 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus CV Africa. It's time for off the press. We'll take you through the pages of a national dailies and Tunde Kuala Walais and standby to join the conversation. Good morning, Tunde. It's good to have you join us All right Let's sort of we did daily independent newspaper this morning on on the front page of the daily independent Poor pot infrastructure may deny Nigeria Africa continental free trade area Benefits that's what you have poor pot infrastructure may deny Nigeria Africa continental free trade area benefits. That's a bold caption on the daily independent despised recovery economic growth Remains fragile the CBN governor and Mephili Godwin Mephili is quoted on that You also have Omicron variant United Kingdom removes Nigeria 10 others from travel red list and criminal plans Criminals plan to recruit student into banditry and kidnapping. This is according to the DSS Says Nambi Khan who enjoys full luxury at detention facility federal government names group sponsoring terror Organizations that's on page two and Senate okay's or Senate amend rules and okay simple majority for Electing presiding officers Senate amend rules and okay simple majority for electing presiding officers No piece of integrity in APC from Buhari downwards. I your a deba joy is quoted on that and Just before we move away from the daily independent newspaper this morning COVID-19 has exposed witnesses of our health institutions. That's what the Senate is quoted to say and You also have Aina commissioners. Buhari finally drops on not she for Boo that's on also on the daily independent newspaper Well, that's the much we can take at this point in time Away from the daily independent. We'll move on next to the punch newspaper private sector fears job losses firms closure over planned taxes and tariffs with some writers there Man does the manufacturers association of Nigeria? Naseema and NECA or this ask National Assembly to dismiss bills on proposed levies You can't settle or you can't stifle businesses when other nations are providing incentives to firms That's according to the OPS organized private sector minister F IRS Ramfak disagree before reps on revenue Monitoring and enforcement Above the must-have reps approved fresh 5.8 billion narrow loan 10 million dollars Let me take that again reps a pro fresh 5.8 6 billion dollars loan 10 million dollars grant for federal government UK reverses Nigeria of a travel ban Kansas quarantine insists on tests federal government or confirms UAE's lot for air peace airline awaits Letter Nigeria's debt rises by 2.5 for trillionaire in three months hits 38.005 trillionaire that's according to the DMO the debt management Office more stories beside the must-have NSA lists Islamic groups behind terrorism Six clerics support now fake oil magnet jailed 175 years for the fraud in American over 8 million or 629 thousand dollars most stories on the front page of the puncher this morning Obasan Joe loses Monarch in Ogun Abiodo months Presidential bid Tinnable Mids Novan Alliance says consultations on going Ogun 18-year-old student arrested for poison female bachelor Bami Dele picks a GT governorship form says fire me deserves worthy successor Seven travelers killed as buzz from Zamfara crushes in ocean Couches fire all me run a legus to begin errant inbound passengers Prosecution to curb spread those are all of the stories you can find on the front page of the punch this Wednesday morning Alright, let's take a look at the nation newspaper this morning the boat caption reads lawmakers target of attacks during Yuletide says DSS It's a boat caption and you also have nas names three terror sponsors Buhari governors discuss in security and 30 travelers abducted this is the widest underneath the boat caption Samo Lou inaugurates a tin classroom and recreational facilities That's also a picture to that particular headline 2023 I am still consulting says to noble Niger orders removed from the United Kingdom Red List Travel ban helpful That's a rider underneath the caption and you also find Niger's debt stock now 38.005 trillion Naira and that's it on the nation newspaper this morning And the last paper we are reviewing this morning is the leadership the banner headline at Sam in the Isiah's first memorial call for rascals to electoral bill Resonates with several writers to that story Silent the electoral bill will make votes count a breed credible leadership. That's according to a bike, you know advocate security Tax All right, and I say I believed Niger could be fixed according to Kuru He always put his country first Lyme, Muhammad. He did not die in vain SGF boss Mustafa. He will be forever remembered by Nigerians. I share Buhari He was a great passionate husband says wife Zainab Let's have a personal relationship with God as he had that's B shop Jarumai most stories on the leadership this morning Omicron UK removes Nigeria 10 others from travel Red List You AE considered seven flight slots to Nigeria anything names a group back in terrorists PMB in names new INEC commissioners Minister military won't recruit repentant terrorists. That's according to the CDS 40 billion Naira equalization debt cause and fuel scarcity