 It's still the run-up and we're glad to know you're still there. And in this segment we're going to look at what we have seen as headlines today. And a very interesting one is the headlines we saw federal government develop sickle cell vaccine and others. We wanted to bring you the details of that because we talked about it a little bit earlier. Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Adelike Marmora has announced that his ministry has developed sickle cell and venom vaccines. He spoke on Monday, December 12th at the 10th edition of the PMB Administration Scorecard Series 2015 to 2023. Marmora said the minister achieved the use of local herbs for the production of drugs for sickle cell as the country had a high number of people with sickle cell anemia. Also announcing some of the achievements of the ministry, Marmora said there is also the development of an anti-venom vaccine, an anti-penic that reduces fat in the body. And the ministry, through raw material research and development council program on development of the dairy sector, introduced the technology of increasing daily milk yield from cows from 1 to 1.5 liters of milk per cow to over 15 liters per cow in a day. The National Space Research and Development Agency is also working to establish a space museum and planetarium that is expected to realize about 30 billion era boost tourism activities, provide 5,000 direct jobs, 20,000 indirect jobs and improve the teaching of STI. The future is full of optimism, as he says, as long as we keep faith and leverage on the enormous power of STI coupled with demand-driven R&D programs and projects. The Ford Industrial Revolution will register Nigeria's presence and effective participation according to him if it is sustained and escalated. I'm talking about this current commitment and interest in research and innovation as principal push factors for technological advancement. Enough has been said. So much was said about that and I'm so happy. Now, there was a time, very, I think in the 80s or early 90s, there was a professor called Dr. Abalaka. He came up and said that he had, through herbs and some research, come up with a solution for HIV. He was practically shot down and nobody heard anything about that anymore. And recently, when we had this COVID, there were some people that came out and said that they had actually developed some drugs, some said some vaccines and all that, and nobody heard anything about them again. So my excitement is that we now believe that even in the Agbo, what will be understandable enough, even in the Agbo, there could be solutions to very, very serious problems that we have. Of course, I mean, it's not news. These are things that we have at our disposal that would have been very much developed by now. We've taken advantage of it on time, but it's always a good time to start. We're making progress. It's a beautiful read that we just had this morning. It's good to know that we're actually making progress. We're putting in effort and we're making progress in the development and technology climbs. Nice. Amazing. But you know one problem I know I think that we have, and we should work very hard to fight, especially as it concerns these vaccines and these new developments, is implementation. Implementation and then maintenance. He might start this. Amazing stuff. What happens when he leaves office? That's a problem that we, or continuity is the word that we should use, because for instance, I always am a farmer and I always use this, that we once had a minister of agriculture in the person of a national. I don't know how much better others could have been, but I'm talking about the one who affected people even in my rural area, because he had a system. So it was working, the things that he was doing, the policies that he was bringing to play. It was working and the farmers were feeling the impact even in the rural area. If there is a bag of fertilizer to get to a particular farmer, it got to that farmer. If there was a generator, a water pumping machine or something, it got to the people who registered for it. And once he left office, we didn't see all those things anymore, because continuity is not there. Yes. And like you expressed the fear, what if he leaves office and this thing has started in his time, will the next person continue? If it needs policy, if it needs legislation, they should work towards it right now, so that whenever the person who started it leaves office, then the people will continue. Someone said, was it today on the program or somewhere, that leaders think about the next generation, politicians think about the next election. So we should start to have leaders in this country that will be thinking about 50 years to come, the people that are not yet born, people that have not even dreamt of having the... I don't even know how to put it, but the future, very far into the future. Yes. All right. Moving on to the newspaper headlines, these are the top trending topics making rounds in the polity today. And we're starting off with the Vanguard newspaper, where this one says, federal government approves the boarding of Nigerians with expired passports. Okay. I don't even want to talk about it. How? I don't want to talk about it. Let's go to this day, let's go to this day. What about the reason they had for doing that? It's fine. They must have thought about it very well. In this day, Bassenjo says Nigeria at crossroads needs leader with right character. I think we've heard that a couple of over a lot of times. And moving on to premium times, where it says, kill any miscreant found with gun, a Bony government, other security agencies. And it's still here. It says, Stinebus campaign replies, arise TV and this day says, allegations baseless. Okay. Well, there's so many people are very bold in this election. Some people are timid. Some people, we can't even hear that they are contesting anymore. But there's some people that feel that, okay, I've been here and I know what it is. You can't intimidate me and all that. But be that as it may, I think the political class and those people contesting especially should respect the people. And the voice of the people like the call the press for a state of the realm should be respected because it's like, it's a representation of what the people on the streets are seeing. So apart from the fact that we have people in the National Assembly that should have come from the stock that we call the citizens of Nigeria, the press also, the media houses also go to the streets and fill the polls of the people. So whenever anybody is called upon, I think they should give us an answer to the questions that we ask no matter how stupid they might sound. But in that stupidity, you will find out the level, at least the level of education, the level of awareness of the people you intend to govern. I personally do not believe questions are stupid because questions are meant to enlighten. They are meant to give more education. They are meant to. Yeah. I am asking you a question. It's probably because I do understand that I'm trying to in order not to make wrong assumptions. And if you're going to be vying for a position as sensitive as the first person of the country, I mean, as sensitive as a presidential seat, then you should be humble enough to answer questions. Yeah. Anyway, before we forget, remember that the PVC collection started yesterday. So not that it started yesterday, but it was decentralized from yesterday. So you can go to your polling unit now, get your PVC, because from the 15th of January or so, they will return them to the local government headquarters. So now that you have the opportunity, please go to your polling area and make sure you get your PVC. That's when you can make a statement, ask the question, tell someone what to do because you are the employer of labor without your PVC. So do well to get it now. And this is where we draw the curtain on today's edition of the run-up. Thank you so much for being a part of it. We will bring you even more interesting segments, but that will be tomorrow 11 a.m. My name is Uche Chuku Onoda. And I am Nyamgul Akgaji. Thanks for being there.