 Welcome back. It's time to look at the headlines from the pages of the National Dailies of the Press. It's what we call it right here on the breakfast on plus TV Africa. I'm glad to say we have joining us this morning public affairs analyst Ezekiel Ingeituk. Good morning to you Mr. Ingeituk. Nice to have you on the program. We'll go ahead and look at the stories on the pages of the front page starting with the Nigerian Tribune with the BANA headline, adulterated fuel being the kicker, NNPC files claims for damages against supplies, adulterated fuel, NNPC files claims for damages against supplies. And the following writers, queues will disappear by next week carry, queues will disappear by next week carry. Give up petroleum ministry PDP tells Puhari give up petroleum ministry PDP tells Puhari details on page eight of the Nigerian Tribune. I think it was only a matter of time before the PDP jumped on that one. FG wants peaceful resolution with ASU Strike Unfortunate Minister. FG wants peaceful resolution with ASU Strike Unfortunate says minister as FEC OK's 1.71 trillion Naira contracts for transportation education ministries 1.71 trillion Naira contracts for transportation education ministries. The universities are shot as we speak. All right, God help us. 8 Kildes gunmen attack cattle market in Abia. Attack on northerners in Abia enough is enough. Northern coalition warns and these are worrying things we hear from different parts of the country that are capable of triggering what we do not want to experience. Correctional service reps to probe utilization of 165 billion Naira budget repovision and there's a picture of Raufarek Beshala minister of interior and one wonders whether this is not unconnected to his ongoing battle with Bola Mettinubu. But the reps are said to probe the utilization of 165 billion Naira budget repovision. Interesting one. Let's move on. Most stories from the Nigerian Tribune. Drug trafficking carry a Bawa confessed to working directly with a cartel in Brazil, Ethiopia and the LEA exonerates agencies officials promises blind justice for inductees. Still from the Nigerian Tribune know what it may feel it told us on rumored presidential ambition committee of friends. One minor three commuters killed two others injured in plateau. Sad one there. Amotecun arrests truck with 63 northerners motorcycles in Nando. Solido makes OND minimum qualification for political appointees as coming from a number of state stories on front page of the Nigerian Tribune. Over to the leadership newspaper with a big headline NNPC apologizes to Nigerians of a bad feel long queues and the following writer says we didn't see it coming. It shows scarcity will disappear soon. PDP decries planned 201 billion Naira for clearing adulterated petrol. Dengote refinery AFCTA or ACFTA rather will boost Nigeria's economic recovery IMF. It's important to note the NNPC had never said they will use 201 billion Naira to repair the adulterated fuel. It was a study being done by paper on what it would cost if the government decides to do that. Must be pointed out. More stories headlines on the front page of the leadership newspaper. Finally APC governors reach consensus. Zone chairmanship to North Central. This coming after the president didn't meet with them and decided instead to get on a plane to an earlier scheduled conference in Brussels, Belgium. It may feel as record causing panic attack. Friends tackle to smear campaign. It may feel as record causing panic attack. Friends tackle smear campaign. So they feel that all the talk underneath the press of him being interested in running for the president's office is a smear campaign on his record on him. Government kill cattle traders inches scores in Abia Plateau. 15 years after Senate probes or Bassenger's 400 billion Naira PHC projects. Cano knows fate on terrorism charges April 8 and of course yesterday he returned to court in the same friendly outfit with which he was arrested and brought into Nigeria from Kenya. Father to die by hanging for poisoning twin daughters and we're surprised ASU embarked on strike FG. We're surprised ASU embarked on strike FG. Over to the punch in East River with the following headlines. The stations run out of petrol, scarcity paralyzes states, queues persist in Lagos Abuja others, transport fares skyrocket, and small businesses grounded. Labour threatens strike PDP flays silver. More from the punch in East River contributory pension assets rose by 1.1 trillion Naira in 2021 hit 13.42 trillion Naira. Cary may spend more days in the tension as NDLEA approaches court. ASU fumes as federal government declares strike illegal. ASU fumes as federal government declares strike illegal. FG approves 1.17 trillion Naira for railway maintenance NECO printing contracts. That's the National Examinations Council. FG approves 1.17 trillion Naira for railway maintenance NECO printing contracts. Bandits raid Kaduna community abduct 22 residents. Northern youth kick as gunmen invade Abiyah cattle market Kail-8. Abbas and Joango Abulahi meet to strategize for 2023. Protesting Lagos driver set a blaze by government agents, say family colleague. This is what the punch is saying. Protesting Lagos driver set a blaze by Lagos government agents, say family colleague. This