 Yes, so watching ways the United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day. Observe to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the rights to freedom of expression as shined under the article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and marking the anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, a statement of free press principle put together by African newspaper journalist in Windhoek in 1991. Every year, World Press Freedom Index was published by Reporters Without Borders since 2002 based upon the organization's own assessment of the country's press freedom records in the previous year. It intends to reflect the degree of freedom that journalists, news organizations and citizens have in each country and the effort made by authorities to respect this freedom. So World Freedom, I think we've done better. We're way, way, way better over the years, yeah, from where we're coming from. And it costs across all parts of the world, but some parts of the world, they still have a lot of press restrictions where you cannot express freely and all of that. But I think we're getting better at allowing people to express freely. Especially as a lot of freedom of expression and a lot of abuse of freedom of expression. So I believe we're quite there. Alright, so let's quickly run through our stories. Let me start with you, Jennifer. What did you find for us in the news? The Kaduna Monarch suspends four district heads over misconduct. So the MRA of Zazal has suspended four district heads for allegedly using local talks. So there is a rule that when there is any event or any occasion, you're not supposed to hire local talks to come with you or to be around you or be at that event, especially when they are holding weapons. So when that happened, she just immediately suspended all four of them. It was immediate effect. Awesome. Was that some form of security or a form of breach? I don't know. Why would they have that with them in the first place? Did they use them as security or did they use them to intimidate other people? I have no idea. But this particular occasion was just a celebration. The Eid? Yeah, the Eid. So why would you need local talks? Especially with weapons. So it could have been guns, it could have been knives or cutlassies or anything like that. I remember when we traveled, I think it was just, we had just finished, it was this exact salam because it was after the Ramadan season and we were on our way to the airport from Jaws heading to, I think we had to do a road trip to Abuja because there was no flight or something. I remember that trip. Yes, I've seen the big, big knives. They were bringing us from their kaftans. And this was just like gyration, celebration and all of that. It was not really like it was a fight or something. But just imagine if there was a provocation in the heat of that. Because there were a lot of them in those big lorry, the back of the lorries. And there were a lot, they were walking across and all of that. At some point I had to cover myself because I'm a woman and all of that. I had to hide myself. I was so scared that day because the kinds of knife that I saw somebody bring in from his, you know those long daggers. And the sickle one, the one that like it wasn't funny. And once they start, there's no stopping. So I think it's a good move for him too. Because you can't really control sometimes. No more your story. Alright, mine is still in Kaduna, coincidentally. Okay. You can't dissociate self from Kaduna Pasto that is offering 310,000 heaven tickets. I don't know if someone has heard about the pasto that was buzzing in the news last week or thereabouts. But the story goes that the Christian Association of Nigeria in Kaduna state has distanced itself from one pasto. You know when they add one, that means you're on your own. One pasto a day Abraham. Offering to take his members to heaven if they pay a ticket fee of 310,000. The video went viral of course on social media and he was said to have his operational base in Kaduna and later moved the camp to Aduakiti where he's presently staying with his members preparing them for heaven. So the state's Khan chairman Reverend John Yahab in a statement in Kaduna state denied neither knowing the said pasto nor the location as well as the name of the church in any part of the 23 local government areas of the state. And then according to him that he's just a faceless character who can easily give the faith of the community a bad name. Especially as a body of Christians in the state cannot even trace his whereabouts or information about him. I found this really interesting because this made the rounds and people went as far as calling their family members who were abroad to tell them to come back so that they could make heaven with them if not that the said pasto was going to make them that they were going to be deported. Somehow he would be angry and he would find a way to bring them back. It's really troubling how people can be hypnotized and brainwashed into believing things like this in 2022. I mean are they going to die before they make heaven? They were quite a number of people. A lot of people who have paid and who have had an equity in most deplorable situations and circumstances just because they wanted to make heaven. But Khan has dissociated so anybody who is associating with this pasto will be where? Nigeria is tiring. It begs the question as to why people really want to check on God. It tells you the state of the mind of people generally at this time. The level of poverty is making people to think. This