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We set a ball rolling with a look at what's been trending around the social space. We call it a training, top training segment. Of course a lot of talk and chatter on the social space these days. But imagine being able to speak 24 languages. Imagine being able to speak 24 languages. Is that something that you can afford to do? I mean I saw this story online and a lot of people have been talking about it. And you know we're looking for feel-good stories. Searching for feel-good stories in Nigeria today. And this is one of the stories that I've got people talking and feeling good about the country and about the people, about the resources, the human resources in the country. It's a young girl, a student of the University of Ibadu. Alright, and she is in a fourth year of study. She is a student of veterinary medicine. And she says she speaks 24 languages now. If you speak 24 languages, you're called hyperpolyglot. How does that sound? Even the word itself is complicated. Anyway, so it's amazing. It's amazing. 24 languages, she comes from the south-eastern part of Nigeria. She is Oluwafumibi Babalola. Oluwafumibi Babalola. Which languages does she speak? This is really amazing. She speaks German, Spanish, Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Kree, Zulu, Russian, Chinese, Indonesian, Dutch, French, Latin, Hangul. Which country speaks Hangul? Someone help me. Italian, English, Hausa, Yoruba, Egun, Egede, and Igbo. Among others. This is just a few of the languages she speaks. Now, she says she has been when asked how long it took her to learn these languages. Because I mean, I'm sure you're also wondering how long will it take a 24-year-old to learn 24 languages? Student, you know, so young. She says that she has been remembering languages since she was a kid. You know, she says I remember I did French and a bit of Latin in primary school and I used to buy language books since I have been old enough to read and write. I've been learning languages. It is amazing. Amazing. You know, she says that learning a lot of languages has opened unimaginable doors for her. You know, she says people's expressions when they know you can communicate in different languages. And of course, the recent achievement is her tweet, her tweet which went viral. Alright, she put out a tweet which went viral. I only made one careless tweet to sell myself, but before I knew it, she says, my phone started making funny sounds. Too many notifications from several people across the world. You know, people from different races were sending me messages to offer me jobs, she says. Wow! People from all over the world were sending me messages to offer me jobs. I have had so many interviews and live videos. Celebrities I've always looked up to were following me, sending me DMs. Everything was just crazy. And you know what? In the world today, you don't need to be a graduate or to have some level of qualification to accomplish anything in the world. You can actually, you know, if you have the talent and the skill, you can get a job even remotely abroad. So this is fantastic. Fourth year student in veterinary medicine at the University of Ibado, you know, a hyperpolyglot. She speaks 24 languages. That is totally, totally amazing. And this only proves that, you know, the country has a fantastic human resources, qualified to match any in the world. And Nigeria, I mean, if the environment is enabling, will match any country in the world. You can see that the country did well in the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, United States of America. You can see the country did well in the Commonwealth Games, placing seventh. It could have easily come sixth. And if the enabling environment is there, Nigeria could actually be maybe in the third position in the next Commonwealth Games. You know, so the country is blessed with a lot of human resources, you know, brains and talented people in different spheres of endeavor. Look at what the musicians are doing. I mean, it's amazing what the musicians are doing. You look at how Nigerian music is spoken all over the world. It's amazing how Nigerian musicians are selling all over the world. You know, even the major artists themselves are not able to ignore Nigerian music, you know. So the power of the internet when added to this makes everything so amazing. Look at this, this, this played out in the case of this young woman, Prospa Olua Fumimbi Babalola. You know, probably, popularly known as Prospa Lingua. She allowed herself, she didn't allow herself to be hindered by the astro-strike. She went to Twitter to share her abilities, to share her engagements during the astro-strike. And this is the tweet that got her phone buzzing with funny sounds that she was referring to. She says, hello, Twitter. I'm a hyperpolyglot. This gives me the ability to easily gain mastery of languages. As it stands, I can speak about 21 languages fluently in bits and pieces of 24 others. 21 languages fluently in bits and pieces of 24 others. And of course, she had to think of, you know, very various ideas after, you know, Astro Internet Strike at the moment, you know, so she was looking for jobs and all that. And her phone started buzzing and ringing, you know. And she uploaded a video, a user of Twitter, you know, replied to a tweet advising her to make a video of herself speaking the languages and making sentences to enhance the chances of recognition, you know. And she took this advice rather in good stead, and she put up the video. Now, hours after uploading that video, you know, she updated the public, you know, she put a tweet, just hours, saying, I got jobs. The power of this app is never to be underrated. You know, she got jobs. I'm so pumped up to see what the future holds. Amazing. And this is, I think, a pointer to our young people, you know, in the country today, not to allow the Astro Strike, you know, keep them at home without doing anything. You know, young ones who are listening, parents who have kids, you know, relatives at home because of the Astro Strike, should encourage the young ones to look for opportunities to grow, to learn, to sell themselves and learn a new skill to intern, or to intern rather in places where they can grow, you know. I mean, I've had people approaching me to say, I have a youngster who is at home because of the strike, the university strike, and she interned in the media organization and all that. This is a time for young ones to do that. It's amazing. It's amazing. Let's move on. This is not a feel-good story, but the monkeypox situation in the country is taking on a new dimension. