Everybody Matt here for latent sports cards ripping 2023 panini select wwe hobby six box break number five random box style I'm going to do the random here in a minute. I'll randomize the names and then the box numbers These are boxes one two three four five six from left to right. I guess my arm is in the way I should have done with my right hand All right, here we go first the names we will randomize each list six times one two three four five and six mark down to core s and six times and on the boxes One two three four five and six two down to six All right We have mark M box to Evan L box five Wang S box three Evan L box one Sean P box four and Corey S box six All right, I'll post those results and we'll get this started Results are posted to the website. Here is your link to the results All right, we have Evan L up first with box number one. Good luck Evan. The Miz purple That is to 99 AJ Styles John Cena Alexa Bliss gallows Shelton Benjamin tricolor Bobby Lashley and Candice Leray on your Deville Bronson Reed and nice that is tie-dye Batista nice Batista for you Evan Dr. Lopez tricolor John Cena Steiner for Wilson Joe coffee tricolor angle That's oba fire die cut the rock sensations silver and Randy Orton down to two spots left in the next select WWE six box random box style break Booker T and Baron Corbin silver In the heart well Georgie animal steel silver and to 35 that is purple auto Zelina Vega Go nice hip for you. I've been right. Yeah, Evan Nikita Lyons tricolor Gable Steenson ton of chance Did you ever watch American and George? Yeah, she was a Casey Catanzaro It's like a little Petit woman it was like always women. Oh, yeah, Sammy Zane. No, she's in wrestling. Mm-hmm red and Johnny wrestling Relic Brooks Jensen. That's interesting. Mr. Perfect Silver Paul Kogan and new Hollywood Hulk Hogan. There's stone cold coffee ace silver And 35 this is purple ringside action auto butch Ridge Holland on the back All right box number two is mark M Here's a link for our second select WWE two to go on that one after that we have a case of revolution WWE Random box style that one's a 199 spot Down to one now on select. That's 199 99 a spot on The select there's the rock Cody Rhodes silver So this color and stone cold Asuka Jake the snake tricolor and 99 that is red red relic Shotzi Jensen Elias red Bruno and Candice Leray EVP and white 125 diesel The Kenny Powers mullet Drag it off and do it there rudas beefcake Hank Walker Rookie tricolor to get knocks Ivar aliyah silver You know sky that's awesome Howard Finkel ringside bogeyman top dog Mia blue Lexa Bliss Angel and 99 that is relic Otto Dominic Mysterio, you know James Cody Rhodes tricolor Chad Gable Lexa Bliss X-Pac Draganov silver And this is awesome to 49 rockin robin auto red former WWF ladies champion and Performer of the worst America the beautiful ever in the history of WrestleMania Ridge Holland Santa Paxley rookie maroon It's 149 Emma Shawn Michaels die-cut Bobby Lashley All right, Wang s has box number three Start doing WWE fanny pack relics Yeah Elias Bam Bam blue King and Matt Riddle Lexa Bliss Shelton Benjamin and To 60 Kurt Angle auto red And that riddle blue Trish Stratus Ballard Stone Cold Randy Orton silver on tennis board and Charlotte blue undertaker And this to 199 Korean Cross Ico pro relics and that's with some people's stomachs Rat heart light blue or light. That's the color green. We'll go with a light green 75 Greg Valentine Cena tricolor Oscar Lexa Bliss silver and Ali Draganov relic Cody Rhodes Piper Roddy Piper tricolor Lita Booker T for Stratus orange eosky It is in 49 and 235 Mansoor Purple auto there's Andre the giant Sammy Zane Johnny wrestling Tricolor Oscar and Chelsea green I've our die cut Kane that is ringside silver nice card and Shane Helms Ringside Sean P. Has box number four Awesome. Oh, yeah, Shane. I think he's there as a producer now, right?  This is maroon undertaker It's the 149 Ripley coffee Oscar Tricolor Cora Jade and JC Jane JJ style silver and Superstar Billy Graham Silver auto there you go nice superstar. Um, I think he just passed away a couple months ago, didn't he? What was that? Yeah, back in May Geo Kozuna silver rocks him Perez and Bianca Belair That's what you look like you would be Braun Breaker macho man's dad had the world record for most consecutive sit-ups. It's like 6,000 something Seamus relic and Valhalla razor his IV Nile blue and Silver auto Leilani Kai nice, uh Throwback former WWF women's champion autos in this Drew McIntyre red John Cena and Braun Strowman Bianca Belair die-cut Bret Hart ringside silver Lita and Ringside John Cena. All right. Nice pack to close it out for you. Sean Evan L Has box number five red William Regal Haku level icons Hank Walker angel So Valentina for rose blue and to 49 the boogeyman auto red nice color match face paint color match Bautista cool hit for you Evan Ivar try color Carmelo Hayes Had to look way Was doing doing stuff in the ring By the not because he scared me but he was eating worms. Yeah, and he's like dump worms in his opponent's mouth Jagger read try color couldn't do it He grows yeah, I oh sky Or you know sky. Sorry Godfather. I did Luke Gallows Like Braun Breaker nice, that's Pat McAfee ringside Sammy Zane Omos. Yeah, he's really good too and to 60 that is red auto JC Jane Roman Reigns silver Gigi Dolan and Solo Sakao People he figures at Ico bro. That's awesome Bianca Belair silver and Relic Ilya Dragunov Shawn Michaels Roman Reigns Roddy Stone cold the hell rookie tri-color Bailey Apollo cruise Charlie Dempsey Dicut AJ Styles Montez Ford ringside silver and Finn Balor ringside All right, Cory S has box number six. Good luck, Cory Still one to go on the next break One box or one spot left random box style 199 99 a spot excuse me. I appreciate the blessing nonetheless Hi, here we go, Cory Xavier Woods tri-color Kofi You know sky low pass a Guerrero silver And to 60 that is red auto Dominic Mysterio McIntyre Braun Strowman silver JC Jane and Becky Lynch. You should see the picture of Hunter with Braun Strowman It barely comes up above his name. I mean not like today 17 That is Uncle Howdy ringside tie-dye to 25 Nice one, Cory Hank Walker rookie silver How late night like he's frozen Booker T veermahan Try a color you've seen Well, he's the guy that one of the people portrayed. Oh, yeah, yeah, Johnny Gargano Relic Time to chance Brock Lesnar silver. Oh, this is cool tie-dye Legendado Stevie Richards. There you go, Cory. I can say with certainty. That's the first Stevie Richards auto I've ever pulled Kofi gallows Joe coffee blue little icons ultimate warrior from parts unknown and it's the question marks Eddie Ronson Reed and die-cut but Cal Rodriguez Oscar level icon silver and Jimmy Uso Mankind top-down try a color Charlotte and Ray Ripley Nope, no color will yet Bailey Biggie Purple that's the 99. I didn't see the number Emma Roddy Piper and orange 60 a Chante Adonis To 49, I'm sorry Stone cold sensations and Tatum Paxley rookie. All right, that'll do it for the break. Thank you everybody We have number six up next


