 Nigeria's petrol subsidy payment continues to bleed the economy after the government spends one trillion naira in 10 months. Also in the face of the pandemic and numerous other health challenges we took a look at Nigeria's health sector and the need for development. As always we will be looking through the papers and going through the major stories making headlines. Thanks for joining us on the breakfast here on PLOS TV Africa. I am Osao Gye Ogban. And I am Messi Boko. It's good to have you join us as always. We always will start with you know first of all saying compliments of the season and we hope that you're having a very very interesting Christmas stroke new year break. We of course are here to ensure that it goes as peacefully and beautifully as possible. We start with top trending stories this morning just two of them first of all in the United Kingdom. Where a man an Indian has been arrested I believe is about 19 years old. His name just one single child also known as Darth Jones you know as he called himself was arrested you know after he attempted to assassinate the Queen of England. He had put out a message online on his social media at about 8.06 a.m. on Christmas morning claiming that he was going to attempt to assassinate the Queen of England and of course wishing his friends and well wishes farewell because he didn't think that he would survive the assassination attempt but he was going to go ahead and do it. He then of course went ahead with his attempt and was arrested about 500 meters from the Queen's private residence. He claims that he was doing it in revenge of a 1919 massacre of Indians that of course led to the loss of about 300 to 1500 Indian lives just around the first world war period. But it was arrested and according to reports was sent to the mental health sector. I think it says it was sectioned on the mental health act but that's of course in the UK because if you try that here in Nigeria you may not there's people who of course have spent you know one two three four five you know many many years in jail for simply you know criticizing the governor on Facebook you know talk less about a assassination attempt that you even record and put on I think on Facebook. So yes in the UK you would eventually get you know check for mental health you know challenges you get a lawyer you will be questioned you know and some of all of that. But another thing that I will mention is you know is the fact that when certain things happen in history you know and and governments and people expect that people would simply just move on you know they say oh this happened in 1967 during the Biafran war or this happened you know it was early 2000s you know and you know the government has apologized and some of all of that. One thing that we should always remember is that not everybody moves on not everybody simply forgives and accepts that it's in the past you know and government made a mistake and there's been so many of those incidents here in Nigeria the hundred and fifty people who died in the ran bombing you know when the air force according to them misfired the shites you know that were killed according to government figures 347 some people say as much as a thousand people were killed sometime in 2015 in Zaria. The of course OD killings has been so many you know of these examples that the Nigerian government and you know not just in Nigeria but I mean you use Nigerian government as an example now would I you know I assume that people would just forget and move on including the you know Nekheto games. Exactly you know there's been a couple of all those things but you know one thing that you know I'm trying to point out here is that this happened in 1919 but this 19 year old still feels that he needs to avenge the death of those Indians that were killed even before his probably his grandparents were born he still needs you know he felt like he needed to do something about it and these things exist and these persons still exist they're still I'm sure you know a couple of shites who are still very very upset and we do not know what you know if government doesn't actually you know take responsibility and punish whoever needs to be punished and do something then you know we might have in another 20 years 30 years you can never tell somebody who still feels angered by those killings you know like in the Biafra war the Asaba killings the Asaba massacres is publicly called there's many of them that you know people still remember to date. You know in this particular case I mean the first thing that you know came to hold out come to mind would be the case of being a sociopath you know you know there's a mental case now but it's a good thing that that's a society where they would always want to check all of the excesses to find out you know what it is with that but I mean the point that you've mentioned very valid and I agree with you on that that we can't constantly just you know move away and ignore things that you know happen in our society I mean less narrowed down to Nigeria like you have you know put out all of that and it constantly shows that that's why you know recently a group of persons decided that there should be this the constitutional review should be suspended because it's insensitive where you have a lot of people agitating for self-determination and they say they want to go their way this one is saying I want to go away I don't want to be part of this entity called Nigeria. Now the most important thing would have been you know listen pay attention we can't constantly act like everything is okay we're fine the government is on top of the issue I mean like you have mentioned so it's important that we pay attention to you know all of these issues I can only imagine the history I mean it's like thinking about I recently saw that I think it's a long time ago but I saw that you know talk where what's her name again Chimamanda Aditya you know she was talking and then a lot about what transpired you know the whole western domination of you know all the parts of the world and all of the pains so let's even assume that I'm a young person I'm going up and then you constantly read all of these things all of the maltreatment all of the slavery and what have you so it's always good to I mean restitution peace they can never be justice we need to always pay attention as a government as a people you know to these things because I mean and that's why you constantly have history that's a young lad right there but what do you have and it also brings back to the fact that I mean if you look at our curriculum I don't know if that's been restored the fact that we're trying to take away history from our own curriculum it doesn't really make sense it doesn't add up and I don't know what we we intend to actually achieve because we need to understand what we're coming from before we get to where we you know where we're going to but most importantly it's the fact that as leaders as you know political office holders as those who are calling the shots and those who are governing the