 All right, Planet Ocean tides are changing is the theme for World Ocean Day 2023. Now the UN is joining forces with decision makers, indigenous leaders, scientists, private sector executive, civil society, celebrities and youth activists to put the ocean first. World Ocean Day reminds everyone of the major role, the ocean have in everyday life. They are the long of our planet and a major source of food and medicine and a critical part of the biosphere. It's so interesting we're discussing flooding on today's World Ocean Day. How coincidental. Honestly, it wasn't planned. Whoopsie, you want to call me? That's a really big coincidence right there. No really, I literally did not know today was World Ocean Day or more. It was the suffering of people that I said, this is too much, let's discuss. But hey, I think different environmental specialists have come out to say that the rate we're going as a people if we do not pay attention to what we're doing today, in the very near future, we would have a very big problem in our hands. I've seen different videos, especially I think on Business Insider in India, in different places where you see massive chunks of plastic going into the ocean, like every body that knows, they always say these things, but I still don't understand why we don't, just we're not paying attention to it. Maybe because it's the thing, okay, it's not affecting me yet. They've opened some bellies of fishes in the water and they've seen chunks of plastic. At some point, you see different mammals dying as a result of what's it called, ocean, the issues that goes into the water and all of that. So I mean, it's not something that we have to take lightly because again, there is a balance and every particular part of this our planet, the way God orchestrated it, it has its role. And if you abuse it, it would also for the consequences. I believe that some of the problems that we're even facing with earthquakes, what's it called, volcanic eruption, droughts in some places, excessive rain in some places, fire in some places and all of that. All these things are as a result of climate change and it's because of the abuse of our climate. So I think for every opportunity that we get, let's just try to keep our oceans clean. Sustainable. And blue. Yeah, blue planet after all. A very, very one. Okay, so who am I starting with? Jennifer, let me come to you. What's your story? So Teni, the singer and artist, said that people should remove the female tag and that she's the best in the industry. So she tweeted today saying, make an accomplished female tag. We are artists and now we bad pass for everything. Steezo, musical performance, everything. Call me anything way you won't call me when I'm not saying that I'm bad pass. Correct. They're all good. I don't even know which one is bad anymore. All of them, they are okay. The video called them. It's called Burnaboy that is the new cat on the block. I saw one video of Burnaboy bamboo, like they show the bamboo, like struggling with a door that this is how Burnaboy is going to go to the video's house. All these artists, they should just leave us one. But they're all artists. I think she doesn't want the segregation where you say male artists, female artists. Because again, it affects the pay. Yeah, because they don't pay you enough as a female artist because they feel like the men are better. I mean, it's a male industry, dominated industry, that kind of thing. So I really get where she's coming from because sometimes on most of these artists, the women actually sing way better than some of these men. And they pull in more crowd. But I mean, I'm not in the music industry, so I really cannot say. Oh, Burnaboy, give it to him. I think for me. Even now, Mekambe, international stars, they said, it broke history. You know what I like about Burnaboy, what I'm liking about the artist or what I'm learning as well is the confidence and belief in yourself. Burnaboy, I like Burnaboy as an artist. I don't really know much about him as an individual. So when people are dragging him, different things he says, I'm like, if you listen to his song, there's some parts in lyrics where he's like, I'm the best and I know I'm the best. Do you understand? Confident. Yes, do you understand? Like, what is good is good. There's nothing you can't drop out of it. You can actually even still have a bad character, but the talent is there. And he knows it. And he owns it. He owns it. And I'm just like, look, imagine if as an individual, you believe in yourself. Like, is what you tell yourself you are that you want? That would manifest. Do you understand? Like, if you tell yourself I'm the greatest and the giant of Africa, you, no matter what, even when you're on the ground, you are really on the ground. You say, no, I'm the giant of Africa. You really be the giant of Africa. I'm the giant of Africa. Absolutely. So that's something I learned from them. It's okay. Yeah. It's just a story. Okay, so my story is an Apple, our favorite brand, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, so Apple has introduced the Vision Pro, a mixed reality headset. It's the company's most significant hardware innovation in years. The headset expected to be for sale early next year for $3,499 will give users a chance to connect to apps from Apple and others in an entirely new way. Apple CEO Tim Koch said the device, which blends virtual reality and augmented reality is the first product you look through and not at. Augmented reality is a technology that allows users to overlay virtual images on live video of the real world. The eye size feature makes the headset look see-through, allowing the wearer's eyes to be seen from the outside when someone