 Welcome back to the breakfast in Plasti via Africa time for us to check out the front pages of a national deal is we're calling it We call it off the press and as usual we will have Chris one do joining us to make sense of all of the headlines I was set up with a daily independent newspaper this morning. Let's check out the daily independent The banner caption read Don't endanger your political future APC governors won a Tony general of the Federation Talking about the electoral act amendment bill Don't endanger your political future APC governors won a GF To meet Buhari over direct primaries Out of that saga and you have party holds national convention February 2022 Quite interesting away from the board headline You also have we expect Buhari to ascend to electoral act amendment bill Luan is quoted on that Says Nass may pass 2022 budget before Christmas Northern collision once against release of Nnamdi Kano and Another report says scores fear dead as fire raises boat at Potakot jetty Flower meals acquires honey well flower meals Another interesting caption you find this morning and you also have West African examination Cancel releases 2021 Senior secondary certificate examination result increases exam fee by 25% That's also another Caption you find on the daily independent now see looking at it just before we move away Insurance Rick's sanction for violating daily transactions upload That's battle a mead Aim I take that again that battle aimed at strengthening rule of law That's also on the daily independent newspaper. That's the much we can take at this point in time All right away from the daily independent are next there Pull of call is the leadership on these paper making headlines and this morning attacks on Abuja Kaduna Road a national shame says ACF with some writers there are bandits kill four in Katsina 11 rescued in Kaduna Abundant spiritual leader arrested in Niger Insurgents bandits fuel in poverty Another leaders that's according to PPMB. There's a precedent that these are northern leaders lack courage to confront challenges That's a Coalition above the must-head of Just below the must-head rather Exhibitors Hill next in bank impact showing at Durban all the stories making a front page of the leadership newspaper We came to federal government consider all theft us treason fire raises 41 shops at Kanu market a veteran comic actor But busway passes on also making headlines that this morning like raises SSE registration fee by 29 percent APC to elect party offices in February convention was the rider Boone denies a delay in Congress to extend a tenure don't release Kanu northern you to tell Pmb those are the stories you can find on the front page of the leadership newspaper for this morning Away from the leadership newspaper this morning Let's check out the punch on the front page of the punch newspaper the banner caption reads February 2022 APC convention dates shaky crisis persist in 12 states and You find underneath the board caption Governors proposed February to President Buhari for approval says Bagudu. You also have Reavers a kitty or goon or your samphara quara cross river or this affected narrow loser steam slides to 550 55 narrow toward dollar in parallel market now this is what you find Godwin Amifili is quoted on that 11,200 Nigerian women and children raped in 2020 according to a report by the United Nation Capital inflow crashes by 80% and foreign investor Sean Niger in market You also also have another caption saying APC governance clash over direct primaries below Suley exchange words Senate faults smuggled 16 billion our vote into environment Ministries board that that's also another interesting caption on the punch newspaper now she was staying with the punch You have women better to drive peace process says President Muhammad of Bahra She's smiling The reason I'm smiling it reminds me of you know when the president was addressing the issue with high shabari You know It's fine. All right, you also have threats Treats or thefts as treason military and please Involved well, this is some of the stories, but they are more interesting headlines on the punch newspaper this morning That's much we can take at this point in time and the final paper We will be reviewing this morning is the nation these people at the banner headline for this morning Why APC can't hold national convention now? Some writers there a party to conclude congresses in four state Buhari Governors a settle for February Honourable flower mills in 80 billion Naira merger deal Lagos and sauce panel report controversy Rages on the red strip that there is another story absence of Interpreter forces court to put off Igbo host aids Arrangement above the must-have. There are some other interesting stories panel on equal you build in collapse as six Memorandum nollywood veteran Babasui dies at 63 We gay is saying top military police officers are this involved in oil theft Why it lacks or jacks up exam fees to 18 Thousand Naira eighty one point seven percent credit Recorded not some good one 16 billion Naira. He then vote found in environment ministries Budget of the last story there this morning on the red strip Below and both vastly shot down indefinitely or you taller releases 708 a millionaire for Pensioners those are the stars you can find on the front page of the nation newspaper. Let's do stay more than All right, we just head straight to the crux of the martyrs this morning. We do have Chris one do a standby Good morning Chris. Thank you once again for joining us Good morning. Thank you very much for having me. Are you guys are looking so smashy this morning? Thank you so much Chris. Okay, so let's sort of with the daily independent newspaper this morning The boat caption on the daily independence says electoral act amendment bill don't end danger your political feature or APC governors Warning the attorney general of the Federation. Let's share your thoughts on that Well the governor's