 Welcome back to the breakfast. Let's now take a look at the papers this morning on Off the Press. The Pensionist paper says troubles ahead, experts warn, as debt servicing gops 91% of revenue. Economists say revenue records 1.07 trillion larae shot for. Government can sustain rising debt. Or in serious trouble, Government will borrow more, says Utomi others. Nigeria records 5.1% GDP growth. Economist doubt figure. Insecurity sit-up, salt and autumn, others tell federal government. Bandits may take over villa, Government warns. PDP crisis, quarter in state, second leaders retain October convention dates. States conclude and SASS panel sitting, Lagos wraps up in October. Also on the Pensionist paper, Paralympics, I Can't Eat, says elated gold medalist, Jani. Plato Utlidr says I lost my brother, son, house to a yellow attack. NNPC posts first profit in 44 years. Stakeholders applaud feet. Bandits free, Niger, Islamic popules, Zamfara agric students. Organisers suspend Saudi Arabia's recruitment as DSS disperses doctors, arrests journalists, who lump subdocs Q Lagos guard over market tuzzle. And lastly, Autumn's interview, S.A.N.s berates N.B.C. for gridded channels TV's presenters. Now let's look at the daily independent. Big story there is on the PDP leadership crisis. It says, Secongus fights back, court restores him as national chair. Articul resurfaces in PDP 24 months after explains self. NNPC threatens to sanction channels TV over Autumn interview. Yaqasai urges NUJ NGE to speak out. And also PDP to Buhari presidency. You, not Autumn, is spreading division and hate. Hoodlums attack policemen convey murder suspects to illisa prison, Q1 and others escape with bullet wounds. Still on the daily independent, resident doctors vow to continue strike despite court order. Expect three days heavy rains in Cano, Carduna, others. Nymed warns. And on Hosh poppy, IGP receives panel report on Aberchiari. Two other stories this morning. Potakataipod not safe for flying stakeholders warn. And Buhari excited as Nigeria's economy grows by 5.01% in the second quarter of 2021. On the Guardian newspaper, surprise. Economy gains highest quarterly growth since 2015. Tagina islamia poppy was released 88 days after abduction. But it's I say with insecurity sultan Ayokunle advice Buhari. NNPC posts first profit of 287 billion Naira after 44 years of existence. Nigeria more divided today than it was four years ago. API survey reveals. In new twist court order seconders as PDP caught restores seconders as PDP chairman. Discourse deny lobbying NERC on eligible consumer policy suspension. Those are the stories of the Guardian. All right, let's now go to the nation newspapers. How to end killings by sultan Christian elders. Catholic bishops converse new strategies. Government working hard says SGF. Government spends 2.02 trillion Naira on debt services says budget office. And also caught restores seconders. Governors. And that's with regards of PDP crisis. Ex-minister Stella Odua joins APC still on the nation. Why we are not suspended strike. That's by doctors. NNPC posts 287 billion Naira profit after 44 years law. And the Tagina islamia schools pupils regain freedom. One more governors to work with silver panel on PIAs grave areas. All right, I'm going to start this morning. Good morning once again GD Johnson. Thanks for joining us. It's a pleasure to be with you. Good morning. Good morning. All right, I'm going to start. Let's start this morning with the controversy that has of course been big news across the nation in the last 24 hours. The NNPC versus channels TV issue. It says here NNPC threatens to sanction channels TV over autumn interview. And that Ykasi urging NUJ and NGE to speak out. So let's kick start with your thoughts on that one. The former chairman of NUJ Legals. Dr Kasimwagwreti did his PhD on regulation of broadcasting in Nigeria in Ghana. And the submission of his thesis is that government should leave control of broadcasting. In the hands of practitioners just like we have in Ghana you'll be shot that in Ghana. Ghana's NBC is controlled by practitioners. It's regulated by practitioners. So I don't know what role government has in the regulation of an industry that is responsive for holding government accountable. That is the issue of Twitter ban or no Twitter ban. And I did ask my question, my student that question in the exam whether government has the right, whether the executive, not the government in this, in the context because it tends to limit the federal government to the executive forgetting that the judiciary and the legislature are part and parcel of federal government. That's an elitist that is perpetuated by the way we have narrated issues around the federal government. Whether they have that power. Even I had a training with 60 journalists yesterday in America and I asked them that question. Does government have the power to ban Twitter? Then I changed it in another context. Does government have the right to censor the media? That's going to be clear. Should we resort to government censorship or self-censorship? Now what, every time something is said about government, the charlatans in NBC will jump up and they are operating as if they are the attack dog of the presidency and not even the federal government of Nigeria. We have seen people that have gone on here to spew absolute nonsense and yet NBC did not. It's clear that NBC is partisan and it's just a matter of time. The body will lose its relevance and then the normal thing will be done with respect to allowing regulators and operators and professionals within the media industry to regulate the broadcast sector. I ask this question. Are there no laws, established laws in Nigerian landscape to take care of anybody that want to engage in misinformation, disinformation, character assassination, impungent on the integrity of others, libel, slander and sedition? So if anybody feels agreed, the best option for you is to approach the court and let the court rule on the matter. And until the court