 On the breakfast show this morning, NLC and TUC disagree on protocol for planned strike. TINUBU seeks true partnership for Africa's development in UN address. And also we'll be looking at the headlines on the front pages of our national dailies on what we call off the press. Very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on the breakfast. Good Thursday morning. My name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. We are in it together to make our country better. We are in it together to make ourselves happier. We are in it together to make our world a better place. We do hope that you are crafting the positive things that you are going to do today to make sure that you bring about those things that we've just mentioned. Happiness for self, for country and for our world. This entrepreneurial Thursday, that's how we'd like to set your minds to think like an entrepreneur. Now everybody's talking about the fact that it may not be enough to just depend on your salary. And by the way, how much is your salary? So people are thinking outside the box on how to make more money and you don't have to miss work one day before you can make money nowadays. So long as there is the internet, there is a possibility you can make some cool cash. Look to the internet, look for causes to do if you have not yet had a certification for some of the things that people do remotely, get some certification and then begin to do. Or you just concentrate on marketing and that is a very easy one that you can do. Whatever you do and you want to have another stream of income, let it be a wholesome thing that you are doing to contribute to making your bank account become better than it is and put more food on your table. Times are hard but we are going to go through this. This phase is going to pass. Like we always say, these too shall pass. So we have some things that are trending for us. It may not be the most trending but there are things that caught our attention. And one of them is that the US court has granted orders to release Tinobu's academic record that is the president of the country, Nigeria. Remember, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has granted the request filed by the presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, that is Atiku Abu Bakar, that seeks to, seeks the release of President Bola Tinobu's academic records by the Chicago State University. The judge, Jeffrey Gilbert, a US magistrate, gave the ruling on Tuesday ordering the CSU to produce all relevant and non-privileged documents to Atiku, the plaintiff, within two days. Tinobu's lawyers have argued that their client is not willing to lift his privacy privilege with the ruling also conceding this by using the term non-privileged documents. So Atiku had approached the court seeking an order that will compel the university to release Tinobu's records and although Tinobu's credentials indicated that he graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in accounting, there have been allegations bordering on discrepancies in the president's certificate. So now that parts of the documents that are supposed to be released have been released because we're hoping they've been released, the two days have gone by. If they have been released, then maybe that matter will be put to rest. But that is a bone of contention, so many discrepancies according to the people who are asking for them. Some say even if he graduated from the university, it is someone else that graduated, maybe a female, even some are saying he didn't even graduate. Well, even though we've heard some stories that the school has come out to say he did graduate, well we are going to have the certified true copy, if that is the word to use, of those documents that will be tendered in court. But we are keeping our fingers crossed and seeing what is going to happen. Whatever happens, whatever the result of the appeal that has been made at the Supreme Court by both the Labour Party and the People's Democratic Party and their presidential candidates, we do hope that the outcome will give Nigeria a better lease of life, that the suffering will stop or even if we're going to suffer, let it be for a short time and the end will give us something to smile about. It's a new Nigeria we want, not just a new government, not just a new person at the hem of affairs, not just everything has to be new. We just want a new Nigeria, a happier Nigeria, a healthier Nigeria, a better Nigeria for ourselves and our kids and grandchildren that are yet unborn. Okay, so there's also a very, very pathetic thing that happened a few months ago. Remember that a doctor on housemanship lost her life in an elevator in a hospital that is supposed to be government-owned or at least is supposed to be overseen by government. But right now another tragedy happened where a doctor allegedly dies after working 72 consecutive hours in Luth. That is the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. The doctor died in there. And the story is that the death of Dr. Umor Michael worked allegedly for 72 hours and it led to house officers at Lagos State Teaching Hospital to raise their alarm over poor working conditions. Dr. Michael allegedly died on September 17 after being on a 72-hour call in the neurosurgery unit. It was said to have been on call for the duration before arriving home on Sunday morning for church service and slumped in his worship center, United Evangelical Church, at about 11 a.m. In a letter written to the chief medical director of Luth, Professor Wasiu Lanry at Dayamo, biomedical doctors under the ages of the Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, Luth Chapter, they said the late doctor's roommate attested to the fact that the deceased had hardly slept in their apartment for the past one week. They claimed that Dr. Michael was always on call and had returned home after surgeries and other activities in the neurosurgery unit at about 3 a.m. They also mentioned that the long-standing challenges they have faced since resuming their housemanship at the hospital, including bullying from senior colleagues, stressful call hours without breaks in between no-call food and no good accommodation. Now, in their request, the doctors demanded that house officers who were on call the previous day should be allowed either half-day the next day or allowed to resume work by