To me, I'm just playing to the gallery It is the duty of the National Assembly to I'm a little or make laws for the Federation and it is also For the president to ascend to such a lot We are necessary. It's not even we are necessary. It's compulsorily even with the constitution is the president is given a certain period we wish to ascend to The bill a law passed by the National Assembly doesn't they have a right to just Veto the president's Assignment or signatures it's where the electoral Amendment that we passed by boat embass of the National Assembly funny enough those those two chambers are made up of Majority members of the ruling APC so It's not just a bill for a PCC beef or Nigeria is a beef or a PCF guy PDP address of them legislators across party lines Passed that bill so I don't know the problem that the governors have with that deal if Who are the three president of Nigeria answer? Passed that be 360 has all represented members 109 senators Then the governor's order would bet you can it also shows the selfish nature of our leaders because it seems to be a bad meeting status and the governor's the governor's fears that the powers have been taken of them and to a larger stance With the direct primaries they are who'd on the parties Is it shaky because they have those things done in the past within direct primaries to handpicked the people of their choice We are based Instances where senators members of House of Representatives and so many other political Officers don't find a way back to position especially within the National Assembly because they have an issue Yes, we are we are governors So what I just do to just call people there is and just happy who's good to go to see senator who's going to go to the House of Representatives and rest of them They making it if you watch what has been happening within our National Assembly since 1999 We have a very high ton of legislators That is not what is obtainable in other parts of the world if we see in the in the US There are still some Legislators that have been in those houses for over 50 years You know why because the more they come back the more equipped they are the They've honest the You know the intricacies that goes which next lady matters best our senator Governors, you know allowed. Let's just give a class case them from the next story remember what happens in just In 2019 one of the best I will say the best natures in the Senate senator Sunny was refused An opportunity of coming back to this by the governor of cadnastry because he has an issue because of issues the race on the flows of the Senate consigning Governor a required attempt to obtain some lose and because of that that cost him say so But as I said, they are talking to attend the age of not to paradise He's a political creature what they are trying to say is that the age of should advise the president not to sign that It is not a bill of for the APC it is Nigerian bill And if the slatures who are the right people that make laws for Niger, but then all well and good show socially me All right, I'm crazy one do another story that these are you know trending and making headlines across several papers Is the attack on there? Passengers along the Abu Jikiduna road a leadership caption that this way attacks on Abu Jikiduna road a national shame says Arora consultative Forum what are your thoughts concerning that got messy and I indeed where discussing There's just a few minutes ago and we felt that this issue of security is just continuing on a beta Then as though the federal government knows what to do, but they're not seemingly doing what they should do How do you react? It's not a lonely a monumental Shame is the is the shame of the highest order Let's put it in proper perspective A humanitarian candidate For my good my career candidate of the APC is our state was killed in that. Yes. He was good Now also we are just learning that what a nosy mother was also kidnapped and her baby was thrown inside the bush They threw with the baby inside the bush and went away the mother So that is the level at which we have degenerated in this country And when you see people say, oh, are we you just ask yourself? Where is humanity in all this and when the international committees look at some of this is a reason of this things What do you think what they think about us? So the problem is that especially the hadruna abuja has consistently be a Hospital of kidnapping banditry killing and rest of them Which is why most people now prefer the real going through abuja to To Kaduna but even down is no longer safe to remember just a few weeks they go There's actually was also attacks. Yes. So good. So what are we talking about? So it is it is a big indictment on our security agencies and also our leaders and what I feel at a point They were able to pick point some of this But it's a free fall you cannot and when somebody come up to tell us Oh, we are now much safer than we were in 2015 as some of us just continue to laugh because they are not even facing the reality When you start giving instances of a try to measure what's up in 2015 and are you saying that we are more best and safer now? I you know the Several aspects of it. All this is a security is tied down to economy Your economy cannot grow you can have an economy put when you are living in the state of insecurity The president is lying every day going to Paris is going to South Africa trying to Attract investors to Nigeria which company which organization want to invest in the country where you know that doesn't know is security And that is the part of us for me. So the situation with it is very and kaduna Abuja is getting closer who because you cannot see that they have stood at the universe of Abudian was attack recent and lecturers were kidnapped and up to the from University of Apuja That is in the city center. We even we didn't come to us a NDA was attacked The top leader officer was killed. That is NDA military