 Every year on February 21, people around the world celebrate International Mother Language Day to encourage linguistic and cultural diversity as well as multilingualism. It all started with Bangladesh efforts with the overarching goal of preserving and safeguarding its native languages. According to some estimates, 2,000 out of the 6,700 languages spoken worldwide are spoken in India alone. Wow, this is quite enlightening news because I think the mother tongue is actually very important and in Nigeria these days you don't find a lot of people speaking the mother tongue. So on that note, I'm going to ask. Mary, can you speak your mother tongue? She's already giving me a side-eye. No, I can't. But I can say a few things. Okay, so tell us something. I'm Delta Urubo, so Miigwa, and then the response is Vrindu. Miigwa means welcome, good morning, all of that. Nice, not bad, not bad. Angie, I didn't ask you if you can. I'm sure that you can. So will you just say something for us here, mother tongue? I will say, they want to ban you. I am going to say something. Ah, nice. I somehow understand what that means. I will go. Angie, sorry, I didn't want to keep quoting her Angie. Noma, Noma, are you there? Okay, well, my dad is Igbo, but my mom is from Akwaibom. So if I was going to say something, I mean, you said something Igbo, right? I'll just say something in Akwaibom, and it's just very simple. Abadi, Abadi means how are you, I need your comments. Not bad, I'm good, I'm okay. Noma said, I was saying, can you say something for us here, mother tongue? Okay, so Angie, what did you find for us in the news today? The news story for today is an interesting video I found online. So a video surfaced online on Tuesday that showed very dramatic ads in front of an access bank. I don't know if we have that video. So you would have to watch the video. Okay, we have the video, let's just put it up. So it's the video of the woman climbing to find how we're into access. So obviously, lately in front of the banks, there has been a lot of crowd queue waiting for the ATMs, waiting to go into the banking hall to try and get cash. And I'm just imagining this woman, because for me, she's my hero of the day, and she decides she doesn't care about her age, she doesn't care what she's wearing, she doesn't care about where she is. She decides on her own to go on this quest of turning the bars in front of the bank into a climbing mountain. Stepping stone, and she did that whole act and ended up right in front of the bank. And for me, that was a goal for the day, because for her, I'm sure she was at the back of the queue and imagined herself how long she would have to wait in order to get any access into the bank of the ATMs. And she just imagined, you know what, I'm not going to care about if someone is going to look under my skirt. I don't care how old I am, I don't care if my kids ever see this, they will know I was doing this for them. And she just went head on and I played her bravery. And yes, by the time you, if we do get to show the video, you would understand what I mean. So it's just also, you know, bringing back to home what people are going through with the current situation of the redesign of the Naira notes and how it's affecting people on their day-to-day basis and making people act out of character. I mean, I was going to say as much as that video is funny, I mean, it's just our honest reality as it is. It just feels like it's now survival of the fittest. You really just have to go through it to be able to survive in this country right now. All that laying back. And I hope that we can channel this same energy on Saturday when we go out to, you know, put out our votes for the presidential and House representatives elections. Mary, what do you find for us in the news today? On my end, I have, since I'm in support of the Karsha Society, there's a bus conductor who has been seeing using a PRS machine, you know, for to collect his change and money. So I guess I foresee a future where a lot of people are going to have to, you know, use the PRS and I guess it's commendable as well, you know, because we're trying to find a way out of it. We're in this mess, but we're trying to look at the positive and say, hey, you know what? People don't have cash. We have to help ourselves and let's see how this goes. So it was very interesting to find that. I mean, when I saw that, I was like, of course, Mary, we definitely support this because this is what she has been pushing. For a long time now. She has been saying, let us. Long ways to technology. Norma, what did you find for us in the news today? In the desperate times, both of us. I found in the news that the UK is advising Nigerians to calm tensions and prevent electoral violence. So the UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, Andrew Michelle has advised in his statement to Nigerians that they should remain calm and that the UK government is committed to supporting credible and inclusive elections. And it's interesting because it's coming at such a time when we are about to engage in our elections this Saturday. So the UK government is saying that they are in support of what is going on. That all emphasis should be on calming tensions with rising tensions in Nigeria. It seems like violence is becoming the order of the day. And the UK government is also saying that they are fully behind. They're watching the scenes. They're watching the details of the elections. And in the spirit of support to Nigeria, that whoever is found to continue to promote violence will actually be sanctioned. I mean, sanctions can be brought against you and they can go as far as denying visas to Nigerians who are promoting violence. In general, it is that people should respect electoral laws and the institutions and also respect human rights in the process of exercising their civil rights as well. Avoid hate speech and just generally be out for peace. So that's what I found interesting in news today. So I guess the word is enough for the wise, like they say. And I mean, this is something I already talked about in the introduction. The Labour Party supporter that had to be amputated to the day after he was attacked during the presidential rally, the Labour Party presidential rally or Rilla Party campaign rally rather in Lagos last week. So he had to be identified, supporter of the Labour Party in Lagos. This has had his hand amputated after the attack that rocked the grand finale of the presidential campaign rally of the party in the state last week. The director general of the OB Datsy presidential campaign council, Akin Oshuntoku, made this known today during a live appearance on channels television to 2023 verdicts. Oshuntoku said he did not have the assurance that everything he says for the presidential elections deleted for Saturday, saying that voter suppression through violence has remained a worrying factor. I mean, yes, there is this, which is why we're actually having this discussion today about voter sensitization, right? It's sad to see that we're still going this route of attacking people that are supporting whatever party it is. I mean, the other day, we had that video of the attack at Aguda market where they stabbed someone in the head and they said, the Yaloja said, oh, this market belongs to a certain party. So your party cannot come here to campaign. And that's just really sad. I don't understand why we still, after all these years, we've seen that violence really doesn't solve anything. Yes, this is where we are. But I think we've just come to that point where it is everybody just hide your head at this point and try as much as possible to stay safe. And then that is why we're having this conversation today anyway. So yeah, see you after the break.