 You're still watching Waze. Now the International Day of Conservation of the Mangroves Ecosystem is celebrated every year on 26th of July and aims to raise awareness of the importance of mangrove ecosystems as a unique special and valuable ecosystem and to promote solutions for their sustainable management, conservation, and uses. This International Day was adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization that's UNESCO in 2015. So happy, happy International Mangrove Day. Who is the nature lover here? The last time I heard about mangrove was in high school. When I was in agriculture. Yeah. That was the last time. I'm telling you. I'm telling you, but I like all these days because it keeps these issues as top of the mind. The more we talk about it, the more people go back and say, OK, you know what, that's true. What were you thinking about? How can I conserve it? How can I be part of a preserving ecosystem? Issy, are you a nature lover? Oh, absolutely I am. Usually what I used to do, especially in my single days, I used to go to the Resorts, the Conservatives Center, to actually enjoy the environment and enjoy the natural scenario we had there. And there are other places I've been to that, you know, you get to enjoy nature basically. So yes, I do love the natural environment for nature. All right, so what did you find worth in the news, Issy? OK, my story is on education. And I'm quite excited that we're talking about education today. It's on the top. The headline that got my attention is stakeholders worry as shortage of primary school teachers yet or your state. For me, while parents and teachers are worried about the shortage of teachers in all your states, it might spread across the country. It's not just in all your states at the end of the day. It might at least spread across the country because the rate of the way teachers are being presented to the learners and to the society is not encouraging. So a lot of people will not want to even take up that line of work, basically. And we have the fact that the remuneration of teachers is nothing to write home about. So nobody would want to also again apply because I think this, I think about a year ago, you back actually talks to the government to employ more teachers. But again, who would want to work in an environment that is not enabling and is not friendly to their pockets? And I also think that the people of Oyo and Nigeria in general, because like I said earlier, that it's not just about or your state is going to spread across the country because teachers take home is not going to take them home anymore. A lot of teachers are also going to a lot because last term we had teachers actually resigning from their place of work because they don't have enough money for transportation. So not just in primary school, but it will also transcend to secondary schools as well. So we need to look for the root cause of why the teachers are not coming on board to actually be in primary schools. And we shouldn't also forget the fact that the deplorable environment in primary schools, especially public primary schools, is also one of the reasons why teachers will not want to work in public primary school. And I think that's part of the main reason. So they should also look back to, they should go back to the drawing board. That's the fact that the government should go back to the drawing board and look for ways to bring in new teachers with innovative minds to be able to help the learners achieve their learning goals. I was just going to say that it's also possible that, you know, this is all your state, right? So even when we complain about brain drain, that's our brains going out internationally. Within Nigeria, there's also brain drain amongst interstate migration. So where people would say, you know what, they believe that a teacher will probably end best in Lagos. So they would have a better income and all of that. So even within Nigeria, they can be also those entire states kind of like migration. So I think the best thing to do, right, you must incentivize that profession. You must find a way as a government to incentivize that profession. I wanted us to even have that conversation around education because we know Mokre had posted something around even the cost of education, right? And how a lot of people that are abroad for recent, 60% of their tax goes from there. Just imagine you earning an income and the government is taking about maybe 60 or 40% of your income. Part of those income that is taking is to pump it towards the free education. Some of us are bragging, oh, there's free education there. We don't have that kind of system here. So in that kind of system, you didn't have good teachers. You have better classrooms, better tools to work with. So there's just so many things that can translate into funding the educational space, right? So yeah. The teachers are treated with a lot of respect unlike what we have in Nigeria where the teachers are not appreciated for what they do or what they represent. No, so I won't even blame. So let me tell you how I feel like the sucks. We're gonna talk more about education. The problem I think that we've had over the years you don't see people graduating with a first class or someone coming out with all A's and all of that from their way, going into the university or teaching in colleges to go and study that they want to become teachers. What you see, the system is you see those people that have very poor scores and they could not get into university, they couldn't get into what it actually is. Yes, they could not get into university. Even the ones that get into university, they cannot do the, you know, there's the education course and the straight course. Because I studied physics. Some people studied physics education. Physics education is kind of like the entry level is lower than when you're going to study physics. So now it's completely different. So I mean, if we start to correct that thing from there we can now get better teachers that will be respected like what you said is easy. Because again, if somebody that graduates with, you know, top of their class and everything