 On the very first show this morning, NLC holds protest in emo in spite of court injunction against it. As people seek greener pastures abroad, they are those who fall victims of sex trafficking crimes and the syndicates that perpetrate it. What is it like surviving sex trafficking? That will be our second hot topic on the program this morning. And of course we'll be looking at the headlines on some of our national dailies on off the press. A very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on The Breakfast. My name is Nyam Ghul Aghaji. It's always a pleasure knowing that you are there and keeping us company as we hope to bring you things that will inform you, entertain you and educate you. Right now we're going to some of the stories that caught our fancy in the course of the last 24 hours. Apart from what is on the headlines, we're going to just look at this one. Some of them will still appear on the headlines. Paramilitary officers to be put on same salary level with police, that's according to the federal government. It has said that it's been in talks with Nigeria Salaries and Wages Commission to upgrade the salaries of paramilitary officers to be the same with the personnel of the Niger police force and PF. Now, a statement signed by the Director of the Press Ministry of Interior, Ajibullah Afonja, on Tuesday October 31 quoted the Minister of Interior, Ulubumi Tunjojo. He also said that, like the military, the federal government was considering the establishment of a pension board for personnel of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Federal Fire Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and the Nigeria Correctional Service. He said that the paramilitary personnel deserve an improvement in their salaries as well as pension board due to the hazards involved in their duties. Tunjojo said he considers both unjust and detrimental to the morale of these critical public servants that they have significantly lower pay than their police counterparts. The paramilitary personnel who risk their lives daily are, in his eyes, deserving of a better financial recognition. I do hope that the civil servants and the politicians will start earning the same salary right now because at what level is a politician who is in the Senate or who is in the House of Representatives? Is it level 16? Is it level 20? Is it level 50? And whatever salary they are earning, shouldn't they have levels too, like the civil servants, so that they end the same salary? I'm just asking a question. I say, no, I don't know how those things work. But hey, this is a welcome development to boost the morale, like he said, of the paramilitary. The second is that the senator representing Gumbay North, Dr. Ibrahim Danquambo, has urged the state governor, Mohamadou Yahya, to suspend the monthly pension and allowance of 694,557 Naira 82 cover accrued to him as a former governor. According to a letter dated October 4, 2023, and addressed to Yahya Danquambo, he urged for a suspension of his pension and allowance following his new job as a senator. And then he disclosed that the decision was following due consultation with relevant stakeholders, including civil society organizations, adding that it was sequel to his letter to Yahya on issues relating to security allowance to governors. The letter partly read, and I quote directly, further to my letter to his Excellency dated September 28, 2023, on issues relating to security allowance to governors as per approval dated September 20, 2002, years of 14th of June 2019, an executive pension act of 2007 as amended and other matters relating daring. Now, Danquambo added that upon the termination of his tenure as governor, he has never benefited from perks accrued to former governors, adding that also it should be noted that since he left in 2019, he has never benefited from any welfare packages, be it medical, furniture, transportation, etc. Okay, so that's one of the issues that people have been talking about. And I think Sarah has gone to the courts to make sure that the ex-governors stop earning pensions and whatever monies accrue to them as ex-governors as long, at least as long as they are in the Senate. You know that a lot of governors retire to the Senate as it is. So the Senate president is one of them and so many other people who were governors before. So it's morally not right and I think even constitutionally not right for them to be receiving salaries or pensions or whatever monies accrue to them as ex-governors and then still receive full salaries as ministers or as senators or as anything else that they have come to be. It's still the same federal government paying them. It's still the same the government paying them with a state or federal government. And Sarah went to court and said these people should stop earning these salaries. Now this one out of his own volition has said that it should be stopped. Even though we know that there may be some other allowances that accrue to the governors, that would be more than just the pensions that was mentioned here just above 500,000. But we know that this is a very good gesture if we wish that all of them could do the same thing and say hey stop until I'm done being a senator you can return. But for now do not pay all the entitlements. And he did say and we're waiting for someone to dispute that fact that since he left office in 2019 he has never benefited the perks of office as ex-governor. So medically, transportation, everything he has never benefited. So maybe other governors can do the same. Will you not survive if you say state hey I am comfortable enough especially now that I'm in the Senate or I'm a minister or something. Let me not be benefiting until I leave this new office. Let's see how it goes. Let's see how many people will follow suit. Now EFCC arrests over 70 OAU students in midnight raid. We saw the story yesterday over 70 students of a Baphemia Wallower University, Leif, or Shun State were reportedly arrested by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a midnight raid on hostels outside the campus. Multiple sources in Leif were confirmed to correspondents on Wednesday morning that the officials around 2 am stomped the fine touch and superb hostels in Odudua estate in Leif broke into rooms and arrested the students. Reasons for their arrest have not been confirmed as of press time but the students union president Abbaso Joe said the union had details of 72 students picked up from the hostel with phones and cars taken away. A former union official, Joy Abiola, told newsmen that the students were bitten. Another student identified simply as a what he said female students were among those picked up even some fresh students who just went to greet their senior colleagues were arrested. In a video shared with correspondents taken by one of these students several young persons said to be students of the hostel were seen being marched into a white Hummer bus with some security officials hitting them and ordering them to move and enter quickly. We've also seen another report that over 100 of these people will be prosecuted whatever their crime may be they are bound to be other people who are very innocent among those people who are arrested. So if the same treatment is meted out to the people who are innocent when they find out that they are innocent will there be a compensation of some sort or something? What are they even accused of? We do not know as now. A lot of them the information