rule on the matter, an arm of the executive cannot take adjudication. Because what they are trying to do is adjudication. Adjudication is different from enforcement. Adjudication is the responsibility of the judiciary and is not the responsibility of the legislature or the responsibility of the executive. So NBC is part of the executive and we have to be celebrated. And as we said it that time, when the government just woke up and banned Peter, that they can just wake up when they are closed on TV station and nothing we have on. And that's the degree of the impunity and recklessness, abuse of process and lack of respect for rule of law and lack of respect for woman dignity that we have witnessed in the last few years. From agencies of government under this administration and previous administration in Nigeria since 1999. And that's what has made us to come to the conclusion that Nigeria presently we are not a democratic society. We are still a civilian government. The fact that we are transited from military regime, democracy, conducted election, the facts on the ground are indicative that we are still vestiges of militaryness in a democratic principle. So it's a civilian administration. It's not democracy. And if I give you the features of democracy and then we use that as a drastic to measure and evaluate our democratic experience, then you understand that we are a civilian administration and not a democracy. Because in a democracy, the government will have taken turns as a right to sue NBC and to ensure that their rights are not infringed upon. Thank you. All right, Mr Jede Johnson. I want us to take a look at the story on the pension newspaper. It says that the NNPC posts first profit in 44 years and that's 287 billion Naira. And that the stakeholders are plotting these feats and that the president is excited about that. First time in 44 years, should we be excited about this? That's a fiery victory. Somebody, an organization posted losses in 44 years. And then when they make profit, they make 1 billion, they make 2 billion. All of a sudden, it's over 200 billion in terms of profit. It's wrong somewhere. If you are involved, if you develop it, don't die and ask questions. How is that possible for someone that has zero profit that made losses? And then we have this astronomical profit margin in one year. Well, it shows that there is a need for NNPC books to be looked into. And those that need there to be prosecuted, to be prosecuted. It means that some certain things were not done in the past and that they are starting to do now. It's the basic, should we clap for you for doing your job in Plus TV? Should we clap for the cameraman for doing his job? Is it an idea that you clap for a governor for constructing roots? For doing the basic of public governance? What was he elected for in the first instance? If you have to start applauding everybody working in every organization, for doing the job they are employed to do, then what time would we have to do the job that every one of us will engage in continuous clapping? Why must we clap for NNPC, for declaring profit? When in the first instance, that's the basic of running that organization. Even those that are operating private businesses in the oil and gas, they've been declaring profit. You begin to wonder, Chevron, Total, all other major organizations, both in the upstream and those that are operating in the upstream, are declaring profit. But the body in charge is not declaring profit until today. Those that want to clap for them, let them go ahead to clap for them. I don't belong to that category, because it's the bill of what governments should do. It is here's stupidity for anybody to thank a governor for constructing roots. It is the level they have insulted our psyche. Can you imagine Americans gathering together for clapping, for doing infrastructure, for the British people gathering together for clapping for Boris Johnson? Thank you for providing with me. And then they bring money, they bring people with pop and peggatry to do the commission. It's only an idea to do commissioning of root. Where do you see that they do commissioning of root? And they will spend more money commissioning the root than the money they use to build the root. I don't belong to that category. But isn't it something to at least celebrate because of where we're coming from? If they say that in 44 years the NNPC never posted profit and we finally are there, isn't it something to celebrate and imagine that in the next few years we will be able to post even bigger profit of trillions of Naira? Well, for those that want to celebrate, they should go ahead and celebrate it. But for me, as far as I'm concerned, it's the basic of public government. Government is willing to provide services. People are employing NNPC to provide those services. If the MD doesn't have the intellectual capacity and the professional expertise to manage the business, why is he appointed in the first instance? Should NNPC be incurring losses? That's the question we need to ask. And then don't also forget that different... In the year they have made profit, looking at it, in the year they have made profit, it is the same year they have made it, they have made series of attempts to increase the price of petroleum products. They have made different justifications that they cannot sustain it. Now they have declared profit. There is something unclear about... Okay, let's move to something else now. This is also on the daily independent. It's saying here from the PDP to President Boar, it says you and not Governor Tom is spreading division and hate. If you remember in the response from Garba Sheehoo to Governor of Benway State or Tom, he had of course accused him of spreading division and hate and almost targeting a certain group in his state. But the PDP is saying now it's the President, not Governor Tom who is spreading division and hate. Well, it's unfortunate that the issue of insecurity does not... The political party belongs to it. It does not know the