 Welcome once again to the breakfast here on plus TV Africa now Let's go to the newspapers of the press and let's see what we can share with you our guests It will be joining us of course So we'll introduce him right after sharing a major stories making headlines across Nigeria today I'm starting with the punch newspapers the big one there says record envoy and diplomat arrived today Indonesia defends assault We shall take action after discussing with the envoy says federal government Nigerian diplomat the aggressor airboard immigration officials as ambassador Hush Poppy 31 northern lawyers volunteer to defend carry against FBI federal government laments as abductors collect extra 24 million Naira on Baptist school students A businessman lands in Kirikiri for alleged defilement of three underaged daughters A sad story Ghani Faohi Misan Muhammad dies at 52 Also on the punch this morning teenage headsman with AK-47 rifle arrested in Ogong Forest police trail gang members And presidency Bode George rebukes tenable supporters recommends checkup Shell agrees 45.9 billion Naira Ogoni oil spiel payment 10 years after judgment And also twitter has agreed to set up Nigeria office in 2022 says the federal government We can say here 4528 Nigerian doctors move to uk in six years says council and NARD strike federal government always breaching agreements alleges NMA federal government reintroduces tall plazas Nigeria Nigerians to pay 500 Naira and 200 Naira per trip And finally Naira tombos to 515 as dollar scarcity persists Let's turn to the daily trust that's ruling ever federal government to lose taxes and mid dwindling revenue States with low revenue profile will suffer that according to experts If I arrest to appeal as justice ministry studies case River says we only interpreted constitution Death wish DSS grills ex-governor Bindo over audio on Buhari federal government set to lift Twitter's expansion lie Mohammed Fashella says we're ready to reintroduce tall on highways story on Betel Baptist high school on page 39 rather 39 days that they've been abducted it's School children in captivity Sally who tank with Islamic school to Gina children have been in captivity for 74 days and federal government college Biniyari students have been in captivity for 57 days Nigeria fifth highest world bank debtor owes 4.8 trillion Naira Our autumn says election in 2023 say your last prayer Navy rescues 12 sailors from sinking fishing vessels off Lagos coast and lastly court romance herbalist others for killing man Moving on to the nation niggas papers tall payment returns on 5,050 kilometer federal highways FEC ok's proposal Implementation starts after completion of projects DSS quizzes from a government five others over anti-Buhari comments Ward congresses apc gets petitions from 14 states no plan to lead party again says Osho molle We can also see on the nation this morning Had arrested with ak-47 in ogun 80 percent of artisans are foreigners And uh, mohammed farani. He me dies at 53 Kamosa as his heartbroken A courager loses bid to stop takeover of houses and others and also shell agrees on 45 billion naira compensation to oguni federal government and twitter closed to agreement. That's the last one under nation newspapers finally on the guardian international youth More youth takes a gambling cybercrime to escape exclusion Experts way cast as federal government plans to on ban twitter platform targets 2022 to open local office FDI's msme's government badly impacted as losses hit 169 billion naira 69 days after experts want investment in indigenous messaging apps Also the garden newspaper List three new drugs for testing on COVID-19 patients ITPC he has given an exclusive into how graft-owned stable economy feels insecurity Autumn says Nigeria has never been more divided federal government reintroduced tall plazas on highway says minister and shella agrees to pay oguni people 45.9 billion naira compensation Mr. Hedgehog public affairs analyst. Good morning. Thank you for joining us So there's a judgment that was issued in june 2010 toward compensation to the sum of 45.9 billion naira To oguni communities that really wasn't obeyed and years later was seen The royal dot show company. I'm saying that they're willing to make those payments today Do you see this as good news or like us? I already have said that you know it really doesn't make any difference on the pockets of those companies Two ways to look at it. The first is that better late than never. I'll look at it that way The second is that it's not about the dent in their pockets Which of course like Osara says is minimal But the good it can do to the land and my my concern is I really pray and hope that a system put in place where the money would be judiciously spent And not the one you tell me that oh 10% has already gone to legal charge and percent has gone to this and all sorts of things Let them be very clear guidelines. I want to call on all oguni elders to come together And devise ways of ensuring that this money benefits the generality Of the area particularly in the area of ensuring healthcare facilities and of course Taking care of the younger people in treating things that will set up the oguni youth Particularly as those who can have a future. I don't know what the terms are the whatever the terms are The oguni people To ensure that this money is a blessing to them and not a curse So for me better late that never could it be better? Yes, it could have been is it a drop in the ocean We know compared with what they have gotten from the oguni land. Yes, it is Can we do better? Let's take that as a first step utilize it well and then we'll be able to have reason to to make it further Demand. All right Let's also get your thoughts on the reintroduction of toll in on federal highways The minister says cars will pay 500 nair and 200 nair 200 nair and then trucks will pay 500 nair There's also a 150 nair for bosses. I I believe Do you see this as a good news? We live in a country Where we we thrive in living in deniers and I think that The federal government does not have money They don't have money and with this judgment on that that is likely to even bring more hardship on the federal government Consequently the question is How do we get to maintain our