 And it's time for Off the Press and the headlines on some of our national dailies. We'll begin with the headlines. And after that we'll be joined by our very special guest, Upunabha Nkottari, a political affairs analyst, joining us from River State to analyze some of these headlines. So let's begin with the Punch newspaper. The Punch newspaper leads with Tanubu Teg's oath as president. Nigerians demand quick action. Here you have the picture. It's actually the official picture now for the president-elect who will be sworn in today. And you have the writers there. President, a private sector demands blueprints on economy for subsidy. Don't pee to me. I ask for the job. I won't give excuses. President-elect. Tanubu worked hard to be elected president, says Buhari. And above the masthead you have African presidents, U.S., Canadian delegations arrive for inauguration. Which too is where you see details of that. And that's the much I'll be taking from the Punch newspaper. We move now to the nation. The nation newspaper is next. And about the same headlines about the inauguration today. But we have world leaders for Tanubu's inauguration. We have that one up there. 18 new 10 second-term governors take oath today. We also have up there Anyoku 339 imminent Nigerians get national awards. Rebs concur with senators on CBN Act amendment. Okay, so you can read that up if you get it. It's on page three and four. This story is talking about. Those are the headlines on the nation. All right, from the nation. We move to the Guardian newspaper. And the Guardian leads with cautious optimism as Tanubu offers hope to worry Nigerians. Page six is where you have details of that. You have pictures of the president-elect Bola Ahmed Tanubu climbing the stairs. And one that shows his official picture. Both Buhari's tenure ends, but not his rare economic footprints. Who is saying this? Go to page 21 and find out details of that Buhari tenure ends, but not his rare economic footprints. Operators for Nigeria airs lunch without AOC registration number. Page seven is where you have details of that. I apologize for my difficult choices that cost pains. That's Buhari telling Nigerians there. You find details of that on page six of the Guardian newspaper. That's it for the Guardian newspaper. We move to nature news, which will be like the final paper we're looking at today. Nature news leads with the story climate change. Stakeholders set agenda for Tanubu's government. Our writers are stop fuel subsidies, support private refineries, as according to additional. Encourage better commitment to Paris agreement, climate change, as from Wajubia, and make drive eco-friendly policies from NGOs. Electricity, Zungeru power plant begins supply of 700 megawatts to national grid. Zungeru power plant begins supply of 700 megawatts to the national grid. Environment minister attacks new permanent secretary on achieving ministry's mandate. On page five, Nigeria's private sector greatly affected by high cost of electricity. Also on page five, and Buhari confers national honors on nature news advisory board chair. Those were the headlines on nature news that we are ready to take this morning. All right, so we have been joined by Opunabo in Kateria, political affairs analyst from River State as I told you earlier. Good morning Opunabo, so good to have you join us. Good morning Nigeria. Happy inauguration Opunabo. Well, yeah, yeah, welcome to May 29th. I don't know if it's going to be a happy inauguration, but thank God we've seen May 29th. Yes, thank God indeed we have seen it. With all the apprehensions and all the warnings and all the alerts, it's here finally. So I've all been here that above is suspended. Suspended. Suspended, all right. Well, time will tell. Indeed Opunabo, time will tell. These are interesting times indeed for this country. But let's dig in straight. While it's interesting and intriguing. Yes. The point newspaper, let's talk about the headline here. Tinnable takes hold as president. Nigerians demand quick action. Let's talk about that. Quick action on what? Quick action on what? On everything. On everything. On appointments. Because I can tell you that most of the people close to Tinnable are not talking of quick action on resolution of issues. They are talking of quick action in terms of appointment. They are hungry for positions. And they want, they don't want what happened in the rehearsal of the Guarese administration where it took six months to appoint his minister. Let's say he's cabin. What I cannot decide for is if I am running for an executive position, let's say governor, president. I can't comprehend why it took so long a time. I can't comprehend the delatoriness and the appointment of my cabinet. Because in the course of the election, I already know those that will be appointed. I already know who will be my attorney general, who will be my commissioner for the commission, who will be my finance minister. I already know. Then I might create room for maybe four or five other persons that will probably be nominated when I get into office. So it tells you that most of our presidents are not prepared to run. They are not prepared to govern. They don't believe that they might even win the elections. And so as far as they are concerned, the primary concern is winning the election. Then it is after the victory that they now sit down to say, okay, who do I am? That tells you how they will prepare most of them. Because if you have a vision, if you have a mission, you already have your team. Just like going into the race with a vice presidential candidate, you already have a team. Because you said for me to resolve most of these issues, I need Mr. A as my health minister. I know about his sound. I will not sit down and say, nominate somebody for me, who will be my health minister. No. I should know who will be my health minister. Even if I don't know him personally, I must have done background check. Just like the way Ramson Kuti was appointed health minister. He came to him