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[00:05:06] there, you
[00:05:08] know,
[00:05:11] the rise
[00:05:12] of uh... of our international music
[00:05:15] stars will always glad in the the
[00:05:18] mind,
[00:05:21] you know, so we have three them, three
[00:05:25] the trio of davido, fino and
[00:05:28] terms have
[00:05:32] glad in our minds, now let's go there, the ascendancy of our performing
[00:05:36] arts, artists gladens the mind,
[00:05:40] even as they remain our great ambassador. the trio of
[00:05:44] Devido, Teams opped
[00:05:45] and the
[00:05:48] Fino ante have as a won major awards at the 2026
[00:05:52] African music magazine Awards, Afrima.
[00:05:56] Davido picked album the year, Teams got Best
[00:05:59] Female West Africa award and Feno
[00:06:02] picked the best male rap
[00:06:05] act. An award we must remind you
[00:06:09] is not just a trophy, it is the time. effort
[00:06:13] and excellence made visible. b:
[00:06:16] yes, um, this, i don't
[00:06:19] think
[00:06:21] this came as a surprise to anyone, yeah, because
[00:06:25] this artists are shown
[00:06:28] consistency on the international
[00:06:31] scene terms, is the
[00:06:35] Nigerian, female music
[00:06:39] star, all right, who has been the most consistent. sent in terms
[00:06:43] of international awards that she's
[00:06:46] won, it's been nominated for grammy,
[00:06:50] she's she's
[00:06:53] also um done very well in
[00:06:56] other uh music category,
[00:06:59] so um at this um
[00:07:03] award ceremony Davido won album the year yeah for
[00:07:07] five while tems and ruga took best
[00:07:10] female and best uh male west
[00:07:13] africa respectively, fino won the best male
[00:07:17] rap and masichinwo was named
[00:07:20] best gospel out, however the artist the year price went
[00:07:24] to congol,
[00:07:28] another major victory came from
[00:07:31] bnxn and producer
[00:07:35] sarah whose
[00:07:37] collaboration back
[00:07:40] outside one song the Yeah, yeah, for the rising
[00:07:44] star of Nigerian um uh
[00:07:48] music right now, the new west kid on the block who is doing very
[00:07:52] well, it was named best newcomer, while other
[00:07:55] Nigerian winners are pato
[00:07:59] ranking who won best male reg and dancehall, okay,
[00:08:03] and Victori who received the fans choice
[00:08:06] award, remember victorian song,
[00:08:09] soweto, very, very... song
[00:08:13] both in Nigeria and South Africa
[00:08:15] you know it's uh so
[00:08:18] um these guys they've done very well they've
[00:08:22] done very well and we can only hope that
[00:08:26] they will continue to keep our flag
[00:08:30] flying flying yeah a full stuff as they
[00:08:33] say uh well you are not surprised only last
[00:08:36] week we talked about the b boy and co you
[00:08:40] know but here is -
[00:08:43] a lime light, nobody surprised, yeah,
[00:08:47] um, I'm really glad about what is happening
[00:08:49] to Nigeria in the realm of
[00:08:53] creative art, music, entertainment,
[00:08:57] performing, yeah, yes, it's another confirmation the fact
[00:09:00] that in spite of environmental
[00:09:03] limitations, Nigerians are breaking
[00:09:06] barriers, using their own creative skill,
[00:09:10] rediscovery themselves, you know
[00:09:13] and um crossing borders with their
[00:09:17] potentials, with their talents and attracting global
[00:09:20] audience, and if you look at that African
[00:09:24] music award, is the one the few international
[00:09:27] voices in the US that promotes African music,
[00:09:31] African art, and uh, we started as far back as
[00:09:35] 2013, and I'm glad that
[00:09:39] Nigerians, more than more than 17 Nigerians, hm?
[00:09:43] you know one awards in this international uh
[00:09:45] competition, so I'm really very glad, not only that it will
[00:09:49] promote Nigerian music in the US, which is the global
[00:09:53] center of entertainment, it also build new
[00:09:57] audience in the US, people begin to love Nigerian
[00:10:01] music, because the entertainment was a big international event,
[00:10:05] and thanks to the mask behind the
[00:10:08] cutting, Anderson who started
[00:10:12] this... was he grew up in Nigeria here and traveled to the
[00:10:15] US at the age of 25 or so, this from IMO state,
[00:10:19] he was rais in Nabia, so I'm I'm glad when he go to the
[00:10:23] US, he did not go... to um
[00:10:27] legal things, you was able to rediscover himself and discover that you could
[00:10:31] showcase African music to the world, and since he started this
[00:10:35] projects in 2013, it has been a global success,
[00:10:39] so I'm really very happy about the
[00:10:42] the uh outcome of this
[00:10:46] uh, you know uh about the the performance of nigerians in the
[00:10:50] international uh space and it's a challenge to all of
[00:10:54] us people.