infrastructure? In a way that is sustainable If that is to be the pay Then the first thing is that they are setting prices. We've got to pay Introducing the tolls ordinarily would be a good thing, but I want the government to tell me How the dynamics are going to work out. I want them to show me how the funds are not going to be Siphoned because even when you go to a place like the airport and you are passing you discover that there are some times you just Somebody who does like squeeze some things and puts and does not collect Receipts and leaves. Can we do it such that? at at the point you are passing it's electronic so that the people Manning the gates are different from, you know, the way the the the the entry points are Such that you get a token And you get there and you drop the token and it opens and you pass which means that we can get full value for money And that unlike Nigerian or in way the Nigerian government does not to the best of my knowledge have That's that's that meter at the rig At the point of extraction That can tell you the full volume that comes off the ground on a daily basis If we're able to do the tooling such that we know that every single Vehicle plays and we don't need to count the money We just look at you know meters and we know the amount of money that we just remove corruption altogether And then what is the management process of these Funds released. These are all the details that should be worked out And if that is done, I think it would be good for us. We start to have roads that are sustainable Okay on the daily trust and the nation newspaper We saw the stories about It's seeming end of the line with the brigade and the federal government and twitter And you know the friction that they're having so on the daily trust the reads federal government sets a lift twitter suspension That's according to line mohammed. We also saw the story that By 2022 twitter Would likely open an office in nigeria. So we all knew the story about how twitter was suspended indefinitely In nigeria two months ago So they set up a technical committee to discuss this and you know Some of the agreements that they reached was that twitter was going to register with the broadcast organization of nigeria I was going to register with the ncc was going to register with the firs Was going to open a nigerian office appoint a nigerian country representative And all of that. So when we look, you know in hindsight with everything that's happened Would you say that maybe This works out well for nigeria because it seems that the country might benefit in terms of taxes and having more You know involvement in the operations of twitter or would you say that was not necessary to have happened at all We live in a country where we don't believe in cerebral governance It doesn't need to take a fight for you to resolve national issues It just techniques for it to have a national think tank economic think tank political think tank The presidency has all it takes if it has The right person in it for it to create groups subgroups that are futuristic You know in in technology what we don't understand is that the phone that you are using today the technology was developed Probably 15 years ago Tested the people who live the future. There are people who think the future They are like 20 years ahead. That's how technology is developed and not a knee-jerk approach And what bothers me is All these things didn't need twitter to elit the twitter mr. President For them to now start having this knee-jerk approach and all you know It just needs us as Nigerians to sit down And understand what government and governance is I call on I could never be tired of doing this I call on the elite I call on those of us that got as privileged to enjoy this country And use that you know advised me those that have been able to go to school one way or the other To sit down and stop this narrative of Tilupu Okay, miss. I told miss. I told speaking speaking directly to the issue I'm trying to say that All these terms and conditions that the federal government has tabled before twitter Would you say at the end of the day it's beneficial to us? Speaking directly to the issue. Yes or no does not solve Nigeria's problem. It doesn't The important thing is This could have been done Way back if we had a thinking government and let's play down on this analyzing issues that arise Because this will always bring you issues to analyze issues to analyze Should it have been you need not have been the issue on ground is What is our concept understanding of government and governance? That's the foundation. That's the fundamental This is good This could have been done earlier If we had a thinking government if we had a cerebral government and that's where I'm coming from People have been done, but I'm not ready to be coming here to analyze how this man is and you know I'm not ready. I won't do that. I'm too busy for that I'm more interested in what could have been done For us to move forward All right, Mr. Ayatollah. Can you quickly also say something? The death of Mohammed Fahwa Ami was announced yesterday. We had spoken to him. I think early in June On the June 12 celebration That was the last interview that plus TV had with him. It was announced yesterday that he had passed on At the age of 52 or 53. All right, can you quickly respond to that or say something about that? Bad unfortunate. I wish the family got 42 to bear the loss I hope we'll have something to say something about the youth as well Hopefully all right. And of course there's a story on the nation this morning that is speaking on the dss Arresting it says here dss squeezes former governor and five others over anti-buhari comments Is it illegal? dss don't have a lot of work to do so they can work on that people have opinion on mr. President I think as natural as we should wish him well But I don't know how that makes a headline that somebody says I don't wish the president well And then that makes the headline in all national dailies how how today is national youth day Do you understand what that means? And we're sitting down here telling somebody that mr. President They should I wish mr. President well We wish our president well, but for goodness sake people are dying this night People are dying this