 Nigeria ranks fourth on the World Bank borrower's list. Salis tells Chinobu to go after barons responsible for bunkering. Those will be our hot topics, but we'll be looking also at the headlines of the press this morning. Very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on the breakfast this morning. My name is Nyam Ghul Aghaji. It's always a pleasure knowing that you are there and a part of this show. We do hope that you are going to get to your workplace wherever you work and put food on your table. We hope that you are going to arrive there safely. Now the roads are a bit free and you can take a journey that used to take hours, sometimes days. You take them in 10 minutes. I remember someone was telling me this morning that he came from Ibafo to Bega and it took just 10 minutes. After that he got to Iyanoworo and that was in 20 minutes. I remember a time in our lives sometimes that we used to travel that road like you are going for a vacation to America or Europe or something. Someone will take a flight from Nigeria to the UK and will arrive at the UK and you are still struggling to get from Bega to Ibafo or Moe. It was crazy, but we thank God for small messes. This is not just like some people would say because the fuel is no longer there. People cannot afford it. That's why the cars are not on the roads. But the roads are relatively very, very free and good. Those blockades that used to be on the roads because they were working on the roads are no longer there. We thank God, like I said, for small messes. I said it the other day that I was trying to give information about how we travel in Lagos state and the person who was just laughing at me, the person who lives in Abuja was just laughing at me that I'm trying to paint a picture of how it happens everywhere else maybe in Europe, in America or some other developed countries because what I was saying was not true. And these are the things I mentioned. I'm saying this because sometimes when we rain down abuses and curses on the government because they are not doing much, we should also have a moment and look inwards and see what has been done right or at least is tolerable enough or done better than we find them anywhere else. So I told the person that in Lagos you have a lot of options when you want to take a ride somewhere. You can go to the bus stop or the park, take a yellow bus if you want. You can helicopter because it is possible to helicopter here in Lagos. You can also take BRT which is the government owned buses and you pay half the price that you're supposed to pay to get to any destination. You can also get a train to take you from specific areas to others. We have just a blue line, we don't have a red line yet, we're going to have the red line but now we can go from place to place just using our car, our car record which is used in BRT and also used on the train to travel. I said all that and then I also said there is an app in Lagos state. If you want to go anywhere in Lagos, you just type that app into it, Lara.ng and it tells you, it gives you directions on how to get to wherever you want to get to and whatever means of transportation you want to use. Maybe it's a bus, maybe it's a car, maybe it's a keke or any other means of transportation. It will ask you and then when you say it, it will also give you an estimate of the amount of money that you're supposed to pay. Let's say you're moving from here, from VI to somewhere like Yanukwaja. It will tell you where to get the bus, it will tell you how many buses you may have to take and how much you're going to pay. And then the guy was just laughing at me like, these things are not realizable in Nigeria but hey, it's happening here in Lagos. So while on the one hand we say government, you're not doing enough because we know you can do better, let's also be thankful for the things that we have. So if someone would think that all the things I mentioned can only be obtainable in the UK and we know the Lagos residents that it is happening here or all those things are happening here in Lagos state, then there is something really right about Lagos. But let's all put our hands on deck to make sure that the government sits up, does what it does but clap for them also when they do what is right. We just hope that the red line will not take more than 16 years again for completion because the blue line took more than that. The time we were promised the blue line and the red line, it was so many years ago, so, so many years ago, we do hope that it will take that much longer for that to happen. And especially now that houses or accommodation in Lagos is becoming like, landlords have gone for a meeting and said that nobody will have to succeed in Lagos. You just take your salary and give to landlords to survive. A lot of people stay outside Lagos state and they want to come and work in Lagos state because hey, it's cheaper to leave outside Lagos state and it is, it's cheaper by way of accommodation, by way of feeding and even transportation