 The Cooking Gas Consumers Association of Nigeria has appealed to relevant authorities to incorporate more qualified liquefied petroleum gas marketers in a bid to enable cooking gas consumers have a more cheap and affordable commodity in their various homes who have analysis of this ahead. Look at how the whole situation can be resolved. Also on the breakfast economists have expressed worry about the high cost of boring and its effect on local manufacturing. We'll look at these and all the concerns over government's handling of the economy. And enough of the press, we bring you in-depth analysis of today's major newspaper headlines. All this ahead on the breakfast. We're back with the breakfast and plus TV Africa and of course it's a beautiful Tuesday morning which you live from our studios right here on Victoria Land Lagos. My name is Kofi Bartels. Her name is Marisi. Of course I am Merci Bokpo and compliment of the season. I mean it's almost time to say I know when we started the show, when we started on the first of December, I started by saying Merry Christmas and it was really, I'm sure to some people it was too early to say Merry Christmas but Merry Christmas already. And all of that is the season. Never too early. Never too early. I'm sure you know negotiations would be the ones to make you remind you it's Christmas. This city anyway. And we'll have our top training segment of course a lot happening in the social space. I mean I'm looking at some of the comments regarding our first story and it's interesting. Fake COVID-19 test kits in circulation. I have said in the past that you know the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control never was comfortable with that name you know. But we don't hear about them as much as we used to hear about them you know. And if I ask you who the head of NAFDAQ is today, can you tell me Merci of the top of your head? I mean it's nothing wrong if you can't tell me. I just want you know if you can tell me. But that's not part of the conversation. No I'm just asking you know. No. Okay fine. So anyway the reason is we have the hear of NAFDAQ you know. But this time around we're hearing the agency it's in the news you know. It's rare as all I'm saying compared to some time ago. Well the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control that's Nigeria's version of the FDA. It's told the public that their counterfeit COVID-19 antigen rapid test kits in circulation. They actually released a public alert to reporters on Sunday in Abuja. And the counterfeit BTNX incorporated COVID-19 rapid COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits were communicated to NAFDAQ by Health Canada. Health Canada that's your own public health agency up there in Canada. Maybe if you end up back behind my specie you might be able to tell us some more from that side. I know you want to go to Canada. Well NAFDAQ quoted the Health Canada is saying that the fake test kits were sold online in in 25 pack boxes is what they're saying. In 25 pack boxes boxes by a distributor called Healthful Plus who did not have the required license. So that's that's it. That's it. If you want to so that's it. Let's see just tell us what you think about this. So I think that the next question would be how did this get into the country right. If we say that that's in circulation how did we get you know the fake COVID-19 test kits in circulation. Because I know that we're not producing this so it therefore means that we imported it and if we imported it how was he able you know to scale I mean come through come in and it's in the country and then it's in circulation. So it just tells it tells a lot about you know the importation policies what have you or authorities governing all of that. It's it just shows that there's a lacuna somewhere someone has failed at her duty or we are really not great in ensuring that we don't have substandard. This this is just you know one out of so many substandard you know kids that will probably be coming now we're talking about kids but what about all the products that come into the country that are substandard fake drugs and what have you. So I think that we have a lot to do if we're able to you know guard the entrance which would probably be how you know goods are important control at that particular point the checks and the balances that would be it you know for me but it's quite unfortunate this is you know this is in circulation it's also a good thing to know that NAFTAQ has drawn the attention of Nigerians to this particular one. All right well I wouldn't want to add anything more to it than to say that we hope that the agency will will do what it needs to do to to ensure that Nigerians are kept safe. It's good if you've done you know such a discovery and communicated same to to the public. Well quickly let's move on to another top trending this talks about alien mobs now he took to Twitter yesterday I look at the time 12 20 a.m that's when he took to Twitter to tweet so on Twitter what he tweeted was this should I step down as head of Twitter I will abide by the result of this poll eventually the result came out final result with 17 70 million 502 thousand 391 votes final result that was it the yes actually had it so yes had 57 percent and the no had 43 percent now he said it was going to abide by it we understand all that's been happening especially you know that alien mobs seem to be on top of the situation or the you know chatting the course with Twitter what do you make of this well it's it's quite interesting you know the the fact that Elon has been you know on top of things in Twitter for some time since he bought he bought the organization I saw some some posts yesterday that said Elon you know took a 44 billion dollar crash course in in the difficulties and the dynamics of freedom of speech you know he's been a champion of freedom of speech as a matter of fact he's been advocating for what you call a he says the freedom of speech speech on apologetic is what he calls it freedom of speech on apologetic so it wasn't the economist I saw an economist this morning you know I get myself set to go to bed in the morning he they said the man had to learn a 44 billion dollar crash course in the dynamics of public freedom of speech in the public you know it's not really easy because this freedom of speech now according to the economist comes with some sort of loss of certain rights of people you know it's not easy or possible to have freedom of speech without people losing their rights and Elon you know took over Twitter with an agenda and so to observers who are keen and know about these things it was it was only going to be one way which is if you had an agenda to prosecute and it was going to be strict about that agenda you know having a my way and no