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late sports cards. You've been 20, I forgot to switch the break title. God, bot. 21-22, Leaf Pearl multi-sport, one box break, number 11, random hit style. We have our 11 participants in a random.org window. We also have a blank random.org window as we're doing the break. Donny's gonna be typing in a description of each hit once all the hits have been shown. They'll be copied back into here. Roll the dice, say it's eight times, random the names eight times, the hits eight times, whatever hit is next to your name is the hit you will receive. So good luck, Leaf Pearl. Not always. Not always is right. Good. First hit is gonna be Joe Montana, QB Bling, nine of 24, hand numbered, nice one there. Good luck, everybody. That's sick. QB Bling, Joe Montana. Keep these or not. Yeah, yeah. We'll send them with them. Second hit is gonna be Pearl, John Cena. Oh nice. Oh man, two of three. Dude, that's so awesome. Good luck to everybody on that one. Sam, how are you holding nothing? Oh, God. Why don't we have a card there? Should be a card there. Hey, the chat's gonna do it, so I don't know. Yeah, that's true. Might as well beat everybody to the punch. Exactly, you know. Good Lord, come on. That's fair, it's fair, Shane. Next hit is gonna be Kylian Mbappe, four of five on the patch, two colored. Game used memorabilia. Kylian Mbappe, God, that's so cool. Four, oh five. Good Lord. Good Lord, Kylian Mbappe. Next up is gonna be one of one, signatures eight. Jenny Finch, Michelle Wee West, Hailey Deegan, Hope Solo, Amanda Nunez, Chloe Kim, Naomi Osaka and Carrie Walsh Jennings.  Oh my God, so we've got one of the goats in softball. Great, great golfer. Yeah. Great, great, great NASCAR driver. One of the best women's national teams goalies of all time. One of the best fighters of all time. Chloe Kim is, oh God, is she, I can't think of what she, what she. The name sounds familiar, I can't think of anything. I don't know, I'll top my head. Naomi Osaka, of course, one of the best tennis players and Carrie Walsh Jennings, a snowboarding, that's what it was. I knew it was a winter sport. Carrie Walsh Jennings was Misty May Trainers' partner in beach volleyball. Wow, that's an incredible card, dude. You know who's gonna love that? Sarah's gonna love that. Oh yeah. That one-on-one is incredible, dude. That is an incredible card. All right, we've got two of three. Jumbo patch, Carlton Fisk. Two of three, man, that is awesome. I was gonna say, I knew it was a Winter Olympics sport. I couldn't think of it with skiing or snowboarding, though. So good, snowboarding. Good gosh, man. Nice Fisk. Game used, two of three, Carlton Fisk. Next is Paragon Signature, six of seven, Kevin Garnett. Jumbo Jersey Auto, the big ticket. Kevin Garnett, KG, very nice. Loved everybody on that one. You can figure out a way to shorten the eighth sig by just putting everyone's last name. There you go. True, very true. All right, looks like we got at least the dual George Brett and Mike Schmidt. Paragon dual signatures, two of six. It's a two-color patch of George Brett and a one-color of Mike Schmidt. Nice one there, two Hall of Famers. Royals legend and Billy's legend. Hometown Heroes, Herb Score, or Hollowed Heroes, excuse me, that is gonna be game used jerseys of Herb Score. That's awesome. God, those jerseys are super old too, which is even cooler, man. Super, super old jerseys. Four of six, Herb Score. Five of 10, Rites of Passage, Dan Marino. There he is. For the Dolphins. Go Dolphins. There we go. Dan the Man, Marino. All right, we've got four of five, Vin Scully. Wow, dude. That's awesome. Legendary Dodger's announcer for about what, 50, 60 years? That's the only time. Man, Vin Scully, that's awesome. Rest in peace, man, to an absolute legend. Dodger's announcer, one of the best, if not the best voice in baseball history. That's so cool. Vin Scully, wow. All right, we got what I think our cut is gonna be.  That is three of five, Barack Obama.  The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. Hell yeah. That's pretty sick. Obama cut signature. Oh man, let's go. That's awesome. That's so awesome. Barack Obama. All right, that is gonna be an empty pearl box, as you guys can see. That's probably the best way to show it. That is 11, correct, Donny? Yup, beautiful. He's got a lot going on with his auto. He does, honestly. That's pretty cool, though. All right, guys, we've got our 11 participants, as well as our 11 hits. Throw the dice. Gonna be six times. We've got one, two, three, four, five, six. Brett R down to Tyler M. Six times on your hits. One, two, three, four, five, six. Carlton Fisk down to Joe Montana. You've got Brett R picking up the Carlton Fisk patch, two of three. Jason A with John Cena Pearl, two of three. That's nasty, dude. I forgot about that car. That's so dope. Pete M.A. with the Vin Scully, four of five. Congrats, Pete. Peter M.I. with the Dan Marino, auto five of 10. Jason A picking up the Herb Score Patch, four of six. Frank L with the Obama cut to five. That's awesome.  Richard W, Killian Mbappe patch, four of five. Nice one there, man. Tyler M. The Jenny Finch, Michelle Wee West, Haley Deegan, Hope Solo, Amanda Nunez, Chloe Kim, Naomi Osaka, and Kari Walsh Jennings. Signature eight's auto, one of one. Congrats on that, Tyler. That's so dope. Jason A, Kevin Garnett patch auto, six of seven. And Tyler M with the Joe Montana auto, nine of 24. That is gonna do it for the break, guys. I'm gonna get these posted. We'll be on to the next one. Thanks again.


A group under the auspices of the Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, has called on the EFCC and security agencies to arrest the PDP governorship's parents, Leymann Issa Kintige, over alleged money laundering. The group says Kintige misappropriated public funds in 2018 while it was in office in Nigeria's state government in 2018. Abel Adara 5 filed in this report. Reaction fuels over Issa's indictment as NYCN president suffers suspension. Despite the money laundering acts that was created to cut misappropriation, the government fund ended up in individuals' and corporate pockets which is incondemnable. Speaking at a press conference in Kaduna, President Northern Youth Council of Nigeria comrade Issa Abubaka said Kintige was charged alongside three audio-named defendants at the federal high court with 13 count charges for offenses relating to money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering while in office. It was established among under offenses at the trial court that Issa Kintige appropriated the sum of 18 million and 140 million error while he occupied official offices in Niger state governments. At the end of the trial, a larger court was indicted by the trial court which found that the offenses alleged him were established. He said as patriotic citizens, EFCC should arrest who deserves to be in prison, not running for office to serve as deterrent to other corrupt elements in our region. Haji Liman Issa Kintige was tried in absential, in line with the extant law and indicted accordingly. He ought to be, he ought to be, have been apprehended and prosecuted according as mandated by the trial court. Unfortunately, he returned to the country and has worked freely. The case inducting Liman Abubaka remains inconclusive by the court. It is worthy to know that in all the legal rigmarole, there was no such place where Liman Issa Kintige was ever sued or joined in suit, rather it was some companies that stood trial. Honour, Issa Kintige has not been subjected to any criminal trial or convinced by competent court of law. We call that Liman Issa Kintige served as one-time chairman of a dirty local government council 2011 to 2013, argon chairman and commissioner ministry for local government, community development and efficiency at first, now in just eight, 2014 to 2015.


