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Well, as usual, we will look at what's been the trending talk on social media online, what's got tongs wagging, and of course, that's what we call a trending segment right here on the breakfast. Let's start off with yesterday, checked out by Twitter, and so Stopbriamo was trending. And it was interesting, an interesting conversation, funny at times, but for the most part of it, it was worrying, worrying. Now, why were Nigerians tweeting Stopbriamo, some in support, some against the call to action? You want to call it that? Well, Briamo is a Nigerian singer. He is the one who sang the chorus in Ice Prince of Manis, Oleku, and he has a number of hits, like something to go around town, and some other songs that people love. He's been able to carve a niche for himself as a very unique musician with a unique sound and unique style. And some say he even reminds them of the legendary Fela Anikulakbukuti. But he's been controversial online in recent days, if you want to call it that, most especially in recent days. And that's why thousands of people began to tweet the words Stopbriamo, it's what they were saying. He's one of the African artists nominated under the song Writer of the Year category at the forthcoming AFRIMA Awards, the 8th All African Music Awards, which is scheduled to hold in Senegal, I believe. The other awards event is organized to reward excellence in the African music industry. It's expected to hold on the 15th of January, that's the 8th edition of the AFRIMA Awards. And thousands of people called for Bryamud to be disqualified from the awards, all right, from the awards. Over his contentious remarks about the Igbo community, I don't know if you can look at the tweet he put out. Some words there are unprintable, so you forgive us if you see anything that you don't want to see on your screen, I don't think we're going to put that. But he used the words F-U-C-K and indigo in the same sentence, let me call them, just put it that way. He used the words F-U-C-K and indigo in the same sentence. It was a derogatory tweet, a lot of people didn't take it kindly at all, he was responding to a tweet which has since been deleted, I looked for that tweet which he responded to. I wanted to find it, I wanted to know what the person was saying. But Olawale, you know Bryamud, Olawale as he is called, he has been complaining, he says that he's been attacked, people were saying take it easy, don't say these things, your career is at stake, we love you, but we don't want to see things like this coming from you. But Bryamud is claiming that he was threatened, is what he's claiming, that he was threatened, you know one of the tweets he put out in response to someone who was asking him why he was saying F-U-C-K, indigo, he said that how will he be threatened with death, his family threatened and he will keep quiet. Now some people came out in support of Bryamud saying that they are voting for him, you know we've got your back, we're supporting him, but it seems to be sort of a tribal debate going on, which is not something we always want to see in Nigeria, we have had too much of this tribalism going on, you know the conversation and the debate went on to, you know some people say no, Lagos is no man's land, mostly from the southeastern part of the country where the indigo that Bryamud was referring to are from, Nigeria's southeastern part of flank, and so some of them were saying you know what Lagos is no man's land, just trying to what he called true Bryamud and he said that he's from Bodagri, you can't tell me that Lagos is no man's land, it was quite worrying really, I don't know why Bryamud went to this extent of using that word, the F word on indigo, you know I don't know if there's anything that should justify that, I mean throughout yesterday Bryamud took his time, took quite a number of time to an amount of time rather to engage in a bucket and forth with people who were criticizing him on Twitter, you know probably to show that he can withstand them, you know, for instance someone said how I wish you are not the singer of Never Look Back, how can you be this bigoted sir and make a lot of meaning in your songs, you know, in order to say maybe he's a tribal bigot and Bryamud replied you wish, you won't find ways, switch the author and the performer of the song Why and stop calling me sir and he now tells the bad guy Ethan Bigot, you know, so people are concerned for the safety, the health, the welfare of Bryamud, he's trying to make some points, he says, you know Lagos is not no man's land and all that, someone says you weigh Ibu woman house at Chevron, it's a Nigerian pigeon and he says it's not a shifting position, I do it all for the tribe that won't listen. All right, so it seems to be saying you know he's angry at the Ibo's and you know maybe some of them threatened him, I mean it's quite quite sad or quite quite a contention, apart from you know normal Nigerians out there on Twitter taking bribe on regarding his remarks, derogatory remarks about the Ibo community or Ibo ethnicity and we've had also you know celebrities commenting on this, for instance I saw something from Paul Koei of P Square, he took a swipe at Bryamud in the message he put out also on the micro blogging platform and this is what he said, he says mind what you say, all right that's Paul or Root Boy of the P Square group that is now back together, he says mind what you say, Bryamud earlier and those Bola are maintainable, all right, and that was a genesis of all of this, so what you have you know in the Twitter