is a branch of the bigger problem. Absolutely. So it's just a huge problem. I feel like religion has Africans or Nigeria in a chokehold. It's literally holding people by the neck and people have refused to learn for themselves. To think or reason it out. It's unfortunate. Let's go to you. Poverty does a lot for us. That goes for my story as well. We talked about a 30-year-old widow arrested for selling her drugs in Kano. This was not the first time she was apprehended. It was said that the lady was identified by the name Jamila Abdulai. She had been arrested by the police in Kano for allegedly deline illicit drugs. It was gathered that the suspect was arrested alongside some man on Saturday, 30th of April with 35 tubes of rubber solution. According to the commander spokesperson, the superintendent of police says this comes after a month after she's been arrested and released and signing an undertaking not involved in such an illicit act. Evidently, she's gone back into the act and she's been re-arrested for deline and selling drugs. She's a widow for one. She's a 30-year-old young lady for another. She's the second time she's been arrested and it makes me wonder how hard it has become. For each of you who have been arrested once, it means you were really given a second chance to turn a new lead and she went ahead and did it again. I'm not really disturbing to see that young people are under such pressure. I mean, even if she's a widow, does she have to do drugs in order to survive? So I was going to say that you remember that documentary I think was the BBC that did that that exposed the state of drug usage in Kano. Remember that video? Yes. So you would, first of all, I think that because the business might be very lucrative, that's why she feels like, you know what, this one is quick money. Drug money is quite good money because you can easily get cash in very quickly. There are a lot of people hooked on drugs so they are willing to buy. So the market is there for it. So yeah, I like the fact that they are giving her, well, rather than do that, why don't we kill the market, right? Let's also stop focusing on the, these are just, if there is nobody to buy drugs, nobody is going to sell it. Of course, there's a bigger problem, which I tell that there's a drug problem in the north. A big drug, just like the way, yes, just like the way we have the, whatever in them, we have a huge problem with drug use and abuse in the north as well. So there's a bigger problem and I hope that, you know, they will be able to fish out. Look beyond the fruits and see the root cause of these vices. So my story is actually on a very sad note, very, very sad note. I listened to the voice note, I almost was in tears. This, I think it was finally, I had the courage to listen to it this afternoon, where a couple, a military couple, they were on their way for their traditional marriage and they were apprehended by unknown, right, unknown. There's a year to be identified as salience, what they call, when you listen to the audio, the guy was saying, have you heard of unknown gunmen and all of that. So the couple were going, they were on their way for their traditional marriage and, you know, according to the source, they said the young woman was first of all ripped and was then shot alongside with her fiancé. Both of them, they were getting married and later, the duo, they were later beheaded. This is very sad. This is very sad. I mean, it just reminds me of the conversation that we had with Deli Faro to me yesterday when we were talking about if you can comfortably live within 50 kilometers of the current city that you're in, you know, without the fear of being kidnapped or, you know, or being robbed or raped or whatever, you know, or being used or murdered. So everybody has that fear. You really can't do road trips anymore. There were times, there used to be times where you could actually go on road trips at night because it was peaceful. It was better time to move. It was a smoother drive and all of that. But now, it's really, I mean, for the longest of almost a month now, my mother has been struggling to go back to base because she left Kaduna the day. It was the very next day that the attack at the airport happened, you know. So then the train, the double train attack and all of that. So now she's even contemplating how do I go back, you know. So it's a big issue. And when we're talking governance and all of that, people should understand that the big issue we have in this country is so deep that we have to start focusing on, and that was the conversation we had yesterday. Don't just put your eyes on precedency, right? The person that will represent your constituency is very important. The person that will represent you down to the local government is very important. Those people are the people that will drive good governance, drive all these things that we're talking about security. So we can't just wake up and just think that we can just fold our arms and do nothing and just focus on one Messiah that will come in the presence of the president or a governor. It's not going to work anymore. We need to be very, very clear on who we want to vote. Well, touching on that part of the councillors and the local government, if you're in governance or in government, you don't understand why they're almost absent. So I think we'll hold on to that. When we come back from the break, we're going to be discussing this form reduction of women and all of that. We're going to be discussing that as our conversation for the day. Stay with us. We'll be right back.