other way approach it was only going to end one way disaster and it's been quite disastrous to to put it mildly the handling of Twitter by Elon Musk even those who are proponents of this so-called free speech in other words what they mean when they say the proponents of free free speech is allow everything go allow anyone go say whatever they want to say don't ban you know Donald Trump don't ban Kanye West and don't ban Great Barton all those other persons who have been peddling false information about things like COVID-19 false information about American elections false information about racism and all those things and who've been you know sharing hate speech don't allow them gold keep them on there because all those things are a part of freedom of speech but what Twitter was saying before now may I see this Twitter was a very simple and controversial less he will put it that way organization you know you never even heard about the the the owner of Twitter Jack Dorsey hardly heard about him except towards the end of of his his tenors owner of Twitter I'll just go quickly to say that you know Jack became a bit more of an activist towards the end of his his reign in Twitter but still you could not associate him with any controversy even for the monetization of Twitter they took a lot of time you know to to to set themselves on the right path they're making loss for many years we're making profit I do not know if Twitter even made a significant profit at the time Jack Dorsey sold Twitter you know and left rather left the scene you know imagine the owner of an organization you know part owner founder he said I'm leaving the organization you know so other people can handle it I'm washing my hands of it just the same thing like what do you call it again Steve Jobs did in in in Apple at some point he had to leave you know different circumstances or or beats but so so Twitter was quite of you know quite a very simple organization without any controversy now they have what we call Twitter community standards and these community standards were set by everybody it was sort of democracy democratized platform where everyone could could have a say and everybody agreed on the Twitter community standards everyone you know knew what the standards were you're not allowed to peddle fake news you're not allowed to share false information things like racism you know was not allowed things like antisemitism were not allowed um so if you come in to say we're having freedom of speech and you want to allow everybody I think it won't work and this is the lesson that Elon Musk has lent is a 44 billion dollar lesson because you have to pay that amount for the organization and he put out this message like you said earlier this poll to and it's actually weird to say that whatever people say on Twitter is what he will stand by he had as at now as at the end of the poll it cannot you can see 17,502,391 votes that's more than the votes you have in some countries you know that's one of the votes you have in some countries and out of those you have 57% of that those saying he should leave stepped on CEO of Twitter and then 43 saying he should he should remain it's it's quite interesting but we have to move on so anyway let's see if he's going to take that bait and leave at the end of the day it's not really announced last summer checked if he will remain or he will leave but it's word for if this is even more of the weirdness he is word for the CEO of an organization to say he is going to take a decision to take decisions based on social media votes it's so weird it is so weird so this is even more of the absurdity and weirdness you know this particular move but if he steps down I think it'll be good for the organization because it will allow Twitter to get back to a bit of what it was you know change is very good mercy change is very good but if you talk about those who manage organizational change people who help to to consult organization and say okay what do we need to do to get his organization organization back on track most of them agree this is it's a common thing amongst them that change must not be too fast too quick too sudden you know it must be gradual you know and he wanted to change a lot of things too quickly you look at look at look at the the love graphs for instance you said you want to sell Twitter blue all right the blue tick i'm verified on twitter and i knew i was not going to pay him any money he said people are going to have to pay for the blue tick and then people started paying for the blue tick and we're creating uh you know uh uh parody accounts so if for instance maybe plus tv so i'm going to write plus tv africa one and get a blue tick now if you have a blue tick you're considered to be authentic because that's the idea of twitter that if you have mess they have two accounts on twitter uh coffee bottles and coffee underscore bottles okay and the other coffee bottles is out there for people to know that i as a public uh personality uh this is my authentic account twitter gave me a blue tick verify that's the idea now if you sell the blue tick for 80 dollars like he said all right and anyone can buy the blue then how do people know who is who so people started getting this blue tick for 80 dollars called the twitter blue and and and they were opening fake accounts and you know putting fake stuff up you know even some soft drinks they were fake accounts naturally promoting the brand of the arrival soft drinks and it was was weird you know so all these mistakes have come because ilon is an executive who takes decisions as a billionaire you know on his own he's not used to having people sit down and take decisions for him and that was what i said if you remember from the beginning it was going to be a problem but let's move on uh after we're taking so much time on that and the last one is the fake uh nara notes in circulation this new nara notes i don't know can we roll the video do we have that um someone recorded uh it put out a video it's a user user generated content he said he he he saw uh some fake nara notes and wanted to let the public of these so i think we're here okay so we're going to play that then roll the tape hello ladies and gentlemen fake money is in town now people should be very careful this is the original one why this is the fake one my wife is doing pure somebody gave her this money and we don't know who gave it to her but we later discovered that it's a fake money this is original but this is the fake it's the new one thousand nara you can notice you can notice this this is your this is this is the original one with this why the fake one don't have it you can see it so people should be very very careful the bad guys are already in town now they are doing the and you know what what amazes me uh when we