and, you know, you're handy. I mean, there was a time in this country where teachers, lecturers used to turn down oil and gas jobs for lecturing because the, the renumeration, the life, everything, the perks that came with that position was so, so good. You know, but now, you know, the thing is so lopsided. So I mean, if we really must solve the problem of education, right, we should not even just leave it at that level. We should just start to overhaul the entire system. Even the process of educating the educator. So the teacher themselves, how do they get educated? Are they the best minds that go into teacher colleges? And what is the state of the teaching training centers, right, the teachers colleges? What is their state? Once we start to solve the problem from there we might eventually just find a headway. But let me come to you Jennifer. Deca, we'll come back to this education subject. All right, so for me, the Oregon State governor, Daco Abiodun, has approved a cash palliative of 10,000 Naira each for public servants and pensioners in the state. According to him, he said that paying this special allowance is nothing novel or new to the system. It's just that in this instance, they have designed these alongside the members of the labor union. So they've had meetings with them, right? And then after several meetings, they have agreed that 10,000 Naira will be given a cross-bord from level one to level 17. And that this will create some sort of relief to civil servants and pensioners that have to move every day. So basically he's referencing the current state of the economy. And then he feels like this 10,000 Naira would at least be some sort of relief for them. And the 10,000 Naira will be given to them for the next three months. I would like to speak with the governor. What should be? Because me, where I know, we are here so. Do you understand? The truth is that 10,000 is nothing. Yesterday we were on air. I think when we just got off air, Uti saw a post, a notification on her phone that said some bank or one who's not confirmed it gave a 100% salary increment. 800% of your salary. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's how, like, literally, if we really must subsidize what we are going through, we should earn maybe like two or three times what we are earning. So, do you understand? To augment it, because the truth is that it's really a drop in the ocean. So I like the idea of trying to incentivize or probably cause some kind of palliative or whatever. But let us not make it money-treat. Let us make it in a way that it is sustainable. You understand? Where it can multiply. So if you give me this 10,000 Naira, what would I do with it at the end of the day? Maybe I just have too many things to talk about today. Because when I saw the story, right, and he said 10,000 in the next three months, and I calculated it as 30,000 Naira for three months, what would 30,000 Naira do? Because, I mean, what people are currently living on, things have just doubled or tripled. Or is it 25 liter petrol yesterday? It was 29,000 Naira. So what would 30,000 Naira do? That keg of petrol, how many? How long would it last? And these are the same civil servants or pensioners who are actually sending their kids to universities like Unilag and the rest, where we heard that Unilag has increased their fees from 19,000 to, yeah, so it's a lot, it's a lot. The expenses is a lot. The exclusive I had with PK on Monday, the private sector must really step in. We must find a way to find a working formula where we have something a lot more sustainable and structured for some of the challenges that we're facing. Government cannot do this work. I'm telling you, they should just hand it to about the private sector. But we do do that. If they want to succeed, they should. So I have good news today. I like this story particularly. Let me say this. So Kogi Popioho built the electric tricycle and SUV bags scholarship. The management of the Korea, Nigeria friendship, Institute of Vocational and Advanced Technology. Is this a Korea's game break? Where we want to solve our problem, we must empower our technical schools and vocational schools. That is the beginning to tell us that we're serious. It's not all everybody that must go to university. So the Korean, Nigerian Friendship Institute of Vocational and Advanced Technology school in Lokoja has offered full scholarship to three pupils who built a sports utility vehicle at an exhibition. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the beneficiaries of this scholarship are pupils of St. Peter's College, EDA, who recently enrolled to the Secondary School Living Certificate. That's the Waihek. They just wrote Waihek. Interesting. These pupils are Samson, a major, he's 29. Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination. 29. 29, Jesus Christ. You survived by 20. Don't blame him at this, he tried. Huh? He tried. He's better than some people don't believe him. Samson, a major, he's 29. Joseph Ayuba is 20 and Tenimu, Abu Bakar is 18. They had invented and exhibited an electrically powered tricycle and SUV at the 2021-2022 StetsCom Science Exhibition. God bless you people because this is part of the solution that we're looking for in Nigeria. I said it before. I saw that the guy that converted the generator to gas. I saw the SUV, I didn't even know that I think I sent it to the group. I thought it was in Ibadom. But they say that, actually the one I saw was it was a truck, it was not an SUV. So maybe this is even a different one. These are the kinds of innovations that we need. We can rely on fuel. Renewable energy is the future, right? So if we have some of these things and imagine the government steps in, right? Empowers someone like, what's it called? And innocent to mass produce this formula. You know, there's push or dare. We don't know what can happen. You can actually find a way to start to build what we need. And suppose us just always depending on imports. There are people with great minds that are innovative. Let's start to focus and solve our problem by ourselves. On that note, let's talk about education. Stay with us, we'll write back.