 Welcome back. Today is actually Kiss and Makeup Day, a special holiday dedicated to reconciliation and celebrating the beauty of reconciliation. And this day was created by author Thomas Stern in 2001 as an opportunity for people to make peace with those who may have heard them or vice versa, like someone who is sitting at this table with me tonight. It's a great thing for us all to practice forgiveness and express our love through acts of kindness towards one another. And on that note, Dami Lola. Minko, nobody is kissing and making no mistakes. Please, please, please, please, please, please. So it's Kiss and Makeup Day. Have you ever gotten into a situation of some sort where you have had to just say, you know, let's just break your heartches? Yeah, well, I think I do that a lot. And the other time when I was wondering, am I a people pleaser person? But then I realized that I don't like conflict. I kind of get aggressive and I've gotten to acknowledge the fact that most people don't know how to handle sensitive people. So I realized that on days when I become super sensitive, I'm always quick to be the person to just kiss and make up. But I don't know, I find myself in that a lot of times. I mostly be with my family. Right? They offend you and then you just have to be the one to just say, you know what, guys? You know what, yeah, I value the relationship more than my grudge and what. Fair enough, fair enough. Dami, your thoughts on this? I mean, it depends on the situation. Sometimes if the situation calls for it. Sometimes if the situation calls for a little confrontation, sometimes you might just need to take courage and a foundation and survive actively. I genuinely believe that everybody has a reason for doing whatever it is. I don't believe nobody knows what they are. I mean, I don't believe people don't know what they are doing. Yeah, let me put it that way. So if the situation calls for a kiss and make up, if it doesn't call for a kiss and make up really, sometimes forgiving people silently also works. Yeah. Not necessarily saying it to their face, just forgive and move on. But ultimately, peace, maybe I'm another key for peace sometimes. Are you? Are you sure you are? Okay, Dami, what do you find for us in the news? Okay, so what I found in the news, so I mean, recently, I think, recently was like two days ago, maybe even yesterday, he said Calabar, University of Calabar students who were, I think some of them were raped or something like that. Okay, that's a reverse story. The one for Calabar is the professor. Yes, that's what I wanted to remember. Sexual assault. Yes, sexual assault. Yeah, the professor who... I can't even say it out because it's very appalling. Asking students to perform a sexual activity for grades and it's very, very... And apparently, this person has been doing it for years. This has been going on for years. He was suspended and then being stated. So that's why this, even this suspension now that they have suspended him, many people are just like, they're not even stating it again because it's like the usual thing. So really, actually, it's just this really going to be served. Anyway, a group, the Women's Network has appealed to President Bola and made Tino Buto assent to the prevention, prohibition and redress out of sexual harassment, and tertiary education institutions bill passed by the Ninth National Assembly. The group similarly recommended that educational institutions in Nigeria should, as a matter of necessity, develop a sexual and gender harassment policy to safeguard the dignity of girls with a view of providing a safe environment for learning. Because really, for law students to... First of all, I don't think protest is something that law students should do. So for them to actually come out en masse and protest, it means that the matter is long overdue and they're really tired. And for one, I'm very glad and impressed that they were very brave to actually come out to protest because I can't even imagine being in university now and then for me to pass a course, lecturers say I must come. Hey, I will go to the mountain. We will set this in the spiritual realm because ha, it is really crazy. So I mean, for this, what I've been going on and on really, I believe that... It's about time. I don't even think that the president or the president should even delidally about it. It is something that, I mean, square head, let's just get this out of the system once and for a while. But then again, like I said, we can only hope that justice is going to be served this time around. I mean, even if they pass the bill, there is always this thing about Nigeria and implementation. We have implementation problem in Nigeria, honestly speaking. It's even a shame that we're even still dealing with something as trivial as this. It doesn't mean anything. It takes for great. In 2023, with all the problems in this world, one lecturer will still sit down and say, you understand from your students. Your problem in this life is not fuel, is