 Welcome to the Advocate. Your Sunday reminder that important conversations are among the necessary tools for Isenal society. I will be talking about the effect to cause, facilitating sustainable problems solving for national development. Abdul Malik is talking about the civilization of the internet. Shola Akinjola will be talking about maintaining professional integrity. July Okene will be talking about the bread winning woman. Why Ramon Ntanebi? A lawyer and public affairs commentator will be talking about Jakba, the human capital flight phenomenon in Nigeria and the growing emergency. Today, expected miss of seriousness laughter and jabs will be right back after the break. From effect to cause, facilitating sustainable problem solving for national development. In the process of governance and resource management in any nation, problem or challenges are met to surface at some point. The ability of those at the hem of affairs to effectively address these problems or challenges when they occur goes a long way in enhancing the functionality of that nation. In order for problems or challenges to be solved effectively, we have to look beyond its effects and try to understand the cause rather than just may reacting to its effects or effects. A very casual example is smoke causes discomfort, which is a problem. The most logical thing to do is to locate the fire and put it out rather than may reacting to the smoke. The rule is always ask why. As is as simple as this is, it is applicable to the following almost perpetual problems that has somewhat influenced some negative perception of the nation these are ASU strike. Over the past 21 years, academic staff union of universities ASU spent over 1500 days on strike. That's over 4 years. In response, most government officials see the strike as a sort of discomfort and then seek to subdue ASU either by threats to arrest or sack or even suspend payment of salaries rather addressing the root cause which are providing adequate learning and infrastructure, funding academic research or project, lecturers and student welfare among others. Education is not cheap, but ignorance and inadequate education is more expensive. Marks exodus of health workers. In recent years, there have been an increment in the number of existential health care workers, especially medical doctors and nurses exited in search for a greener pastures. The government has not provided an appropriate response nor addressed the issues spanning from poor health care facilities and infrastructure to health workers' welfare packages. This has been a major source of burnout for both doctors and nurses as there are few personnel on the ground to manage so many patients in the poorest of conditions. Jagba syndrome. Jagba is a local parlance used mostly among young Nigerians to explain the migration of Nigerian graduates or their young professionals from Nigeria to countries with bigger economies and better opportunities. This is as a result of high unemployment, poor government policies on youths and very low access to few opportunities. All these problems are just a few among many others including insecurity. But in order to solve these problems, the government needs to engage all stakeholders in identifying the root cause rather than just merely reacting to the effects and living in denial. Lastly, let's think about this. In crisis management, be quick with the facts and slow with the blame. That's from Leona Tsefa, a US public relations executive, meaning deal with the cause and the effect will take care of itself. Thank you for Elijah for this really, really deep, deep drilling into the problems we have in this country. I think you're talking more like we should reflect on the causes of the problems we have that's just being reactive and trying to solve to quench fires if you like. But I don't think some of our leaders or most of our leaders actually want to think. I think they want to lead, make money, hand over to proxies or people who will take over from them and continue this cycle. Reflection for activity to problems is only for people who actually want to solve this problem. I personally think that most of our leaders do not care. Exactly. Because that's what's causing the japa issue you mentioned. A lot of youths are well-skilled, highly skilled. You see a young person who is in five and highly skilled in a particular area and is working in an organization and feels that it's not well-paid. The unfortunate thing is that a lot of young people go the extra mile to improve themselves, like invest in personal development and we know that's not cheap. So what you expect is something better, something more financial rewarding. Unfortunately, I saw a post on LinkedIn of a particular guy who said he has been into software, he is a software developer in Nigeria and he's been doing so well here and suddenly the German government just came to pick him up. Within one week he said he wasn't even, he was so excited about the offer and you know before you know it's like you're poaching your young talents and exporting what we are supposed to benefit from. And the same thing is happening with ASUS Strike. With everything? With ASUS Strike, like young people sitting down at home for over six months and nobody is saying anything, it's quite unfortunate. So Abdu, just before you jump in, japa for context means migration, marks, exodus. He knows now, are you not heading over? Soon as I land at the airport, the thing at my house, how would I know japa? I think the issue Nigeria is facing is a common problem in Africa. One of the things I would say, since 1900 they have been telling us that we are the leaders of tomorrow. We are in that state where we are the leaders and then people who promised us that, who told us that, while we were kids, while we were primary school, they are still leaders. So you look at it like, I suppose we will take up this position now but this position is still held by someone who promised it to me. Other foreign countries poaching talent from Africa, it's common now. And then look at the economy and then look at Africa economy and then we don't lack opportunities in Africa. We know we lack skills. We just have people who don't want to give us a share. People who don't care, people who don't care. And that's what I think. I think in that phenomenon, if I'm in Nigeria, 10,000 Naira is like 400 grand in South Africa. And then if a South African company offers me 30,000 Naira in a month and I convert it to Naira, it's a lot of money. So tell me, why would I not jack back? I love the way you say something. Yeah, it's a good analysis. It's a common problem in South Africa. I'm from Sierra Leone, but I've been in South Africa for so many years now and there are certain things that why people are not alone or be at home. There's no place I come. I feel at home ever since I've stepped in Nigeria the last couple of days, eaten in a good city ever. I wonder who this Sierra Leone is. But being at home, will they give me the resources that will enable me to perform up to 100%? Exactly. That's a big question. Raymond. Raymond, are you there? Yeah, I'm here. It's quite interesting, Mr. Felix, that we appear to have been working from the same side of our beds today because apparently you are also waiting on a subject that I'll be speaking to shortly. So, like you've probably pointed out, we've thus been dancing around the problems for a number of years. So, and the theme of your script reminds me of this Igbo proverb that says that a man who does not know where the rain began to beat him would not know where he dried his body. So it speaks to that problem of effect. Of course. So, it's a shame that after over 60 years of independence, Nigeria has not been able to locate or identify where the proverbial rain began to beat it. And of course, the consequences has been there. And maybe more unfortunately, our generation appeared to be at the receiving end of it. So, I agree with you. It's ultimately boils down to a question of leadership. And hopefully the next election will provide an opportunity for Nigeria to elect the kind of leaders who will begin to put the country along the path where we'll be focusing on the solution instead of repeating failed diagnosis. Thank you. All right. Let's try our best to put out the fire. We shouldn't bother about the smoke. So let's always deal with causes and leave the effect alone. Abdu Malik will be right back after the break.