to leave outside Lagos state. So if it is also easy to have free roads and free access to good transportation when you enter Lagos from wherever you're coming from, then Lagos will be decongested. For instance, if we had a working rail line that would come from Ibadon and it's fast enough that it will take you one hour or one hour, 30 minutes to get to Lagos state, a lot of people can leave in Ibadon and come to Lagos state. I'm not saying anybody should do that anyway, but if you need to do that, then there should be ways that will make it easy. It is done elsewhere in this world. And nobody in that place that they're doing it has two heads, as we usually say, in Nigeria. Well, some things caught our fancy in the course of the last 24 hours or throughout all the time that we have not met. And the first thing is that four Zamfara students were abducted and now they've been rescued by troops after Bandit's attack. Four students of the Federal University, Gusau, that is Fugos as we call it, the Zamfara state capital have been rescued shortly after being kidnapped by Bandit's. The students were rescued by the troops of Operation Hadarin Daji who responded timely to a distress call placed by the University Authority. The students, according to an eyewitness account, were abducted in their off-campus hostel around 9 p.m. on Saturday in the Sabungari Damba area of Gusau. Remember, we carried that story on our news several times. Residents said the Bandits invaded the community a few minutes after 8 p.m. and shot sporadically in order to scare residents. And the spokesperson of one brigade, Nigerian Army, Gusau, Captain Yahya Ibrahim, confirmed the students' rescue and said the troops responded swiftly to distress calls about the kidnapping which led to troops immediately mobilizing and forming a blockade at a possible withdrawal route which led to a heavy gun duel with the terrorist. According to him, the troops' superiority forced the terrorists to abandon the victims and flee. Yeah, we've heard that, superiority. But we thank God that these people have been rescued. He also added that during the encounter with the terrorists around 12 a.m., two of the students were able to escape while other two students, a male and female, were safely rescued by the troops. Thank God for small messes like I've been saying today. Well done to the troops that rescued them. We hope that the Nigerian Army, the police, and all the relevant agencies will be more proactive and forestall things like this from happening. Another thing that we'd like to just look at is that six suspects have been arrested in connection with an attempt to steal train coaches in Medugri, the Borno State Capitol. I don't know how they would have done that. Maybe they would have enlisted the late Houdini to come and make the, do the disappearing act or something or dismantle the coaches. I don't know how they would have done that. But according to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Yusuf Muhammad, the suspects were arrested after a tip-off from residents of Bayan quarters, headquarters of the railway station. According to the CPA, a mastermind claiming to be a staff of railway cooperation in Boucher State loaded two coaches in a trailer to be transported to Joss, what was halted by police personnel. The suspect allegedly claimed to be working on an agreement signed between the Platteau State Government and the Nigerian Railway Corporation and RC on interstate transportation service. But on interrogation it was discovered that the suspect lied and the kind of confidence these thieves have. It's, you know, wonderful. The coaches that we're talking about were reportedly headed for Joss and six of the arrested suspects were already in the custody of the Bernou command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps and SCDC for attempting to transport the coaches out of Bernou. Meanwhile, the NRC, that is the Nigerian Railway Corporation, has said that there was no attempt to steal some of its trained coaches in Medugri. NRC managing director Fidel Oqueria made this known in a statement on Saturday. The NRC boss said contrary to online reports the coaches in viral videos were being moved to Joss in Platteau State to be overhauled. So who do we believe now? The security agencies or the NRC boss? Well, I'm sure that stories like this will unfold, you know, in the coming days. Now wherever the truth lies, we are going to glean from there and then let you know who was really telling the truth. But we do hope that the boss, the NRC boss was the one telling the truth and there's no fear that these things could be looted. But we've seen times when people go to the rail, the train, the railway itself, and remove some things, some iron rods, some bindings, some things that hold the railway together. They just remove them and go to sell. Ion condemn, as we call them. And I don't know if that is stealing or just witchcraft. There are things that happen and you just begin to ask yourself, is that