night because of my governance Let's let's major on the majors and lever If you would have noticed I'm not good at all this analysis of people's situations Somebody says I don't wish president well and that makes the headline across Meanwhile the headlines the headline really is about the dss quizzing these persons for Because they said that I wish that the virus because what he said was that he wished that the coronavirus had taken the life of the president and that you know Vice president That's an irresponsible comment that should be at one insight story That's an irresponsible comment that should be one insight story What would you talk about is the economy? How do you go from here? How can that make a headline? That's just gist gist cannot make headline The other side does that say that great people discuss ideas small small minds discuss people That's people not ideas. No one will move this country forward. I think that's an irresponsible comment Personally, I wouldn't I wouldn't say that I wouldn't wish my president bad. Do you understand me? But that's not going to make a headline it can't Okay in this country Going straight to the international youth day topic The garden newspaper has a story about this They're saying that one in every one in every six unemployed youth globally and nigerians They went on to say that youth innovation is a catalyst for development And that youths need to be empowered to participate in electoral promises electoral processes And they say that so chances of survival are slim that's um nigerian youths saying this and um The headline on the garden newspaper reads international youth day More youth take to gambling and cyber crime to escape exclusion In the age of social media now where it seems there are lots of avenues for people to communicate to people globally It seems that that have opened up avenues for people to um take to cyber crime We've seen the classical case of hosh poppy Do you do you see this as something that could possibly die down that maybe Parents instilling you know values and morals into youths for this to be a thing of the past this Cyber crime and gambling Yeah, I I um I'm privileged to be called the national youth headmaster That's because for the past 20 Years or so I've devoted my time to Working with the young people Because we've misled the young people for too long We tell somewhere that is 35 that is a young person is a youth and all those things And you know that at that age when you go to look for a job that will tell you sorry you are too old I mean it is it's a paradox It's a contradiction that we need to look into So the national youth are amongst the most resourceful in the whole world But our systems have not created wings for them to fly instead We have our political system has succeeded in making the youth become their boys In making the youth become their thoughts in giving the youth the impression that Unless you go told to my Aspiration you cannot become anything in life a young person has his political mentor Who helps him to buy a car helps him to rent a house helps him to marry the wife Helps him to to get his children's goofy space helps him to you know Helps him to do everything by so doing creating a dependency syndrome and exploiting the young person And reducing everything about self-worth to next to nothing and turning them to political thoughts And the question is when will we have a coalition of you know older people who come to Work and serve the younger people I belong to an organization called here for she which is men who have decided to Join hands and defend women We should also have a coalition of adults for the youth Where we start to think in terms of how these young people their capacities They are all their Their capacities. Let me use that can be enhanced. So for me It's such a contradiction That the most endowed set of young people in the world are becoming the most You know Endangered where so today is a day where we can sit down and really look at the youth Take this cyber crime stuff I've related with them a lot You can easily buy a policy create an ecosystem That isolates cyber crime From the it which is the way of the future that you must as a policy a national policy Every educated natural youth should have a laptop And not that the police should go after every youth with a laptop at his backpack You know, so we need to have a complete paradigm shift By harnessing the Potentials of this youth in the right direction So for me it's a contradiction and it's a day of super reflection on how we can help the youth The youth of Nigeria not lazy youths the youth of Nigeria not recalcitrant They just need role models some days back. I was talking to our elders. I said when a governor On a podium, who do you see sitting with him? It's not that man or that young person that has Done at a creative thing. It is not that teacher that has excelled It is not that businessman that he can tell where he's coming from. It is honorable chairman Honorable commissioner honorable this so to the minds of the young people The only way for you to be something is for you to become honorable this on and that's a lie That's not a sustainable future. That is politics and politics is not about progress Politics in Nigeria is about exploitation. And so the youth have seen that just get it Whichever way come in become honorable and the society says, okay How long will we as elders accept that? Finally, let me say this. I said something in the media that went viral Children are leaders of tomorrow Youths are leaders of today You can call a 39 year old person leader of tomorrow. It's wrong He's leader of today. So let's change that narrative Children are leaders of tomorrow. The youths are leaders of today and we the adults must look into what I call Responsibility transfer to the youth All right Thank you. We have a you know an extended conversation about that coming up in a bit But thank you very much for your thoughts this morning. Thanks for joining us on a thursday morning Ezekiel Thank you. Have a great day and happy youth day Oh, yeah All right, stay with us. We'll take a short break when we come back We're going back in history to tell you things that happened today many years ago the year 2000 and in 1964 Stay with us