sector you work in. It does not know the ethnic group you come from or the state of origin. The issue of insecurity affects virtually everybody. It affects virtually everybody and playing politics with it will not help us. However, we understand where the box stops. We saw the press conference of the American president yesterday where he took the blame for what happened in Kabul where he said the box stops on his table. And we know where the box stops was stable, the issue of security, protection of lives and property in this country. We know who appoints the inspector general of police. We know who appoints the service chiefs. We know who appoints the people that heads the various intelligence outfield that we have and the various security agencies that have. We all know quite a while that even the state governor does not have control over the police commissioner, even the posting and the rest of it over the police commissioner in the state that we have reviewed it. So, if Gaba Sheaul likes, let him write whatever statement. Let him start apportioning claims and saying that somebody is on cursive division. But by the time we are talking about administration, when you talk about public administration in Nigeria, people knew quite a while that 1999 to 2007 is a passenger's administration. Nobody knows some of the governors on that passenger's administration. People knew that it was here between 2007 and 2010. They had to have Jonathan and from 2010, 2011 to 2010 to 2015, it was Jonathan's administration. So from 2015 to 2023, it is history. If they can write whatever press statement they want to write, it is history that will please everybody where they belong. The president himself said it I think two weeks ago that he doesn't want the issue of insecurity, not even to be his legacy, that he's going to ensure that he deals with the issue of insecurity. So let the likes and the ics of Gaba Sheaul be doing what they are doing. If they are not helping, they are not helping the matter. But the issue of security is clear for everybody to see. And we know who caused the shot in the federal public of Nigeria. All right, Cheetah Johnson. Still talking about the People's Democratic Party, there's a story in the Guardian newspaper that says in New Twist Court restores Secondus as PDP Chairman on the daily independent newspaper, it also has that same story talking about the challenge between Secondus and the rest of the PDP. We know that a River State High Court on Monday barred Secondus from parading himself as chairman of the party. After that, Akinwumi became the chairman of the party, the PDP recognized him. But then what we're seeing now is that a Kebys State High Court has basically reversed that judgment of a River State High Court saying Secondus is the chairman. So where does that now leave Akinwumi, Secondus and the PDP? One of the challenges we have in Nigeria is the judiciary. How God's of comparable status will be given conflicting decision. And then how that's the question you ask. And then the drama you see in PDP, just grab your popcorn, get your whatever you drink and be ready for the drama that you are putting PDP and APC towards 2023 because this is not the end of having caught others. You remember when Modu Sherif, Modu Sherif was the PDP's chairman and how they were getting different caught others when the guy insisted that he's the national chairman. So this drama that happened when the people in a new twist, it's not a new twist in the normal twist in the character of the way PDP has been managed since 1999. So you shouldn't be surprising to anybody that a Kebys State High Court will give an order and then invalidating the High Court order given by River State. So two state high courts. So which one should PDP recognise? Which one should we respect? As the judge in, I think the Nigerian Judicial Council needs to sanction judges with this type of judgements. You could see what happened in Anambra State with respect to who is the candidate of ABGAR, who is the candidate of PDP, who is, you know, until, and we have seen that drama playing out. The judiciary needs to help this country because in building a democratic society you must have an independent fear and independent and fair judicial system. Now in a situation whereby the judiciary becomes part and parcel of the problem, this is the challenge that you have. So who is the national chairman of PDP? Both parties are on coaches, both parties. PDP, we don't know who the chairman is, whether it's because the drama will continue. For APC, we don't know who the national chairman of APC is, whether it's Bruno, my Bruno or not, and time will tell. And we have seen how 2019 elections threw up a lot of scenarios that we didn't expect. Whereby candidates won election, there was an awesome notification of election across board, across offices in Anambra State, whereby a party that came second was declared as the winner. That's PDP because the courts nullified the process. Why can't we resolve this pre-electra issue before election? The issue of the national chairmanship, why should you approach a court and say a chairman that has been elected for a tenor, you declare a court waking up today and saying that the tenor of the governor of legal state has expired. He doesn't make any sense. You cannot dedicate on that matter. You cannot dedicate. Because you have to wrap up. Unfortunately, we would have to wrap up here in the interest of time. Thank you very much as always. We always enjoy your Friday morning analysis on stories making the headlines. Of course, wish you a great Friday and a great weekend ahead. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be with you and ensure that you have a wonderful day and make sure you have time to relax this evening. We'll do our best. Still with us here on the breakfast. We'll take a short break. When we come back, we're going back in history. I'm going back to the year 1985 to tell you a bit of history about the Guinness Book of World Records. Stay with us.