 Alright, you're still watching Waze World Lindy Hoppe Day. It was established to commemorate dancer and choreographer Frankie Manning, who many people considered to be one of the main creators of this unique style of dancing. Now the day is celebrated on May 26th in honor of Frankie Manning's birthday. You said you mean Lindy Hoppe? No, I cannot Lindy Hoppe, but if you watch all the old movies, Dancing in the Rain, Singing in the Rain, Idle Hope, all those old movies in those days when we had real musicals, of course, Lindy Hoppe was a big thing, but I think this type of style of dance is lost. Is it? It is, yeah. It's very much a very vibrant style. It goes with the flow of the music. And it goes with the music, so I think the closest thing that I can think of in recent times, do you remember, what's his name's music video? Step in the name of love? Or Kelly? Do you remember the side to side? That kind of thing, right? But I think we don't have, this is the kind of dance today, that you probably have a themed event that you would have that kind of. I know weddings do the traditional, especially if, I see some Nigerian weddings trying to copy it sometimes, not the entire way, but the old school kind of dance. We have all kinds of steps, what's it called, electric slide, shuffle, the back arena, I mean all those kind of slides. So that's why I said that if you're going to do like a Lindy Hoppe, So you can actually do a themed party. Yes, so you would have like a theme party because it's that kind of, let me see if I get my errors right now. It's like the 60s, I think, where people had the short skirts with the socks and they're flipping the girls everywhere and all of that. That's some good aerobics. Yeah, indeed. Alright, so what did you define for yourself in these? Well, well, well. Confusion, discussions, fights, and people almost beating themselves. My headline says, FG, the federal government, declares May 29th a work-free day. The Minister of Interior, Raul Farah-Quashala, has in a statement today said that to Monday, 29th of May, will be a work-free day for all workers in the country to commemorate the inauguration of President-elect Bola Tinibu. Of course, and joining all Nigerians to continue to support and promote democracy through adherence of law for peace and all that wonderful stuff. What I like or what I found this story interesting is, it's not a public holiday, folks. It's a work-free day. Now, I've been in some interesting conversations in the last few hours where it's almost like two sides of the device. CEOs are like, we are going to open. Workers are like, woo-hoo, work-free day. So at this point, I don't know if this is strategic confusion or this is like, we don't want to add another public holiday because May 29th was official, then it moved into June 12th. So now we're coming back to May 29th for this event. So let's just be ambiguous and call it a work-free day. So you're subject to interpretation. Shall you work on the day or not on the day? We are shall working. See the CEOs? We are working. You just made my point. Yeah, you will be all right. I don't understand. We are looking for money. If you are telling us, work-free day. That's partly why they called it a work-free day so that you can't complain. Really? Yeah. No, I'm complaining. But I think, though, it's history that is going to be made for every time a new leadership is born in. It's almost like there's so much uncertainty. People are not sure what's going to happen. So it's actually supposed to be a day where everybody should be. The way the king was coronated in the UK, King Charles. Everybody came out on the street. They were excited, chanting and all of that. This is the kind of... No, I'm saying that that is why it should look like because it's supposed to be a day where people should be able to see their president being sworn in and all of that because it's supposed to be a day in history. So again, with all the drama happening with the military chiefs saying that if you have no business in Abuja, it's going to be a fight, a war zone and all of that. They should just let us go and be walking in our office and watching it from this angle. It is a trying time. Yes, it should be a day of celebration. It should be a day that we do commemorate actually. But I think that there's a lot of context behind this particular day. So you can sort of see everybody's version in terms of security, in terms of the tension, all of that. But I, on my personal note, just pray for a peaceful day. Absolutely. That's all we are asking for. I am. Don't go and do pass yourself on that day. So this story that I'm trying to understand, I think it just caught my attention, is something around manufacturers, saying that they have dead stock is worth a billion dollars. That's, you know, people first of all. Local manufacturers here? Yeah, local manufacturers. So it was said by the manufacturers, the president of the Manufacturers Association, I think of Nigeria, if I'm not correct, the director general of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria. That's Shegmua Jaii Kadri. He says, you know, what they are facing right now is, you know, we have stock of unsold goods that is worth one billion naira. You know, and this report was, you know, done at the end of 2020 by Bloomberg, right? He's saying that they can actually attribute this to the purchasing power, right? In the economy, right? Following continuous increases in inflatory pressures and, you know, and of course, why I'm actually even taking this story, because yesterday we had talked about how Nigeria has progressed, you know, under the president, right? So while we applaud some of the good things that the president, Mohamed Buhari, did, right, we need to understand that these are the realities, right? These are the realities of what we're facing as people. Now, this already means automatic loss for a lot of businesses, right? So when we want to channel, and I'm hoping that the new administration is really, really proactive when it comes to really being deliberate about a productive and a prosperous economy. Because again, there are so many things that shows the body language to say, okay, you know what, we really want to make money, like things that has to do with real, what's it called, enablement that would bring in forex, where we're exporting things. So those kinds of conversations is what we are really hoping for, you know, to change the status quo. For people that are manufacturers, how are their businesses being helped by the government? So being very, just be deliberate to make sure that, okay, we're not experiencing losses, you know, there are just so much that the government is doing in that direction to make sure that these businesses are sustained because these are the employers of labor. These are the people that are making sure that we don't have wholesome madness in this country because, yeah, I mean, they're able to absorb a lot of workforce. So let us make businesses, ease of doing business for them really good. I mean, I just hope to see, I'll give this administration or the outgoing administration one thing. A lot of work was done policy-wise, redrafting, changing policies, updating policies. One of the ones I think that came out sometime in the first quarter of the year, it was largely overshadowed by the cashless policy issues where I think about 27 different acts were all sort of reviewed and revised and all of that. So a lot of work has been done in terms of laying the groundwork. It's now just hoping that this incoming administration won't do the same thing that usually happens. You just come and sweep the slate clean and you say you want to start again and you take us back eight years. So I hope they can build on the foundation that's been laid because if you notice in the last few weeks the President has been signing all sorts of bills and all of that. So a lot of groundwork has been laid. I just hope that they take advantage of it and they make the right decision. Some of the conversations that I've had in the last couple of days centers around the fact that it might seem like as Nigerians we don't actually ask for a lot. If you take us in comparison to a lot of other countries we are only asking for the basics. We are used to looking after ourselves, right? Just make sure that you... Don't give me what I can get for myself. Absolutely. Just give me an enabling environment. Imagine in Nigeria... An alarming friend for myself. With 24-7 power you don't need to do a lot more because as Nigerians we're resourceful. We have the capacity, right? To create wealth for ourselves. So all we just need is really... And when I say enabling environment I'm not looking for bells and whistles. I'm not looking... Like literally just give us light. If you want to be kind add good roads to it. And we'll sort ourselves out. I'm telling you. And we'll sort ourselves out. So as a people we're resilient we're resourceful and I just hope that this administration really gets that and they can try and hit the ground running with a few things. Don't try to do everything. Just do a few things that really make a difference in the lives of Nigerians. Absolutely. A completely different story. Absolutely. Okay so on that note let's take a break. When we come back from that break let's discuss networking and we have our guests with us. Stay with us. We'll be right back.