according to marketers It could be 2022 fire me has no Anointed candidate that's according to Bami deli and the last story above the must-have 2021 against all odds CBN weather's the storm Those are all the stories you can find on the front page of the leadership in its paper this Wednesday morning All right, let's have a color. We'll a join the conversation once again. Thank you for joining us We do appreciate a color. We'll is illegal practitioner. Good morning color. We'll a can you hear us? Okay, so let's sort of with the daily independent Newspaper this morning and one of the caption says criminals plan to recruit students into banditry and Kidnapping this is according to the report of the DSS and of course, there's also another Information saying that you have lawmakers as target during this you tied period Is to disrupt Activities of those It is only here in Nigeria But you'll find the DSS Sometimes the Nigerian police, so they will be waiting on alarm on the very rooftop Other and do their work If they know certain parties are trying to refuse to them But you have long because I mean other Don't in the leader. Why don't they go for those people who are planning to Other than a mountain my guess is That They are not sure of their father. That's why they are making announcement They are just trying to take a kind of limited action And you are not aware of the unprecedented of the DSS the most time If not all the time We never told the truth we were told When they provoked to fire arms and ammunitions In order to overthrow the government because of that, they went and tried to stop them and kill two people We did that just at the time I think you're a human right after this It was accused of killing somebody and prosecuted of the law in Tano when the long man was in labor there Of course, we were to have been in one form of interrogation and harassment For so many months or years now Because he's accused of a plan to overthrow the government of the federal republic by the DSS I don't believe in the DSS It's not an organization that is credible at all If I have my way There should be no DSS in the In the democratic Nigeria Are you recollect? This was the way they were behaving When Burari was unit head of state In 1983 a device Such that when the government of Babangidat came in It had to disband the DSS They were called in there to adapt the order by I suspect that faith It's also likely to be for the DSS After Burari might have let's talk to you Because that was an organization that has not concentrated On the mandate for which it was set up Whether if it's committed To arrive in intimidation And tell it bogus lies to Nigeria Instead of the ideation And carrying out the activities Providing security For the DSS and the judiciary and whatever may need it I'm not starting to make a noise On the basis of this effort Just yesterday we did a spokesman Dr. Funaya wants to be called He has pressed a press comment that they have been giving And it has been a red carpet treatment If Namikam has been getting a red carpet treatment If he has been trying That the man is gradually dying Instrumentally So please let's forget it If they have been committed Even the responsibility of the DSS So Meet your time in the court If you don't wait until time has permitted It's better to just hope time has permitted Than a life to be committed And then you can't get enough of the treatment Please let's go to a better story All right away from the let's head on to the punch On this paper The main headline for this morning Is a fallout from what we had yesterday That the federal government plans To tax and live in Nigeria and small Come 2020 And their reactions Private sector fears job losses Firms closure over planned taxes And tariffs What are your thoughts Barista Kolaoli You and I will remember That a lot of hate talks With huge effect including myself Have been making noise and shouting That they're closing our eyes With the mismanagement of the economy With this massive looking that is going on With all the government Parasata MBAs and organizations And the ineptities That we have seen With the management of the resources They also borrowings of money When we arrive at this government And the government is going on And the government is going on And the government is going on And we arrive at this government to find it That at the end of the day The Nigerian people will be the one to pay For the proficacy For the political activities Of the Nigerian politicians Now the chicken is coming home to a roost The mismanaged economy The borrowed money Which is never used to execute Whatever project They borrowed the money for They haven't managed the economy In such a manner Which the economy could grow And pay for its own debt We are fighting the war And relying on old saying And putting on a ban for an ammunition To fight the war We have borrowed money We have forgotten that when the Nigerian mission Forced the civil war In 60,000 to 80,000 feet There were people in charge of the economy The Nigerian didn't borrow a single penny To prosecute that war And the war will see A war won't happen So Why would anybody To let them charge it as an analysis We will call them All manners of