post following is just an offshoot of the the pressure that Bryamud's been feeling on Twitter now, you know taking effect on him, so this is what Root Boy of P Square said, he said mind what you quote, mind what you're preaching, election will come and go, we all will move on but you decided to be a tribal bigot because you think you are getting some attention by insulting a particular region of Nigeria and some people are praising you as an artist I'm only disappointed, he didn't mention anybody's name but people think that that is a veiled reference to to Bryamud, all right, so I mean I think the guy you know Bryamud the artist has just buckled under the pressure of the attacks that he has been receiving online following his endorsement of Bola maintainable the presidential candidate of the Oprogressives Congress for the presidency and I get it, I mean even Charles Solodow for all his greatness buckled under the pressure, had to pen a very long letter, we've just gotten the part one of that letter on Peter Obey's presidency, a lot of people were surprised because they're from the same state and they're friends, you know Root Boy P Square, Paul Quay is one of the artists along with his brother publicly backing Peter Obey, so some have said you know what, you know Root Boy P Square criticizing Bryamud, you're publicly backing another presidential candidate and although so criticizing Bryamud, I should stop criticizing him because you have other artists who are backing presidential candidates and they're supporting these artists and supporting the candidate that these artists are backing publicly, so why the backlash, why the criticism, well why the fire on Bryamud simply because he's supporting the candidate some people on Twitter do not like, it is his constitutional right, but for Bryamud buckling under the pressure to say those uncharitable words about a tribe in this country, I think it's a he's made a mistake that he may regret in the coming days, weeks and months, you know, because you don't want to be you know the one you know tweeting hate speech against a tribe, it's really sad, it's really sad indeed and I hope that Bryamud will be able to find you know redemption and we'll also find his way back to you know some sort of apology to those who are affected by that constitutional tale, somebody FU, use F word, it's one of the most degrading things to say to anyone, so it's quite sad and some have said that Bryamud is simply doing this to trend, you know, to trend and maybe sell some more of his music, I don't know if that is true, but so far from what I can see on my screen, I don't know if we can show the screenshot of the petition, it's on a change.org, so far about 2,500 people have signed the petition you know calling for Afrima to cancel the nomination of Bryamud for that award, so let's see how it goes, if Bryamud will get more people through this counter-resident support him or if Afrima will pull the plugs, pull the plugs at the end of the day, really sad indeed, really sad indeed, what the man has been has been tweeting. Anyway let's move on, there was an arrest in a part of Lagos yesterday as a Yoruba Nation agitators held their rally in Lagos, I don't know if we can we roll some of the clips, all right, let's just listen to what this gentleman of this in Wales are saying, can we hear what they're saying, all right. All right, so there was unrest, I mean yesterday Twitter was on fire, there was unrest reported in the Ojota Axis of Lagos as some supporters of the Yoruba Nation agitation, they held a rally in Lagos, they put out some information and we've monitored some of the tweets on social media, most of them were saying that the rally was meant to be peaceful and that the police engaged them in a shootout and at least two persons were dead, these are reports from people who say they were there and that they put out the information on social media, in fact as a picture of a dead body that was put out by a mainland, instant mainland Twitter account saying that one person was reportedly killed but one of those who happened to be at that rally, one of the Yoruba Nation supporters said that two people were killed now, of course this is something that is subject to confirmation by the police, the based on videos and photos shared with social media, it was clear that Ojota was a scene of a clash between the police and members of the Yoruba Nation agitation group and the investigation and investigative journalism platform is saying that the sources told them that two groups suspected to be Odua People's Congress and the Yoruba Nation agitators clashed in the early hours of Monday resulting in the casualty, one casualty, so while social media reported saying the police were the ones who came and attacked Yoruba Nation group holding their mega rally to press for self-determination, another report from the Foundation for Investigative Journalism is saying that two groups, Odua People's Congress and Yoruba Nation agitators clashed and that is what led to this alleged death of either one or two people. We're told that the police arrived the scene and showed tear gas to disperse the crowd and yesterday the reports in Canada, Ojota was the scene of chaos, Ojota was on fire is what we're hearing. Now the police public relations officer in Lagos State, Benjamin Houdini, said that normalcy was restored, it couldn't give details at the time that we filed a report. So it's really, really, really sad one. If it's a clash between two groups, then it really gives us a lot to worry about and we're hoping that the police have not gone