as a shock. But IBBS had done a background check. So this will be my finance minister. This is the man I'm going to appoint. Even if the man is not a wealth. Once you get into office, you say, call Mr. A, call Mr. B. My information minister, call Mr. C. Call this. You discuss with them. Look, in the next two, three weeks, I'm going to appoint an academy. Are you willing to sign? If you say no, fine. I get another person. Then I might ask my other friends to say, do you have anybody that can fit in? I cannot comprehend the delatoriness in their appointment. That tells you it's either they are overwhelmed by the victory or at the initial, they don't have an idea of what it takes to want to come. That is when they say Timibu should not delay it. That is exactly what they are talking about. They are not talking about policies. They are not talking about the ground running. That's not what they are talking about. Don't be deceived. Just a moment. The way the political sphere is wired in Nigeria, does the president-elect really have the powers to just select the people that he wants, or are you talking about just a few key positions that he can make personal choices? Now, the issue is this. I understand what you are saying. You have lots of interest. And the appointment will be planned on your level of involvement, your relationship with the president, and so forth. Now, there are some, let me say, complex situations where you have maybe five governors who supported you. Five who supported you and also ensured you met the two of you. So, at that point, you are a little bit flustered. Who do I make this, or who do I make this? It is simple. You've won the election. You've been sworn in. There is little or nothing those governors can do with you, whether serving or former. You invite them to run to you. You pull your governors. In terms of appointment, you've had the experience. There is no way you all can be ministers. It's not possible. You wait. After three years, I'll appoint you. The first two years, let this man go. Because whether you like it or not, you will arrive at that same decision. No matter what time it takes. And the governors and your sacrifices are at the edge of all the governors. Because you've already made up your mind, even if you don't disclose your idea or what your intentions to anybody. You've made up your mind. If I'm going for governors in today's reverse, I know who I appoint, the commissioner for health already know. But the dynamics might change a little. Because probably, once I declare my intention, certain persons that were not in the picture might come into the picture and might be very useful. No problem. But once you come into the picture, I now know that at the end of the day you will demand for something. Even to prepare, probably you'll get me 20 billionaire, hypothetically. I know that this 20 billionaire is for nothing. You must want something. It's either I give you a contract to cover that or I say to myself, let the commissioner for finance come from this man. So once I get the appointment, I say, do you want to be my commissioner for finance or are you going to nominate somebody? Or you get a contract. You can't just shut up at the sacrifice governors at the altar of sentiments. You can't call that sentiment. You should know who to be who. As they are coming, you already know that definitely they have interest. It's not an addressed support. We all know that. So you already know what to give to Mr. A or to Mr. B. When they say hit the ground running, they are not telling you go ahead and start resolving the funding issues. They are saying, I find your cabinet immediately so that we know. It's not addressed. Open up. Yes. Let's have your thoughts on the president-elect Ashwajib Olaqmed. He's been credited for having the ability, the smartness to always put a good thing together. Do you share that opinion? Well, I will not completely dismiss it. We need to consider the likes of Fashola and I don't really know the cabinet or his cabinet. But let's just use Fashola. If you consider a man like him, I don't have the one out of the million. Oshimajo is one of them. But Oshimajo is very good. That's the first name. Oshimajo. But I can tell you this. It will be a fleeting illusion my dear to think that Bola is capable of you know out of this mountain of despair. I don't think so. I don't think he has that ability to move off from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope. Why I say this? He has this patrimony syndrome. It is my own. It is my turn. Which he said. So now that he's gotten it he sees it as a right. Look at it Lagos. What happened in Lagos? Who could say he did this? No, the truth is he found his own boy. He will not be a respected ruler. He will not. And he will not digest despair. If you are vast to him the goons around him will come up. That one is confirmed so I can see it. I have a lot of them like that. Look at those in charge of the Lagos economy. His family. His family members. And those in charge of Lagos. Look at what his wife said during the election. You cannot come to Lagos as an evil man. Make money and then vote for another party. Rather you leave Lagos. And when she was asked by journalists during the election she is going to retract that. She said no, she has no remorse. It was life. She has no remorse. Look at what happened to the ebos in Lagos. I am not an eboman. I am a reverse. But look at what happened to the ebos in Lagos. Look at the shelf that we bought. So that alone would tell you if you said he did this while he was a governor. And he has adjudiced saints. That's a different thing. In the last presidential election that he was allegedly declared winner. Look at what happened. So such a man will not book dissension. You can imagine if Lagos takes his move. Which means his family members are the ones that are going to be in charge of the national economy. We are reinforced on the loop but it doesn't wash off the steam. We don't learn how to use the left hand of the