 It's still the breakfast on plus TV Africa time for off the press. We will take you through the pages of the national dailies and also we have a guest who will be making sense of some of the big stories as Zika, yeah, I took it's good to have you join us this morning. Good morning. All right. Merry Christmas. All right. Merry Christmas. Okay. Let's take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning and we will be looking at the big stories on the leadership newspaper. The banner caption says retirees grown as state owned state owns billions in pension areas. Governors dancing on pensions grave. Kaduna platoon Lagos, Quara, Anambra or your Niger up to date in payment. Federal government releases 16.67 billion Naira for acute 2021 pensions. And talking about the 2022 budget, federal government most focus on power, agriculture to grow economy. This is what experts quoted to say and Garabashewu recovers from COVID-19. Super Eagle gets new coach. You also find bandits kill district head, two sons are in Zamfara. President Mohammed Buhari demands progress report on solid minerals fund assures manufacturers of access to Forex and abductors or player two monarch demand 500 million Naira ransom more tributes for Desmond Tutu at Memorial service. And that's the much we can take on the leadership. To the punch new sweepers now, oil ownership, ACF backs or Bassenger, Pandev and others fume say constitution fraudulent. A men constitution if you're not pleased with a Bassenger's argument if ACF tells Clark and Pandev. Constitution flawed imposed by military. Ex-president mischievous says Pan-Niger Delta Forum. We can also find here pains prolonged as judges promotion keeps Nigerians in prison mocks justice system. Federal government borrows 13.6 trillion Naira via bonds in six months amid rising deficit financing. And also, MAN visits Buhari laments serial challenges gets Forex pledge. We can also find on the punch this morning. No van crushes ASP to death in Iqiti. Command blames mechanical fault. Power drunk SFU policeman, man handle punch man sees phone and ID card. Iqiti cancels job exams, fire me orders return of form fees. Also this morning order from above family of admission seeker killed by Oshun DSS operative demands corpse. Ogo assembly adjust 182 agencies votes and passes 350 billion Naira budget. Those are the big stories on the punch newspapers this morning. We take a quick look at the daily independent newspaper. Agric experts for seas increase hunger in 2022. That's the board caption on the daily independent Nigeria working to get vaccines with long expiration dates. NAFDAQ is quoted on that you also have federal government releases 16.6 billion Naira accrued pension for 2021 MDA retirees will address Forex shortage. Federal government assures manufacturers and says strong rail sector will create more jobs and wealth. Buhari acts for progress report and solid minerals development fund and you also have the NFF names Jose Pesirio new head coach of super eagles. How telecom sector helps strengthen economy in 2021 and bandits kill district head sons three orders in Zamfaro community. This is some of the headlines on the daily independent. All right. And good morning. Once again to Ezekiel. I talk. Thanks for joining us. Same to you. Let's kick off with, you know, one of the stories of the major story on the Pontius morning and that is with regards who really owns Nigeria's oil. It says ACF Baxo Basinger Pandev and INC fume. Say constitution is fraudulent. Of course, I'm sure you know the backstory to this, Edwin Clark, you know, accusing former president of Lusagor Basinger of hatred for the Niger Delta region and whatnot. And of course, back and forth concerning what the constitution really says concerning who owns the oil in the Niger Delta. Okay. We live in a country and I said last week where we don't seem to understand what nationhood. Nationhood means that you set a template where all the pressuring nationality come together on an understanding of equity, of justice, and relate to equality. What that means is that the national center favors all and is not biased against any. It is within that sort of context that you have what is called activity, every and society that makes for peace and progress. Now let's come to oil. If we happen to have oil as the only object in the country and if the, let me use the word let's say in a particular locality, there are two expressions that you expect. One consequence is that this commodity is national and the second consequence is that this commodity is destined in a particular country. Now they believe that the product of this country has been better and has better energy. In that of the oil, it is likely that the oil company will be resident within that locality and they will be developed in that locality. It also means that the people within that locality it will be easier to encourage them for certain types of jobs because the work of their houses so it's cheaper for them and it's easier for them. On the other hand, depending on the production question, it would have a terrible devastating effect on the environment, on the economy of the people, on the culture of the people. When you put all this together, then you know how do we compensate the people that are such adversaries. It was within that concept that there was this concept of pressure to change the United States. They looked at the degradation of the environment. They looked at the pollution of the environment. They looked at the lives of people who are predominantly systems that are being installed. They looked at the health of the people. I am speaking professionally of my house in Puyo, which is so far complicated. And yes, if they are busy or busy and work outside on my property of the people, you will discover that the souls of your people are black. This is Puyo. Not to talk of business like what happened. You get a white car and you practice outside of the white car. You come back and it looks black and you wonder what's wrong. This is what the people are in the head. Some people, I'm very sensitive to that. When I'm in Abu Dhabi software, so we need to contextualize the issue of ownership and look at the quality. Now put that aside. Let's take another one. There's gold and all the solid minerals. And ask yourself, why is it that there is a certain level of discrimination in the exploitation of our people? Why don't we put in as much as to exploit our minerals of it, which is the main thing of self-sustaining global economy? Why is it that it's only oil that it depends on? How about agriculture? How about the vast lands all over this