asu problem My take is very very simple. We need to take government control out of the university system And allow what government should just do is monitoring monitoring and supervision and allow the university system To run on its own like it's done. Did you hear of asu striking gana? Have you had of asu striking gana? There's one there's one currently going on in gana as we speak just started the last week or so Okay, great. Wonderful. Yes, wonderful. We have we have a problem But that's the first since 1990 something I think yeah So we share similar to buddhas. We share historical Yeah, the only difference is that that's the first since the 90s. So As far as I am concerned what we need to do is to decentralize the university system one You cannot pay a lecturer in league or the same thing you pay a lecturer in carano mother Let's each university system develop on its own grant them autonomy Let the university system themself raise fund let them generate fund and let them have control over their own funding That itself if you don't create competition among the university system If you still centralize everything we'll be having this problem We'll be having this problem of asu not wanting wanting government to invest In education and not wanting government to control the educational sector asu as genuine genuine girls against government would reject to government funding But my take on this for us to end this in sesant strike that we have witnessed in the last In the last few years we have witnessed 22 asu strike I think since 1990 that we have witnessed 22 asu strike and is that the way is that a pathway for us to go? I don't think so Maybe it's just a just a last one on this, you know, I mean there's been there have been some uh Um, uh information shared online. I saw yesterday. They saw the salary structure of the average um lecturer you have um The the senior lecturer one lecturer two, you know, uh associate professor and all that and I saw professors ending About 300 and something thousand era, you know senior lecturers. What is the salary? What is the salary structure? What's your salary structure? I'm asking you what is the salary structure of every other person in the society? It's it's just that the value of our it's just that our economy has been destroyed It's just that the value of naira has been destroyed. Just imagine if ten era goes for a dollar If ten era should go for a dollar If the exchange rate is ten era to a dollar now you're having 300 It is just the collapse. What is affecting university lecturer Is affecting every party in the nigerian's fight So they are not special bread that is exempted from the reality of how bad our economy is of how bad our currency is Now that is 300,000 units of our currency Just imagine if a lecture should collect 200,000 units of the nigerian of the american dollar or 200,000 units of the ghaninian city It's it's the collapse of our economy. What is affecting the university lecturers affecting everybody? And so what we should be looking at is how to improve our economy Beyond the salary. I agree with you the salary is even if you give If you give a professor one million naira, what can one million naira for the next year of today? I'm joining to you Okay, the the strikes are like you said 15 strikes between 1999 and 2020 So if one other one of last year in this year it actually be about Let's say 16 strikes Out of 23 years In 23 years 16 strike And then we are still making dialogue dialogue dialogue 16 16 strikes. Let's assume that those strikes were just for two months. That's 32 months And they are some that are for six months Coffee eats what is affecting the university lecturer is affecting everybody's side That's the reality. However, there's a need for government government want to solve this problem Take your hands of the university system and let them run on on their home The university system cannot come up with a system to generate funds and sustain it Then what are they teaching their students in the university if the faculty of business administration of the university cannot come up with a business template that would generate revenue For that if the faculty of engineering Of the university cannot compete and be for contract and use its own student As as part of the crew to run the job. Then what is their sense? We should be able to merge training with practice So we shouldn't be looking for engineers abroad when we have local engineers here in Nigeria faculty of engineers faculty of across across across university system You have you have you have individual running hospitals on their own they leave the teaching hospital Then you have this teaching hospital of the university system Still waiting for government funding if you establish your own private hospital, will you be expecting government funding? My brother, there's a need for us to have a rethink on how to run the system This error of the printing on government and government on government funding should should be jettison and we should allow the system to run on So that's my take my take might be radical might take might be might be out of this world But that's my take in solving this problem because critical Situation require critical solution. We need to think out of the box to solve this particular problem In other words G. Day Johnson, you you probably might just be aligning with those who are calling for The restructuring of the polity and allow for resource control Exactly exactly exactly exactly that's that's just it a professor They should be based it should be based on cooperative advantage and competition among the states I can live in a lab to go and professor should be signed based on contract You sign you sign a contract as nobody is employed. Nobody is employed forever in united states of america as a professor It's a chair you seek that those appointment. We need we need to bring in best practices If we are calling for for best practices globally, we should have it in a in a hybrid tower Where we generate the manpower to develop the economy that's my take All right. G. Day Johnson, we need to move away from that Maybe we just have a minute or two Let's quickly share your thoughts on this one is on the Nigerian Tribune and he says the carry gate Please commission suspend two indicted officers Underneath the directs the IGP to suspend two others However, the spin the confirmation that he has been suspended for he's not been dismissed or demoted Your thoughts quickly maybe in a minute. Now, how do you that's that might take how do you suspend somebody twice? No, this suspension is this suspension is to Other officers who have been indicted not him because he's suspended. However, that's what the police How can so that is a suspension still Be engaged in oppression that is a question you need to access it So that is a suspension based on the footage and based on the recent on the recent allegation And the infractions leveled against him. This happened on January 26th Of 2022 and he has been suspended over the public case and there's a pending It's over whether I should be a study Dicted to America or not. And I recall that it was an interview granted by the attorney general earlier this year where he said that there's very likely That carry will be a Somebody committed the first infraction committed the second in front is going on suspension How many people do you think has the opportunity or how many people do you think have the opportunity that carry is enjoying That you commit infraction one two and you still be on suspension without you being summarily dismissed That bringing the nation still still is still an allegation But there are there are evidence that first and foremost there are people They are they are not they are not The code of conduct of the Nigerian police. I'm sure it's explicit about how these issues are dealt with some will have been summarily dismissed From the police force not to talk of pending investigation Well, that's but but what do I know? I don't know how the police operate with respect with respect to this But I don't think that somebody can commit if the the kind of allegation that was leveled against him With respect to money laundering and the rest of it in the first one and the second one is on drop All right. Thank you so much gd johnson. That's the size of it. We do appreciate your thoughts I mean, it's always a great time to listen to you show your thoughts on all of those issues. We appreciate you It's a pleasure to be with you. Have a wonderful Friday. All right. Thank you so much And next is we tell you what happened today in history And when we return it would be heading straight to our first major conversation right here Your promises to be of an amazing time. Please stay tuned