 Thanks for staying with us now. Tassaro's Day is your opportunity to reintroduce yourself to that best friend of writers, the Tassaro's. Now, whether you're looking for a new word to spice up your vocabulary or looking for precisely the right nuance to add to a sentence or phrase, a Tassaro's can be there to help you. Who is a heavy word person here? The only person that knows how to speak grammar is Hootie. You know, so the thing is I really do admire people when I hear them speak and they're able to, because I love simplicity, I love to use just very plain, simple English. But really when you hear people that are really good with the words and all of that, when you hear them speak, you just cannot help but fall in love with them, right? I mean, when you hear Obama, you hear, you know, Michelle as well, she speaks, you know. I mean, if you listen to them, I was very on Hootie. I mean, Hootie is when she wants to put in that game of, you know, and she speaks. I mean, like, so I'm just in awe our teacher, Isi. You know, Isi would use some kind of words I just like. So, and for me again, because I'm raising my children, I'm raising children now. So I'm not wondering, hmmm. Yes, so two strong boys. And when they, when they are using some kind of word sometimes, quietly. I'm always in my phone. Just as they are talking, I'm using Google. I think that was my elder sister for me. She was the one, I think I learned how to read books from her growing up. But like you said, I'm also for simple words, just using the most simplest words to explain or express myself. My elder sister, she has a lot of words in her itinerary. So when I'm itinerary, when she's when she's talking, I've been like, we went to the same school, we grew up in the same room. Why did you learn this one? I think it's a gift. It's a gift, right? The gift of the gab. All right. So, before we go on what we found in the news, today is our M.D.'s birthday. Hey, happy birthday. Mr. Lakeham Ogumbawo, he's 61 today, you know, handsome with his white beard. Happy birthday, sir. We want to wish you all the best. Long life, prosperity, everything good that you wish for yourself. And of course, continue to be the great boss that you are and the fantastic partner with us on Waze as well. So, all the best. We wish you all the best. Still a smile. All right, so what did we find in the news? Let me start with you, Jennifer. So, BBC investigation has discovered that political parties are secretly playing social media influencers to spread wrong information about other candidates. So, basically, they had a conversation with some people who are in different political parties and they basically called them whistleblowers and they were telling them how sometimes they pay influencers and the people that they pay about 20 million naira just to spread false information. And they also spoke to a social media influencer who said that he doesn't, or he or she, they didn't give a particular agenda. So, basically, what they do is they don't use their personal accounts to twist these things. They hire micro influencers. And if you don't know who micro influencers are, micro influencers are people who have followers between 1,000 to 10,000 followers, either on Instagram or on Twitter. And basically what they do is they go on Twitter. Sometimes the political parties or politicians give them the exact words that they need to tweet or they just give them an idea and then let them run with it. So, they come up with their own words just to fortunately make it sweet and then tell lies about another candidate. So, sometimes, besides money, they say they give them gifts. Some influencers, though, ask for gifts or money. They just want positions in the government. So, it's widespread. It happens. So, that's why sometimes you see some information out there and 2 plus 2 is not equaling 4 at that point. That's one of the things that happens. And sometimes, or most times, it's very rampant towards election period. I was just going to say that. You know, the funny thing is that these particular elections, Nigeria is actually sniffing out those people. You know, there was a time when some people were kings on Twitter. So, now everybody's going at them. Everybody's going at them because it seemed like, come, you don't hold any influence here right now anymore. You know, because for me, I was just saying to you, I have over 35,000 followers on Twitter. I don't go there because at some point, I just became very detached to Twitter because it was just too much negativity. You just open your phone and you would know that these things are actually sponsored. I mean, it's propaganda. The truth is, politics is a very, very interesting game. You need to understand that, you know, everything that can be used against you will be used against you. So, you too, you have to be prepared, you know. So, you can't just sit on your and just think everything will be fine. No. So, if you also have those micro influencers, right, those 1,000 people, they have 1,000 followers, 10,000 followers. This is the time, you know, to continue to counter and to continue to, you know, like reply, respond to all of those things because those things are actually huge. We, our elections, especially the 2015 election, it, it brought the, it brought to light the fact that a lot of us are actually influenced by some of these mind shapers because I'll call them mind shapers, right? And the heavy influence that happened and the storytelling that happened around the character of President Mohammed Buhari being an