midday the following day and should not be made to work for 48 hours at a stretch. They also demanded that the compulsory health checks at the beginning of house jobs should be free or grossly subsidized for house officers. They further demanded that their senior colleagues, senior registrars and registrars should make the work environment friendly for them and house officers should not do the work of porters, nurses or patient relatives. In its reaction, Loose Public Relations Officer, Omo Lola Fakie, said it is not true that anybody worked for 72 hours. At the time, he claimed to be awaiting a briefing on Dr. Michael's death and would get the truth from the medical report. Okay, so a lot of things are being thrown up here. I'm not trying to blame the dead, first of all, but 72 hours and you're still going to church? Who would God not understand? Why not use the time to rest? That is not meaning that anybody is supposed to work like the doctors are demanding for up to 48 hours. Why? But when we ask ourselves these questions, we also remember the fact that a lot of medical practitioners are leaving the country. So in a place where there are supposed to be 10, we have only three people working there. That means the workload will be really, really crazy. And in so many offices that I know, people are leaving because the working conditions are no longer favorable. Sometimes it's not the management that is bullying them like they are saying in Loote, that they are complaining that senior colleagues are bullying them. Maybe it's not just bullying. Maybe even the management doesn't have the money to pay everybody and they are just trying. They don't have to lay off anybody but people up and leave. Sometimes people see remote jobs that they are doing from home because that's the craze nowadays and they have no need to come to the office. And so they resign. And in a place where you're seeing, you are supposed to be seeing like 10 people like I mentioned, you are seeing only three. So what do you do? So people are short-staffed and why is that? So if the government is not deliberate about it, they might be a lot of other Dr. Michael's that will come up because like they say in Nigeria, man, no be would. So if you have somebody working for 72 hours, someone who used to work for 8 hours or used to work for 6 hours because doctors shouldn't even work for that long because of what they do. So imagine a doctor under stress operating on a patient. This is neurosurgery, which is a very delicate part of medicine and someone is standing up and doing what he is doing for 72 hours. Even if it comes and goes but non-stop for 72 hours, that is a full week. So what will the government do about it? What will they... This Luth is a government-owned hospital. That is Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. So it is owned by the government, which means if one person is working 72 hours, it means that they are short-starved. How can their staff strength be boosted is to make the working conditions so favorable that the people who are living will not live anymore. So without trading blames, without laying blames at the feet of anybody, we just hope that this kind of a thing will not have to happen again at all. Anywhere, not just in the medical profession, but in any profession at all. Because once someone is stressed, the work becomes somehow as we would like to put it. Our hearts go to the family of Michael Oumor and we also pray that his soul finds peace in the bosom of the Lord. Where are you right now? I hope that you are set to go to work if you are not an early bird, but you are, that need to be at the office very early in the morning. But if you have to go anywhere, you know that in Lagos State you have to move early, no matter the fact that now the traffic in Lagos State is not as much as it used to be, thanks to whatever we know already. But it doesn't mean that you have to be late for work. Let that culture of waking up early and doing what you need to do still be in you. You never know where you will need it tomorrow. What will happen someday. And then you would just blame yourself that you should have been an early riser. Now there are the trains. Trains were coming from mile 2 to Marina and from Marina to mile 2. It's just a journey of about 30 minutes or less if you are taking a train. So do well to leave your car at home if you are the person that used to take your car. Conserve the fuel and keep it for all the days and maybe you are taking your family to the church on Sunday. Just enter the train, take a BRT bus if you have that opportunity and let our roads not be as clogged as it used to be. Let Lagos breathe. Let Lagos roads breathe at some point. Okay, so we thank the government for that but we ask that the route from Marina to mile 2 is not the only route that people need to apply. People need to go to Ikeja, people need to go to Odubega, people need to go to Badagri, people need to go to many other places. So if the train cannot get to those places let the buses be able to get to those places. For instance you get to mile 2, you cannot get to Badagri with a BRT bus because they don't go that far. I think the end at mile 2. There should be some provision that will take you anywhere in Lagos. Once you have your car record you know that you are fulfilled. You don't even need to carry transport fare inside your wallet because you have a car record that you have loaded and that should be enough for you to move around in Lagos whether you're taking the train or you're taking the bus. So the traffic situation is improving and we're hoping that it will improve even more especially as we know that government-owned transport services the trains, the BRTs are a bit more pocket-friendly than every other one and also let the working hours for these things be extended. The train goes for a longer period than the buses. Why can't the buses go for as long as that at least till 8 or 9 o'clock in the night so that people can get to wherever they want to get to? But you know we're just suggesting those kind of things and we hope that the authorities will look into it. We'll take a short break. We have a lot on the newspapers to talk about and when we return we hope to be joined by Architech Ezekiel and I took a public affairs analyst who will help us to make sense of some of these headlines. Stay with us.