is of course following the reports that he said himself a blaze in protest. And shooting, Aragbeshola loyalist attack Oshun CP. Command denies bias accusation yesterday. The Oshun state police command had said that the shooting experience in parts of Oshun state was done by security attached to the convoy of Aragbeshola. And they have come out to deny that and accusing the commissioner police of bias. All right, let's move on finally to the nation newspaper with the following headlines. The big one there. Five petrol leading vessels from Belgium turned back. Five petrol leading vessels from Belgium turned back. Well, the president is headed to Belgium. That's just on the light to note. NNPC while we rejected consignment and scarcity spreads to more states. More headlines from the nation newspaper police and the LEA rift over Abba Kerry deepens. ASUS strike on necessary says federal government. We paid 100 billion Naira. And more from the nation, Oshun APC primary. And they have some details of that. What Aragbeshola has done is in is an abuse of government office. All right, you can read more on the pages of that newspaper. We would not like to call in at this point. Our guest analyst is Zika Linyaituk. Good morning to you, Mr. Linyaituk. I hope you are there and can hear me. Good morning and always a pleasure to be with you. All right. Fantastic. Fantastic. Pictures on the front page of the nation newspaper. We can see that story also going coming in other newspapers Nigerians on queue. I saw a lot of people, hundreds of queues, cars on the streets at about 5am, 6am in Lagos on my way to work. And the situation is still persisting by 10 nationwide. Finally, yesterday, the NNPC GMD came out to say sorry to Nigerians. But in that story, he still refused to take responsibility, saying it was totally unavoidable. So for now, no one is taking responsibility. Just a brief comment on the situation. Yeah, you know, we talked about it yesterday to some extent. And I just find it difficult to understand certain comments by people who are entrusted with responsibility. And the only explanation I can find to it is that this will feel they were being rewarded. And as a result, they owe no man, no explanations except the person that rewarded them. The day that people start to see public office as a responsibility to the nation, they will not act the way they have been acting. Now, you are telling me as part of the bylines that you wrote that they didn't see this coming. And I find it very, very ridiculous because setting things to be taken for granted. One of such things is that anything can happen. Assuming you have a situation where a vessel is coming, maybe it's on the way coming to bring your goods. And for any reason, there's a misunderstanding between neighboring countries adjoining countries. And it makes it difficult for such a vessel to come in, in which case it's not your fault. It is absolutely nothing to do with you. Don't you foresee the situation of such a possibility? And if that be the case, what should be the reaction of a reasonable person? I think that is why we have storage facilities, you know, backups, you may call it that, to make it easier to get. And when you do not have that, what was your thinking have been an issue? You didn't see it coming. Secondly, you come to apologize to Nigerians. And I want to ask you how the apology is going to fix my damaged vehicle. And then you say you are going to sue for damages for the company that brought in the bad fuel. And I'm asking myself again, when you sue for damages, how does that trickle down to the people who are the real beneficiaries of the damages? So many things, it comes down to just one statement. And that is we Nigerians do not seem to pay premium on good governance. We do not seem to understand the imperatives of having round pegs in square holes. We do not seem to sit down and interrogate why we have become the poverty capital of the world. What has happened in NNPC and the bad fuel is typical. And we cannot see it as an exception. It is the rule in Nigeria. Something goes wrong. Nobody is held liable. How can you tell me that, you know, you cannot be held liable? There is an institution that we pay for with our hard-end money. And their job is to maintain a standard on all products. Now, petroleum is a prime product. It's not just another product. It's a prime product. Now, the possibility of adulterated fuel is a very, very clear possibility. It has happened before when we had the toxic fuel. And you are telling me that there is nothing set up to forestall this? That is the height of insensitivity and irresponsibility. And everybody is just walking free and looking good because Mr. President, the Minister of Petroleum, is probably not available. And it is not okay. It's not acceptable. Interesting. Let's go straight over to the Abercarie NDLE saga. Of course, the NDLE has had to put out another press statement in response to the press statement by the Niger Police force coming from the force headquarters and the IGP. Earlier, accusing the NDLE of having officials who are also involved in the drug business or in this particular scam and saying that they should also arrest and prosecute their officials. And the NDLE are coming over