 The non-remittance of tax deductions by ministries, departments and agencies of government has led to the loss of tax revenue of £5.8 billion by the Federal Inland Revenue Service in 2019. Away from tax, as we celebrate 2022 Armed Forces Remembrance Day, we would be looking at the lives of major military men. As always, we'll also be going through the major papers and having a review of today's big stories and when we also have a guest join the conversation. Welcome to the breakfast on Plos TV Africa. It's a great time to be on your screen this beautiful Monday morning. I am Messi Boho. And I'm Kofi Bartels, nice to have you join us on what is a beautiful Monday morning. All right then, so as usual, who's going to have you? Good morning to you. Yes, it's the first time and I'm glad to see I'm here with you. Yeah, it's going to see you. Wow, fantastic. It's going to be a great show. Great show. All right, so we're going to be having two, I mean, two hours of great conversation. Of course, we apologize for bringing the show a little bit behind schedule and that's due to some issues beyond our country. But it's a good thing that we're here and we're up and running. So yes, we're sort of with top trending and usually these are conversations generating the, you know, conversations, generating reactions in different spaces across board. Now, we start off with a 38-year-old lady who has actually declared an interest. I mean, she is the very first female to declare her intentions of wanting to become a president in 2023, talking about Khadija Ukunu Lamidi. She's a media personnel and the founder of Slice Media Solutions. There's been a lot of conversations surrounding the 38-year-old female presidential aspirant and the talks have been buzzing for a very long time. Now, some people are saying under what political party she's vying as. Others are saying, oh, this is not an issue of her, you know, gender. It's not a gender issue. It's okay to have your intentions being declared. But what, I mean, at the end of the day, we're talking about good governance here. But others have also actually said this is actually very, I mean, courageous. I mean, it's very courteous of Bahá'a to actually declare intentions and it's a good thing. Absolutely. I mean, it's, it's, she's the first female to declare her intention to run for the office of president in 2023. 38 years, that's absolutely so young, you know, compared to the other female contestants that we've been seeing. But the good thing about is she's female and she's below 40. So those are the positives that a lot of Nigerians, especially on Twitter, I think when we talk about Twitter safely now that the ban has been lifted, they are really praising her. A lot of Nigerians are saying she's bold and she's courageous. I saw one post on social media, which I'd like to go to, someone put up something saying, um, dear young people. It was like a letter and a letter to young people, dear young people to wake up one morning and decide you want to run for president is an absolute joke. You know, it's a general of reactions. And the person went on to say, this isn't the student union government, SUG, you just pop out of nowhere and want to run for presidency. Um, and went on to say like, you wouldn't even start from local government chairman. You know, so these are some of the conversations going online, especially with the older generation saying you have to go through the process and don't just start up and think you can be. So, so, so whoever put up that actually letter has, you know, points there. Now, it's a good thing. Like I mentioned earlier, when it's a good thing to see, you know, female saying, I'm declaring for president, very bold, courageous of her. And, uh, apart from that, she's very young. Like you also mentioned, this is positive. But what are the reality? You begin to ask yourself in a, in a system in a country where we have two dominant political parties. It's, you have the APC or the PDP. And that's the fact, whether or not we want to agree. So you have several political parties and others. And that's what it looks like. So you ask yourself on the what party are you vying. And you also want to ask the issue. If you're saying she wants it to, uh, you know, the way of, uh, independent candidacy. So another question would be, are there laws back in it? We know that, you know, there's a bill, there's a bill that was seeking for, uh, you know, independent candidacy. And that has just gone through second reading. But what would happen afterwards? So all of that. So, um, it's quite a dicey one. Very dicey. Yeah. But you know, she, she, she did say in her, in her, um, uh, announcements or declaration speech that she's, um, announcing herself for, uh, the political parties that are ready to take her on, you know, um, or to invite her. You know, she has not yet said which political party. Um, but I do suspect she's very aware that she can't run on her own. You know, it remains to be seen where she'll pitch her tent. She is, um, daughter of a former, um, minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Uh, or rather, former Federal Workers Commission, a Latif, or Lou Femi, or Kunu. Um, and so she has, she has a pedigree. She has a heritage, you know, so I want to say something that she can't even run a WhatsApp group officially. Um, and you want to run a country of 250 million people. So I think, I think that's a bit harsh, you know. No, no. So, but, um, some of these consents are very real as much as we would say it's very brave of her, very courageous. We're talking about having young people rule, but you see the issue of governance has, for me, I really think that the issue of governance has nothing to do with whether you're old or young. So the arguments, if we have younger people, we're going to have a good government. That's not a criteria for having, uh, good policies. It's all about age. Yeah, it's all about age. That's what I think. It's also not about a gender issue. Anyone can actually feel. So, um, we're talking about we need to see your pedigree. We need to see history and what have you. We need to see your pedigree. We need to see, um, you know, history, we need to see background and all of that. Of course you want to also agree with me that she has, you know, good academic, uh, performance and qualification if you want to go buy that. But you see the issue of the experience also. I mean, some people would say it's okay to start from local governments, you know, drive. Let's see what you can actually do. But winning elections goes beyond having a beautiful face and pretty degree and what have you. It goes beyond that. We're talking about numbers. We're talking about structures. Those who actually vote most times are not on Twitter. So you have the people in the grassroots. You talk about grassroots elections. How many people know you? Because you could be very popular and when it comes to the election, it doesn't, it doesn't translate into getting votes. Ask Banti W. I'm good friend of Banti. All right. Well, that's the much we can actually take. I mean, we were hoping that we can have enough time to talk about this, but of course we would definitely have a time where we sit back and have this conversation. We'll step on the bricks right now. When we come through off the press would be the next thing on the table. Please stick around.