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Happy holiday to you and thank you for joining us We set off with the leadership newspaper this morning Looking at the top caption or big stories on the leadership It's us with the it of a tree President Muhammad the Buhari promises final victory against terrorists enemies of state I mean that was part of our conversation on top trending this morning quite interesting wise this terrorist have not been arrested No one it's in prison So underneath you have another rider saying says terrorist masquerading on the name of Islam will meet Yeah, what a loo president might just really be very angry at this point in time You have canned rejoices with salt and Muslims and urges peace and unity These are the riders underneath the boat caption not away from that You also find another header saying reps holds emergency plenary on proceeds of crime bill Two orders on Wednesday All right troops killed 22 E swap fighters arrest armed suppliers in Lake Chard and Just before we move away from the leadership. We're tackling issues facing workers The federal government is saying, you know the time where you have workers being celebrated Oh, her knees a fault nothing elders over zoning rejection and this is as regards when 2030 talking about the 2023 Elections or her knees a fault nothing elders over zoning redacted rejection Kaduna NLC months 36 walkers killed by bandits Ango Abdullah his son Sadiq released by attackers of a booger could do not train these are the headlines on the leadership All right away from the leadership will slide and next to the daily independent The lead story is on the workers Nigerians We care on Nigerians we can purchase in power powers more pressure on the economy With term a picture there on the work is the two pictures actually May day a labor gives Condition for 2023 general elections Then 2023 or her knees a the Christ novena or disposition on zoning Kaduna train attack syrup drugs boharita echo as quotes of a failure to protect rescue victims Sulla victory over Boko Haram with insight bohari says funding for security won't be a challenge Strike or she but Joe begs labor leaders to intervene and ask to FG ampers alright Let's see this writer then says 16 million blocks are still on the media says 16 million block votes will go to candidates parties with Bias for workers welfare the month free education and of course some Healthcare label is actually making the mantra. I had 2023 if you provide all of this for us we will Give 60 million block votes to you. That's what label is saying Those are the main stories on the daily independence newspaper this Monday morning Away from the daily independence we take a quick look at the punch newspaper and You have subsidy deduction heat-states hard governors all salaries workers lament This the board caption underneath no fact remittance from NNPC in first quarter Subsidy gobs 675.93 billion narrow. This is according to report Ganduja owes retirees 25 billion narrow gratuators others NLC says we KO's pension and you have some of those persons who have decided to be I mean declare interest to become You know president when they can solve little problems in your state How do you explain all of that? Benway on dough a kitty orders all workers salaries gratuities pension pension years grown Really sad one at a time where you have workers been celebrated across the entire you know world The vice president gets high presidential survey ratings and Former governor's group disagrees as you find on the punch law and orders not in is to join a PC presidential race interesting It'll fit three Buhari says end of terrorism near governor's preach piece Blackout hit CBN army headquarters others Discord blames vandals we will definitely continue in this circle and Just before we move away labor demands better deal salary increase from government on May Day You also have over 50 companies shut down over Forex and power crisis according to an investigative report Pension funds now thirteen point eight eight trillion 61% invested in bonds others. This is according to a report that's been made available and student accused a Motecun operatives of extortion Security outfit denies So you also have another header saying three story building collapses in Lagos resident traps Three story building collapses in Lagos as residents are trapped These are the headlines some of them on the punch news report this morning and finally we'll take the Nigerian Tribune The lead story this morning Buhari's ministers others mis-resignation deadlines fall under doom Jullo speak on their chances Reps confirm recovery of over 17 billion Naira missing revenue Summon 96 companies over alleged tax evasion for die others injured in third mainland bridge accident 36 workers queued as a result of banditry in Kaduna NLC chairman Is quoted on that Abou had ranked Best university in Nigeria one of the best 400 in the world Party primaries won't hold without a resolution of ass who strike nuns All right, 201 aspirants are jostled for PDP governorship tickets Gale of this qualifications as PDP screens aspirants across state Mayday our 16 million block votes will go to worker-friendly parties That's according to a label vows to mobilize workers against low-performing governors Calls for general salary review for civil servants. Let's see if we can take one more 2023 or your APC committee holds marathon meetings to choose candidates Committee may submit report Tomorrow and those are all of the stories you can find on the front page of the Nigerian Tribune Open up on Katara's a standby. He joins us shortly. It's good to have you join us this morning. Thank you for your time Yes, we can see you and we can hear you clearly All right, I'm less set off with the punch talks about subsidy deduction heating states very hard You have governors all in salaries. This is really really sad. Okay Well, I don't think the issue of salaries. I know a lot of us have always said Things that cannot but are not self-sustaining Don't don't have any business They could have now that is that most of the state in this country depend on federal force and so whenever the Revenue that's better than the federal But they are stranded to get frustrated and it affects and they are not in our government Now if you talk of