else walks into the room. Biko, is this how the headset will look like? Yeah. Okay. They lost me. Who's in your story? They don't lose me, Biko. Even the one they did, the glasses, was it Google or Facebook? Because it's... I think eventually we will want to do it. I'm not so much of a tech freak like that. If you don't pass risk to watch Apple, leave me a laptop. Imagine watching a movie and it's enlarged, as opposed to having to buy a big TV screen. Oh, I get you now. So it's the same way with the AirPods Max, where you're not always walking on the road with the big thing over your head, but then maybe you can be walking out and watching a movie in virtual reality. I think that would be amazing. Oh, okay. Actually, he's smiling, he's a gadget person. I know, if you're Google. I think Google has this AR thing, where you can actually Google an animal and then you want to see it in an AR form and then you can actually just place it somewhere. They have some furniture apps as well. Not in Nigeria, IKEA, House, and who else. I think Amazon also has that feature, where you can just select a particular furniture. Say you're trying, you have a new apartment and you're trying to put it in. So you can not fit it into your house. Oh, to make it. To make it. So this will really be helpful for interior businesses. So you just fix it in. You can fix a whole. And see what it looks like before you then go and purchase it. And even while you're doing that, you can change the color of the furniture to suit your apartment. So you already have an idea. Okay, I don't necessarily have to call anyone to do this. You can also check measurements as well. Just measure your space, put it in there and basically just go online and then order the furniture down to your space and then everything is sorted out. The problem where I get to all these features is that you do not have a label in Nigeria. But let us be seen. Are we not here? It will, it will. Okay, let us see. Five years. You're just going to be really expensive. Really expensive. Who's you? Are you a gadget person too? But I like this explanation Jennifer gave. I mean I am, but I mean there's some gadgets that I don't understand why they have to be so expensive. Particularly with this brand, they consistently... What's your... You've lost me. Sorry? You are your own, you've lost me. Don't go to... No, because I mean come on. This is a gadget that is going for $3,500, right? The closest thing on the market, I mean I think this combines AI and virtual reality. The closest thing on the market is about $300 and something. I mean as you can admit that 10%, something that is less than 10% of what is coming. It's a huge gap and I know it's a niche market, but sometimes I just wonder if these prices, I mean come on, but to each their own, the Apple fans I'm sure they'll be queuing on day one to buy it, but I always just question those prices when I see them, particularly when, I mean I just can't even explain, I can't justify it. But then, like I said, it's new technology, so I guess proprietary information, monies in R&D needs to be reclaimed or what I say recouped. Anyway, moving on to my story. So my headline says, Jaffa, Nigeria lost many bright youth to other countries and that is being, that was said by the outgoing House of Reps, outgoing Speaker of the House of Reps and of course incumbent Chief of Staff to the new President of the Federation. He was speaking at the Balladictory session organized by the Ninth House in Abuja earlier, no doubt this was yesterday. So according to the Speaker, youth have lost faith in Nigeria, choosing to seek their futures in other countries of the world. And he's basically saying that both the executive and legislative arms of the government was act fast to avoid the Nigerians' bright youth exiting the country for Europe. So, well exactly, so that's one of the points. First of all that, you know, people have been living in their drifts for a couple of years now. He did go on to say that despite the considerable investments that have been made into public infrastructure and numerous reforms, that we still face many challenges in the country and that has caused the citizens to lose hope and to lose faith, rather, and to choose to find their fortunes in other lands. Now why this story stood out for me, of course, this is a bit of a sore point for a lot of people, particularly the people who are here, trying to fill the gaps that this brain drain is causing. We're definitely losing some of our best and brightest. So to hear someone who, I mean, has been within the auspices of the government, I believe since 2003, he's been house of rep, I think he's been re-elected six times for his constituency to be saying this. I'm like, please, what's all the time you were there? How did you help the youth? And we've gotten to this phase, we've gotten to this point where we're now asking the question of how we restore faith in our young people so that many of them feel like they can achieve their aspirations here in Nigeria. The formula for me is simple. This is not the first time. Nigeria typically goes through this cycle of brain drain every, I want to almost say every generation because, I mean, the last time was probably like early 80s after Saapan and Babangira at the time. But then we also see that when Nigeria is thriving economically, when the environment is conducive, we also see that a lot of young people love Nigerians because we'd rather be home, really. That's the way I'd like to put it, right? So we saw the whole IJGP movement that was back around 2007, 2008. Even earlier than that, really, where people were coming home when the telcosectors took off when we had paid off our Paris