practice That is already being imposed on Nigeria They try to increase that The communitars are there Educational measures are there All manner The recorrections Are being imposed You cannot use water The way you like In some places for the way it is available Look at the PSN Look at the kind of jumbo beads That we are getting From all those organizations Yes, the minimum wage remains At 30,000 Niger And then you are also planning to increase Why? The cost of gas has gone up As soon as we can So that people have gone back to moving routes And Chaco Which they stopped using so many years ago And then you say You now want to impose Let them charge it as an analysis That is not fair There is a one who has expected That this government Will trim down the cost Of government source And we have had the opportunity To do it 20 years ago I keep emphasizing too The cost of the security contract in Nigeria Is one of the highest If not the highest in the world What have they done With regard to reducing the cost Of contact Every construction project in Nigeria Is denominated in billion A kilometer of road will cost About two to ten Six billion When the material for the road Construction is not important You get the cement here You get the granite there You get the sand in here The only thing you probably enforce Is the iron And then maybe you rent the kitman So why would the cost of road Construction be denominated in billion I wonder what they didn't do it in billion None of the people who have never Denominated the road project in billion So why would the cost of road Construction be denominated in billion At which the coquals in the battle Was built And then the high rise hitter We are having in the recent times How much the comments of Nigeria Both at the state level and the local government level And at the federal level Are spending on those projects It is not fair In my own full opinion The Nigerian people should restrict Any attempt to impose further measures Taxes And charges on them And the cost of government Assess the issue of high cost of contracts And then the Massive massive corruption Impersonation that is going on In all the public places Right from local government level To state level To federal level There is no day you open the paper Even to say that you are not as bad As somebody has done But they are investing 1 billion Or 2 billion or 2 billion That is the direction to go Not to start imposing measures on people Let's move away from that discourse Now and still staying with the Daily independent newspaper Federal government names Groups sponsoring terror organizations Sounds like good news And just maybe The body language of the president Has changed And we probably just see Some persons being prosecuted Let's take that again please Federal government names Groups sponsoring terror Organizations That story is not too different From the story of the PSS Why would you be naming terror organizations If you do know them People who have made our lives Or lived it Who will not allow So still with both eyes closed And we say you know them And you may only name them You don't go after them And take a long time Taking them To name all the people Who are supposedly panicking And terrorizing The issue was there so many months ago And the Nigerians people are the same Is the Dubai The authorities in Dubai can say Look these and these persons Are supposedly terrorizing in Nigeria And they took them to court and jailed them And tried to block Their means Their cash tray What was their own response I was in general I said The judgements in Dubai will be subject And ensure that Those people are taking key The due process of law Rather than ask the Dubai authorities Give all the peoples of the people The names of the people That are sponsoring And promoting panicking in Nigeria So that we can also take action And gain their name We are being unable to do that So it is also not the necessary Security advisor Is working on the reality of saying This is also a situation That is behind the sponsorship Of terror in Nigeria What security people do Is to stop going there Arrest those who are Banned into And take them to the The mails of law As in the life of them Prosecute them in the court Let them have their say in court If they find guilty They are convicted and jailed If not they are led to court So why stand on the roof And start saying That are sponsoring terrorism in Nigeria The whole thing Appear very childish Coming from an organization Or a set of people Who have no political will So they let go after this criminal Rather they go after the Peptic criminal And those who criticize government That is the people they go after Whereas we do not have empathy And contributing money To sponsor the terrorism Answer and amulation Are being buried And some of these bandits You ask yourself Bukwaram and the bandits They are stationed in a land of area They have no access to the trees They have no access to good roads They are confined to the lecture window How does arms and amunitions Of such calibre Get to them If something Nigerian allies are not Wanting arms and amunitions to them If only bodies are not selling arms And amunitions to them What have they done to cut off food