 Alright, thanks for staying with us. World Cities Day is celebrated annually on the 31st of October to promote the international community's interest in global urbanization and push forward corporate or rather cooperation amongst countries in meeting opportunities and addressing challenges of urbanization and in contributing to sustainable urban development around the world. It is also Halloween-selt, right? So, believes that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the world of the living and the dead became blur. Now, on the night of the 31st of October, they celebrated the Shaheim when it was believed that the ghost of the dead Okay, so let me confess. I was watching back-to-back horror movies. This is something I will not do on a good day. But this weekend, I said, well, what is it say? I will watch it, you know. Thankfully, I didn't have any bad dreams. But hey, maybe now I know why because Halloween Day was coming. But let's talk city, right? I like the urbanization of cities, but it's coming with a lot of challenges as well. And again, especially what we see around global warming and how the climate is changing drastically, you know. So whatever it is that we're doing, let's just try to keep putting it at the back of our mind somewhere that we need to protect. So let's think more of green energy, clean energy, green energy, clean energy to help. I mean, today someone sent me a video of the Dangote refinery. Trucks are already lining up. So meaning that very soon, they start to lift oil. So I mean, so these are part of urbanization, but at the same time, you know, what would be the effect on the atmosphere, the environment? All right, so quickly, who are we starting with? Chinelo? What did you find for us in the news? Okay, as we all know, Elon Musk has acquired Twitter and he seems to want to be making his money back through Twitter users. Okay, so Elon Musk has asked that for verification, you now pay $20 per person. So reports have emerged of a proposed $20 monthly charge to be imposed on Twitter users with verification budget under the new ownership of Elon Musk. Elon Musk wants to launch a pay for play verification system in which verified users are charged $20 per month. So now, if you have the blue tick by your name, just move that. He has to pay for it. Please. And he has said that this is this price is subject to change. Let me just tell Elon Musk's job. Wow, blue tick name. Don't blue tick my name anywhere. I saw a Twitter that said $20 per person. I don't want to be very friend anymore. I just want to be a normal Twitter user. No, my awesome. I mean normal Twitter. Please, you should not verify me. Oh, I think I'll then beg you. But really, why? Something that was free. Yeah, so someone's also asking for money. So everything has, it's not about monetizing things for goodness sake. Besides, $20 per month is a lot of money. Do you know from how many users? Do you understand? It's a lot of money. For us Nigerians, that's what we're looking at. Now that dollar is less than 800 naira. That's how much? 16,000 naira per month. That's a lot. Maybe he's looking at you from the angle. If I have to provide the verification and authenticity platform for you. No, but that's $20 per month is too much. It's a lot of money. If you want to do such things, maybe $100 for the year. Do you understand? Something like $80 for the year. It should be an annual subscription. Do you know what monthly $20 is? It can feed, no, we're not joking here. It can feed a family, a complete family of five. 8,000 naira per month. That's too much. That's somebody's monthly income. That's not fair. We didn't say you should buy Twitter to not change it today. It's not fair. I haven't heard that Hush for Peace page has been pulled down. They pulled it down on the verified page. When they were busy verifying it. Just a couple of hours ago, I came across some news about road transport guys, these commuters going on strike. They had cited a lot of reasons for taking that drastic decision. It's supposed to go on for seven days. Initially, I thought it was just, maybe overnight they'll find a way to resolve it. But as I said this morning, there was a lot of commuters on the road. So if this goes forward for seven days, I can't even imagine what would happen in a city like Lagos. It's crazy. I think it's also tied to my story because I'm taking the story on the... So they are calling out MCO Lu or more. I hear he's been trending on Twitter. Over this and back strike now. Because part of what the drivers sound. This is the committee. They say they call them the Joint Drivers Welfare Association of Nigeria. And they have this seven day strike is over alleged extortion by the members of the Lagos State Parks and Garden. What's called management committee. Now, if you go on our roads, especially, I don't know about any of that road. They are very vicious. You will see them in between traffic, right? When it was the MURTW that was managing all of those things. And there was some level of this one. There is a lot of attacks. If you do not, I've seen them display right in front of me every time that I'm committing that road. So I understand that part of extortion. And now, again, this income, I keep on asking, how is it accounted for? Because this is not small money. Some bus drivers, if they tell you how much, they are paid because it is per trip. As you are passing again on this stretch of Lekia Expressway, for instance, there are so many checks where they have to stop and pay a certain amount of money. They give them tickets and all of that. So I don't understand how these numbers work for the driver. And guess what? What they were now saying that ultimately it backfires on the commuters. Because now, if you charge me, for instance, in a day, if I'm paying like 3,000 on levies alone, where do you think I'll get that 3,000? I'll have to put it back on the commuters. How much is our minimum wage again? How much can people truly afford? So this is not... I've said it, we have to find creative ways as a government to earn money. There are some things that it is just uncalled for because this is like adding undue hardship to an already tense situation. It goes on to affect goods and services because the grassroots... Yeah, yeah, from market to... they need to transport their goods. And again, that reduces... already you're spending so much on transport and then you go to the market. So your purchasing power has reduced. You have less money to even buy basic amenities from the market. Absolutely. Let me take a few tweets that people have talked about. Okay. Because from somebody says, EDGK, I think from a tweet, he says the situation at Lagos Bus Stop this morning, no buses, no MCO or more, or aguerros to provide transportation. Now, make one for see how utterly useless aguerros are. Yet somehow Lagos has made them powerful. Demigods. Yeah. And this is so true. Somebody says, Waliou tweeted that Lagos State enabled these shenanigans. Commercial bus drivers paid the dues through their nose. Ordinary Lagosians bear the brunt of non-state actors' recklessness. I am glad ordinary drivers are beginning to, they are organizing themselves. Then this final person says, Lagos commercial bus drivers begin strike. It's going to be a tough period for us in Lagos. It is so crazy how much control non-state actors have on the Nigerian economy. Aguerros are bringing the state to a halt and the state government is shamelessly helpless about this. Do you understand? This is where the real situation is. This is on due hardship. It is on calls for. There was a reason NURTW had sanctioned an MCO Luomu. They sanctioned him and suspended him. Instead of the Lagos state government to allow that process to go through due process, they created a whole new, what's it called? Agency. Agency for him. That's Lagos state parks and gardens. It doesn't, so what you are saying is that you are above, you see these things there. I get you. I'm a friend of the government. I would love for you to give me those kind of favors. But you see when we continue to do things like this, what eventually happens is that you then tell people that some people cannot be touched. You are not doing anybody but yourself because guess what? Those things end up coming back to hold you. That's what is going to happen. It's a sad situation. Let's take a break or let's discuss our reaction. Before I go outside now, you have to say, let's go pass on that easier. Alright, we'll see you after the break. Stay with us.