 Thanks for staying with us. Now, International Artist Day, that's IAD, is celebrated annually on October 25th. It's a day to recognize and celebrate the contributions of artists from all over the world. IAD was founded in 2004 by the Art Council for Education, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting art education. The goal of IAD is to raise awareness of the importance of art in society and to encourage people to support artists and their work. This is a good day. I don't know how much I would just, I don't know. I think some of these days actually, some of these days actually, when you see some timelines on Instagram, just because I was just admiring too many poetry work. Yeah, I think you talk about poetry and all of that. Today is International Artist Day. Are you an art lover? Yes. By all means. What are you going to open your gallery? I'm not sure if I'm ever going to open a gallery, right? I think right now I'm just taking it one step at a time. The painting or an art drawing, rather, that I started, I think three weeks or four weeks ago. I finally completed it two days ago. Like completed. So I finally completed it and I just left it on my work desk. So every day I'm just staring at it and looking at it and anticipating what my next drawing is going to be. And it's really exciting. I hope that I've been able to pick up art again, but I really want to take it a step further into actual paintings, right? Yeah, because I've seen a lot of people that have inspired me recently and I'm like, yeah, I can do this too. I just need to be more disciplined and consistent. But I mean, speaking about art, right? If you look at how Nigeria is going these days, right, there are lots of people that are beginning to appreciate art, right? There are lots of art shows. People are opening art showcasing in galleries. I have a friend who showcased, I think he showcased last week. Someone else got an award two days ago. That kind of thing. There's like a lot of people. There's this other girl that I know on a surface level. I realized that she just started painting. She started selling her artworks. And I'm like, I'm joining you. I should start painting. So like, literally, when I was a lot younger, right, I used to do so many. So all these illustrations, what do they call them? Illustrations and all of that. I used to do all of those things. Like, literally, sometimes I look back and say, who killed my creativity for goodness sake? Because I was like, the way my life that I know, I remember when I was young, I was very much art inclined. But I think somewhere along the line, somebody just twisted my brain that art people are not serious people. They're not this, they're not that. So as I focused on more of my science subjects and all of that. But I was like, literally art. So it's not a mistake that I'm back into the creative space. Probably through media, but art was me because literally I would draw. I used to draw all kinds of very beautiful drawings. I used to have those very beautiful drawings where you draw a lady with, you know, I used to draw the Indian, because I love the Indian series. So I used to draw the celibate of Indian women, the series and all of that. We are the thing going on and on and on. I think to nurture your creative side, right, sometimes we need motivation, especially when you're a child. You need motivation, you need consistency and discipline, but then someone has to push you if you're a child. But then as an adult like this... So I think what we can do to even help ourselves, you know, the sip and paint. I think we should take one of those classes and just go sip, paint. Then I'm thinking also, I loved Adiré. I remember that when I was doing Tyrande in school, I really enjoyed it. In fact, some days I look at some of my plain things, I just wonder, I wish I could convert them. Because these are creative things that you can even become, you can become a major merchandise, right? So art is beautiful, honestly. And I think we should appreciate them a lot more. Sometimes when you see some process on a piece, you say... They're actually expensive. Because it takes time. There's this artist I follow on Instagram. I think you should follow her if you really love art. Do need the artist. I don't know if you know her. She's in Atlanta, I think. She's abroad. She's in the US. Do need the artist. Where she uses glitter, she uses different kinds of things. She does big life pieces. So she would come to your space. So sometimes they give her plain walls. Sometimes she builds on a canvas and comes and installs beautiful artwork. And people take classes now with her. At some point I wanted to feature her, but the timing was not just working on ways. But she's amazing. I follow her. I'll send you her page. She's amazing. And her work is very simple. Well, in my mind, it's simple because you just do this thing and put the glitters, put the colors. But you can tell that it's coming from a creative place. And no two pieces are the same. She's very creative. All right, so Jennifer found the news. I did not know she had already found it and I went to find it. So what is our news? I did not see your news. That I'm the original owner of this story. That's why I said, what is our news? Jennifer, what's your news? Jennifer, what's your news? So basically, right? A man recounts his experience at WIAC office after