formation. So what are we talking about? So the situation that's it where I think the presidential I don't know what we need to be we have to service this without that going to be a situation doesn't seem to be What we need to What we are lacking is what I call the intelligence factor We are doing more good putting to just on the ground policeman But our secret is to do more of intelligence gadget. That is where countries to win Virtues against the robberies and bandits Okay, let's move away from that now and look at the punch new people Where the Naira seem to have lost a steam and it slides to five hundred and fifty five Naira to a dollar in the parallel market Let's show you a thoughts on that You said he lost his team. Did you ever gather in this team before? Let's stop the civil ourselves. He lost his team. We are not the civil ourselves. It has been a pre-port Irrespective of proper get that set up back at the point where Accusing a particular online platform or being the reason why the Naira was falling and that platform was Decide to just withdraw these activities and rest of them and The problem we have is there to our money to policies. We are not getting a try and secondly our abide independent on foreign and made good as we continue to import will continue to please our Our assets when it comes to foreign currencies and there's nothing about it Or do we continue to produce more and export more that is where we make And even at that if you look at it also what you call look at direct investment for Nigerians and those in diaspora Before they used to remit so much back home. That is no longer happening. So we finally our self-institutional way that we cannot determine We cannot determine the prices or whatever of dollars we can Now the set up back at the point close down some beauty in church Changes that say that they are part of the problem, but others of the problem. It has not some problems So if we say we put it just like MBS coming and students you can say We are the indices is showing that Nigeria is improving economically and rest of them And that does not if you go to the market doesn't change the price of tomatoes It's not in the prices of Beans it has not in the prices of the rice and rest of them Commodities are still on the rise and that is what we find out. That is what is happening. So anybody come to tell me Try to buy a dollar what you haven't seen on the paper. So it's not even right because if you go to get this dollar Now is far far more than we are talking about looking at the paramedic at the rest of the issue Is that we need to find a way of trying to boost our economy so that we can make a sport more and we are just a import dripping country no matter what and the price of Crowd is doing on a daily basis and that to me is a way depends solely on a Commodity, which is a which is a crude oil. We are going to be faced with a shortfall in prices of This product at any given point in time. We have said in time with that number that we should diversify economy Let us look at agriculture. Let us look at areas of mining and rest of them That is a very huge Places we can invest when we're not even talking of tourism Let's bring us back to security. No, but the most countries depend look at Kenya for instance, South Africa They depend mostly on tourism the same thing with Dubai But here nobody's coming here. How will you come to a country where you know that But that you move out of the order Somebody's going to add that they kill inside the order or you move out and somebody kidnap you and start asking for ransom This is just a picture my All right, another story that I'm caught my attention this morning. Is that education actually why? raises SSE registration fee by 29% Crease I just want you to talk concerning that and because in my opinion I don't know if it's the right thing we should be doing or the thing we should be doing right now because most people are actually Complaining about not being able to have their ends met and now we're talking about Increasing the cost of writing exams for our children There are two legs to that story the first is the fact that we had a high record of success That's true. Yes 81% Credits. Yes. Yes with number of students having credits that to me is credible It's a very yes, it's a very good one Then about prices increase the best. Well, I wouldn't be a wire across but we are having you see what is And that is what I'm talking about commodity prices and rest up But in other clients education is key is primary to other Let me tell you for free that in United Kingdom school children especially those in the primary school they go to school free is free Those those things are free. You don't need to pay for them It happens in the United I'm talking of presently now and the same to help us in the UCS and most developed countries. We are paying this service to education in Nigeria and going to take it even the United Nations has a What would I put now a ceiling as to the budget what you have to budget for education just like health every year Are we meeting that? Most of our leaders that we have now most of the leaders that we have they went to primary and secondary school free I'll tell you that for free. Most of them did. I remember what happened during the Between 1979 to about 83 or there about during the Second Republic in the cost a primary second in school We are free. I attended from my primary to second in school input to my university They were after the legacy investing. I never my parents never paid a dime I left the university in 1990 and I'm telling you this this was happened In the second Republic and what am I saying? I said which is why we were able to most people that most parents that could not afford to send to get the children to school Had the opportunity most of those people that you see now as a leader. Are there the national assembly or Ministers are there their parents could not win. We're not able