subsidy, this is a government that initially said there was no All of the sudden it really used us, you know Because it made no sense to waste so much money and As I really said it was going to crack that Well was about the hundred and something I have about right now We have this world selling ads on this and try the PMS diesel Operator of drugs kerosene and what have you and yet we are still talking about subsidy It's up to the appareance. I don't know what's up see But it's not being used by the cabaret and the government is also It's not being used by this microscopic field To enlist themselves and the judgment of the of Nigeria It is fun. You still cannot pay salary Simply because the revenue of the federal government has reduced But it is actually start such a state has got this This is looking what and Also depends on the time I generate as the way Then we also have to work on our laws that helps to there's to be an Occlusion amendment of our law We are so that this will be empowered So also depends on what every state in this country mess with one of you natural mineral resource So we have to amend this law so that they could be empowered to Explore and pay taxes to the center. I think you realize that this you are suffering whenever from All right, let's take another story another paper now the Nigerian Tribune Let's take that story the lead one Buhari's ministers all those mace Resignation deadlines fall under doom Agilu speak on their chances if I may just have to preempt and these are low me and these are legal Practitioners will not ball. What would you say are the chances not that they have missed the deadline for the resignation as chip elated by the party guidelines? except the A call will make a judgment. That would be a little active Honestly, I don't think that Now you're talking of the electoral act my friends. I wonder what the legal practitioners of the national thing is what they are doing because the electoral act is puny inferior to the Constitution and For you to amend that aspect of the electoral act, you must first of all amend the country The Constitution say The electoral act is being otherwise. I wish you superior Definitely the Constitution So what the national assembly would have done was to first of all amend that Constitution that aspect of the Constitution Because if the cost will still sense to interpret it and pass a judgment on based on Strict interpretation then then the discussion is supreme and the question is in 30 days There is no way the electoral act would take precedence in a one that Matter is in our constitution So to the extent of that inconsistent it is null and void But well It is going to be a matter of office already subjected to the clinical promises of the legal lab The judges are going to make with the judgment but most of us I need to be worried because most of these judgments are procured I Will tell you the truth. I really don't have confidence in our division Because most times the judgments they give are so ridiculous But it is quite obvious even to the layman that the Procure the Constitutional system is made by their brother We all know that anything that is consistent with the provisions of the Constitution With the extent of that inconsistency that's a lot is null and void. So why do I have to quibble over these issues? Let's not act is it just like when the electoral acts almost rubbed in the file on Deciding the modus operandi how to conduct its election and I said yeah I think even if it was even your patient and I said yeah They don't need to even bother themselves because that has been taken care of in the Constitution And I was very happy when he came on board to say it doesn't need to double the time on that Because as far as I know his company the Constitution has given me the vial the power to decide the election the way he did Before that was revoked So I expect the National Assembly to do due diligence before you amend any come up with any law or amend anything That is provided for in the Constitution You must first of all amend that aspect of the Constitution because the electoral act any law in the land is inferior to the Constitution unless it cuts a suit the only the only Body arm that can decide otherwise and it will become a law even in questions Is your name is just it and the Supreme Court is your name is no longer just it your name is no longer just But even has to be strict interpretation of the law And the Supreme Court will decide we depend we like rely so much on the provisions of the Constitution and will act in reliance upon that So tell me if we're let's wait for the Supreme Court them because that way you get the Supreme Court So let's just wait for the Supreme Court All right What about the Supreme Court says it is it's what it is Let's quickly turn our attention to the punch I beg your pardon the leadership newspaper this morning I mean he talks about the president's promise as regards the issue of Victory over terrorist. Are you excited by this promise? Where the president is saying this final victory against terrorists? I mean looking at the fact that as at last month It was reported that a swap leader was killed if it was like peace might just be returning to the not-eastern part of the country On The situation gets worse by the day so we are not interested in all this And I mean, but open up on Qatar, don't you think? And there is a high level of publicity. That is why this thing is still on. A lot of people are benefiting tremendously from this, I can tell you that. There are people that are some billionaires that have the results of this. You know, it's like more or less long like a gravy train. So this, I don't know. Why I say we are in some, we are not as concrete as that. How will you keep order to military, the service chiefs, and they will not carry out those orders? And there is no punitive measure whatsoever. We have a plethora of cases. The former is the general of police. The former service chiefs, in terms of the group, and so rather they were rewarded with a personal appointment. What I mean by that, they said you voted money. Their successors came about to say, and then they gave an ambassador appointment. That's the high level of publicity we are talking about. You have Gumi who come on edge to defend this character, and yet