talk about the bad guys already in town it feels like we imported some persons from another part of the world or you know from another part of the mess there is a bandits and so we just have people who we just brought in the bad guys around we're the bad guys that's the point that's what this is about but it's important to note just as we you know progress in this line of conversation it's very very important to note that it's criminal and it's an economic sabotage for you to produce the note the nara whatever it is whatever denomination whether it's one thousand two thousand no i beg your pardon one thousand two hundred one hundred uh you know the lease is almost endless right there it's you know criminal to engage in that practice but here we are it's what we have talked about because of the redesign when we talked about the redesign or the design having a new note in circulation i think that when this you know when the government came up with this policy and then the you know put out a picture of it one of the issues that people talked about was the ability to identify and up until this moment i haven't seen the note so i don't really know what it looks like right and i'm sure that that also might be a problem prior to this time kofi you and i had a conversation and i was trying to tell you in an illustration to just to make a point i mentioned that over time if you find that the you know the fbi not in nigeria of course the fbi in the us how did i get to identify that you have a fake currency or a fake note the dollar is fake you know what they do they expose you to the original so constant exposure to the original makes it very easy for you to identify the fake and it like i said it's too criminal for this to happen just how many days four days into circulation and then we're hearing of issues of the fake you know niger note so the issue now is if you look at it how many persons have seen the i haven't seen the currency i haven't felt it no i haven't had the notes no i've not seen the new narrative has been designed and imagine what happens if you know the fake gets to me how do i identify that this is the original so yeah that's that's the issue and this is some of the issues when we have in terms of you say you have a policy design you need to understand the dynamics you need to understand how this work i think that we probably would have had you know a lot of time to create a work awareness create a lot of awareness sensitization also give a lot of time um you know to put this morning circulation if it's going to be in circulation it should be in uniformity there should be a uniform um circulation of this currency because up until this time a lot of persons who haven't seen i mean there are also issues and reports from different quarters where some persons have rejected this as a means of transaction and would you blame them because where is this coming from right but these are the issues so if you constantly expose a person to your regional it's easy for them to identify the fake when the time comes now and if you haven't seen the original how do you now identify the fake is the question so there's a lot that needs to be done that's what i think but it's also important that we understand that what we're doing is economic sabotage like i mentioned earlier on these things are not done by spirits and the devil for me very quickly by spirits or devil sorry you know it's funny you know um remember what we discussed last time and i think one of the things i also said was that um people are going to have it difficult because right now we're hearing that people are rejecting this money i think that's even more dangerous for the gentleman who filmed that video you know i don't take anything i see on social media you know i don't accept it at first take i i probe i ask questions can this person be be peddling false information i i i want the gentleman who i wish he had told us where he got that money from you know you can you can print that money you can just put a computer okay i have a computer excuse me messy no i'm saying you can put it for a computer get the things will have snapped you know and then print it cut it you know shape it well and put it on the table and say oh i have people are peddling fake nara or see fake nara see maybe maybe because you you are you are the aid or the boy of one politician who is not going to he's going to go through stress because of this and they want to spread public panic for me for me i i i don't know if anybody's i i don't i don't believe this okay so kofi we need to go let's let's let's have the gentleman tell us where he got the money from no so but but and then let him review his identity i hope he can i hope he will and then uh let other people also say we saw the fake money i'm not saying it's not possible mercy it's possible but for now i'm just going to take it to the pit with a pinch of salt no i mean it's okay to take it with a picture so that's what i was saying but you also cannot write out the fact why you were speaking i was trying to stop you because it feels like you're giving ideas oh no it's it's it's not if no so that's what i'm saying i'm just saying it's not an idea if you if you print that's what i'm saying if you take an a4 paper and print this money and go and use to buy something you know because it doesn't look like money it's people i'm saying for for if you take a phone to to to film you know ikea so i hope i hope it's not fake news but let's go on so so what i'm saying is we have this fake news fake news or fake naira misinformation however you want to call it and this is some of the issues but we can also take out the fact that there's a tendency it's highly possible to have to recreate this current that's why i said it's possible i said then if you if you don't know if you haven't been exposed to the original i just so that nobody's nobody's thought it becomes very difficult for you to identify whether or not to speak that's what i'm saying no if i see the fake no do you think i will know it but if you haven't seen the notes i haven't seen what it looks like no you said all right that's why i didn't go back to that yeah that's that's what i'm saying i hope no one is trying to spread spread their misinformation well we have to go now and honestly we have to go mostly we'll do an experiment you're going to transfer some money to your card we'll go to the htm opposite the office we'll draw the money you give me maybe like two or three or four thousand naira so i can look at it to be sure all right let's go on that break every time i like your sense of humor that's really great that's really great yes we have to go now thank you so much for being part of the top training segment when we return we'll be back with the paper review please stay with us