 And that's the location of oil facility in Bayelsa State, where he used the waters of Sundanakinda, putting fishermen out of work. The community is now calling for government and international aid, or be diving deep into that issue. Victor will see him in the charge of the surgery, but there are doubts if he will be able to make it to the African Cup of Nation in January. We'll be taking a look at the national dailies this morning like we always do. Welcome to the breakfasts and plus TV Africa. I am Justin Acadone. And I am Massey Boko. It's good to have you join us this beautiful Friday morning. And as usual, we set off with top trending. Usually conversations generate a lot of reaction across the entire country in different spaces, by the way. On top trending this morning, we'll look at the number one is the fact that the commissioner of police for Lagos State, Hakim Udumosou says Lagos State is the safest right now in the entire country. And that's because he's also saying this period in time, people coming to the city, coming to the state do business, and they can go about their normal businesses and go out without any issues. Also, as a way of saying, it's all right to come into Lagos State and enjoy the festive period without any issues. There will be plans to ensure that everyone is protected and nothing is going to happen to anyone. That's it. But that has also generated a lot of conversation. A lot of people are saying, oh, how safe are we really sure? What is the indices? How did we arrive at all of this? And for me, I would say, it feels like when you start bragging, these elements begin to hear you, and we're going to show up and then show you what it is like. Show you pepper, like we say in our local parlance. That is indeed what is to be expected. But when he comes out and says that Lagos is the safest state in Nigeria, I don't know what yardstick he used, or yardsticks he used in coming out with such a statement. Because I personally, would I say I have suffered some challenges security-wise in the past few months. So just I've had reported cases of, I mean, pocket cases of violence and security challenges in Lagos stayed specifically on the mainland. So if he is saying that Lagos is the safest state in Lagos, maybe he's blowing his own trumpet in Nigeria, rather. So he's blowing his own trumpet. Why not allow the residents themselves to come out and actually give you that praise instead of you, you know, acting like the proverb, you know, who says if you don't praise me, I'll praise myself. And I think it's based on the premise that first of all, he stated that traffic robbery, robbery during traffic has actually reduced because a climb down on the hood looms and what have you. And but like you rightly mentioned, I mean, you see have incident where you have some element out there who will take advantage of people. Or sorts, you know, those ones who would use means and take you to extract money from you, make you take monies, those who would actually they call it one chance. Also all of this still ongoing. So I think that there's a lot of work to be done. And like a security expert actually mentioned some time. Usually I think it's not important for us to begin to talk about the things that we're doing because security is a very sensitive issue. We're dealing with people who are at some point, you would say that they're working or even smart ahead of you, they're working ahead of you. And it's such a short way you have the Nigerian police force not having everything, you know, within its powers to fight crime and criminality. It's important that you would just keep it low. But it's a good thing. I just feel like we should just double the effort. There's a lot that needs to be done. You know, you still have pickpockets, you still have theft, you still have issues of people. I mean, all sort of issues. Yes, you might just say, OK, XYZ has actually reduced, but necessarily, you know, I just think that there's a lot of work that needs to be done. We commend the effort, however, and we also see there's a lot of work that needs to be done. You can also take out the fact that as much as we're saying, oh, it's safest place, how about, you know, the harassment from police officers? That's also another threat. So how safe is that? I mean, how save are we? The fact that you constantly experience police brutality as, you know, you go about your business. All right, maybe if he based his assumption on the comparison between Lagos policing and maybe other police commands across Nigeria, he might want to come and say that we have indeed been doing so much in our command. These are the numbers of arrests that have been made and the numbers that have been, you know, been persecuted in court. And of course, maybe over time, the reports they are getting is that the hoodlums maybe have a bit of some of the operations in the state. But then again, I just feel that when they have done good, we should be the one commanding them and not let them praise themselves. That's just my humble opinion that I had. No, but we can't say that, you know, they're not doing enough. They're doing enough. Everyone is doing enough for what we say that there's a lot of work that needs to be done. Another issue I must also appreciate is the fact that he mentioned the collaboration that all of this has not been achieved or by the Niger Police Force Board. The entire agency collaboration. With all the, you know, security agencies. And usually if you find out, you know, the struggle, the challenge that the security, you know, force actually experience is the fact that there's always a disconnect with other sister bodies. I mean, all the security agencies. So I like the fact that credit was actually given to all the security agencies. It's not entirely the Niger Police Force. But however, we're saying there's a lot of work that needs to be done. I'm also thinking that whatever it is, that whatever plans that we have, we should just, you know, keep it very low because it's a very sensitive issue. And so we know the people that we're dealing with we'll just keep all of this, you know, in secret and then go ahead to work. Yeah, then again, to add to all of that, the fact that there was interagency collaboration, you know, to achieve that particular fit is something that I would give the Lagos State Government, I mean, kudos for. Because in as much as some people are saying that there's a proliferation of various agencies in Lagos, but sometimes when you just take your time and try to analyze you, you wouldn't understand that they are actually doing things and we can see the impact of all of their work. For instance, we have last month, we have the Neighborhood