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, of course, has been very active for some years now. Ebola, you know, came, they were active, COVID came, they were active, and now the monkeypox has come. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control has confirmed 157 cases of monkeypox across 26 states in the country. This was revealed in the latest monkeypox situation report for week 30. So for the past 30 weeks, they've been given a situation report. Of course, monkeypox has been spreading around the world, but it's primarily known in remote villages of Central and West Africa near the tropical rainforest. It's not a good one at all. You can see some of the pictures on your screen there. Nigeria is one of the countries in Africa where the disease is endemic. So they put out this information and it generated some discussion on Twitter. Now, this is what the agency said. From January 1 to July 31, 2022, four deaths were recorded from four states. You have Delta State, Lagos State, Ondo State, and Aquarium State all having one death each. The NCDC also said in that latest report that there are at least 413, 413 suspected cases of the disease in the country. And this is what it put. There were 56 new suspected cases in week 30. And they named the states, 19 states. You have Ondo having 13, Plato State 8, Lagos State had 6, Adama State had 4, Abia State had 3, Bono State had 3, Delta 2, Kano 3, Numbra 2, Baelsa 2, Emo State 2, and so on and so forth. Igbo 1, Aquarium 2, Aquarium 1, Gombe 1, Ocean 1, Oyo 1, Rivers 1, and Taraba 1. So Lagos State, let me look at the numbers there. If you add all, there's so many numbers to be added. I can't go into all of it now. But Lagos State isn't doing well as a center of excellence in the country. Well, it sometimes is understandable. And the Lagos State is set to be leading as the NCDC has talked about these cases of monkeypox. And we do hope that we're happy to see that the NCDC is on top of the NCDC situation with a DG, Fedaya De Tifa, doing his job. I mean, the guy who was there before now who left also did a wonderful job when COVID-19 was on fire around the world and in the country. COVID-19 has gone down a bit still there. But the NCDC also has not taken its eye of other diseases it has to monitor and also inform Nigerians about. And I think it's a good one that they're doing this. We just hope that the political will will back up the expertise being showed by the NCDC so that we can nip monkeypox in the body. We don't need anything to make things in the country worse than they already are. All right, they all, you know, shootings and killings, you know, got a lot of people, not just in Nigeria, but around the world, really, really sad, you know, about 40 persons being killed. He went to church on Sunday to worship God. And that was the last day of their lives through no fault of theirs. They didn't ask for it. They didn't bargain for it. They didn't do anything to attract those killings. And Nigerians have been asking for the government to fish out the perpetrators of a dastardly act. Some weeks after that, the head of a motecum in Ando state came up to say that some people had been arrested, he had arrested the press and everything. But nobody was parodied. We didn't see anyone. Now these people you see on the screen are people who were arrested in Ando state by our motecum for different, what do you call it again, different crimes, not connected in any way to the OO incident. But in parading these people, the head of a motecum a couple of months ago said that they had arrested some of the perpetrators of the OO killings. Now, we didn't see anything. We didn't hear anything. Yesterday, the chief of defense staff, not just the chief of defense staff, General Lucky Irabo addressed the press briefing. He hosted heads of media agencies and senior journalists, heads of media organizations where he revealed that those behind the OO attacks had been arrested. Of course, this is us, we can remember some gunmen, like I said, Stormdy, St. Francis Catholic Church in Ando state, killing no fewer than 40 worshipers. So this is what he said in that meeting with editors, media executives in Abuja on Tuesday Irabo said the suspects would be paraded after an investigation had been concluded into the matter like this, this way they're doing their things, which is before parading anyone, you do your investigation, when you complete your investigation, you can parade or you can prosecute. Even that is not enough. You have to take the person to court for the person to be declared guilty. Well, I hope the police will take a cue and know how to do things well. But this is what General Lucky Irabo revealed, saying that the armed forces had recorded a remarkable achievement and, of course, they had arrested people in connection with the OO incident and that's what he said. So it's good to hear. Moments after that, the Ando state governor, Rotimiakere de Lui, SAN, spoke to the media and said, yes, it's true, they've arrested five. He said five suspects in relation to the OO incident are suspected to be the masterminders of the OO killings. And Rotimiakere de Lui, the governor of Ando state said, they're known about this arrest for some time now, but he was waiting for the military to, the defense forces to announce the arrest and it's been done for some time now. He even said the camp, the building used by those who launched these attacks, the owners of the buildings, those who owned the building, had been arrested as well. Those who gave them some sort of shelter, had been arrested as well. Investigation was ongoing. We want more. We want more. There's a good step, could as to all those involved in the efforts to track them down, but we need more. Of course, we need this to be swift and very quick. I don't think Nigerians want anybody to repent of this killing. I mean, they can repent to God, but let them face the law. Nigerians do not want any repentant killer. You can repent to God. That's between you and God. But face the law. I think that's the least that Nigerians deserve. At least families can begin to get some of those who were killed, those innocent souls who were killed, can begin to get some sort or resemblance of closure. And nothing will ever bring back the loved ones. That's a top training segment. For now, let's take a break. When we return, we'll look at what the papers are saying this morning with interesting in-depth analysis of the headlines. Stay with us.