government. It is innate. And that is why I say I doubt if he is going to move off of the fatigue of despair to the voyeur's room. I sincerely doubt. And I completely see the breakdown of law and order. And suddenly we have a judiciary that without spying through this with the last judgments you had the supreme court who contradicted itself in the case of this sheriff he said you can, if you are a participant in the election wearing the eligibility of an economy. In this one he did a somersault. Even the Fabio's case even the Lawan's case that's the supreme court. What a shame complete shame while dismissing the suit by bad people. So you can imagine you can imagine a country where even the supreme court has engaged supreme court has engaged a lawyer who went in court came out and went in court and said he doesn't think it's going to appear before the law justice because this will be a judgment given by the supreme court because of interest. So I sincerely don't see you can you take this to the back in almost all the cases in almost all the contracts on that you will see that it's from linked as a person. So it's like a fifth job. Okay let's leave politics a bit. I doubt if we are going to be out of the woods I should sell it down. Okay let's leave inauguration aside for a bit. A lot of things have happened. One of them was that there was a promise that was given by the ministry of aviation and they said that Nigeria Air will kick off. Now Nigeria Air an airplane even though people are still seeing the number of this airplane as having been taken from Ethiopia and painted shabbily and brought to Nigeria but that's matter for another day. But operators fault Nigeria Air's launch without AOC regulations number. So it came without this regulation number or the approval of AOC but it's Nigeria Air brought by the federal government and the operators are saying it's a no-no. What do you think? Of course the Nigeria Air is a scam. They made all kinds of problems. Can you hear me? Yes. We can hear you. Okay it's a scam. Why would you get that the number when the plane is because the planes do not belong to Nigeria. It's not possible. We all know it's a scam. We were just trying to deceive Nigeria thinking we can't deceive us. We also give an impression that it's a man of his words. He said before night he said before May 29th or something so I have done this. But you see the moon goes slowly but they break it as a scam. You will see when they turn out of events that those planes are not ours and I can tell you that if they are because of how ambitious Nigerians are they want to grab. The last minute grabbing. You saw all those kind of budgets at Blue Blouse. The last minute grabbing. If those planes are actually ours then they are scraps. You see that they are not ours or they are scraps just to deceive Nigeria. Without this I will never fly that plane. Can't forbid it. I'm going to die. Let me know what I'm going to die and let me die unconsciously or knowingly. Not intentionally. That is committing suicide. You want to fly that plane, you commit suicide. We are already tired of flying. Don't go and pick that. If I call don't safe man. Major concern. They are scraps. They are scraps. Death traps. Open up. Tell the minister to fly the plane. That thing bought that plane and I'm flying. You bought planes and you did not fly. You want me to go and fly. You just raised a major concern that people have about this Nigerian planes that we are talking about. Many Nigerians are saying me flying and so you are expressing the same concern. So you have no confidence at all that it is safe to fly in those planes. Those things are cannibalized contraptions. If at all we bought them if they don't belong to Ethiopia then we bought them. Then they are cannibalized contraptions. Let the man fly now. Not only when you bring them the commission we do until you fly, you fly from Nigeria to that's what they do. Even in trails that's what they do. Even when you buy cars they go and drive one to show you that they are out. That is the concern. Why didn't you fly? You fly first. Go to the plane, call the experts they come and test it. The validity of how did they call it again of that plane. You did not touch them and you said you are going to Poland. They do what they were doing. So that they would transfer the blame whatever comes to the incoming president and the president, of course I know Hupola mentioned he doesn't hide his feelings because he would tell them the boss crap. After all when he came to the reverse stage he was insinuated that he assisted them and what did he tell them? I owe you not. So that the world would also hear that you played no role. We thought without you I would have won. That's the meaning of I owe you not. Not be like others. We thought without you I would have won. So I can tell you that those planes if they are actually as purchased by Nigeria I cannibalize contractions. Don't bother. First of all tell the minister to fly on those planes. Let them fly and come back then okay we will apologize publicly. But I don't think those planes are as expensive as they are. Because even when you look at the plane it's like a 1942 vehicle that you are trying to make new using auto bay. Hello Opunabo. Just frozen there. Yeah network perhaps because it's about to rain we can hear the rain falling. But Opunabo if you can join us again please do so so that we can continue with this version of the press. They were just saying that nobody should fly in the Nigerian air. Would you fly? Hadisirika has brought in would I fly? Yeah would you fly Nigeria? It's a terrible thing. What our leaders think we are. It's like Nollywood before now that you watch some movies and you feel that they think we do not understand what is going on there. And what they are doing but now you go to cross the western you froze you just froze. But let's continue let's just continue we have like four of us. You were saying that Nigerians should not fly that air Nigerian air that Hadisirika brought