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another Transformers review. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please hit that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing, but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Also, make sure and visit my sponsor toyhacks.com. Toyhacks provides reproduction and upgrade decal sets for Transformer toys from Generation 1 to the latest modern figures. Make sure and stop by the Toyhacks Armory where they can equip your figures with new weaponry in multiple colors. And Toy Stages provides backdrops for figure displays and photography. Each purchase with Toyhacks earns you RoboSense that can be used for future purchases. You can check your balance anytime in your cart. Toyhacks is a company run by collectors for collectors. So check out toyhacks.com and make your collection stand out from the rest. And tell them Patriot Prime sent you. Now, on to the review. The featured button this video is 1988's Transformers Generation 1 Overlord. Yes, I finally have my white whale in my hands. And I am just thrilled beyond belief to be holding this guy. Now, this is not my Overlord. This Overlord was lent to me by a subscriber. Nagging guy. He hit me up on Instagram asking if I wanted to borrow his Overlord to do a review on. And at first I thought he was joking. I mean who is going to lend me a G1 Overlord? But by God, here he is in my hands and I couldn't be happier. I am so thrilled to be holding this guy. The only times I have ever seen a Generation 1 Overlord was at conventions and he was always behind glass. I've never actually touched one before until now. So nagging guy, thank you so much. I am just... It's beyond words your generosity and the fact you trust me with such a rare figure and one that I know has got to be a crown jewel in your collection. Now Overlord here is such a rare figure because he was never released here in the States. He was only over in Europe and Japan. He is a power master meaning he has the two little engines or robots that transforms into engines which unlock his special features. Overlord here is also a triple changer or quad changer if you will. He's a robot that can turn into a jet and a tank and a base. So now without further ado, let's take a look at this awesome, awesome figure. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now the first mode we're going to look at is Overlord's Base Mode and this thing is long. Here are three Earthrise Prime trailers just to give you an idea how massive this base is. Now Overlord's Base Mode is the same as all the other Generation 1 bases such as Trypticon, Metroplex, Scorponok and Fortress Maximus. It's your primary base with a lot of ramps and of course you've got all those extra accessories. You've got radar dishes here on top, a gun emplacement right here. Over there is another radar dish and gun. Of course he's got a few cool gimmicks. He's got this repair arm that's on a hinge and can move around. And it's got a double barrel cannon right there. Now the ramps don't really clip into place for this base. They just kind of lay down so they're not on there real secure. This Overlord figure also came with a little car but nagging guy said unfortunately he does not have that vehicle. So I've got this little Overlord car that Firetox made me for my Titan's Return Overlord. So you can kind of see how the car would have worked with the base. Overlord also came with two power masters. We've got Mega and Giga. Now these guys transform just like any other power master. You just simply take the legs and fold up around. You've got Mega here with this really cool gold chrome engine and Giga with regular chrome. So these guys look really, really good. Now the whole gimmick with the power masters is you plug in these engines to activate features on the figure himself. But this is not my figure so I'm not going to utilize these like I normally would I just don't want to break anything on this figure and I know power master clips are quite fragile. But you can use these figures say you can man a figure up here on these double barreled cannons or put a figure say down here in the repair area. So there's a lot of playability with this base just like every other generation one base. So that's pretty much it for base mode. Now let's get into transformation to vehicle modes. Now the first thing you want to do is remove all the accessories we've got. Let's go ahead and we'll do the ramps first. Like I said they just lay down on there. You're not going to use this ramp anymore. These bigger ramps will be used in robot mode. We're going to take the cannon right here. Just fold that down and put that away. Let's see we'll go ahead and take off the radar dish and big gun. We'll put that to the side. This half here we're just going to take the repair arm, lay that down and inside and remove the double barrel cannon. Place this over here for the main section. We're just going to take these sections and fold up, remove the radars. They actually plug right into his fists and get that one out. There we go. Remove the power master. Fold this gun in and back like so. Now what we're going to do here is this tower piece is we're going to twist this white section around just like that. Now let's see let's go ahead and transform the jet. We're going to take the hands or the fists, put those down and just bring the arms down or the towers which are also the arms. Bring those down, take these cones, bring those forward. Let's see and just bring pull that up and over and push back into place. Fold the wings down and there we have overlords jet mode and that is awesome. Hold on one thing I forgot to do. Yes, got to push those in. You heard those lock into place. Now we've got overlords jet mode and that is so cool. I love it. Man, this guy looks really good. Nagging guy's got a great figure. He's been very well taken care of. Jet mode looks awesome. I love it. It looks really, really cool. It has landing gear. You've got wheels right there and right there and I forgot to turn overlords face around so you can actually spin the head 360 or 180 around. But I'm really not really not going to worry about that right now. You also have the cockpit here that can open so you can take mega and lay him down in the cockpit and he's flying off into battle. He doesn't sit and he just flops down in there. A really cool looking jet reminds me of the Cobra Night Raven. That thing is so cool. So there is overlords jet mode. Put that to the side and now let's transform the tank. We actually have these two pieces here. You're going to fold the ramps up and this gray section over. So there's one same thing over here ramp up gray section over. So we've actually got two tank halves right there and we need this extra piece over here on the side, which is the tank barrel. So now I want to get the barrel lined up like so and then we just take the tank and get it squeezed together. There we go. And there is overlords tank mode. It's your basic tank. It looks really cool. Obviously the turret does not move and the barrel, the barrel can go up and down. There are wheels so it can roll along and of course you can put Giga in the tank right here at the top. Hatch opens up. He lays down and there you go. Now I forgot right there is a port where you can take this radar dish right here. It actually fits on top. So there you go. Now you have the tank complete. So on the jet what you're supposed to do is same thing. Power master port right there. You can place this double barrel gun. There we go. So we've got that going on. So there you go guys. There is overlords tank and jet mode. Now comes the fun part. Transforming into robot mode. Now robot mode we're going to take the extra accessories off. Let's go ahead and put the tank out of the way and we will transform the jet first. And what you want to do first off is you're going to pull out and remove the nose cone. It just pops right off like so. Put that to the side. You've got overlords face right here. Here's these arms. Take these hip sections down. Now what you would do is put the power master in right here. Like I said I'm not going to do that. You put in the power master and it activates these little buttons right here. And what that does hit the button it unlocks the wings where I pushed those up earlier. That way the arms can now fold or rotate forward. Pop the fists out just like so. And that's pretty much it for overlords upper body. Place that over here to the side. And now we'll bring out the tank. Go ahead and take the power master out.  But I'm going to do it with my fingers.  Otherwise it's locked in place. You're going to take this barrel and put this to the side. You don't need that again. Now to transform these halves into overlords legs. Pretty much that's it.  Just like so. You got your right and left leg. There's a little port right there. Just pop that into the body. Upper body of overlord. So there we go. Now you're going to take the ramp pieces.  See there's a peg and a hole. You want to match up accordingly here on the sides. Let's see. There we go. That one. And that one. And now I'm going to have to adjust my camera. Now we're going to take the nose cone of the jet. There's a hole right there that'll match up to this port right here. Just lock that in. So there's his arm shield. And then you've got his big cannon. And there you have overlord. Let me see if I can get him all in shot. Behold. Overlord in all of his glory. This is a big, beefy, beautiful bot. Unfortunately, he's also quite a brick. Just like a lot of G1 figures. Moving him in a little closer. The only articulation he has. The head can do a complete 360. The arms can do a complete 360 as well. And they're on ratchets, which is great. Down here on the legs. The hips can move forward. Thanks to transformation. And that's really about it. He does have quite a few gimmicks though. Let me get him over here. Where we can see is right here on the chest. If you open these flaps up. Let me move the arm out of the way. They're kind of on a spring. They pop right out. But you open these flaps up, which reveal Power Master ports. So what you would do, you would take one of your Power Master engines. Or both. You can actually have a port for both. Easy to activate special features. So if we plug in one on this side. Watch right there. A double barrel cannon pops out. How cool is that? Let me zoom in. So you guys can see. Push that down. You hit the button. That's awesome. It's got a cannon right there. Those are spring loaded. I dig it. And then over here on this side. You put in your Power Master. And those spring loaded missile pods pop out. That is so cool.  Another gimmick Overlord has is his gun right there. I actually discovered it can fire missiles. This one did not come with a missile. But according to Google, you can use Metroplex missiles. So let's see. Plug that in. There we go. Let's check out the firepower. Oh yeah. That works really, really good. And let's see if there's cones flipped back. But there you go guys. There is Overlord in robot mode. Man. I love this figure. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is 1988's Generation 1 Overlord. With Generation 1 Megatron. Titan's Return Overlord. And Fan's Hobby Double Evil. 1988's Generation 1 Overlord is a great toy. A fantastic robot mode. Awesome vehicle modes. And a fairly decent base mode. The base mode is about my only complaint with the figure. I wish the ramps would secure everything a little bit better. I mean one false move. Everything comes tumbling down. But his main draw is the two different vehicles. And the robot mode. And I love it. I don't have enough good things to say about this figure. And I have a horrible feeling that I will be spending some big bucks. Before too awful long. So there you go guys. Transformers Generation 1 Overlord. So does the Transformers Generation 1 Overlord belong in your collection? Absolutely. Can you afford one? Probably not. This is a great figure. He's solid. He offers tons of playability. And I can't believe he was never released here in the States. And that's such a shame because this guy is great. And I really wish more people could get him for their collection. As I noticed yesterday when I was actually pricing some of these. The cheapest one I found complete is around $600. And that's a hefty price tag for something to put on your shelf back there. So maybe one of these days I will actually have one on my own. But I've got to give a huge shout out once again to Nagging Guy. For lending me his Overlord. This is a beautiful piece. Man you've taken such good care of it. He looks spectacular. Man he looks like he just came out of a box. So thank you so much. I am eternally grateful for you letting me experience a G1 Overlord. Now guys if you enjoyed the video don't forget to like. Don't forget to subscribe. And don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. Also if you're in any position to help out the channel. I offer channel memberships here on YouTube. And I also have a Patreon page. And I want to give another big shout out to my newest Patreon. Matthew Covello. Matthew thank you so much for joining Patreon's Army. Once again guys this is Patreon. Signing out. Hello all!


