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Well values and convictions I'm a huge fan of it because values give you direction you know when you know that you value education then that means that your attention is going to be pointed towards education and I also think that when you make yourself a very valuable person that it gives you an edge in life such that people tend to look beyond your race your complexion your whatever it is they just see that value because people will always magnet towards a valuable person so and whatever we call value. Yeah you want to add to that? Yeah I was reading this book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and in the book the writer alluded to people striving to act based on values as opposed to based on circumstances now in Nigeria it's a very like fast-paced and intense community so it is natural that you become a reactive person someone pushes you you have to push them back but then thinking and acting with values in mind gives you a new perspective to tackle that kind of situation you you think to yourself what are the things are actually considered to be important in this scenario and then you act as such so even if somebody does something that typically you should react to you find yourself not reacting or choosing a different course of action or choosing to respond I always respond to people like you can't you can't catch me I respond because when you respond to people you are at a more advantageous position because now you're not reactive right? Yeah I think value also keeps you accountable really because like Alphair rightly said if you know who you are I think everybody should actually know who you are you know come to this self awareness of who you really are it guides you in your daily activities even in life because like he also rightly said we are in a very intense community I like I always said suddenly when you live in Lagos it's just like everything is just going fast before you can catch up with this many more things has already happened so if you're not careful and if you don't have your value system in fact you can just swear and just everything goes to any opportunity like any door that you see that is open you just go in without even checking and all that yeah well for me I'm kind of at that phase where I'm learning to like not be reactive but be responsive because I think there's another book about that kid Harold can ask you this everything that's a current book and so I'm like more than halfway because I drive out to do that like what is it? I'm telling you so I'm I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm kind of in that ways in my life where I'm trying to like strictly align with my values especially about being more responsive and not react less reactive absolutely and sometimes we even get tested right when you know I feel like people think that they are strong until they are really tested that's why you don't know are you really strong? I had something so it's a very common thing particularly for males around my age to work out people go to the gym a lot and then like when you're in university the first day on campus everybody's in the gym the next day the population has decreased by half so sometimes when I do my own personal workouts and then it's getting stressful this thing pops in my head that I think I should like share it's the reason that you are strong is so that you can take those things that's like coming your way so like when the situation gets tough that is actually because you wouldn't know that Superman was Superman until Lex Luto came with everyone and almost destroyed the world that's how he got to reveal himself so your strength is determined by the challenge that you're able to overcome to some extent yeah awesome awesome after you're coming on my podcast just because you know I was just thinking because I'm launching my podcast but let me just say it out there and after you're gonna be my first guest all right so quickly let's run through what we found in today's news then we'll come back to our conversation for today all right who wants to go first who has theirs open uh well yeah so um breaking news not exactly breaking news but he's been trending for a while it's the developing news um popular nollywood actor john lucafa aka amy stybu has come out meaning we saw images of him or video clips of him just calling out to nigerians and praying for assistance and prayers uh he doesn't want his leg cut off and you know from the signs of it it looks like his diabetes or diabetes or something like that so um now this very upcoming social commentator a very dark man comes out to say oh that um it's very embarrassing that somebody that is legend like john lucafa should come out and be crying for this so he was saying that nollywood should find a way to take care of the the older actors like mcremor patients you know mcremor because yeah because he won't say that because when you go out and which is true i went to gabon like in libraville i was stunned where most of the actors in nollywood that they know are more of the veteran they were soft yeah and that was what he was saying that these guys are like celebrated heroes across other african countries but here is the thing right i do have my reservations because nollywood industry is because very someone made a comment or someone you know called out on very dark man and he said nigeria never get structure finished and nollywood will get structure you know and here is the thing nollywood doesn't have a structure where guys gradually paid to the the the actors or whether you are a veteran or you are an upcomer so nollywood is an industry that has been fashioned at least as of right now when it's like the seasons you know the story of joseph when there is food safe all you can because they are with feminine i mean that feminine nobody will remember you john and that's what we are missing in nollywood eventually we are praying that we'll get to because even in hollywood nobody pays you gratuity what they do is royalties so we are praying and working towards nollywood getting to that place where they pay royalties but right now that is not functional so you need your wisdom and financial advice us to tell you investing this investing this because there will come a time they'll always they will always be the drought yeah you understand they'll always be the drought so there's a boom he had a very good career but then again then again remember go we bless you because if you remember that it is even this new nollywood people that's why it's getting you know better paid so they were popular but they were not really being paid well right so i get you i mean he's got in a lot of endorsements and all of those things right and this is what we say to people save now genocide because invest now you know so that tomorrow when the when the because it's not about if it comes it will always be a drought season it will come so when it comes