affairs of the people we need to be very sensitive we can't constantly just ignore the people and feel like oh we can move on it's okay government has done this and government has done that like you say a lot of people would not move on a lot of people have not moved on there's a lot of heart and people are so hot a lot there's a lot of pain there's a lot of pain going on and we can constantly act like we don't we don't know what these people are talking about I still like to just stay with us I mean it's so it's like that's what's going on but less related to what's happening in Nigeria the people are saying that we have been marginalized we're not carried along and then we see in terms of you know occupying government offices I mean handling positions and what have you you get to see that there's no fairness there's no equality and all of this will constantly trigger all of this anger so I'm hoping that you know this would also be a lesson to everyone and to Niger most importantly so that's why I try to you know spread you know you know the conversation across the whole country the hurt that you're referring to and that I also spoke about you know it's not just in one you you gave an example you know but there are so many of these examples I still I think it was on my Instagram page where I shared the video of a father who was crying just before the Ansar's protest it was it was crying because he lost his son to you know police high-handedness I think it was a SARS officer who shot his son that is pain right there you don't expect him to simply just accept that oh well the son is gone so pack up and go home all government you know as arrested the police officer and that's it that's not that's not the answer to any of his tears and I want you to multiply that man by a hundred thousand so you can have a picture of how many people maybe a million maybe five million people that are very angry hurting and very very angry because of the lack of justice you know that has existed in Nigeria for a very very long time including the like it or get you know killings including the Shiites including the ones in OD in Zango Katav there's so many of them that have you know this pain and this hurt there's families who have lost loved ones to the most senseless killings ever and what do you get from a government who doesn't even accept that it has failed the people to you fail to protect the lives of property of people a government that you know blames farmers for not taking permission from police officers from the security agency before going to the farm or fishermen they don't remember what it was these families still exist these persons still exist you know their loved ones still exist somehow some way and that pain is not going to be wiped away simply by government living power by election or by you know a statement by Fermi additional there will continue to be that hurt and that pain for a very very long time and if a government continues to refuse to take responsibility and you know to be accountable for its failures there will always you know you know be these people who you know in 10 years or in 20 years will read about their history will read about how their grandparents were killed you know by bandits who the government continue to not declare terrorists and treat them as terrorist groups you know they would read all these things they would hear all these things and that pain continues for centuries and for decades and for generations and that's exactly what we're seeing here you know in England but that's a totally different society they have also committed the atrocities the the the British in Africa in India and everywhere you know there's nowhere that they stepped in that they didn't commit these same atrocities United States also has committed similar atrocities in the Middle East in Syria in Iraq in Afghanistan in many of these places and you will continue to see people from these countries for for generations continue to hurt and feel bad because nobody is listening to their pain you know they the world really is only listening to what international media organizations are selling and telling them you know that somebody had weapons of mass destruction that this country is filled with terrorists forgetting that there's also very innocent families and human beings in those countries so that's what it is really it therefore means that you know like we always say there's no way you want peace without justice people need to be punished absolutely now to our next top trend in the story and of course this is very very closely related to you know the first one that we spoke about the indigenous people of Biafra earlier last sometime last week we had a spoken about a planned protest in Israel that protest still did take place yesterday at Nesset that's what it's called the close to the seat of power in Jerusalem they still peacefully protested armed heavily with their Biafran flags and the Israeli flags you know and I think I spoke about this yesterday oh sorry sometime last week you know about the relevance of Israel in the IPOB conversation which I've not also been able to fully figure out but that's where they've chosen they call themselves Jews they say that Igbo's you know originally they have some they have what they have some you know connection yes with the Jews you know so and that's why they chose Israel and if you remember years a few years ago when Namdi Khanu allegedly absconded from Nigeria after the army attacked his residence the first place that he was seen was in Israel also dressed you know like an Israeli and the like so they did carry out their protest yesterday in Jerusalem and like I mentioned last week I'm not sure exactly how effective this would be if this would be able to convince the Nigerian government to actually release Namdi Khanu some of the things of course that they were you know saying during the protest where you know free Namdi Khanu no more Nigeria give us ambasonia and the likes you know we want to referendum and some of all those things once again I'm not sure how effective that would be for the Nigerian government and in the call for Namdi Khanu's release but it did take place yesterday it was peaceful and you know eventually did come to an end let's see how things actually pan out you know for them like you have already mentioned how effective is that gonna be or the protest and the fact that the case is already in court I mean this is now an illegal issue whether or not there was a reason for it to be a legal issue well all that the people are asking for is justice fair hearing he should be treated properly and what have you so yes fingers are actually crossed that's okay it happens anyway then we'll probably get going already so yes the IPOB of course did have their protest yesterday those are two top trend stories we'll take a short break so that mercy can get some things off her chest and then when we come back we're going straight into off the press where we have a major stories making headlines across the country this morning stay with us