supply To the areas in which the bandits are operating Imagine if you are able to block arms And amunitions to those places If you are able to block the supply Of food to those places If you are able to restrict the movement Of those people going in And out of those places The one who is not The one who is not The one who is not The one who is not The one who is not The one who will have been up go on And also ask yourself If the Bukwaram people Are manufacturing rockets, nonchats They are manufacturing bombs and all that Why is Nigeria seeing Putting most of the arms and amunitions That they are easy to fight the bandits That they are easy to fight the Bukwaram Why can't we manufacture those Particularly if Bukwaram could do it Some of our international community Contribute got To put these arms and amunitions I am sure I have no doubt in my mind that a company like Inosin Motor can produce most of the arms and ammunitions that we will use to fight the book war. This is a very black myth in ten years' time, in Nigeria, in coexistence, can manufacture AK-47 that has led us as the world that is imported from Russia. Why would it be impossible for we as Nigerians, for the Nigerians and me to set out in the country to produce arms and ammunitions? The truth is, certain persons are sympathetic to the cause of the pandemic and to the cause of the tragedy. And so they are afraid, they do have the political will to take them on, head on, so that this war can be won within the short-term state of fire. Alright Barista, Kolaoli, let's move on, let's stay with the punch newspaper, although most of the dailies have that particular headline, but let's just take it from the punch and the way it was captioned, it's basically on the Red List and the Omicron. UK reverses Nigeria, others travel ban, cancels quarantine, insists on tests. The federal government confirms UAE's slots for air peace, airline awaits letter. Okay, so those are the stories I just want you to react on, they are all related to the Omicron and the Red List. That's a quick, pro-story, let me tell you a very small story of my own. My cousin just came back from the UK about two days ago, and he said when he was coming inside a Boeing 7 or 7 or 10 about, I can tell you that about 400 people, there were only about 15 or 17 of them inside that aircraft. So that aircraft that came from Britain came in empty. The one that was coming from UAE and Dubai and all that too, have also become empty. The implication of the aircraft is that the British Airways and all the other airlines that are still coming to Nigeria, they are running as a lot, but I'm sure they would have tried to their own government to look, this ban that you have placed on Nigeria, most of our passengers, we get hit on this route. And if they approach the authorities and know that, that might be the reason why the authorities in Britain, UAE and some of these places, now want to leave to them back home, on Nigerians as well as coming in and out of their country. The lessons to take from this is that look, international politics is a pro-protein. You must have your own area of strength compared to your own opening area of strength too. It is when they know that you also could hit them or that you have something that you could also hit them for the strength, that is when they begin to respect you. That is why we need to strengthen all aspects of our economy, make sure that our airlines are valid and they are able to try to anywhere in the world. Imagine a tiny country like Ethiopia, it has the best airline in the whole of Africa. And that is about what they rely on for the ability to fall in a state for the country. If I am told that 45 to 40 percent of the falling in a state like Ethiopia and come from their airline and the coffee industry, those Nigeria has the potential to grow, grow some coffee and sell a lot, which 200 million people now know, the pilots and engineers. And that factor is that we have all over the country. Why is it becoming possible for us to run a parallel airline that will compete with UAE, that will compete with the British-California, that will compete with any of the third airlines that are in the world? Corruption and inefficiency is at the bottom of it. Thank God that the British people are using that. I have another question using giving a job in the UK because of this short term, because of Hong Kong, we will not go to Britain to resume the work. We should go to Nigeria. I think that should be in the case of the people, if more slots are given to people in the airline, if the people over there existing and some of the people that are present will also resume their franchise time on Nigeria and the rest. Nobody has been able to establish an entity like this. That only called Nigeria is already in Nigeria. Not even in South Africa. But when there is anything bad, like AIDS, acquire human deficiency syndrome, COVID and war has gone. They pass the bus, they have tried it to us. We're getting that they need a more secure business that generates those things when compared to us. All right. Okay, let's also go back to the daily independence and quickly on that you have Nigeria's total debt heats 38.005 trillion Naira. Honestly