Royal Dutch Shell agrees to pay 49 billion naira for oil spills in the Niger Delta. We'll be talking to an activist from Muguni land while the impact this will make. And the all-progressive Congress governors await President Muhammad Abouhari's decision on the legitimacy of the party's caretaker committee. A lawyer will join us in the studio to explore this. And we'll also talk about the position and future of the Nigerian youth in the face of the country's full ranking on the Global Youth Index. Welcome to the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's a very beautiful Thursday morning. Thank God it's Thursday. Just one more day to the end of the week. And I'm sure you're all excited about that as we are. Musaugi. Absolutely. I'm looking for clear weather this morning. It looks a little cloudy. Just a little bit cloudy this morning. So hopefully it doesn't get too bad or the rains don't come too early. Okay. Good morning. And anyway, I am Musaugi Ogbama. Thanks for joining us. Yeah. So I would like us to begin with the good news this morning. This is a judgment I was delivered about 10 years ago, right? There's a court in Lagos that delivered a judgment in favor of Oguni communities. And that's to say that they were going to receive the sum of 45.9 billion Naira. And that's in compensation for oil spills in those regions due to activities of this oil company. And that was never obeyed. 10 years later, when I was saying that back and forth, which legal teams from both end, the SP DCN, lawyer Aham Ejelamo, as well as the lawyer of the Oguni communities, saying that they have now agreed to go ahead to pay those compensation. And fantastic news. Even though this is one of the reasons, one of the agreements that they had was that the interest created on that compensation over the years would not be paid just as one of the agreements. But the fact is that this court judgment of 10 years ago would now be obeyed and that it would get to receive 45.9 billion Naira. Is this the latest justice denied? Because when you look at people that need this money to make sure that they clean up their communities, the impact this has had over time, you wonder, is this not coming too late? At the other end, you could also consider, oh, good news at the end of the day. And these communities can begin to utilize this fund to clean up their communities and fix one or two things that are lacking in game infrastructure. Well, as always, I'm going to play devil's advocate. Well, for you, you've described it as good news in some quarters. Some other people also have their reasons to not necessarily celebrate this. And I'm going to point out the reasons why this may not be good news. First of all, yes, it's coming 11 years after the judgment was given. That's one. And then the second one would be the fact that if you convert 45 billion Naira to dollars, it's just 90 million dollars with today's exchange rate. And if you put that side by side with what Shell has made of Ogoni land in the last 10 years or in the last couple of decades, it is less than 0.1 percent of the amount of money that has been made from those communities, drilling oil in their communities. And so if you're compensating them with 90 million dollars, it almost feels like 200 Naira from someone's back pocket that they're just throwing at the Ogoni people. That's one. Another one would be questions regarding how this money will actually be beneficial to the people for too long. Really, we've spoken about fixing Ogoni land, the cleanup of Ogoni land. Shell, I think, made some commitment some time ago from financial commitment. The federal government was also meant to also play its part. But if we have been honest with ourselves, we've not really seen any actual cleanup of Ogoni land in the last decade or even more. The promises that have been made have not been fulfilled with regards to cleaning up Ogoni land and making those communities better for the people who live there. Cleaning up their farmland, cleaning up their waters so that they can fish and they can have healthy water to drink and to also live with. So that is also a part of it that I must point out and say, that yes, you want to throw for the 5 billion Naira at them. But the major challenge, the thing that the Ogoni people have been complaining about really is the degradation of their land and the pollution that has happened in the last couple of decades in Ogoni land. And sharing money to these families wouldn't necessarily answer any of those problems if these funds or if the government has not taken it seriously to actually fix the land degradation that has happened in Ogoni for the longest time. And then also, there will be questions with how this money would be given, how many communities, how many families would be beneficiaries of this for 5 billion? How much are they going to get each? How effective will it be to really answer the cries of the Ogoni people? And then what next after that money is paid? Does the land still remain that way? Do we have better laws with regards? I know that there's something in petrol industry bill that is talking about 3% or 5% of funds from oil companies that are given back to communities. So those ones are also part of the things that might fix Ogoni land. But for everyone who might see this as good news, I personally see that there's so much more that seems to be not in this conversation. And I don't think that 45 billion for me in any way would be proper payment for the damage that has happened in Ogoni land for the last couple of decades. You do have points there. And I always like to look at the bigger picture. One would take a step back and compare what happens in other countries and here. If this was in the US, things like this would never even happen in the first place. For a company owned by private individuals to go ahead and establish this hold on communities, local communities. And it's obviously to the detriment of those communities hurting their land and just hurting the people in general. It will not happen. You have environmental right groups that would have shut down that company, shut down their operations, and forced them to make sure that all their processes are clean. But when you come here, this is a place where people just dump things and do things as they please. Whether the government have beneficiaries or not, the question is, do they really care about the people? So in the first place, in other parts of the world, this would never even happen. Like, there would have been no basis for these oil speeds and things like that. I'm not saying that there are no environmental pollution in those places. There definitely are environmental pollution. But I'm saying at this scale and for this long, nah, it's not been shut down long ago. It's not necessarily also. The company is not being forced to check the numbers. It's not necessarily also Shell's responsibility or 100% Shell's responsibility or any of these oil companies to ensure that the communities are in the best possible situation. A lot of people would say that if we have been serious, that the whole of the Niger Delta should look better than Dubai if we've been serious with regards to the amount of money that has been made of that region in the last decade, since the 60s. But obviously, that's not it. It really is the Nigerian government, both the federal and the state government and local government responsibility to ensure that these things didn't happen. But going back to the Abacha era and the Kensa Ruiwa hanging, those were some of the concerns that they had pointed out. But obviously, they didn't play out. There's theories of what the role that Shell, supposedly, allegedly played with regards to Kensa Ruiwa's death back then. But it is what it is, I guess. Moving on to our next uptrending story. It's about roads. If you're a road user in Nigeria, get ready to pay about 200 nara for your vehicle, plane roads in the country. And trucks will have to go ahead and pay about 500 nara. This is a new policy that the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatinde Fashala, announced on Wednesday yesterday. He says that it's a new policy approved by the Federal Executive Council for tollgates across the country. And he basically explained that this is part of concessionaires' policy to recoup investments. And that's under a new arrangement with the Highways Development and Management Initiative. And remember, we spoke about this a few weeks ago, maybe with Tagule, I'm talking about boring loans from China and these other countries to help us build our rail and road infrastructure. And how these monies will be recouped and talked about basically making sure that people pay tolls on these roads. That's the issue here, the fact that at the end of the day, it is Nigerians who seem to now bear the brunt of this, you now ensure that the federal government pays back and people also express concerns, how safe really are the roads? When you look at the road infrastructure across the country, which roads do you see have been constructed in recent time? Well, some roads have been constructed and then one small rain falls and everything just dilapidates, everything just gets destroyed by the flood. So it makes you want to ask questions about the longevity, the durability of these roads, what kind of materials are they using, you know, the skills of these road workers. And really, if these roads have been built to the best quality, I don't feel that Nigerians would have any course to complain about these roads infrastructure or saying they're not going to pay the toll gates. But the fact that we've seen time and time again that these roads are not durable, the roads get bad in just a few months, a few years and then you have to pay tolls on these roads, I feel that's really where the grievance of Nigerians are coming from. The good thing with this story is at the end of it, it says that the ministers noted that the toll in wouldn't start until the roads are fully motorable. And I like that you've pointed out the fact that we never really have proper auditing with regards to quality of infrastructure that is built every now and then. People have questioned the type of trains that have been built out of, you know, Abujakaduna and the rest that keep breaking down every now and then. One flood made, you know, the railway just clogged up and a rail that should be light speed became slippery. So people have questioned that, you know, and I've always mentioned the fact that we don't have that level of quality control.  I'm just using school as an example. So it's pretty much the same thing with roads.  