country, especially in the northern part of the city? So there's a many strength of our responsibility that makes a certain group of people to feel that, look, this is ours, let's exploit as the other people are also exploiting the other. It is within you that we now ask ourselves, how can we explore a template that is free and shared to all? I think that is much. Let's take on this. The issue of who owns it or not owns it. The condition is very clear. It's a natural asset. And then your concern also says that the minerals are a national asset. That we see a state government exploiting the minerals and taking it to central banks to keep for them all to back up something. And you're like, are we having two different laws for the same country? Let's operate on everything. And I will be the first to say, gentlemen of United Delta, let us allow the federal asset because the gold is also a federal asset. But the mineral is also a federal asset. Ezekiah, I took less also take a look at the Daily Independent newspaper. And the concern here is about the fact that our Greek experts will see increased hunger in 2022. Now, this is despite the rise revolution that's ongoing by this administration. I think this is what it's like to sit here on a daily basis and see these terrorists stop the farmers from coming. We sit here and see the fedsmen take their cattle to farm land for those things to be eaten by their cattle. We sit here and we discover that as much as what the fedsmen accept their cattle, we need at least an expert to tell us that without falsification, there is going to be taxes. And when there is taxes, the price will rise. And in a country that has the poorest concentration of food in the world, is it rocket science or is it not that the poor will not be able to afford it? And if the poor cannot afford it, then in a visible consumption is hunger. That is what is so perfect that I will need a rich expert to tell us this. I just think that we have governance who really don't understand the extent of governance. That governance is a management of the resources of the people. I'm so happy that the first thing that we have seen is that the superheroes have just engaged a technical advisor of what the coach of education they're giving. They're going through a lot of processes to give off somebody that needs to be competent, has capacity, capability, has the residue, has the residue of knowledge and understanding of the game. We went through all that. And yet we don't put any emphasis on the recruitment of the head of the management team of the Nigerian nation. It's sad. And I think the time has already that call ourselves enlightened people to wake up and see politics at the recruiting agency for the management team of the Nigerian project. And if that be the case, we cannot be left with a chance of talk and people that supposedly have money. Governance must respect that. Governance must respect that. Governance must respect that. Once all this comes into play, then we'll be able to understand what will come out of an effect that we have seen today and wisdom demands that we respect it and meet in the court before we take that. Mr. Ayatollah, back to the punch in the newspapers. One of the stories there says, pains prolonged as judges a promotion keeps Nigerians in prison and locks justice system. Mr. Ayatollah, our judicial system has had challenges for a long time, the criminal justice system in general. And it's one of the reasons a lot of people have lost faith in it. But once in a while, some of the reasons that are given for prolonged justice for, of course, Nigerians being held in prison in police custody, awaiting trial for five, 10 years are really, really sickening. And this one now is talking about promotion of judges as a reason for prolonged judicial process. Is this fair enough? Or is this, you know, something to hear in a sane society? You see, they are, they are, I didn't quite see, but I think I'm going to speak because my network is like a physical injury. But let me, let me talk about our justice system and therapy. The very first thing is this. How is our justice system operated? You are accused. And the next thing is that. The police probably stooping on you. A lot of time. Let me say this, which we know, but it might sound uncharacteristic to the very good kids that we haven't seen. It seems that the issue of bail, raising money to run the station makes it such that when you go, you just get everybody dies around. And a lot of time, it is those that do not have the capacity to meet what I would call bail conditions in parentheses, which to me is like they don't have money to pay and get it. So that inadvertently, because a crime was supposedly reported, the perpetrators of the crime more often than not have the money to pay and get the pay. So at the end of the day, it is the innocence that will remain in custody. And when these rules are eventually charged to court, the evidence is so much that persecution becomes almost impossible that if we had done investigation, thorough investigation, and arriving at conviction parameters, and then we stoop it on the press, we will be able to charge it almost immediately to court. And with the evidence on the ground, we'll be able to get justice. So because this process is turned on its head, what we have is a lot of people are waiting for trial. Why are they a waiting trial? Why are the cases not coming up? Why are the investigations not getting turned out? I think we need to have a very, very fundamental mind-set shift. Let the police be properly funded so that they do not have to export the public to run their sessions. One of the things that was said either on the session or one of the sessions was how a BTO has to run a session starting 14 or 28,000 and we want only one reciculant, abducted, and also like that. So they have to find a way to make money. So I think this is all about the enterprise of the justice system. It has been commercialized. So you cannot have justice on an object that has been commercialized. It's not possible. All right. Sadly, of course, we would have to wrap up the conversation here. Is it going to be interesting here in your perspective on these stories? And we wish you a very beautiful day ahead and, of course, compliments of the season once again. Very, very same thing. And I wish you and everybody close to the Africa. An amazing 2022. So we'd also be sharing with you what happened on this day in history many, many years ago. And then right after that, our first major conversation on the breakfast this morning kicks off. Don't go anywhere. We'll be back. Stay with us.