[00:10:55] in the entertainment world that we can also do similar things in Nigeria, you
[00:10:59] know, we can make Nigeria to be the center of uh
[00:11:02] entertainment to have international award that are
[00:11:06] domiciled in Nigeria so that great starts in the US,
[00:11:10] in Asia can also come to Nigeria to receive award, I think we have
[00:11:14] built that reputation you know, and I believe we can do it, you rap
[00:11:17] music uh was like new kid on the block here, but
[00:11:21] feno, I i'm i'm glad to say.
[00:11:25] is uh flying a flag, yeah, absolutely, and also in the
[00:11:29] area of comedy, nigerian also
[00:11:31] won award, gospel music, you also came
[00:11:35] top, so we are almost all rounder, you every area, we are
[00:11:38] just,
[00:11:40] you know, and thanks to the founding fathers of music in Nigeria, who started
[00:11:44] this, before the advent of digital technology, all right,
[00:11:47] and they laid that foundation, I'm happy that they were able to inspire a lot of younger
[00:11:51] generation, that are now making us proud.
[00:11:55] nothing, okay, bk, so so
[00:11:58] uh, we are there, you
[00:12:01] know, uh, Nigeria
[00:12:04] is, also amongst the prophets, as they
[00:12:08] say, we have the, we have the raw
[00:12:12] talent, we have the sense of invention, oh
[00:12:16] yeah, and um, we have the
[00:12:20] tradition and culture to continue to stay
[00:12:24] at the top of you. uh afro beat especially and um
[00:12:27] even when it comes to movie making,
[00:12:31] okay, we are also
[00:12:32] exceptional, our
[00:12:36] movies are watched all over the continent and beyond, in fact
[00:12:40] if you try to
[00:12:42] stop people in some
[00:12:46] countries of africa from watching nigerian
[00:12:48] movies, there will be
[00:12:51] riot, because when we talk about the woods, Nigeria is
[00:12:55] number three, Hollywood, Bollywood, the next one is nollywood,
[00:12:59] yes, yes, yes, and uh, in terms of home
[00:13:03] movies, we are just behind the
[00:13:07] India, all right, so the Americans are not
[00:13:10] crazy about home movies, but we have really done
[00:13:14] well with, so we are a good place, in short, we are a good place,
[00:13:18] and uh, these stars continue to make us proud and
[00:13:22] they are going to be at the top for me. many years
[00:13:25] davido, bona
[00:13:29] boy, terms, um, even the
[00:13:33] ira star, yeah, you
[00:13:37] them, know, and whis kid who literally open the door for lot
[00:13:38] you know, they will be at the top for a long
[00:13:41] time, okay, so from the
[00:13:44] hangout onclave, we are saying
[00:13:48] Davids fino, congratulations, keep doing
[00:13:51] it, all right, our next story is here, you know
[00:13:55] the untamable fuel price hike in our country continues
[00:13:59] toig trigger a buvel
[00:14:02] you know bubble the protest by the day. the Nigeria
[00:14:06] Labor Congress NLC has reacted characteristic
[00:14:09] characteristic oh come on
[00:14:12] characteristically by demanding immediate wage
[00:14:15] awards and the sale of crude oil to local refineries
[00:14:19] in Nira. Contextually though labor
[00:14:23] demands at Germain. we want to say only that fuel pricing
[00:14:27] has lot to do with tensions in the middle east, yes,
[00:14:31] labor admits that the federal government is racing in money
[00:14:35] from crude earnings, it's in fact a two edged
[00:14:38] sword, while Nigeria struggles to meet its production
[00:14:42] targets, even as we are dealing with pipeline vandalism
[00:14:45] and under investment, we expect labor to be on the same page with
[00:14:49] government, don't you? well, i think
[00:14:53] the reality. is that in many
[00:14:57] areas uh with labor we are on the same page,
[00:15:01] we cannot deny the fact that the cost of living has gone
[00:15:04] up, yeah, the cost of essentials of
[00:15:08] life, even water that we call poor
[00:15:12] water that we call pure water that we call - we call it poor
[00:15:15] water we call pure water, it's gone up, everything,
[00:15:19] gas, gasoline, foil,
[00:15:23] basic things no gas so there is
[00:15:27] no how that we can see how we
[00:15:31] can be thinking of living with 7000 n
[00:15:34] you so I agree with them you know. now at that
[00:15:38] level, we should also be mindful the fact that there
[00:15:41] are global um, mean we are working within the
[00:15:45] rem of global contest, yeah that the f price is not
[00:15:49] something that came out of
[00:15:50] local, yeah, but because
[00:15:54] the crisis the middle east,
[00:15:56] you know, in Saudi Arabia, between Iran and the US, the
[00:16:00] middle east between Ukraine and and Russia, so we
[00:16:04] are also part of that international community, so whatever... happens in those
[00:16:08] areas will affect us, the issue now
[00:16:11] is what should be done, what should be
[00:16:15] our objective response, because every country is coming