ahead to you know, shoot anyone because that's the only one we want to see. I mean vehicles were put on fire, it was chaos, it was chaos, it was chaos all around that aspect of Ojota, just around the Ghani family park in that axis of Lagos State. Now this is not the first time, you know, that we're seeing people, anyone die as a result of Yoruba Nation protest or rally. You recall that on July 3, 2021, a sales girl was shot by the police while trying to disperse Yoruba Nation protestors, a sales girl was shot by the police, she is her name. Coroners inquest into the circumstances surrounding the events that claim the life of that 25-year-old sales girl, indicted the police but no suspect was released for the prosecution. Okay, so that's what we have, really sad one. A report I saw indicated that a tricycle operator who refused to disclose his name, I think he was in a punch. He said he was afraid of being arrested by the police or anything, something like that. He said the protesters were demonstrating peacefully when a policewoman gave the order for the police to disperse the crowd and that was when bullets, you know, were being fired at directly at the protesters. So, I mean, we need the police to come out and tell us what really happened there. Another eyewitness who is cited by the punch who is said to run a business in front of the Ojota Ghani family park said that the protesters arrived the park at about 3 a.m. on Monday morning. I also went on to tell the paper that buses dropped off the protesters and they saw them clustering and all that and also saying that the police were the ones who came and scattered everything. Everything was peaceful. They said until the police came and started shooting, tear gas kind of started them to disperse. But I mean, you know, if tear gas is fired at such a place, I do not obviously meant to lead to the death of two people. So, we need more information. We need more information as we speak. The police have not put out anything that I have seen. So, anyway, we leave it at that and we hope that an investigation will carry out and that we can get something from the police in Lagos state. Let's move on. This one is close to home because it involves a media executive. This time I'm talking about Raymond Dokbezi who is the owner of AIT, a television. Yes, African independent television and indeed a RAPA FM. It's really sensational. You can find it across the country. He's not to be a member of the People's Democratic Party. I mean, do you all remember what transpired in 2015 when AIT put out some documentaries against the current president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, then a candidate of the All Progressives Congress. So, his relationship, his activities involved with the People's Democratic Party is well documented. Of course, right now, the PDP has a presidential candidate in the mode of Attiku Abubakar. While the founder of Dark Communication, owner of AIT and RAPA, we told that he was arrested by police in the United Kingdom yesterday and released yesterday. He's, like I said, a chieftain of the PDP. Multiple media reports on Sunday said he was arrested in London. He's also the director general of the PDP presidential campaign counseling charge of technical and systems. I don't know what that means, but reports said yesterday that he was reportedly picked up at Heathrow Airport in London after touching down from Frankfurt on Sunday ahead of a meeting with the PDP presidential candidate Attiku Abubakar. Who is in London? Some have suspected that he's also going to take care of his health while he is there. Now, the reports that we monitored did not really indicate the incident or the reason for the incident and the reason for the arrest or detention of Raymond Dockby C., but his visit to the UK is connected to an invitation by the UK government to Attiku. We told it's been invited to share perspectives and issues around the 2023 general elections. Okay, now something was put out by dark communications. I'm just going to read some excerpts of that. They're saying that Dockby C was delayed at the airport for some to quote. Dockby C was delayed at the airport for some hours before his passport was stamped and he was cleared by the British immigration officials for entering to the country. They went on to say Chief Dockby C wishes to thank all for their outpour of love, presence, support following the news of the incident and to reassure all that he is hailing heart. You know, it's political season so when these things happen it's bound to attract attention, especially if it involves any of the major political parties or their officials. So Dockby C is a major figure in the PDP presidential campaign and of course 2023 is around the corner. That's the biggest news in Nigeria, anything about the elections. But for me, it's not really an issue. You know, he has something to answer for in the UK. He would have been detained, probably taken to court. I don't know if it's an immigration issue or some other thing, but he's been released and he was let go. So I think that's the end of the story. They are very important things to look at, especially why Artico is in the UK and what he will do out there. Will he give a speech? Is he going to go to Chatham House? You know, would he say some things that he's not told to the Nigerian media or to Nigerians in the country like some of the other candidates? I don't know, time will tell. But we'll keep watching and monitoring. That's the much we can take on this segment, a training segment. We'll be right back. We have the paper review up ahead.