So there is that angle. But I've always agreed with the fact that we need some level of public-private partnerships in order to build infrastructure in Nigeria. If the government cannot fully fund certain, you know, types of infrastructure, structural development, then of course we need PPPM agreements to get that done. So yes, with roads, yes, with transportation, yes, with healthcare, with every other thing. And if we get to that point where these things are properly and, you know, were very well built, I don't think Nigerians, like you mentioned, would have any challenge paying 200 nair to pass, you know, a toll gate or 500 nair for a truck, that's what it says. But once again, according to the minister, these, you know, tolls are not going to start until the roads are motorable. We just hope that they will actually go through with fixing all these very, very important roads for transit, for traveling across Nigeria. And before, of course, you ask people to pay for them. All right, so finally on top trending, if you're a supporter of former Lagos governor, well, I'm a tunable for presidents in 2023. Chiefs of the People's Democratic Party, PPP body George says something is wrong with you. I mean, that's a statement he made yesterday, saying that all supporters of tunable need to get their head checked and that, you know, he's not fit to be, tunable is not fit to be president and if tunable becomes president, he will leave the country because he can never be a citizen of Nigeria under tunable. That really is the story there. Oh, well, there's always that narrative that there's no permanent friend or foe in politics. When these two people, of course, have their issues, you know, it's best to just stay out of it because eventually the Nigerian people have gotten to realize that, you know, it's not really about them. You know, it's about personal relationships and political gains, you know, from one place or the other. But the George himself, I think I remember him saying that he was going to leave Nigeria if, you know, a particular person won the election, he's still in Nigeria. No place like Nigeria.  All right. All right. We'll take a break here and return, shortly, stay with us.


My name is Anthony Chung. I'm the head of market analysis here at Amplify Trading. If you'd like to access our private chat room to exchange trade ideas with professional traders from around the world, then check out Amplify Live by following the link below. OK, very good morning to you. Hope you're doing well. It is Friday, it's the 20th of November and I'm going to get up to speed with some of the top level macro fundamentals in focus this morning. I'm going to focus on a couple of things. Comments out of Stephen Manichin last night, which bumped US equity futures down late in US session after market. We're going to talk about the COVID-19 situation in the US, the vaccine updates, and maybe a little slice of Brexit as well just to throw in there because there's been an update again this morning as those talks intensify. Let's kick it off and talk about the charts to start with. Let's broaden out some of these US equity charts. I've continued to keep a running dialogue on the chart to make it as easy as possible for us to have these discussions to make sense of what's been going on, particularly in the context of the weak as a whole, always nice on a Friday to just put the whole pieces of the puzzle together and to look at where we're at and then overlaid with the technical setup of these charts. These were the comments that came out last night. I'm going to go over and recap what exactly the Treasury Secretary said last night and what the impact of that could be and the details. For the moment, the market reacted negative when those comments came out. It was after the closing bell and you can see the S&P dipped. We came back down to the prior days low, which has held a couple of times, and actually on the daily pivots today, this is going to be a really crucial area of support should we retest on the downside. We're trading, we have bounced back up through the course of the Asia-Pacific session and we're back to pivot, but if we do get a retest today, that 35, 42.5 will be a very important level for the S&P, not only for the last two sessions, but also it is the S1 on the daily pivots. Any break of that, then the S2 comes in at 21 with 18 being the low that we had this time last week, in fact, on the Friday on that double bottom that held on Thursday going to Friday session. Definitely, they would be the key levels on the downside. I keep an eye on any recovery here on the upside, probably looking up at around 74 and a quarter that would bring in that high that we saw before the dip in yesterday's session in the morning when Europe came in. That was also a good area of resistance back on the 11th going into the 12th before the eventual break higher that came late in Friday session last week. On the upside, beyond that point, 82.75. These are the more key, big areas of technical relevance for the S&P at the moment. 82.75 is on the upside and 42.5 on the downside. That upper level you can see then, not only the high from the pre-monition comment when we had a lot of squeeze into the close of Wall Street, very moderate outperformance from the Nasdaq, some of the tech stops, tech stocks, and those stay-at-home names on a single-stop basis outperforming, again, just given the pickup in COVID and ensuing restrictions we're seeing in North America. But then that comment obviously bumped things back down again, but you can see here that high with those lows that have held through the week on Tuesday, Wednesday session, as well as that initial then closing high that we had on Friday last week is quite a key level on the upside. I'd be keeping a close arm today if we move to the upside. The Dow tells a similar kind of story, so just making that a bit bigger and we'll have a quick cycle through some of these charts before we get into the headlines. This is bringing in the full kind of story from the Pfizer bid, that super aggressive move that we saw in that first outline of the details on their stage 3 trials. You have the Moderna bump to retest to the tick in the Dow, up at around that 30,000 of course on the double top. I've come back a fair amount and now looking at this Dow chart this morning, the kind of areas that I've marked out that I think will be significant in the interim period. Around the pivot just below it, you've got this area that's been important for price when above and below, which is around the 29, kind of 300 level, the pivot coming in just above there about 320. On the upside then, you've got that midweek low with the rejection we've had twice in yesterday and the overnight session. That's going to be a key area as well on the upside if we push up for a recovery today. On the downside, any breach down towards the overnight low, which would be then on the daily pivot to the S1, then you've got that also low that was seen on Friday last week before the push up. 29, 137 would be quite key there. That's the kind of range of activity I'd be looking at for any more kind of forceful price movement. Otherwise, in the other markets, the other one I wanted to have a look at was the US 10 year. As you can see here, I've just put a few things on here. One is the initial knee-jerk reaction with the Pfizer information is that the interpretation at the time was this kind of accelerates then the recovery, the kind of world post-coronavirus. Obviously, it's just been decided to be short-lived, as this chart kind of suggests, because after that initial yield spike that we had back on the ninth last night, in fact, into the closed post, just a closing bell on Wall Street, and T-notes were actually trading up completely taken back that entire move. As the COVID-19 situation obviously worsens, we're a way off from getting any stimulus on Capitol Hill, and so all of these things are back in play again. And as you saw, you know, xing out the bounce we've had since Europe has come in, the dollar after surging higher around this time yesterday as it came all the way back down. And that coinciding then with yields also declining at that point. And we've come up to a fairly interesting level, around $138.19. I've just put on these trend lines here from the price recovery that we've had, and this is taking from Friday or last Thursday at the low here, price activity. So, kind of looking at this at the moment with some interest, Menuchin comment obviously bumped things up, and we just ran into resistance at around what is the R1 today on the daily pivots with that trend line. I think it would be quite a key area of resistance as well to have a look out for. Again, in terms of getting up there, perhaps if we see an equity sell-off when it starts to look heavy going into the weekend, then if we get any breach above here, looking at the trend line, then you've got the R2 and then that eventual high that would come in up and around the ninth, just prior to the Pfizer news breaking that I'd be keeping an eye on. Otherwise, in the gold and oil market, I'm not really going to go into those in detail because not too much in the way of interest right now as we're speaking. In the currency markets, as I said, the dollar dropped considerably during the US session, so we've come back down to test. Remember that really super important key level on the higher timeframes in the Dixie, which if broken would be a meaningful kind of trap door potentially for quite extreme and rapid dollar weakness. We have bounced again this morning in Europe. I guess what I'd be quite interested to see is how big are these kind of rejections off that support break on that level. And if they start to get continually more shallow, I think it could be quite interesting to watch. Even more so when we layer in, as we'll discuss, what Stephen Mnuchin has done, which I think for me personally is a negative thing for the dollar, which I'll explain in more detail. Otherwise, though, for the moment, a bit of a dollar bounce, though, for right here right now, just coming off that more aggressive selling that we're seeing late into the US session in overnight in Asia. So the pair is just taking a bit of a turn here cable back to pivot on the Brexit side of things. You'll recall yesterday there was a halt to proceedings. They're now moving to virtual meetings, given that one of the European group, they're basically going into quarantine because of COVID-19 case. So the latest this morning is an EU envoy has said the three main Brexit hurdles. So when they say three main hurdles, they're referring to fishing rights, level playing field and state aid. So there's three main points remain unresolved and the UK has not moved on these issues. Talks will continue. That was the latest that's