bribing a secretary. So what he has said was that he needed to send his WIAC results to an organization. So he had gone to WIAC office at Yaba and he had requested for his results. So they directed him to one of the secretaries to attend to him. But then when he got there, the lady told him, that even if they expedite it or he uses FedEx or whatever, that's going to take him two months to actually get his results. But if he wants his results to come out soon and he needs it urgently, then he needs to shake body in her words. That you need to shake, you need to shake body. And he asked like, what do you mean? She said, oh, it will cost you 5,000 Naira. So he shook his head and he said, okay, that he didn't have any other option. So he decided to actually give her the 5,000 Naira. Now, guess what? After he had done that, she brought a 500 Naira from that 5,000 and gave it to him and told him to go buy her moats and puff puff. So after he had posted this, right, you had a lot of people who commented and were complaining about Government Parasite House and how some of these things actually happened. One had mentioned how I think he had like almost similar experience, but this time around, the woman had a child and had to give him the child to hold. And someone else had talked about, he said he went to NECO to get his NECO certificates and they had told him that they couldn't find his certificates. So they showed him documents that show that someone had collected it, but then there was no signature. All they told him was your NECO certificate is missing. It's not here. And it just didn't make any sense to him. Now, the one that was very funny, a guy had said that a police officer once told him that he would make money even if he was posted to a burial ground. And he had asked, oh, how would you make money? And the policeman goes, oh, that once he gets to the burial ground, when people come to inquire about spaces and their loved ones who had passed, he's going to tell them there's no space. Now, for you to get space, you need to drop money. And it's just a lot. So people who have been complaining that even need office, when you go to need, you want to get your international passport, driver's license, tax offices, these things do happen. So let me go back to the original story. And this is why when I saw the story, I wanted to take the story, which was why I'm smiling is that I don't know if I can, if they can see this chat. This was a chat between myself, my son and myself on Monday. And he goes to go. So he says, I have to pay 7,005. I said, okay, please go ahead. And he used my card details to pay on the Wayek portal. There is Wayek.org slash certificate. Do you understand what I'm saying? Wayek has released, they've launched a portal. And this is his certificate. This, they can see it is Wayek certificate. So when I saw the story, I said, you like literally, so it's two things. It's possible that the sensitization has not really gone far. And that's why I'm taking my time to explain this thing. And I know that Wayek had been running a lot of ads. I've seen a lot of ads. In fact, I was even at some point, having conversations to bring some of the ads to us on Waze here. But the goal is, I saw what they did. Brilliant initiative. So for as far back as even your certificate, if you need it now, all you need to do is go on the portal. Do you understand? And you'll be able to pull out your certificate. So there is no other, because again, they are trying to cut off all the issues of fake results and all of that. So now Wayek can send your result directly. Maybe if you are applying to a school or something, they can send the result directly. All you need to do is to pay the fee, just like what you do with Waze. Do you understand what I'm saying? So please, for anybody out there that wants to get your Wayek certificate, maybe for your job, or maybe you're relocating, or maybe for what's it called, school or whatever, go on the Wayek portal. Let's see. Yes, I know that corruption is everywhere. But some of these people are also trying their best to cut off some of these things that bring, breeds corruption. And this technology is one of the best things that would ever happen to any human being. You understand? Especially when it comes to your results and all of that. Imagine if we had our universities able to give us this one too. So you just send it, because when I wanted to get my transcript, I had to pay this person to send it to Waze. So now that my transcript is uploaded on Waze, I uploaded it in 2015. Now that it's uploaded on Waze, I wanted to do something recently, and they needed my transcript. All I needed to do was just pay another, I think $100 or $70, something dollars. And that's all. Waze will send this straight to the place I need it. So it's the same kind of structure that we have with Wayek now. They can send your result directly to whoever needs his original result. Like literally on Monday here, immediately he paid, it was an immediate certificate. It didn't take two hours or whatever. It was immediately. So let us be intentional about taking advantage and learning, getting information, and taking advantage of what some of these organizations or the Parastartals are doing to bring about reforms. That was why I wanted to take this story. On that note, let's talk best breast cancer. Stay with us, we'll be right back.