speaking, my sister, each time I read the story of the death profile of the Nigerian nation, my heart bleeds. Why does it bleed? I have tried to compare the quantum of money that we have borrowed in the last 20 or 6 years they are about and the infrastructures that we have on the ground. Today, Charlie, in my humble opinion, there's a white guy from the money that we have borrowed and what we have said we use the money to do. Secondly, Nigeria has also set a record with regard to this borrowing. We are probably the only nation in the world that follows money to pay for life and allowances. Of independent politicians and the hangers on. When you borrow money, if you borrow money to build infrastructure that will be able to pay back the money that you have borrowed. But the attention is Nigeria. The limit the money is borrowed. It is just sweeter the way. Just like money that has been returned to us. Somebody somewhere who sits down on this and then they will relook it and then generation gets on board will be made to pay for this type of money that has been borrowed. I will give you a short story too. I mean, next time, it will give me the time. When, if for that thing, the Aulawa was appointed as like a prime minister and then a minister of finance, on that one, after it was released from the Kalapa prison. After is the so-called political tiresome and all that. The first issue for Aulawa was to sit down. What are our basic sources of domestic revenue? And you identify the force. You identify the co-industry. And some of these, you also identify where the loops are coming from. And you requested from good people, good leaders who are responsible for the integrity. They give me some young money. On that, who are not corrupt? Who are prudent in management of the sources? And people like a lot of the people who are recommended to rule. So you post that these prudent people to the post-authority, to the co-co-industry and some of these other places, money earning, revenue generating, organization for the federal government. I mean, how do those people decide over those places to manage them? And those people who are able to block the loop. And before you know it, the revenue profile of the federal government, at that point in time, they can't assure. And without who are able to do so many things, to keep the war, provide food to ourselves, continue the infrastructure development of the federal government. What concrete effort has been seen that the president has made with regard to identify the revenue generating arms of the government within the religion prudent and non-native people in there, and blocking all the loopholes that have been the dream pipe of the nation's resources. Not to that extent. In fact, I say it's time to start the number. And I challenge the economics, the economic, on the federal level and on the state level, to express almost 75 percent of money that is appropriated by the National Assembly as budget on the Yarnet basis, end up in the pocket of individual they don't end up being used. So provide the facility, the infrastructure that those budgets or those money are appropriated for. They are treated the way. Not last year or nine, we're reading a story of 90 billion Yarmars of COVID finding its way into the pockets or into the account of an individual. We don't own a nation like this. People here are from Singapore, the way we are running. The kind of development that has taken place in those countries today, putting us in there. The bottom line is that we don't have serious intelligence, prudent leaders in this part of the world. What we have are rulers who behave like the monarchy that they can do anything, they can spend anything, and you know in Yoruba land, they say you don't question the monarchy. The monarchy holds everything as everybody and whatever they do cannot be challenged. That has been the attitude of our political allies that whenever they do, nobody is nobody speaking to challenge them. That is to say, there's nothing for accountability. Even in a democracy, honestly speaking, this debt profile is an embarrassment and I do hope that when this government leaves office, you will not only set up a panel to look at all these debt profiles and bring to the book those who have put us in this mess. And then you also set up another panel to look at human rights abuses and those who have engaged in extra-judicial killing, harassment, torture, and then disappearances of a citizen. You will remember that Yoruba, the next letter in Kano, who was a typical critic of government, after today he has not been found. He does this after people go into his house in the evening in the presence of the risers here and kicking him away. And he just wants to ask him questions today. That young man has not been found for the past two years. So we need a very serious, we have a serious assignment in front of us. After this government, this road government will have no problem. All right, we want to say a very big thank you to you, about Tsundi Kala Wale, as much as we can take on this particular segment of the press. What we're taking today in history, today is December 15th. What happened some years back? I'll bring that to you right away. Stay with us.