not renewed. Everything is over. Even if you want to do whatever it is, you want to do whatever it is you want to do. Take it outside. Don't shit for church. Don't shit in your domain. Come on. To say it is appalling is actually to say the least. But then we can only hope. I just think women deserve a little bit more honor. Don't you just get tired of your body being seen as an object? You see a man and you're like, hey, I need this. Could you help me with this? And automatically it just translates into there are very few men who are disciplined enough to not ask you for sex. And even in the middle of that discipline, at some point or the other, they will always insinuate it to just try you and see it by presence. But it will work. It, it, it. I'm just tired. All my time in the university, I actually never encountered, because I don't know if I would be able to do it if I encountered something like this in a traditional touch show. So because I want to pass in school, I have to come as leg, make it make sense, please. Yeah. Oh, it's about petrol price. So in Enugu state too. And I'm particularly happy about this news because each time I travel to the village and from Anambra, but I also travel to Enugu and Anambra whenever I'm in the East, there is just this thing that Easterners do. It's either they increase the price of fuel or they go down, they'll be selling 680. I don't know why they do that. I don't really understand. Okay, well, transportation. But then this time around, the governor of Enugu state, Peter Ambar, has called them out. I think he was speaking through the commissioner for special duties, Mr. Mekajoku. He was saying that, oh, he paid an unscheduled visit to like several fuel stations in Enugu. Both the major ones and the minor ones. They are meters we are not accurate. So they were cheating on customers. And you know, when people are lamenting, you feel powerless, but at this point, like the moment he was going through the visit, you literally see people like hovering around him and like they were happy. It was like, thank you, thank you, because it doesn't feel good to be cheated. Fuel is already expensive and you're increasing price. Ambar. I think it's just insensitive and selfish. Maybe there's a better choice of what, but that's how I feel. Well, that's what it is. It's just insensitive and selfish, actually. Okay, well, my story, I see if it's not enough that they are insensitive and selfish. They are not lying again now. Because the government is definitely facing heavy criticism over the 4.1% unemployment data. I don't remember. Okay, I think it was NG, I was having this conversation with last night before we came on air. So unemployment rate has reduced. I was like, sorry, what did you say? Reduced or increased? She said reduced. I said, wait, she said that's what she saw in the news and I already am like, excuse you, reduced from 2021 till now. You're telling me it has dropped. So they claim that it has dropped from 33. something percent to 4.1%. In which country? In... I didn't get the memo. I didn't get the memo. Definitely, that's not true. So the Niger Labor Congress through its National Secretary General has kicked against the new unemployment figures data that was released by the National Bureau of Statistics saying it is not reflective of the current realities of this country. Which is the truth, actually. And despite stating that 133 million Nigerians were multi-dimensionally poor as of November 2022, the NBS on Thursday reviewed that unemployment rates dropped to 4.1% in the first quarter of 2023. This same first quarter of 2020 now, I know how many people that do not have jobs. How many people have even the government? Who is supposed to be the highest employer of labor? How many people have the government actually even employed? So here is the thing, if there is increased employment what is now the need for palliatives? Right. Why are you there going about sharing palliatives? If people are making more and getting more employed then the government shouldn't be spending precious money that should be focused on other things. On palliatives. What's that thing called now? The minimum wage is very low. So they are probably trying to augment. So use the money spent on palliatives add it to minimum wage and increase it. It's more hard. No, but okay. So someone was saying that it's probably the dynamics or other dimensions they are looking at it from. Maybe a lot of people have not created their own businesses. I said okay, true. We now have more businesses and online businesses that are not loved. But are you saying that that is the statistic that they are using to measure this? I'm not sure. I don't think so. So please, you should get your back to write. How many people are going to be employed by private sectors? Anyway, let's come back to our conversation for tonight's ride. We're talking about professionalism from your online persona but when we come back after the break we'll continue the conversation. See you soon.