anti-corruption, anti-corruption person being the person that would take us out of insecurity based on his military background. All of those propagandas, all of those things were filled heavily. You know, it was, it was really filled heavily on that Twitter platform. So, a lot of people spread, I mean, they spread a lot of stories about people either for you to like them or for you not to like, you know, so there are so many things that happens within that space. So, we have to really be careful to filter. And like you rightly said, some of these words, they are very key words so that when you just punch it, it pops up, you know. So, you have to also be careful, even you that they're spreading things around you, you must also find those influences that would also help, you know, push your, your, your, your own agenda. Yeah. Really, how about you? Fair enough. Um, Microsoft's incorporation, the owners of Windows is letting go of 10,000 employees. And he was said by US Secretary Natella Satia. She said, we will align our cost structure with our revenue and where we see customer demand. So, basically, from the pandemic till now, the people, the way we use our digital devices has apparently reduced. And I guess this will be the millennials, you know, who are, you know, taking time off their phones. And people are also saying that, you know, being online, the mental impact on it, you know, you don't seem to get anything done. It's a bit distracting. So people are withdrawing now. And so they're cutting down on their employees. This is very sad. But I think everybody will be fine. I think despite their letting go of people, they're still large opportunities in the tech space to deal with. And this is like less than 5% of their total amount of employees. So, I mean, it's sad, but yeah, I think it will be fine. This is welcome to our reality. In Nigeria, it's not a new thing. Well, it's not a new thing in Nigeria. I wouldn't even say that. For me, I think, um, I mean, a friend of mine called me today. She has registered with about 2000, that's not small money, $2000, you know, for a course online. He said, well, I have to upscale. I'll be upskilled rather. You know, I need to do something that while I'm home, I can get maybe two extra jobs right here in Nigeria and, you know, be earning money that even if I earn maybe $2000 or $3000 per month on those extras, you know, expenses, you know, yeah. So, I mean, she was saying that and it made sense. So for me, I would just say to the people that are, you know, losing their jobs, try one, get skills, go and get all those things because it will really be helpful to you. So my story is actually linked to the federal government, you know, it decries rampant death among civil servants. So the head of the civil service of the federation, Folasadeh Yemi-Esan, at the inauguration of the newly established employee wellness center for civil servants said that many civil servants, all of a sudden, they were just dying, right? You just hear that somebody just dropped dead. And these are related like work related diseases, right? I mean, she had complained that said that, you know, the most common complaints that you hear are people having neck pain, back pain, and this is a result of sitting, you know, for long hours and all of that. So it was really imperative that they build that wellness center. And this is part of the promise for employee health, you know, towards driving a healthy work environment for the employees. I mean, globally, about 2.3 million people, men and women globally succumb to work related diseases or death, right? Or accidents, right? So it's not even something that is unique to Nigeria. And if you break that down, it's about 6,000 people dying every single day from work related diseases. So it was really important for the federal government to look into the story. She was saying that just within, let me try to see if I can get the stories. She said they came and met her, the two top civil permanent secretaries, right? Had died, you know, you just wake up, you say the disease is, of course, it's preventable. And where civil servants do not know, of course, their blood level, she was also saying that it's very common. There's a part where she said the trend is necessitating greater attention to be paid to the health and safety of their workers and civil servants around the country. So I mean, this is a good step for the federal government, because anybody that understands these things, you would know. So she was saying in the last six months that she had received messages from the civil servants and permanent secretary, not less than 10 permanent secretary who complained to me on preventable diseases. So every day she's getting the reports and all of that. And that was what necessitated this wellness center to be built. So hopefully, it would be good to also have those wellness centers across all 36 states of the federation, because it's not just, I mean, every, technically, right, every work environment should have maybe mini gym, whatever it is that you can have just for your employees to be able to stretch their legs and do some physical exercise. And I mean, the reason I took the story is because of what we're discussing today. Hopefully, when our guest comes on air, she'll be able to also explain how companies can begin to look into wellness of their staff through exercises. I hope so. All right, so we'll take a breakdown. When we come back from that break, we'll have our guests join us as we discuss wellness and of course exercise. Stay with us.