flying around is that they were arrested because of fraud related issues. Let's see how that case goes but we are watching. Now another thing is that there's a story from River State why we shot at Fubara River's police say. Now River State Police Command has explained how the attack on the state governor seminali Fubara during a protest at the state's House of Assembly complex in Potarkot on Monday occurred. The command described the attack as not deliberate adding that the intention behind the water cannons and tear gassing was to disperse the protestors and to ensure the protection and safety of the governor from asinists who were culpable of causing mayhem on the premises. In a statement by the spokesperson for the state's crime command writer Grace Iringe Coco on Wednesday it said let me just quote what it was following the receipt of credible intelligence on the intention of some armed groups of persons to cause mayhem in Potarkot the River State capital particularly at the state House of Assembly on Monday October 30 and recalling the previous case of asin on the state House of Assembly a day prior which is currently being investigated. The deputy commissioner of police in charge of operations immediately deployed armed police operatives which he personally supervised in order to intercept the hoodlums and ensure the protection of lives and properties within the state House of Assembly facility and its environs. The police maintained that the presence of the governor at the scene was of great surprise and shock as there was no prior communication to the police on the visit of the governor to the scene which ordinarily is the usual protocol and complimentary that they accompany his guard for proper safety considering the intelligence of security threat at hand at that time. Okay so they've given the explanation well it's kind of solid but we don't know the two sides of the story in full all we know is that the governor said he was pelted the governor said he was shot at and the police are saying that they were trying to protect the governor by doing that so by shooting water cannons at the governor they were protecting the governor. We've also heard that that was the same kind of protection they were giving Joe Agiro the NLC president in emo state and we've seen pictures of Joe Agiro being protected you know with a swollen face so I don't know how protection gives you a swollen face Nigerians are yet to find out what really happened NLC on one hand is saying that he was assaulted he was abducted all kinds of adjectives that they're using to describe how he was taken from the secretary to wherever else they took him as that now we hear reports that he's been taken to hospital in fact more than one hospital from one hospital to the other and he's being treated for the protective custody that the police gave him it's kind of funny but not funny. So we're going to hopefully get a NLC chief to talk about that in a moment we're hoping we can still connect with him as we're having some problems connecting with his particular line this morning but we hope to get him. Now court stops Fubara's removal is a follow-up to that story PDP governor's consult weekend is River State High Court sitting in Isiopo on Wednesday issued an interim order restraining the River State House of Assembly from proceeding with the planned impeachment of governor Semi Nalai Fubara they caught restrained the speaker of the house Martin Amaule deputy speaker Dumle Mau the clerk of the house and the state chief judge Justice Simeon Chibuzo Amadi Justice O. Ben White issued the restraining order after Fubara's lawyer Demian Okoro argued before him an expert application alright so we hope that there will be peace in River State we've heard the governor is saying that it may just be a quarrel between father and son that means he has acknowledged the fact that he may be a son to a wiki a political godfather and wiki is talking tough even after the governor's met with him and he said nobody can intimidate me and the structures in River State must not be dismantled which means I still don't know the definition of structures when they talk about structures if you are a politician you are part of the structures you get whatever you are getting because the structure has given you these why try to control it why can't the structure just you know survive without you trying to control everybody and we've always seen in River State one governor handing over to his boy and the boy becoming what we call a tiger in the streets of Nigeria so we don't know why that is always the case in River State but Amici retired his own godfathers wiki retired Amici and the other godfathers now Fubara has come maybe trying also to retire Amici on a wiki sorry so why there's so much problems why not just learn that this is what we do I did it and someone else is doing it to me let's see how it is going to end the River State government has a very big coffer they have a very big arsenal a war arsenal so let's see how it is it's a very rich state so maybe that's why there's always a problem like this but we wait to see what happens for the benefit of people of River State and the South-South and even Nigeria as a whole now protesters Tom National Assembly demand defense protesters sacking this one took me a little bit surprised scores of pro-democracy activists on Wednesday marched to the National Assembly in Abuja to demand the sacking of the Minister of Defense Belu Matawali the protesters at the complex chanted solidarity songs and displayed banners with different inscriptions such as Sack Belu Matawali now and our defense budget not in safe hands among others and the activists also under the ages of the civil society advocacy group for accountability and property also accused the Minister of allegedly romancing bandits responsible for the loss of lives and property what billions of Naira in the northern part of the country addressing newsmen in front of the National Assembly leader of the group Danessi Momo called on the Senate president Goss Willa Pabiu to exert pressure on the president to ensure Matawali is relieved of his job now if the accusation is true we I'm not saying it is true but if the accusation is true then what is the DSS doing what is the EFCC doing what is the ICPC doing where did they get their own intelligence that shows them that his the Minister for Defense has been romancing with bandits if this is true why could the DSS not find it out or have they been compromised as well let's see how the details will come out and what will be what will happen in the coming days at least the president has said it doesn't matter who has been selected now but it will matter if whoever has been selected does not perform on the job everybody liked that statement if you do not do well you will be sucked so whether someone has romanced with the bandits or not let's see how he can deliver and make Nigeria more secure than it used to be before he came into office if he doesn't perform and he's found romancing with the terrorists and all that then we already know that the president will suck him without anybody having to protest so let's wait and see what comes out of it well I still say thank you to you for tuning up onto Plus TV Africa and watching the break fast show this morning my name is Nyam Ghul Agadji do not forget that and we'll take a short break when we return we'll be looking at the papers and see what the headlines are stay with us