just come out literally a couple of moments ago. So I can't see how anyone can find any of this surprising as much as they continue to say they're going to strike a deal. I still find it incredibly hard to believe that as soon as today or even Monday, which some press sources have indicated. So keep an eye out for it. Still ongoing. Obviously there are virtual meetings. I would expect probably some more Brexit comments to be coming out, not just today, but also over the weekend as well. All right. Well, let's get stuck into some of the news. I'm going to give you a quick recap of the COVID situation. And then I'm going to run through this whole Treasury Secretary commentary from last night. So starting off with the US case numbers continue rising. I'll keep this as short as possible has led to some commentary out of the CDC. So the CDC, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in America, someone you hear about on a fairly regular basis in terms of their commentary. They've urged Americans not to travel on Thanksgiving. And we've talked about this a couple of times. This is a really, it's going to be quite pivotal moment in terms of the future development of this virus in America, given the fact that adherence to social distancing and group sizing rules in regards to gathering is going to be absolutely critical. Otherwise, what is already a fairly bad situation could get much worse very quickly over the period of then going into mid-December when we'll start to see any types of emergence of renewed cases given the incubation period typically of the virus. So they're already doing that, and that's led to a few other things. So just cycling through yesterday's death count. If you'll notice here, I know it's a bit hard to see because it's gray, but on the far right hand side, you've had big spikes now on the death rate. So this is that catch up we've been referring to from the laggard effect of the death rates to the counts that the case acceleration we've been seeing. And so in the last two days, you effectively had death rates of near 2000, which haven't been seen. You can see we've got to go back to, you know, we're getting from May pushing into April toward the peak now. And so as you can see, the seven day average is getting ever more steeper. And as we said before, we're anticipating that that pattern will continue for the time being. It is putting pressure on the infrastructure in the U.S. Almost 80,000 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S. at the moment. Another high in a week that has pushed up the record every day since the 10th of this month. So the last 10 days is when we breached the kind of peak of hospitalizations that we saw with the initial tri-state and then some bell outbreaks that we had in the spring and summer. We're now well and above that at the moment. This is causing further restrictions then and restrictions in very key areas economically. We've had California governor issue a stay-at-home order banning non-essential working gatherings from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. It's going to go in effect on Saturday and will last until December 21. So a curfew being implemented there in the state of California. And then equally so in the New York City in NYC, the mayor has come out and said it's just a matter of time until the state orders a halt to indoor dining. And a shutdown is likely to come in the next week or two. This of course follows the shutting down of the entire New York City school system, which is the largest in the country of course. So things are happening now on that front as the situation continues to escalate. And that economically is going to be interesting because of particularly what's just happened with what the commentary that the Treasury Secretary has just said. Just to round this off, there's a few other things on the vaccine front to be aware of. The World Health Organization has come out and recommended against using Gilead Sciences, Rendezavir, to treat hospitalized patients less than a month after it received regulatory approval. They've come out and basically said that there is currently no evidence that it improves survival or the need for ventilation. Again, the Rendezavir therapy was not about a vaccine to cure against immunisation against COVID-19. It was about then the ability for people to recover quicker. This was something I believe that Trump was using at the time. But this is quite a blow to Gilead and beauty to see how their shares perform later on. So after some of the positivity we've had with Pfizer, Moderna, a slight negative here in regards to Gilead Sciences, BioNTech and Moderna could receive, though, according to latest reports, EU marketing authorisation for their COVID-19 vaccine in the second half of next month, according to the EU's executive arm. And yeah, the order size is pretty phenomenal for those companies if that does come to fruition. The block has up just 300 million doses on order, which is pretty mind-blowing. Let's get into then this chap. This is the kind of outgoing Treasury Secretary, Stephen Minuchin, and he's being under pressure from Republicans within the party to kind of wind down some of the Federal Reserve's lending facilities, given what we have seen, which is on paper a recovery of the US economy. Now, that's not strictly true. We obviously know as market participants because the high-frequency data, which is more accurate for the present context of now, given everything I've just discussed with COVID is getting worse, activity will slow and we are inevitably going to see this kind of double-dip type impact on the economy. And so herein lies a problem, really, and this has been an evident thing of 2020. Not only is it, how would you deal with a virus if there was no politics? Would you rely on the science and what decisions then might have been taken by governments? But now political agendas kind of cloud the judgment, I think, to a certain degree. And this can have severe repercussions then for how financial markets might respond, because political parties servicing that agenda are using then the types of narrative, like the GDP number that we had, for instance, that saw a record-breaking bounce as legitimacy to take certain actions when we know that that's not strictly true because things are actually getting worse right now and are set to get a lot worse going forward over the kind of November-December data set. So basically what's happened here is that the Treasury Secretary, this chap, Steve Minchin, has made a request for the Fed to return unused coronavirus aid relief and Economic Security Act funds, and also to shell several programmes from the Fed that utilised those funds. The move then, the political kind of strategy here, is that it would allow Congress to reappropriate approximately $450 out of what's been put aside for these various different programmes, chiefly under the umbrella of the Fed, and pivot that back in to then get the ball rolling back with negotiations on capital who are about fiscal stimulus, because ultimately that $450-plus billion, you're not actually asking for new money, so to speak, it's just being rotated from one place to another. And so that's the logic. The facilities then that Mr Minchin is looking to end, and I've got a graphic here, because there are many different emergency measures that have been deployed by the Federal Reserve beyond that of just the kind of promise of unlimited QE and obviously zero-bound kind of rates. There's two schemes set up to purchase corporate debt, so I'll just move this out of the way. So there was two schemes set up to purchase corporate debt, and my facilities created to lend to medium-sized businesses, collectively known as the Main Street Lending Programme, and one programme led to lend to state and local governments and another support asset-backed securities. So they're all of the ones of which Minchin has asked the Fed basically to halt in order to then pivot that cash flow to another part of the government. The Fed have come out and considering the type of words that were used, they said they preferred that the full suite of emergency facilities established during the pandemic continued to serve the important roles and backstop for our still strained and vulnerable economy. But look, reading between the lines here, that's the Fed saying, back off, this is a bad decision and this should not happen. You have to understand that a central bank is never going to be as vocal and explicit as someone like Donald Trump or a member of his administration because they're not in that game, but that was pretty forceful from the Fed. And I think rightly so, protecting what has created and fostered a high degree of stability because if you remember what it was like in markets back in March, it was a very precarious situation. And so, yeah, here on lies then a bit of a problem because for me, I think that this moves, I can see why it might make sense from a political Republican point of view, particularly for Trump outgoing, it's really got not too much to lose here and if it makes life more difficult for Biden and so be it. But from a markets point of view, I actually think this is quite a big deal because markets function in a fairly behavioural way. And as you can see here, looking at all of these programs put together, the Treasury backstop and the program limit, the usage of which all of these different facilities have been used is marginal. It's not a great deal, so on one side that makes sense to end it and use that money that could have more immediate effect elsewhere. The problem you have is the whole reason the market stabilised and hasn't recovered Wall Street, not Main Street in the way that it has is because of the nature of the bazooka type response that the Federal Reserve have done. And if you start then taking the punch bowl away when we're just going into an episode of an economic new downturn given the fact of what we've been discussing with the restrictions coming in in the most economically important areas and also nationwide as COVID is not going to show any signs of holding up anymore with the added risk of Thanksgiving coming in just to give it another period of acceleration, I think this is the worst possible thing that you could do right now. I think for political leveraging for stimulus talks I think they're playing a risky game here and although you can see some of them have hardly been used at all that is not the point. It goes all the way back through my time in markets very reminiscent of the European sovereign crisis when the ECB at the time created different types of facilities that never got used but the point was that the fact that they existed and they could be used