in. Yes we can. That is what I am saying. That is what I am saying. That the plane either belongs to Ethiopia or is a cannibalized contractor. However, if he wants to put us wrong. Let him fly those planes. Let him fly those planes. If you look at the plane out world you could see that it was hardly tinted. So if the appearance is like that I have to say to come because I would not even have to look at the inside. I have to pay for my teacher to fly. The one I pay for my teacher to fly and I am going on the subject. My guess I have to die. Let me know why and how. You know, it is interesting. Let me not die because we are suicidal. I don't want to die because we are suicidal. So let him fly the plane. You do not believe me. Fly now. Some have said that few can finish the air. Some have said that few can finish the air. Why do they fly the plane? Why do they lay their protocols? Why do they fly the plane. Then go to London and... This is quite unfortunate. This is... So would I die if an accident? I'm not going to commit suicide. This is quite unfortunate that in spite of all the money spent on this project, this is where it has come to. I mean, right from the gate hold there were issues about how much Well, we don't know for sure. We don't know for sure whether it's been embezzled or not. Let's just take them by their words. But, okay, well, let's see. No, no, no. We are still... Do a rebuttal, no problem. Openable set, not more than that. Take it easy. Sorry, plus to be blown, openable set, openable set, you put it on the eve of a position handover so that you quickly run out. And then we now go to the... Okay, let's just take another issue. Let's take another issue. Maybe this one you will agree or you will be happy with it. We've been told that the Zungeru power plant has begun the supply of 700 megawatts to the national grid. 700 megawatts to the national grid. Should we be clapping for that sector of the economy? Should we be clapping for the past sector or not? Yes, exactly. How has it affected you? You keep talking about policies we always found in the morass of question. How has the GDP in this? How has it affected you? Are you going to go to the market to tell the market man? That? Will you go and tell all that? How has it affected you? That is the issue. Most times you do all these things because in the process they make money. They make money. Look at this. How has it affected you? If you have constant power supply, power supply growth, that is the question. I'm not interested in what you do behind the scenes but I elected you to do that. It's like how do you come back to the world to come and see what was your job? What were you elected to do? Exactly. What were you elected to do? That I had to commend you. The money is my own. Thanks for your money. So why should I come and tell you thank you for this? You should be ashamed of yourself if you don't think. That you waste our funds. Every day you go to the station. You go to the station to come and cover. That you pay 10 million, 50 million that I would have used to go to another country. You were elected to do the tax. So why should I tell you thank you? Why? The power project has it accepted you for sitting here. That is the question. That is the question. So don't tell me you don't know where the problem is transmission. We've been able to generate this. Now we have to do transmission. What kinds of damage? I need power in my house and I've got to pay for it. Simple. Simple. Give the power and I'll pay for it. Don't go and generate this. We've got to do the transmission. We've got to. Is it not the same government that will do transmission? Open up. Let's take a look at one of the headlines on the nation newspaper. Are reps concurred with senators on CBN at amendment? Yes. You see, even at the last minutes, they want to do that amendment because they have just realized what happened during the Naira conversation, not Naira's one. Now it has affected everybody to the quickly past that. It is good because it's going to be the interest of Nigerians. I completely agree with that amendment. I completely agree. It's going to be the interest of Nigerians. And you know, reps of the National Assembly focus on things that will be beneficial to them, not necessarily the nation. Observe whenever they come up with deals, it is because it's affecting including the members of the nation. Not because they love you. No, it is not because they love you. It's because it's affecting them as well. So they came up with an amendment and I completely agree with that amendment. I agree. Well, at least you have agreed with one of the things here we're talking about today. And it will be a very good way to end our discussion on the headlines this morning. I know that you're going to end it on Bushne. I know that you're going to end it on Bushne. We like positivity, we like it. And a positive note, Tina. But when we listen to some of these analyses and they are most times quite accurate, they make one feel like there is no hope. But we know that there is hope. We are hopeful for a better Nigeria, especially as we begin to go into a new dispensation. Do you have hope of a better Nigeria? Just round off, please. Okay. The dreams are shattered and promise of a better future shipwreck. Have I answered you? Well, you have tried. I just had to say that. No hope. You know hope unless God intervenes. Otherwise, the future is bleak with Bola Hammer, Tinnable and his cohorts. Well, thank you, Opunabo. Thank you for coming. Because we are Israelites. We are Israelites. We will lead us through the Red Sea. Well, let it be at the brink. God will lead us through the Red Sea. Amen. Thank you, Opunabo, for your time today on Mindset Monday on the breakfast. Thank you. Opunabo Angkotaria, political affairs analyst joined us from River State and off the press to take a look at some of the headlines on some of the National Dailys that we looked at this morning on the breakfast. We'll be back with the weather report. Stay with us.