nothing is done with so much impunity. So there's a high level of publicity. And that is why this thing is fresh. But I mean, if you look at this, there are reports that in 2022, of course, the new year, you have a lot of terrorists who have actually surrendered. It was also reported that the leader of ESWAP has been killed. And so with all of this progress reports from the government, you also have the military being deployed to tackle some of this. And some of these communities that they have occupied in the North has been returned. I've heard, I've heard, but let me give you a response. Because very soon now you tell me no time. Let me give you a response. Now, we still had the military and the terrorists on daily basis of our wounded military men. If you go to Ghana and Suwon, you still have this kind of a confined in charge of Sumerian local government, the government that was trying not to provide it. So what is happening? That is number one. Then, number two, you'll say most of them have have dropped their sins and penitentiary are going to government. That is a lie. You see, what is happening is that, you remember each of the same presidents who said, if the Niger Delta military can be granted under the why not Boko Harai. So in order not to eliminate these characters, what they do is talk to them to pretend to have dropped their sins and penitentiary are going to government and will grant them under. They will go back. Aerophage said it. It is not about what I said it. Aerophage said they even paid ransom, they paid money to them and so they went back to continue their nefarious activities. So most times they come in to recruit more patients. Aerophage said it. So most of us are not impressed and cannot be deceived by some government. It's just a strategy employed by the government to protect its own. That is what is going on. It's not like, okay, look at what is going on in the Southeast. Once there is any major uprising, minor uprising, they send the military and they wipe out villages. But what are they not? When it comes to not, they say, oh, they are trying to avoid collateral damage. That is what they say. Oh, of course, you know, you demand that there are certain actions you cannot do. They've been branded serious by the courts. What is happening? What is happening? But it's a convoluted thing. The federal government is complicitous in this matter. It was the same Sanyabhaja who said, when something goes a crime, such things for blood and for kids are the government is involved. And that is a fact. It's irrefragable. It is a fact. And that is what is going on in this country. They are trying to protect their own. We cannot kill our own. We did not kill the military. The United States, so we cannot kill our own. It was where they said, I said it before they came out of state, a president, that he, the United States, they're coming out of the grass. Why would you go and book us? He said it. And they now nominated him, although he declined. They now nominated him to the president. So what are we talking about? Who are you going to defeat? I know what is going on. All right. Let's take more stories. I'll move on to the daily independent newspaper. Two stories are catching my attention right now. The first one is a Nigerian's weaker purchase in power, powers more pressure on the economy. Then again, the May day, the labor is making demands are given conditions for 2023 general elections. Open up about how do you react to all of this? So what is the first one? The first one, Nigerian's weaker purchase in power, powers more pressure on the economy. Okay, okay. Dustin, it's lucid. It's quite simple. I mean, if you cannot afford, it has a dominant effect. If, for example, you have the market movement selling garret, selling rice and so on. And you don't have the money to buy. Of course, the rice will remember that. What is you going to do the right? You're selling the rice to make money. And if she makes money from it, she's also going to make, what is it? Probably to buy television, or to buy all that things. So it's not a dominant effect. So when Nigerians are imperfinious, when there is no money, and you don't have the purchasing power, capability or ability, it affects the economy. Because the money is no longer in circulation. It's as simple as that. It's quite lucid. I mean, you don't need a professor party to come and explain this to anybody. It's simple, the basic economics. So the dominant effect is what is impacted negatively on the economy. The labor is given demands, or making demands are given out to mediums and conditions for 2020 January elections. What are your thoughts? Very quickly. It's simple, labor wants a leader that will empathize and sympathize with workers. And not somebody that will come on board and not pay salaries, not pay pensioners. I mean, the solicitors in summary for the welfare of workers. That's what labor is saying. So they want a friendly, a labor-friendly governor or president. Somebody that will be trusted in their welfare. You empathize, sympathize with them, and at the same time meet their demands, at least the basic demands. Working conditions, welfare and support. That's what labor is talking about. Because most of these leaders are not interested. They come to you for votes to get you to office. They abandon you. They immediately become emperors and things that were, in fact, they are lead lords and the rest of us become lead servants. And so labor is saying, no, this time around they are going to be very careful and give their votes to a labor-friendly governor or labor-friendly president. What is the labor-friendly governor or worker-friendly president? Somebody that will address the needs of the worker. And that is what they want. And that is the person that will give their votes. All right, thank you so much. I'm open up in Goetaria. That's as much as we can take on today's segment of the press. I would do appreciate your time and your thoughts that you shared. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you so much. It is still the breakfast and plus TV Africa. We'll take a quick break. But first off, let's see what happened this day in history and come back and talk about industrial relations and labor matters in the moment. 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