[00:16:19] out with solutions to deal yeah with the challenges you
[00:16:22] know based on the what is happening in the middle east so I
[00:16:26] think um I agree with them in the area of
[00:16:30] government coming out with certain uh palliatives in terms of
[00:16:34] maybe we can the access we are making from good oil. you
[00:16:38] can go into supporting transportation,
[00:16:41] you know, mass transportation, we have done it in this country before, and
[00:16:44] also to ensure that our local government, because every time we talk
[00:16:48] here and when people talk on the street, it's as if the only institution we have is
[00:16:52] the federal government, there are 774 local governments in this
[00:16:56] country, yeah, there are 36 states, you know, so each
[00:17:00] local government should find a way to invest in the agriculture where
[00:17:03] possible, if you are talking about local governments in bayesa in '
[00:17:07] legos that
[00:17:08] you know are aquatic area, they can go into fishing, so
[00:17:12] we should not always be focusing on what i going to get from
[00:17:16] abuja,
[00:17:17] you know weekly, mean monthly allocation and all that, so our local
[00:17:20] government uh leaders, the state governors should be
[00:17:24] more creative in investing agriculture, so i think
[00:17:28] if you can do this, and i also think one major problem is the lack of
[00:17:32] social safety net, we don't have
[00:17:36] social security system. so if anybody is ill, if
[00:17:39] you want to deliver a public hospital now a place like lagos,
[00:17:43] if you don't have at least 30,
[00:17:46] if it operation,
[00:17:47] you are talking about 200, so how do you expect
[00:17:51] people to get that kind of money? so if you
[00:17:54] have health insurance then you
[00:17:58] can go to the, mean to
[00:18:01] you can walk into any hospital even when you are see you don't have the money you will be attended
[00:18:05] to, we don't have mortgage system. whereby you i can build
[00:18:09] a house without necessary having the money over time about 30 years
[00:18:12] i can begin to pay back gradually because if
[00:18:15] you want to build a house in legos time you don't have 10 million for a start how do you want
[00:18:19] to build it and how long will you take it to accumulate up to 10 million unless you
[00:18:23] still so these are some the challenges that i think the government can look
[00:18:27] at so that we can be able to cousion the impact of this uh
[00:18:31] there's no that that we have made some you know we have advanced for
[00:18:35] instance um some five some six five si years
[00:18:38] ago one meeting up our target, but today Nigeria is
[00:18:42] producing about 1.5 to 1.6 million barrels per that's
[00:18:46] significant you know achievement and that means that we have been able to deal
[00:18:50] with the problem of uh vandalization uh
[00:18:54] criminal activities bunkering so it's a major achievement for this
[00:18:57] country and we are also making advancem in the area of economic
[00:19:01] growth you look at the foreign reserve you look at the volume of
[00:19:05] funds that is going to state state and government, however,
[00:19:09] there's a difference between growth and development, if the funds
[00:19:12] are increasing, there must be, it must relate
[00:19:16] to the, to the needs people,
[00:19:18] the so I think these are some the area that we need to look at, but if
[00:19:22] you just increase salary now, maybe to about 15000, I
[00:19:26] can tell you of 30000, which is even still small, but if you don't
[00:19:29] weigh the options very well, yeah, it may come out to be counterproductive, you just
[00:19:33] discover that transfer to jump to another 500%, you... not
[00:19:37] be able to meet up yeah b let
[00:19:40] me uh start from the first part of
[00:19:44] wali's intervention you know over time
[00:19:47] somebody had said we still are suffering
[00:19:50] from uh a prolonged
[00:19:53] military interference you know
[00:19:57] that the unitary system everything must
[00:20:01] come from the top you know and so
[00:20:03] on yeah um
[00:20:07] and in terms of um even
[00:20:11] apportioning blame everyone
[00:20:15] thinks that it is the president that should be blame for
[00:20:18] everything, they are not prepared to ask
[00:20:22] questions, partinant questions their
[00:20:26] governorts the local government chairman, they watch governors,
[00:20:29] they watch local government chairman
[00:20:33] know collect allocation every
[00:20:36] month. questions are not asked about what is done with the
[00:20:40] money, all questions that people want
[00:20:44] to ask relate to the federal government, when you talk
[00:20:48] about Nigeria, being multi Nigerians being
[00:20:51] multidimensionally poor, but 70% of
[00:20:54] us, lot
[00:20:57] the factors that
[00:21:00] make our people poor
[00:21:03] are issues that can be addressed
[00:21:06] frontally by the states, okay?