to say that they will not hide or protect any NDLE official who is involved in all of this, but that they won't want to be engaging in non-evidence-based investigations and also maybe something like a smear campaign. So that's indirectly taking a jab at the police because the police didn't give us any evidence to back up their claim that NDLE officials were involved in all of this, none of the name names. So what do you make of this back and forth? Because the punch of the nation is if it has its headline, police NDLE are ripped over Abercarie Deepins. This accusation and counteraccusation in the midst of all of this. Do we really know the role, the function, the responsibility of the Nigeria Police? Do we really understand why they are set up in the first place and why they are paid by public funds? Do they know the part they play in national security in the psyche of the citizens to be comfortable that there will be rule of law and that there will be justice and equity? Are they aware that in the concept of justice and equity it is only the police that will provide the evidence based on which the judiciary will make the pronouncement or the judgment? Does the police or do the police really understand they are placed in national development? That peace and stability and security are foundational to any development and that this key is in their hands? I find saying things preposterous. The reason is how can the police say, you serve your day. That is the height of insensitivity of irresponsibility of absurdity. In the police's defense, they said that they had already done a report on Abercarie. That's not the point I'm looking at. I'm looking at when the police say you serve your also day. It means they have evidence and if they have the evidence, it means they've been hoarding the evidence. You cannot tell me that I did something. I'm also a culprit when you do not have evidence. It means they had evidence and then they were hoarding the evidence like no stuff and then brought out their own and the police is now upset. I thought this was a game between the two of us. You serve. Can this level of complicity come from the Nigeria police? If on the other hand like NDLE says, look, we don't have any evidence if we have bring, can the police be so reckless, so irresponsible to make such a statement without evidence and they are the custodians of evidence. These things have much larger implication than they think. We're starting to look at things and I'm calling on Nigerians to wake up. These are our citizens that we pay them. They are our servants that are paid from a common patrimony. So they don't have this latitude and this latitude to go ahead and behave as if they are doing us favor and cannot sit up when the man on the seat cannot call them to order and defend the interests of the nation. I think Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, I call him the third time, you should know it took an oath of office to discharge a certain responsibility. It wasn't the favor that Nigerians did him. No, it wasn't. It was a responsibility that Nigerians vested him with. It's sad that we have a national assembly that is like, oh, we can't touch, oh, we can't touch. That guy is not Baba. That guy is a chief executive that's giving work to do. He's not a monarch. He's not a king. He is a CEO and every CEO has setting global templates and what rules of engagement. Let me say it took interesting. The president is not around for now. So maybe anything would have to wait till he comes back. But there are some conspiracy theories that have been flying around. And I'd just like to pose a couple of them, one or two of them to you. One is from a lawyer, let me put one to you, a lawyer, Dele Faro Timi, who has been on plus TV Africa previously, quoting section three, subsection three of the Nigerian Extradition Act that says that a fugitive criminal who has been charged with an offense under the law of Nigeria or any part thereof, not being the offense for which his surrender is sought, who is serving a sentence or who is serving a sentence imposed in respect of any such offense by a court in Nigeria shall not be surrendered until such a time as he has been discharged, whether by acquittal or on the expiration of his sentence or otherwise. So this theory that all this is a conspiracy to prevent the extradition of Abba Kerry to the United States of America where the FBI is waiting for him with open arms. Question number one, why can we seize moments? It's so sad that we commit crimes in Nigeria. We behave like we don't understand anything about law and order. And we're looking for justice abroad. Why can't we seize moments? This is a moment where the Nigerian judiciary should liars with the American system or the Interpol to get their evidence and nail this guy if he is guilty so that even the international community will start to applaud because what's happening is like, okay, they want to stop him. I understand that theory. It's a very valid theory, especially when you know how they work in Nigeria, which is this concept of good cop, bad cop. Do you understand me? Two fighting and they give this body language that they are fighting. Look at what's having to our electoral law. The president does not agree with the