so that you have a buffer for it i'll just say that and we'll leave it there um dammy quickly okay so my well what i found in the news today is the federal government of nigeria on thursday announced the closure of the third mainland bridge in lego starting from midnight saturday october 21st it's a midnight of sunday october 22nd to carry out repairs um so i find it's very funny because it's not the first time like this bridge is being closed and then they just they open the bridge again and it's like the same thing that was there before is what is there not home there's like what are you not closing the bridge for you i think it was your news on monday or something not Milan bridge is not like a death trap like if you're not careful it's only at night so you're driving at night it is to like shine your eyes like this is nothing so not like as i don't know we didn't take them just one one day or just two days to fix the entire street you know what they are trying to do is window dressing so they want to just patch it which is what they normally do so that's a temporary solution to a seemingly permanent problem at this point so they need to like find the last thing solution to it as a see i've seen some videos in case our minister for walks and all the engineers inside that ministry they never see just follow civil engineers on instagram i they follow them way you see some kind correct things that those people have there's a sealant dummy that they will just inject it into the holes it seals up what and it is there permanently like technology has done it in a way that it is going far instead of what is mixing granite and stuff together that is obviously nowhere so we just need to create a budget for it and ensure that this one only budget if they want to make the order from china go down now you go pay it doesn't even look it's not the thing no it's only it's only one the government want to do that it'd be expensive if i wanted to order that thing it should not be expensive but the truth is that even the government can carry this in out themselves they say i have to allocate this thing they should allocate it to me so i think it's carrying it out to the later that is the problem having a budget is not the problem i look at it to a company is not even the problem but we they should look at it let me tell the government should get to that point where they look away from making money from every project that's the only way we have permanent solutions because at as it seems now the same road do you understand that they shut down for months is the same thing is still like it's ridiculous actually it's ridiculous so my story is actually tied to i mean um uh what's the called humanity for the for the lack of a better world um there's an area in legal state that is currently flooded um it's the uh residents around um owo de oniri in koshofe loco government area they are actually using canals if you can see the videos they're actually using canals to go to so there was a the release of the onya onya i think damn i pronounced it right last week right and this affected so that thing always happens you know every now and then it affected unity estate jova street alias and all those areas around that community in the sherry olora and then residents of legos so please um you remember we talked about um on tuesday we talked about structures called the planning and all of that so i need to understand why every time there's a release of a dam it floods the entire area is it that the areas at this state they don't have enough you know because it's not the normal drainage that should have they should have proper like canals that would channel that water as it's coming so even if it would the water would come like heavy to which it can pass so for it to stay days like this i mean if they can scroll through the pictures like literally they are using so now kenu business is there because there are people using kenu's and pay it so that they can move so the kenu guys take them from one point to the other so that one area is flooded so this canal issue remember the video on on on on instagram that people were calling out government abby don't be messi list where you know tractor was taken down the building that were built on the canal so just to step in for the governmental list so sometimes it's not really government sometimes it's people who just deliberately either do stop that blocks canals or they build on it so just do all sorts of so that's why we need to investigate this area yeah because i believe that if they investigate the area because for every time that this happens maybe the government might just need to relocate the entire people and reconstruct the entire community plan planning i have a question for i'm not really sure for projects like this when they initially build the dam today accounts for the surrounding area around the dam because what this looks like this is even look like any structure was even put in place in in the first place to account for all of that it feels like it's undocumented because everywhere is flooded like there is no passage if we wanted to even go out let's alone say it's blocked so i feel like there is just is them asking you is there to your to your question right yeah my response will be from my little knowledge of what i know that happens around i mean that happens with these kinds of things the dam was there right the the the residents or the community came and met it see that's where the problem actually yeah so somebody did not do proper diligence which is why they were demolishing so if the if they were coming to the community to start to build they should have been a proper structure that says you can't build it can't build it can't build here because this what you know this is what you should expect but you see it is that planning that we lack you know it is that ability to sit down and look at it from an ego's eye view or whatever area of view and say okay this if you if this water is released this is what is what will happen so you can't build here but sadly if you won't look at the people there these are makeshift homes they're not even like thank you they're not even like proper proper structures so that's what i'm saying they're not supposed to be so that's what i'm saying to you that if the government truly wants to solve that problem it is a serious movement like they just need to be looking at those people from that entire place and find a way to restructure it then if they can still have houses there they it will be properly planned so it's really a full circle no you can't you can't be homeless so they will create like what do they call those camps now yes they'll create like a an idp camp for them to like a holding area but at the time they now rebuild they now re what's it called um move them back to in English English is not our mother tongue okay when we come back from the break we'll 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