was enough to pivot the market back into a state of confidence and then stabilise the market and see the recovery ensued. So this to me is a little bit worrying if this starts to get a little bit more developed as a story and certainly if it did come to fruition I think the markets are not going to like it. If it doesn't like it I think that that doesn't see a flight to quality bid in the dollar I actually think the opposite because I think equities will fall and that might put the dollar under pressure because economically this is the worst time possible and then ultimately this is going to have to have the Fed step in at some point and just do more at that point. So yeah definitely one to watch particularly as I say given the fact that we're at a very important market technical level now in the dollar index and if the dollar breaks down that could be very meaningful for the FX market and a broader sentiment for the overall market cross asset. All right, quick look at the counter for today we've already had the retail sales out of the UK and quite frankly I'm not even going to tell you the number because it's insignificant, it does not matter this is backward looking it's pre-latest level of restrictions in the UK it really is of little importance right now what is important then is how does this type of thing fare when we go into November and December you've probably already read some of the headlines from overnight consumer confidence is very low company confidence is incredibly low I think I read that only one one in three companies in the UK that were surveyed don't believe that they're even going to survive the economy reopens so this isn't really so much about data that's looking at this time frame it's about more again relying on high frequency data points and then thinking about the future don't forget as well that at any point in time fully expecting the UK to kick the can down the road with the current restrictions which are due to expire on the 2nd December most likely up until Christmas Eve to allow that loosening of restrictions over the Christmas period and again scientifically should they do that? well of course not but the government is very mindful of appeasing public opinion and so at the risk then of further negative developments on the Covid side this is the strategy they're looking to do is to suppress the case down low enough that they can then have that opportunity to give people a normal regular Christmas experience otherwise speakers Lagarde speaks again really hard to see that she's going to say anything that important she's speaking at Frankfurt European Banking Congress and she's spoken multiple times throughout the week so not anticipating anything new you've got Feds Kaplan, Barker George the only one of a voter being Kaplan speaking at anagie conference at 1.30 this afternoon but that is it so just as a reminder I will do my regular summary of the news and look at the major themes the week ahead I will tweak that on a Sunday I'm going to be in Amplify live throughout the day today so I'll see you guys on there and I wish you a great weekend ahead alright guys take care


The Nigerian Army has taken responsibility for Sunday's airstrike that left many villages killed and several others injured at Tudumbiri village in Cardinal State. This development was confirmed by Samua Ruan, the Cardinal State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs at the end of an emergency security meeting on Monday. The Cardinal State Government convened an emergency security meeting chaired by Deputy Governor Dr. Adiza Balarabi to discuss the incident. Let's take a listen. The Nigerian Army explained the circumstances which led to the unfortunate and unintended attack. The G.O.C. One Division, Nigerian Army Major General V.U. Okuru explained that the Nigerian Army was on a routine mission against terrorists, but unfortunately some members of the Tudumbiri community were affected. The Nigerian Army, the G.O.C. One Division, gave a significant effort in the search for and rescue efforts which were still ongoing, as dozens of things have been evacuated to Barrao Dukau Teaching Hospital by joining us live is Roy Okidebe, Security Consultant. Roy, good to have you on PlusPolitics. Thank you. It's always a pleasure. We do want to give us your understanding as a professional in the sector of what may have happened or what could have happened. Condolences first of all to members of family and co-villagers and indeed the government of Cardinal state but can we get an explanation of what may have happened? Okay, thank you for the opportunity and I cannot give an explanation for what has happened, I can give an analysis because the military has already come out to respond and they have taken responsibility for the unfortunate calamity but going from my experience as a military veteran I have seen that the best and first thing to do is investigation now I would like to draw our thoughts because I am happy with the current chief of defense staff with what he is doing so far for his strategic activities to upgrade intervention of insecurity parameters I know that there are certain discussions that will be going on in different areas right now and we need to look at a proper investigation a proper investigation should and would carry us to different pura of understanding now it is possible that we should be thinking of a proper investigation into the course of the calamity if we have such happening we must want to know is it an accident, an innocent accident or it was an intentional act then we also want to know is it a careless act or it was an unavoidable situation so when you put all of those discussions inside of the military intelligence system you will be able to know what happened, why it happened and why it should not happen again in the first place getting the military to even own up is a pleasant surprise to somebody like me ordinarily possible deniability would have been what one thought would have been the tradition of the military but coming out to accept capability that does not discount the importance of the investigative committee that you are requesting for suggesting but to you how does it sound that the military came out to own up for this at least the army came out to own up for this even before an investigative panel or committee has been set up like I told you earlier I served in Kaduna from one mechanized infantry division for about nine years from 1990 to 1999 and I was in the combat engineer's unit bomb disposal squad and I know that in the course of going for my airborne course 794 I was opportuned to fly over the states and during our jumps and the geographical spread of criminality and innocent citizens used to be very defined that you will know where criminals are, you will know where citizens are and it was also possible then to be able to tell citizens to withdraw so that the military can come in and eliminate the criminals now a lot of things happened in Nigeria that led to a breakdown of trust and understanding between the people and security agencies so the people became spies for the criminals the military themselves could not gain trust the police could not gain trust and use these people as their open source intelligence method and channels, sorry and this brought to the loop where the military need to covertly operate and if you want to do that you are scared of creating opportunities to have casualties so all of these backlog are some of the things that could not come to the public because the military could not openly reveal because you don't know where the criminals have their network to penetrate your activities like those ambushes that we have been seeing where soldiers are killed so I believe that the government coming out to take ownership and the chief of defense staff and the chief of army staff and all those military gamut coming to take ownership is to create another line of trust and relationship building with the people and I'm sure that this will increase the opportunities to route out all the criminal elements in the state and identify their trust spots of hideouts so that the military operations will be decisive we know that sometimes collateral damages or collateral calamities like these sometimes do happen but whilst you were responding to the last question you mentioned some very important intelligence assets women as in women intelligence element asset and also you know opens us intelligence that using telecoms and telecommunications equipment basic phone messages one wonders unfortunately you have served in the military before do our military agencies also function as we have we read widely from the equivalents in other parts of the world if we look at the relationship between the military and opportunities for them to generate open source intelligence and human intelligence you will understand that there must be a center of collaboration between the immigration services the DSS all other police special units deal with information on movement of persons and persons of high interest so you will see that these collaborations are very very sensitive because if you remember the case of Wadume where there was break of communication and the military and the police had an altercation that was bloody if you remember there are other cases where military convoys are ambushed so sensitivity of information exchange has grown so thick and I want to tell you that use of technology should have been a strong advantage but you remember recently where an airline that took off landed in a state where it was not its destination and that happened in Nigeria so definitely the use of intelligence via telecommunications via information technology via cyber operational activities is also possibly handicapped by our abilities in Nigeria for specific and our training curriculum abilities for our personnel so these are so many challenges that may call into our use of the web space our lack of opportunity to have our own cyber operational basis our data control incapacity for now you know all of those things we bottle up into handicapped and vulnerabilities the military is always very very concerned about protecting its personnel and sometimes in the bit to do that given what we have just portrayed now in the backdrop of the sensitivity of information sharing and the fact that some elements of community sometimes sometimes serve as intelligence getting agents for rebels and insurgents inevitably in such an environment misapps like this I am choosing my words carefully because you can explain the way the fact that 30 human lives innocent lives have been lost inevitably in the milieu of distrust in the milieu of a partner that wants to have gleaned from your responses it is