Security Watch and all of that. We even have local vigilantes here and there, the Odwa, the OPC, you know. So over time, they work together in unison and where the police can not ordinarily get to on time, you know. I've had cases of robbery and it was the members of the OPC that came in handy and on time, you know, to help solve the situation and eventually those bad guys, as it were, were taken to the police station. Well, like I mentioned earlier, there's a lot of work that needs to be done and we commend the efforts and all that's been done. But I think that we need to do more to ensure that that they are actually safe. Yeah. Also, again, Nigel Petro-Price, East of the West in West Africa, that's according to an index put together by the cable. You know, Merci, over time, I've heard reports that we pay one of the list prices when it comes to fuel in the continent, in the world. But then again, if you want to measure all of this, it's not just about what we are paying per pump price, it's also about what we are earning, you know, vis-a-vis putting them together side-by-side as per how sustainable it could be, or it is, because even if we are paying the least price, our purchasing power, the value of the Naira is not really something to write home about. At the end of the day, we don't really end that much, you know, to sustain, you know, these are basic things that we spend mornies on. Very valid points that you have raised right there, we don't end that much. So you want to ask yourself, what is the minimum wage for us right now? And you also want to begin to ask yourself, like we mentioned earlier on, I mean, in the course of a conversation, you would also find that there are some basic things that need to be in place, and as soon as you have these basic things in place, it is easy, okay? It's easy. So in comparison, as much as we have on that list, you want to ask yourself, these countries that we're being compared with, we are the largest producer of crude oil in West Africa, Nigeria is. Nigeria is a giant of Africa. Nigeria should not be importing hakuud. We have no business. However, importing crude, you know, our fuel, however you want to put it. So it's quite unfortunate that as the highest producer of crude in West Africa and the region, when I'm comparing ourselves with these other countries, where we should be leaving by example, first of all, we have the crude, we export it, and then import it to Petro. So why don't we have our refinery working? I mean, all of this you put together, so it doesn't, you know, because in comparison, according to the laws that actually guide comparison, you need to compare things that are unlike polls and you also begin to know that, okay, it's the same. So they have similarities and what have you. So if you look at some of these factors, I'm thinking that, how did we even arrive at that? It is really, it doesn't really, really add up for us to begin to compare ourselves. I feel that it gives us up, you know, it gives us a way, it exposes our weakness if we actually do that, because that's what's going on. How many of this, I mean, these countries that we have actually put ourselves against, how much quantity of crude do they even produce? How many of these countries produce crude in this instance? So you begin to talk about basic infrastructure standard of leaving. In 2016, reports actually had that, you know, Nigeria at the time, 59% of our population had access to electricity. Meanwhile, in Egypt at the time, 100% had access to electricity. I mean, so you begin to, there are all the factors that you just begin to use to measure. Now we have a situation where the government is saying, oh, we want to take away, we can't continue with the subsidy because, you know, the resources that we spend on subsidy 1.8 trillionaire would be actually used for other, you know, projects, hospital, you know, road infrastructure and what have you. But the question would be, you know, how much of this have we seen, right? And then you also have a situation where we're planning has been over 200 billion or thereabouts for palliatives and, you know, the cost of transportation. It doesn't really make sense. So I feel like usually with all of this comparison, what it does is it just exposes our witness as a country and puts us out there. I agree with you, Merson, because if I have to do a bit of basic economics, you know, if we were to really do some comparison based on what's the average Nigeria and that's the minimum which of about 30,000 if you were going to just get the value in dollars, that amounts to about six dollars. You know, that's what the average Nigerian, you know, ends as a minimum which every month, you know, if you want to go for that, you know, divide the six dollars over 30 days, you now know how much, which is less than less than one cent. But we leave on the daily basis. Less than one cent. So it's not up to what? It's not up to what again. Because I know, I know, I know that in Ghana, we're looking at 12 cities now about 12 cities. That's what like, I think it's for the, if I'm not mistaken, if you put all of that together, like, if you multiply it and in a day or day or about, you're looking at 12 cities, that's about two dollars or day or about. You can imagine. And again, so the average Nigerian pays about 50 cents, you know. It's not too, you're saying it's not two dollars? No, I'm talking about to buy, to buy fuel. Okay. A pump price of fuel is over 200, it's about 200 Naira. And if you do the math at the end of the day, you're paying 50 to 60 cents to actually buy the fuel when you indeed end up about It's really, let's just say the situation is it is totally embarrassing that we begin to compare ourselves with the likes of, I mean, I'm not saying that, you know, these countries are not doing very well. You put yourself against Uganda. You put yourself up against, you know, Togo. That's a standard of living in Uganda. I'm sure they actually live above two dollars, you know, daily. Well, that's just the situation of things in Nigeria. So if we're doing a comparison that's by vis-a-vis what other countries are paying for the price of fuel, we should also do a holistic, you know, comparison vis-a-vis the purchasing power vis-a-vis, you know, the standard of living, the cost of living in Nigeria. So that way we can indeed, you know, part ourselves in the back and say, yes, we are paying so much, you know, or so little for fuel in the country. We step on the brakes right now when we return we'll definitely come through with off the press. We do have a guest who will join us to make sense of all of the of all of the big stories that we'll be making it on a national daily specifically around.