National Assembly. The National Assembly says no, no, no, they don't agree. This is an absolute scam in my considered opinion. The two of them are together. They're working together. They don't want electronic transmission of results in my opinion. So they are saying put this one, remove that one. Let me tell you something. If Mr. President wants anything tonight, tonight, he will from wherever in the world he is send a message. The attorney general will not sleep or rest. He will move into the house of the Senate president. The speaker of the house will be together in wherever they are. They will craft this. They will bring the experts they want. It's like Mr. President wanting a loan. It's like, look, I want something as I'm here in this country before I leave this country. I want to get the document to put. They will not sleep. By 12 midnight, let us the document is on the desk of Mr. President. And he will get what he wants. And you are telling me that the clause has kept us for the past three months. No, add, no, don't add, subtract, don't subtract. And they do as if they are fighting. They are fighting. They know what they are doing. They are together. The Nigerian is being scammed in my opinion. They know what they are doing. It's the same thing as this, you know, abacare's case. You know, I'm just looking at them. Do you know that? Follow the trend of events. Just before NDL year came up, the Nigerian police said, oh, we are going to dispose of that case in the next, you know, in no time. Two weeks. Okay, within the next few weeks. And immediately that happened. NDL year said, no, there's a problem. And they came out with evidence where I tend to think that NDL year, I mean, I tend to believe that they mean well. The reason is that they could have just stopped and talked for toxic without hard evidence and will leave it in the court of speculation. For them to have come out with the hard evidence, it shows that the lines have been drawn. Now look at the weakness in the response of the Nigerian police. The first is that, you know, we told you we're working on it. We're investigating. We have already done something. Excuse me. What have you done? Secondly, they say, look at it. You said your people also did. Which is an embarrassment. Without even names. No names, a name, nothing. No names, nothing. Absolutely nothing. Speculation. That's why at this point, if it's a battle, NDL year has caught a technical knockout. I don't know how they're going to come back. Even if it's a battle between the two of them, they say, no, let me, I don't want to use the patterns that, you know, let the wind blow. You understand me? Let me stop it at that. We can, we can, we can add that or complete it. Make this wind blow. Make it go away. All right. Interesting. Thanks for, for leaving that. Okay. The ASUS strike is on. The College of, Colleges of Education, Academic Staff Union are also threatening to join the strike. The federal government has spoken, even though President Bueri is not around, but the ministers are around to, to do their job. The Minister of State for Labour and Productivity all, is it Labour and Employment these days? He's saying that the ASUS strike is unnecessary. Senator Dr. Kresingige, former governor, he says that ASUS strike, the ASUS strike is unnecessary. He says that they've paid 100 billion Naira to the union or to the lecturers or at least they channel that amount of money to address their issues. But I'd like to go over to the way particular people put it. I think this should be the Nigerian Tribune, which says federal government wants peaceful resolution with ASUS. Strike on Fortunate says minister and of course can add unnecessary because of the way the nation is put it. And they're going to have the following riders as FECOKs, 1.71 trillion Naira contracts for transportation, education ministries. FECOKs, 1.71 trillion Naira contracts for transportation, education ministries. And it's interesting that the Nigerian Tribune put both stories together, one as the headline and then the other as the rider. Your thoughts on this, Mr. Nyaito? Okay, the concept of strike will continue. And it will continue until Nigerians wake up and ask of all the aspirants, of all the people who want to be our leaders or our president, what is the priority of each of them? And what is should be our priority today? Education is key to any nation. And this is a statute of general application. How many people pay premium on education? You know, our current president, I find it, I find certain things, I can understand if it does not pay premium on education, but I can't understand that it does not pay premium on healthcare. I can't understand. So I expected that if a man like himself was coming to go for second term, I was going to go, I would have said a man who has had certain issues with his health is going to use a sledge hammer to kill a fly in that area. So I'm asking who amongst all these people, the names that are being touted, you know, we've heard of Ashiwaju, we've heard of Kwankwaso, the Moga Luz, you know, Wale Adewale, we've heard of all these people, you know, Chukuka, which of them, or how many, how do we class them into their major areas of strength? And then how do we rate such a major areas of