stealing? And if it is stealing, for what purpose is it because you're suffering or because you don't care if people die? Well, the DLEA, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, has detained two wanted drug barons. They have also intercepted $4.8 million thick currency. Now these operatives have taken these people into custody. Two wanted heads of transitional criminal organizations with a multi-billionaire worth of illicit drugs. The Antinacostics Agency also seized assets from the traffickers after weeks of intelligence-led operations within and outside the country. Well, this was made known on Sunday by the Agency's Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Baba Femi, at the headquarters in Abuja. Baba Femi stated that the duo, who concealed cocaine and heroin in their bellies, were arrested after its operatives intercepted consignments designated to Paris, France and Doha at the Namdiya Zikwa International Airport. I don't know how these people ingest these things. They take these wraps, maybe sometimes 200 or 300 wraps of this thing in their bellies. And I'm asking myself, even when I'm eating a bar, how many lumps can I swallow? And people are taking things that are not soft enough, but they can take up to 200 inside their bellies. How do they do it? There's magic there that we need to learn. The statement that was given by NDLEA, reads in parts, and I quote, operatives at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Ikeja Lagos on Tuesday, 10th of October, succeeded in taking into custody Hakim Babatunde Salami, the arrowhead of Tajuddin Babatunde Abuja Transnational Criminal Organization. They even have a name involved in the illicit trade of several narcotics, including cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and ephedrine between Nigeria, Brazil, Ghana, South Africa, Mozambique and Europe. And according to Baba Femi, Salami fled Nigeria to South Africa upon the arrest of a member of his syndicate, Suleiman Babatunde Obba, at the Lagos Airport on August 25th over an attempt to export 25.10 kilograms of ephedrine to South Africa. He was however smoked out of hiding through partnership with South African authorities and other intelligence investigative units. Some of his luxury vehicles have also been seized and his home in Suleiman Lagos has been sealed. Baba Femi stated further that he claimed he was into importation. So the man claimed that he was into importation of building materials from China to Nigeria and used to sell gold in South Africa before delving into the illicit drug trade about two years ago. The head of another cartel or car for Ikechuku Williams, also known as Jan 2, and his wife, or car for Ifenia work grace, were also taken into custody on Thursday 5th of October when NDLE operatives raided their hideout at 9 Awa Street, Agua Palace, or Kota area of Lagos where they recovered 27.566 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed in a blue box and two sacks ready for export to Europe and Asia for the family business. War for Ejogu Charles 45 was also arrested at the Abuja Airport by operatives on Friday 6th of October during the outward clearance of Kata Airways flight QR 1432 to Doha after a body scan revealed he ingested cocaine. It was placed under observation during which he excreted 75 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.653 kilograms. I bet you just do this assignment when you're taking a bag, count the number of lumps that you take, and you will respect these people that will take 75 or more into their bellies. At the point of his arrest, Muafor, who was the last passenger on board, his flight offered to compromise an NDLE officer with $3,000 to free him. And the fact that we have heard the story means that the NDLE officer did not collect that money. And so we applaud that officer for doing the right thing. Those are the people that we should be recognizing as patriotic Nigerians who, in spite of all odds, still maintain their principles and do their work well and will not take bribe. $3,000. If you convert that to Naira now, that Naira is like a thousand and fifteen Naira to a dollar, you know what kind of money you would have made for something that a lot of people would say, you know, consignee, that's the word that we use. But we applaud that officer and all the other officers who do not compromise their principles just because of gains, they now gains, as I would call them, gains that you think will do you a lot of good when you do not know that in the long run, maybe you are also going to pay dearly for that negligence, that compromise that you have given yourself into. Well, Nigeria will be good and we all will have to contribute. Those were the stories that we needed to look at right now before we enter into the discussion of our hot topics. But right now we're going to take a short break when we return, we'll be looking at the papers what made it to the front pages of our newspapers and after that we go to our hot topics. Stay with us.