 Investing in real estate as a means to an end is our first topic on the program this morning. Also, P&ID caught rejects federal government's corruption claim against Ashore's former legers, AG. And of course, we'll be looking at some of the headlines that made it to the front pages of our national dailies. Very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on the show this morning. My name is Nyam Gul Agadji. It's a Wednesday morning and it promises to be a very wonderful day. Every day, like the script to say, was made by God and God saw that it was good. And so we're hoping that today is going to be good. Let's tap into that anointing as the men of God will say. Today is Wednesday and a lot of things can happen on a Wednesday. We've survived Monday and Tuesday. Why can't we survive today? And if we can survive today, then Thursday and Friday will just be a walkover. And then before we know it, it's suddenly weekend. We're going to the top trending right now. Some of the things that really caught our fancy in the last 24 hours. So top trending will be coming up just now. In the meantime, we'll take a short break and return in a moment. Stay with us. Okay, like we said, top trending things, things that caught our fancy in the last 24 hours. FCC chairman order staff to declare assets. The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Oluqoyide, has directed staff of the commission to declare their assets. Oluqoyide, who gave their directive at the headquarters of the Antigraft Agency in Abuja on Tuesday, October 24, said it is in line with civil service regulations and procedures. He stated that fighting corruption required those at the vanguard to be above board. The FCC chairman said, and I quote, All of us are going to declare our assets from 1117 downward. I did mine, so there's no reason for anyone to be afraid to do the same. Even the commission secretary did. You all may also have done it in the past, but there's a need for all of us to do it again. We will declare our assets and we are going to investigate it. We must leave above board by setting the pace with good example. As anti-corruption fighters, our hands must be clean, so we must declare our assets. End of quote. I think this is a very laudable thing starting like this. My people say a dog that will be a haunting dog will be known when it is still just a puppy. So if this is the sign that the EFCC is going to leave above board in the tenor of the Olu Koyadei, so be it. We pray that he succeeds. And like we've always said, EFCC is a place that people sit there and you never know how you are going to leave the seat of EFCC. We've seen in the past how so many of the chairman of EFCC have been more or less disgraced out of office, whether it is really their fault or is because of something else that is haunting them. Or like one of the politicians said, when you want to fight corruption, corruption fights back. I think Ngozi Okonjowela said that whether that is the reason or because they really committed the crimes that we have been told that they committed is another matter entirely. But we do hope that he will succeed and they will actually leave above board. Another thing that caught us was Justice Eberichi Wikei advocates amputation of people found guilty of defiling minors. Now the former First Lady of River State and a judge of the River State High Court, Eberichi Wikei, has advocated the amputation of people found guilty of defiling minors. Mrs. Wikei stated these on Tuesday, October 24 on the sidelines of the second national conference of family court judges, magistrates and other family court practitioners in Port Harcourt, the state capital. She insisted that the current punishment isn't drastic enough, adding that the move will deter sexual offenders from molesting minors. According to the judge, the society should step up punishments for people who defile children beyond life imprisonment or a 14-year jail term. My only problem with some of these things that are terminal, that are final as it is, is what if the person after a long legal battle and all their appeals and a review of the case is found not guilty and he's been amputated already. What will we do? How can we compensate for that body part that will be removed? I do understand that, yes, a lot of people have said that the punishment is not drastic enough, but we should consider a lot of other things. Isn't amputation too drastic? Well, everybody has their own thought, everybody has their own reason for suggesting whatever they suggest it, but whatever it is, let the people be brought to book in the appropriate way and let it not just be one-sided. Everybody that is found guilty of anything else should face the rot of the law according to how it is in the books. Now, federal government approves $3.45 billion world bank loan to boost power and other sectors. The Federal Executive Council has approved a $3.45 billion world bank loan application for the financing of five items. Mr. Wally Eddon, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, disclosed this after the FEC meeting in Abuja on Monday, October 23. He said the Council approved the loan request during its meeting at the State House adding that the federal government would begin to receive the $3.5 billion zero loan. According to him, the loan is payable within 40 years with a 10-year moratorium, which means payment will start from 2033. During the briefing, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betaidu, also said FEC approved the creation of a