[00:21:10] for example, the matter
[00:21:12] of um transport
[00:21:16] subsidy, there's no state in Nigeria that cannot...
[00:21:21] take care of transport subsidy right, because
[00:21:25] what they just need to do is some the monens that they
[00:21:28] are dedicating to building bridges, you
[00:21:32] know, provide bridges and all that, they can buy
[00:21:36] high capacity vehicles for people to use and
[00:21:40] subsidize. i've talked about
[00:21:43] what governor zulum has done in b state, oh yeah,
[00:21:47] whereby he bought these buses? buses
[00:21:51] that run on electricity on
[00:21:54] electricity, um, buses that are
[00:21:58] run on CNG and it is 50 n
[00:22:02] per drop, oh yeah, this is not
[00:22:04] fiction, this is what we
[00:22:07] saw, now how many states are trying to do
[00:22:10] that or have even attempted to do
[00:22:14] that, because that's subsidy, and what the man
[00:22:18] said is look, we experience
[00:22:22] a minimum of 15 hours of sunshine, if we
[00:22:25] cannot exploit that
[00:22:29] to give our people electric
[00:22:32] cars, charge
[00:22:36] by uh solar, then we've not done well for our
[00:22:40] people, the same man puts
[00:22:44] buses on the road to not just take students to
[00:22:48] school, but to take
[00:22:50] farmers to their farms located on the
[00:22:54] outskirt the the state capital, in
[00:22:57] fact secondary
[00:23:00] school students, male and female are
[00:23:04] supplied bicycles to take them from their
[00:23:08] homes to their to their schools, they right to
[00:23:11] school, especially in environments that are not too far far
[00:23:15] apart, no the the way it is even those the schools are not usually not
[00:23:19] even far from yeah, the are
[00:23:21] localities, there are a big mega
[00:23:25] schools all over the place, so that's a bus, yes, this is
[00:23:29] b, yes, this one runs on
[00:23:31] CNG, so 59, so that's
[00:23:35] subsidy, Lagos can do it, every state can do it,
[00:23:39] yeah, but if we are waiting for the federal government
[00:23:43] to do everything, that is, when the other day when
[00:23:46] I was talking about insecurity in the north, and I
[00:23:50] expected Northern leaders to do much more, much more, some people are saying, oh, I did
[00:23:54] the president,
[00:23:55] you see, you see the kind of foolish statements that Nigerians make, so is
[00:23:59] only a president that can solve all the problem, can
[00:24:02] Trump, the president of America, a
[00:24:05] country that is bigger than West Africa, can
[00:24:09] he solve the problem the 50 states of
[00:24:13] America, that's why you have
[00:24:15] governance, governors must do lot
[00:24:19] more. to take care the welfare of our people, because they
[00:24:23] federating unit, because the resources are there, not just because the
[00:24:27] are the resources to do that. okay, if in yube
[00:24:30] somebody built the biggest mother and child hospital in
[00:24:34] yube, and the same person he
[00:24:38] has made dialysis
[00:24:41] free, for everyone. did he take permission from the
[00:24:44] federal government? no, so he's doing, and that's one the
[00:24:48] poorest states in Nigeria. Yeah, but over there dialysis is
[00:24:52] free, so since he can do
[00:24:55] it, oters to can do it, I
[00:24:59] will never be convinced that they can't do it, so some of what
[00:25:03] the NLC is right in making these
[00:25:07] demands, but this demand some
[00:25:11] of it can be addressed by the federating units, this is
[00:25:15] the point, transport subsidy for example, you look a country like Great
[00:25:18] Britain. they subsidize transportation, oh yeah, they
[00:25:22] will not subsidize energy costs, but they will subsidize
[00:25:26] transportation so that people can go to work,
[00:25:30] spend less money going to work, lot of our people,
[00:25:34] including our staff here, the b their salary goes to
[00:25:38] transport costs, the b of
[00:25:42] people salaries go uh goes to um um
[00:25:45] housing uh paying rent.