to afford the school Don't forget what our former president said when he say had no shoe. Yeah, we forgotten that and said I had no shoe And he rose up to become impressed over that they have been issued Due to the price we're able to pay school fees. That means they went to a government grant and so He is it's quite unfortunate I personally will not blame wire or it they I'm sure they had over head cost is they're putting into consideration But education should not be seen. This is where we take I think that personally the federal government should come clean on this I'm able to subsidize This fees I don't allow us to do something alone. I don't know whether they're still doing because at a point the regular state government Right from the time of Amponde or Z-Fashion that used to for students in public school in regular state. They were paying their wire Wask and watch it was another one School fees free they're paying free. I don't know whether they still do that But they're not understanding what I think we need to do is that encourage as many children to go to school and government should try as possible to subsidize the prices of this school this examination fees because Without that, that means the most of them cannot get admission into the university Okay, uh, Chris Wando. Let's talk about the ruling party. That's the apc And the fact that you know crisis is still brewing in that particular party 12 states has been mentioned In the punch you see for this morning And you also have that the date for the convention the national convention is still not very set in looking at february 2022 That's against, you know december. Let's share your thoughts on that Well to me the pdp seems to be the forerunner as far as issue of This party crisis is concerned pdp seems to have gotten his hat together And you saw that the national convention with the hat So weeks back where they elected and their national officers and they seem to be moving on What we're not looking forward is how they are going to soon The presidency whether it's going to be to the north or to the south Actually just we had the problem. I call for pdp. But for apc is from one problem channel They are moving from one crisis to another the various local government state state Congresses that it had you had in all practically all the states you have fashions The one that bothered me most is that even in Lagos there were fashions. There were two Congresses that were heading Lagos and at the end of it all now this crisis is still on Now you look at a state like zampara you see the zampara they have three fashions the marafa fashion The current governor's fashion another fashion And then you also talk about cross over states the governor just Ported at we say from pdp to apc they having problem that's professor iadi and some other states river state practically lost apc practically lost the election in 2019 in river state because of internal crisis the same thing happened in so many other other states which are like zampara team And you also have the issue that happened in bias as that where a governor was almost elected under the platform apc Only for the court to just We just went into it for hours before he's done innovation because um handed over to So I I I hope and I believe that the apc would be able to get their ass the best I will tell you for free that this is all about 2023 The crisis you have seen within apc now is towards 2020. You know why Buhari who is the central people who rallies everybody around will not be on the ballot come 2023 So apc is going to find it because people to pick up somebody Who will be the central people to boharie and be able to galvanize and just be able to elect a credible President from that so is the soul of the party they are running for president and now they get their ass Finally chris before we'll let you go. Uh, the major business headline yesterday. I signed some of the mpc meeting Was um, honey. Well, our flower mills are in an 80 billion error Merge a deal are there better days ahead better head Better days ahead, but that in itself also have these challenges because if I just have a monopolistic Economy We just decide the prices of um Of such services for goodness if only when was producing flower and flower being a producing flower Then there will be very healthy competition within the two major Producers we are seeing that happening in cement in the cement now. We are done with this seems to be the only serious the number one um cement producer in Nigeria and when dango did Cuffs every other person catches codes. What he means is that dango this can actually give what happened in time Increase the prices of cement and that he goes like that bohar dua at the point was doing well But I don't work on it. They don't seem to be very well. And I saw many other smaller companies that were also into cement production But that the price of cement is almost as much as 5,000 mile. The good one as I said for Nigeria flower mists are very only one that I think we should also check the caution So that we don't come to point a big elephant in the room And then we cannot be able to do anything with the issue of prices But good one is good that Niger flower mists have been on this for over 40 50 years and they've been doing very well in the area of flower So aquari honey Honeywell is a good one for me probably the honeywell might be having issues You don't know but it's a good one But I hope that will not in itself have fed the prices of flower as it were where we just have one signal People company determine The prices of that product which we use for our bread anyway Everybody is pregnant and cake and rest up. I know my style of cake very well. So yes Yes Well, thank you so much Chris someone do We do appreciate your time with us this morning and we look forward to more of The conversation with you as we actually proceed. All right. 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