humanitarian and poverty alleviation trust fund. The Minister said the fund will help the federal government respond promptly to humanitarian situations in Nigeria and that the government hopes to raise at least $5 billion annually into it. A lot of people still cannot understand why a government has said there will be almost zero borrowing in this tenure. We'll be borrowing so many things, so much money to do what a lot of people think is not necessary because if you're talking about humanitarian, how many people get humanitarian aid in Nigeria, even when money is voted for that? How much do we know about the trader money and what about other money that was given by the last administration? How did it impact on the economy of Nigeria? How many lives were touched by that money that was being given? How many people can be touched out of the over 200 million people that we have today? So you talk about palliatives and we've seen cases where in so many states people who are given these palliatives, who we know or we hear are given these palliatives, have never reached a million and there is no state that doesn't have at least five million people in them. So if you are giving 40,000 people these palliatives, what happens to the more than other four million plus that will not be reached? Are you saying that these people are comfortable enough that they do not need palliatives? We've also seen palliatives that we've spent billions on reaching communities and we heard a story of a particular community that had a 10 kilogram bag of rice to be shared among every family in that community, as laughable as that might be, but it's also something that should make us cry. Even how can you send a 10 kilogram bag of rice to an entire community? Even if you're sending it to one family, how much impact will that make on that family? How much is that poverty alleviation? We've always heard the saying that instead of teaching, instead of giving me fish, teach me how to fish. So there are things that, okay, and someone even came up to say that instead of teaching me how to fish, why not show me how to own the pond? So there are so many things that will look like you're teaching someone or you're giving some people the opportunity to own a pond, but we keep giving out these fishes to the people to eat and once they eat, that is it. So palliatives for three months and what happens for the rest of our lives? So I think the government should look into issues wherever the policy has shown that maybe it is not working, then we should reverse it. There's no shame in that. But the federal government has said that the policy that is for the Naira, the Naira policy where everywhere else was collapsed and the Naira had a free rein to function as it has to function in a free market and then the fuel subsidy removal, federal government has said these two things have given them, given the federal government whatever they wanted to achieve and Nigerians are still asking what is it actually that you wanted to achieve by removing the fuel subsidy that has been achieved and has impacted positively on the people and then the policy about the Naira, how has it achieved your aim when the Naira now as we speak is more than 1200 Naira to the dollar? What has it really achieved? How better are Nigerians because of these policies? Is it so much a difficult thing to say okay you know what? Maybe we didn't think this through and we're going to require some more time to put some things in place that will make sure that once this thing is done the way we thought that we could achieve a lot of things right now then we would know that Nigerians will be the better for it. This is like the sixth month from May till now that this present administration has come so it's like half a year and if it is half a year May, June, July, August, September, October this is the fifth month we're going into the sixth month so it's almost half a year since the present administration and what has Nigeria and Nigerians benefited from the present administration? A lot of things are being put in place yes foundations need to be stronger need to take more materials than the entire building so we know that a lot of things have to go on in order for us to have a good foundation but we need to see that when this building begins to rise we are going to have so so number of rooms so so number of recreational facilities within it and everything we should have a plan that every Nigerian can see and not just the elite that will know that this is a plan and this is where we are going a lot of Nigerians do not do not know where we are headed right now and this government has to be transparent enough for people to believe in them believing in our government is a very critical factor for any government to succeed because the people will key into whatever programs and policies that the government brings after all democracy is about the people so how much do the people really contribute or how much do they even understand what is going on we need to have that conversation all the time how much is government how close is government to the people to make it a democracy well this is how Nigeria and as we always say here in plus TV Africa no matter how bad it is we're going to go through this as a country and we will succeed we believe in Nigeria and Nigerians we have that resilience spirit and let that resilience spirit speak for us in times of adversity we'll take a short break now when we return we'll be looking at the papers and what the headlines are stay with us