[00:25:51] so there's a lot more that our leaders can do, there's
[00:25:55] a lot more, so I agree that look, something must
[00:25:59] give, because if this uh...
[00:26:04] Iranians and the Americans who are fighting each other a
[00:26:07] senseless war, if they continue, it will continue
[00:26:11] to drive up prices of
[00:26:15] energy cost diesel, diesel, no, everybody is
[00:26:19] affected, oh yeah, that was the point I made here last
[00:26:22] week, when people think, oh is by having refineries,
[00:26:26] no, even if you have 1 million refineries,
[00:26:30] as long as... "crude oil prices are
[00:26:34] denominated in the in in dollars, what can help
[00:26:37] us is for our own currency to become stronger, of
[00:26:41] course you you draw attention to Texas, the largest state in
[00:26:45] the US, and they have more than 20 refineries, yeah, that's state
[00:26:49] alone, energy,
[00:26:52] no, energy costs are high, it's is
[00:26:55] everywhere, but they need to help,
[00:26:59] like um, even wage awards, they can do wage" that states
[00:27:03] can do wage awards, oh yeah, they don't have to wait for the federal authorities,
[00:27:06] states can do wage awards and think even
[00:27:09] um um has has done something like that, no
[00:27:13] matter how small we have to give him credit for that, they can do
[00:27:17] uh wage awards, i don't think a base uh crude
[00:27:21] oil salell to is a bad idea, i know that
[00:27:25] we have joint venture and all all of this that also
[00:27:28] affect policy in this regard, but
[00:27:32] we are faced with critical problem like
[00:27:36] this, then we have to find a solution, because
[00:27:40] we cannot wait for f prices to go to
[00:27:43] 20 20
[00:27:47] per liter, that would be crazy, we can't wait, we
[00:27:51] must do something, the president has said that by October
[00:27:54] that the transport cost will come down, we are going we are trying to
[00:27:58] see what he and the governors are planning
[00:28:02] to do. we are eager to see that come down, at least that will
[00:28:06] really help, it will go a long way, it will go a long way,
[00:28:09] if if they drive down transport cost, it will go
[00:28:13] along with all right,
[00:28:17] again what we do is give context to the issues as they
[00:28:21] come, so you must bear with us, our next
[00:28:25] story is here,
[00:28:27] you know, Nigeria's par situation is curious mix of
[00:28:30] fragile national grid capacity. low
[00:28:34] generation output and liquidity and debt
[00:28:37] crisis. Perhaps more sharing is the recently
[00:28:40] secured favorable international chamber of commerce
[00:28:44] ICC arbitration ruling, rejecting claims
[00:28:47] by sunrise power that clears a major legal hurdle
[00:28:51] for the long stalled 1,500
[00:28:55] megaw mambilla hydro electric electric
[00:28:59] project. Now president has welcome. the
[00:29:02] tribunal ruling, stating that we would never succumbed
[00:29:06] to predatory or opportunistic claims, we are ever
[00:29:10] open to genuine partnerships and legal obligations, the president
[00:29:14] added. meanwhile, some years
[00:29:17] back, our own
[00:29:19] btoju visited the site the mambela
[00:29:23] hydropower project, i remember that scene to
[00:29:26] investigate why the project had not taken off, he discovered some
[00:29:30] staggering issues stalling the... execution the project,
[00:29:34] one these is that there's no root leading to the project
[00:29:38] site, which signified that nothing much has been done
[00:29:42] about it. let's bring back this story just to
[00:29:45] refresh the memory. let's go
[00:29:47] there.
[00:29:55] it has been more than 30 years of waiting for what could easily
[00:29:59] become the biggest power project in Nigeria to kick off. The
[00:30:03] Mamba hydropower project is estimated to cost the
[00:30:06] nation 2.09 trillion naira, that is
[00:30:10] about 5.8 billion US dollars. situated in the
[00:30:14] heart of Mambilla, Nigeria's paragon of undefeated beauty,
[00:30:18] in Saddana Local Government of Taraba State, getting to the project
[00:30:22] site is a big challenge that tax one's body and soul.
[00:30:26] It begins with a 6-hour trip from Jalingo, the taraba state
[00:30:29] capital to Kakara, the famous home of Highland. and a
[00:30:33] 15 minute ride on multiterrain vehicles to Amadu
[00:30:37] village. Even the best of multiterrain vehicles cannot
[00:30:41] go beyond this point. I'm getting
[00:30:44] set to go to the site the Mambilla
[00:30:48] Hydropower plant project, one the
[00:30:52] three big
[00:30:55] waterfalls from which
[00:30:58] the water.