almost inevitable that this this kind of misapps may happen again how would you respond to that? in operational environment there are accidents now the casualty rate for accidents is usually reduced if there was proper incident and accident investigation one challenge we have is our lack of closure proper closure and proper implementation of resolutions now we quickly start to raise committees the committees they go into investigation and they get a resolution now implementation becomes a problem now for power adventure let's use this scenario for an example power adventure it was a technology glitch and the committee now finds out that oh great let me give you one good example during the time of the Kaduna train abduction the minister made him come on TV and he said that the train was asked to run without fully implementing security details so when I saw that I was framed because we are quick to launch Nigeria air we are quick to launch a world project we are quick to launch we are not careful to implement safety and security measures that is why private security is not respected in Nigeria if you look right now we have the association of license private security in Nigeria I am a member and I see the world government of that association holding the headbed of private security in Nigeria and so many of us consult internationally and it takes us right now I am talking with so many people and we are consulting on security but will my country take from it so if you look at the expectations that we should have the opportunities to determine future occurrences then we must investigate this we must investigate those that happened before we must put in measures to reduce to the barest minimum possibilities of real occurrence once we can have possibilities of real occurrence reduced then we cannot look at human failure then we can look at upgrading the curriculum then we can look at the opportunities of exposure for personnel then we can look at the possibility of criminal intervention into the process and say was it a terrorist attempt attack so once we can dispel all of this we put the time measures implementation then we will say that occurrence tomorrow is to the barest minimum we are very discreet about the way you are making the point but any intelligent listener can glean from your remarks that you are not too optimistic that the right things are being done with the view to unraveling what may have been the cause or causes of this unfortunate misapp and apart from that one is sitting there thinking with defense taking the larger chunk of budgets in recent times in fact the newly proposed budget defense comes top so are we just sometimes throwing lousy money at some of these things without the requisite cultural change attitudinal change knowledge change operational change that are imperative for us to see a positive a positive movement of the DA let me appreciate you I can see very well that you have the spirit of discernment especially professional security spirit of discernment now there are things that we cannot say on air especially with our current level of training and liaison capabilities but one thing is sure I appreciate your last question the defense budget that we talk about most times if it is deployed towards procurement and equipment it's also usually a failure because I used to tell people if you come to America here now you will see that the motivation of the troops the welfare of the troops and the other paraphernalias like health education for their kids accommodation and the care for veterans when you exit those are the people that are going to hold the gun going to fly the jet fighter going to operate the drones sitting in a military so if you look at your defense budget and you generate your priorities towards procurement procurement procurement then you have already started to fail now let me come back to where I want to agree with you that I was trying to cut off some things let me open up some areas now if you look at the military military operation have civilian casualties why? because there is the possibility and the reality that the criminal elements being sought after live within the civilian entities the operation, the hibernate cohabit and if that is the case do you deploy military? because if you cut the enemy we have to go now we really have to go thank you very much quite an interesting engagement looking forward to another opportunity with you I think your intellectual persona apart from your expertise is very stimulating thank you thank you sir


This is stock number 20 T3 1a. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters today we are checking out this super clean 2015 GMC Sierra 2500 crew cab Short box this truck has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel with the L ml motor which pumps out 397 horsepower This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and This truck is 100% ready to go Stone blue metallic is the color and we shoot all of the our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device Turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to ensure The quality and condition of the vehicle before you get here and see it in person If you want to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right-hand part of screens They link right to our website click that and check us out there. Go to your Wrangler LT 265 60 r20 tires with probably about I'd say 70% of the tread left comes with the 20 inch polished aluminum rims Front fender is in excellent shape. It has the Projector lamp headlamps the LED running lights the front bumper parking sensors and the factory fog lights No dents or dings on that front bumper really nice condition and the hood is in excellent shape as well I didn't see any dents or dings on that either Passengers side fender is an excellent shape and the passengers side rim No major scuffs or scrapes on that Pretty nice condition as well as you go down this side of the truck You can see just how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is We take these HD videos So if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down But you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle You can see the vehicle hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here So that when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises And that's why we offer the summit auto fast-pass option in the upper right hand part You're screening another link right to our website where you can apply for financing get pre-approved See a payment quote even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home So that when you get here, all you got to do is drive the truck love it and take it home Frame and underbody is an exceptionally nice condition and you can see it has all the remaining factory exhaust Has those Rancho shocks part of the Z71 package and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires this back rim Really nice shape as well. And as we come around to the back of the vehicle rear bumper Didn't see any major dents or dings on that and it does have the rear bumper steps as well as the back of parking sensors Full towing package which includes a receiver H4 pin and 7 pin wire It does have these shock down assist tailgate has a spring and bed liner and LED bed lighting It has a back flip Or I'm sorry revolver x2 by back industries rolling tonneau cover. That's in really nice shape. I Didn't see any major rips or tears on that Didn't see any dents or dings on the tailgate and as you go down this side The truck just as clean as that passenger side This back rim Very nice as well and down the rest of the side of the truck No dents or dings Does have the heated Power mirrors with the built-in directional signals Driver side blind spot mirror. They are chrome Trimmed on the side and they also power fold in So I always I always like showing both sides are folding in nicely Make sure that they're working properly power windows power locks power mirrors memory driver seat inside the SLT package gives you the Black leather interior. There are no rips. There are no tears on the seats Has a factory or I'm sorry weather tech all-weather floor mats Auto headlamps turned out four-wheel drive and factory brake controller tilt and telescopic steering wheel and as we hop inside the truck here you can see that this one has 29,935 miles instrument cluster is very nice and clean as the leather wrapped steering wheel Information and Bluetooth controls on the right cruise controls on the left does have the six-speed Allison transmission with the optional tap shift.  That's your cargo lamps. That's how you turn on those lights in the bed Back up and front parking sensors. You can turn those off downhill sys control and your factory exhaust brake You got three USBs two power points and 110 volt 150 watt plug-in weather tech format on that side and passenger seat this one does have the Bose sound system Seat and floor mat are an excellent shape headliners very clean. This truck's never been smoked in map lights home like buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems and your on-star capabilities in the rear view mirror there We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood Back seats are just as clean as the front seats No rips no tears back here It does have the latch child safety system the fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost and the weather tech Floor mat all the way across back here, which keeps your carpeting looking great underneath Got the woodgrain trim on the doors and we'll take a quick look under the hood I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video You will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out Under the hood we have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel LML motor 397 horsepower engine base very clean runs very smooth This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids Have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go See more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers half tons three quarter tons one tons you name it We got it go to our website www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summit auto.com If you like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto Remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there In fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel and your left a link to more GMC Sierra 2500 truck videos like this one on your right if you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our Website click those check us out and we really look forward to help you with this extremely clean 2015 GMC Sierra 2500 crew cab short box SLT Z71 and stone blue metallic. 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