strength relative to current national challenges? Because we cannot solve our problems in one day. Even if we had 100% of the resources, we will not be able to solve certain, you know, certain things are like, like, like education is foundational, you're going to have the nursery, we're going to have the primary, the secondary, you know, if there are stages and some of them will not take less than eight to 10 years to maturity. But what is the national vision? What is the national direction? Who is the best coach? You know, it's like a coach. You know, some countries, some, some clubs, let me come down to clubs. Some clubs have stars that you need to manage the stars. Some other clubs like Arsenal in those days would believe in, you know, kind of getting the raw talent, building them up and even at the stage selling and making money. So what is the mentality of each of the coaches? What is the game plan of each of these people? Of recent, we had a lot of businessmen coming in trying to say, okay, let us give Nigeria direction. And somebody said, Ezekiel, look very well. These are people that have either collected favors from central bank or are living off central bank. And as a result, they are not thinking of Nigeria, they are thinking of themselves. I don't know to what extent that is correct. Others are saying Nigerians have come to a point where they say enough is enough, like the committee 22. And a thing like that should make me so happy. But let them leave the issue of, you know, giving the impression they are working for MFLA. Let them say we are coming to critique and profile the best CEO for Nigeria. We're going to call all the people that want to be president, put them on the mix, on the seat. We're going to drill them because we are the corporate Nigeria entity. Want to drill them the way that our sister, because your country where I was drilled for the WTO work. Once they do this, Nigerians will start to have a new ray of hope. I like what's going on now. And I want to believe that some of the things I'm seeing are fine because we need to move the conversation from APC, PDP, the big two. That is absolute balderdash. The parties don't rule. Today in Nigeria, APC is not in control. One man, Mr. Buar is in control. In my state, Acquire Bomb State, PDP is not in control. One man, Mr. Udomi Manuel, is in control. So we don't want to hear this party-party nonsense anymore. We want to talk in terms of who has the capacity, the competence, the capability, the courage, all the seeds that you can imagine to stay the ship of states in this country away from this ignoble role of having become the poverty capital of the world to a country that is actually an emerging economy with all the resources that we have. That sort of body language, that sort of gesticulation is something that will inspire confidence in Nigeria. There's rumours that a man like Kwankwaso is leaving PDP. My prayer is that he really does leave. I'm looking at a situation where Mr. Abola Agmet Tinibu is disenfranchised in APC. I pray he really leaves. I look for a situation where the concept of a possibility of a third force or an alternate force emerges. And I'm looking for this committee 22, coming to sit down and say, all these people that want a kind of new paradigm, new discussion, new body language of, look, we want to get a competent hand for Nigeria. People will rush to start registering anyhow, to vote, and it will start to inspire confidence. Don't make it look like you are working for one person. By the time that Kwankwaso leaves PDP, and as Shihwaju possibly leaves APC, and then these young people start to come up, and then the committee 22 set up a profiling template, I think that 2023 might become a saving grace for Nigeria and a turning point for the positive. We certainly hope so. Prophecies have been given as to who should be the next president. The last one I remember hearing was that a young Nigerian would be the one to imagine. You know my name is Zikiel, and that's a prophet. My prophecy is that there is going to be a new dimension where we are able to critique, profile, and get a competent president. Whether it is young or is old, that's not my problem. Whether it's from the north or from the south is none of my issues. I just want a man that will hit the road running and save Nigeria. Or a woman. Interesting you put that there. Very important these days. I think we'll be adding prophet to your name next time you know you call it as a title. So my pastor calls me prof. He says he doesn't know whether it is prophet or professor. He does need a prof. Fantastic, fantastic. So interesting analysis from you which had more time to go into other papers. But that's been interesting. Prof is Zikiel and I took as Peter gets as a public affairs analyst. Thank you so very much. My word, my word. You're taking it down memory lane. Thank you very much. So very much for your time sir this morning. Thank you sir. Thank you God bless you. Thank you very much. I appreciate your time and that's off the press for now. We will take a break now and of course look at what's happening or how happened today rather in history being the 17th day in the month of February 2022. We'll be right back on the other side with more on the breakfast.