Club debt and all of those things. So the truth of it is that if our leaders and our politicians can get their act right, most Nigerian youth would rather be home in their spaces. So the fact that we've gotten to this point where people no longer trust the leadership, they no longer trust that Nigeria has their best interest at heart is quite distressing. So my final note really is that as he goes into this position as the chief of staff, working very closely with the president that they do focus not just on hardcore governance, but really on building trust, on being transparent, on communicating and not just communicating, but communicating effectively so that people hear the real message and people can start to believe and trust what is being said based on the validity of the actions that follow. If we take what has happened in the first few days of the administration, it doesn't seem like that's the direction that they're going in, but let's hope that they do better. Yeah, thank you, Uti, for that. I was just going to add that in case he doesn't know, I know a lot of people that were waiting for the outcome of the elections and because a lot of the young people felt like these elections, there was a lot of things shrouded that are shrouded the transparency of that election and the credibility of that election. People between the time that the elections happened and when he was sworn in, a lot of people also have left the country just because you know what I think I cannot deal. I kind of waited for my PVC to let's see the outcome, let this be the final trial for some level of hope that for once we'll have leaders that are transparent and all of that, when they didn't see that. So thankfully I like your advice, he's chief of staff now. So whatever it is that you're doing, let us just see transparency with the government. It will help us. And I think this just even ties nicely. If they can pull out my video, Peter Obey was speaking on Phil's subsidy. So that's my story, so we'll just take the video. And you go to a dentist. There's a difference between removing your tooth by applying anesthesia, which will irritate your pain and just pulling it out. The difference is that I believe it should be removed with conditions and that conditions has to be applied. If I was involved, I would have shown in empirical satisfactory data how much we're going to save, where we're going to apply it, the gains for the people so they can, just like I said, I'll try my campaign, that I'm going to govern the people by being open, showing them empirically verifiable facts on how the country can be better and everybody can follow it. That's what I would have done. A lot of business are on the same page with you. I agree that the subsidy should be removed. But the impact that is having on the masses especially is the reason why a lot of business are in support or supposedly in support of products. You have to give it to this man. And I think the reason I'm taking this story, right? There might be a lot of things that I think this government can learn from him. The reason he has this kind of cultic following from young people, is this statement he's just made? The fact that they know that, come to our very cobble, I've said this thing, it's the same question Uti was asking the Petroleum Guide that came last week Friday. Can we even have an idea? What is the exact cost of the landing cost if we do the math? And you tell me, I'm a business woman. If I buy products, sometimes I do a 40% markup. Sometimes I do a 70% markup. It depends again on the rent. So many things, there are so many factors that adds up to the price of any commodity. What we are asking for from our government is transparency. Do you understand? You can't just wake up and say, this is it. How did we arrive here? It's like we're not allowed to question things. And that's where we have a problem with the government over the years. Let's start to see government, allow us the liberty to say, okay, you know what? I think, I think, I think, because now we're seeing numbers. So you have to give it to Pitalbi. Call him whatever you want to say. You understand? He understands the language of the young people. He believes that, you know what? I can't, they can hold me accountable because I can be transparent with them. And that's why till tomorrow, everybody just believes like he's the Messiah. You understand? Even though for some of us that we know that truthfully Nigeria does only the Messiah. Nigeria needs more than the Messiah to change the situation because of the rock of the system. Well, please, I'm just trying to ask our government, the leaders in power now, try to take a cue. Try to, I mean, let Nigerians start to see some level of transparency, some level of honesty in your leadership. And you will see that the love and the whatever will just flow to you naturally. You don't need to bribe. You don't need to use money to get anybody's love and support, you know? Who would have thought that somebody that said he did not have the penny to spend in an election would even gather that kind of momentum that he did? So it is that we need honest leaders. We need transparent leaders. And we are just begging, you know? Because as the situation is hard now, you were speaking to the few subsidy. You want to remove my teeth. You still need to put sedative there. You need to calm the team before you remove the teeth. You can't just put my teeth like that. Okay, true. Do you understand? Well, he's brought my butcher analogy from the last show. My sister. And yes, it was your butcher analysis that he borrowed now. You want to, nobody says the teeth is decayed. We need to take it out. It's a problem for me, because if it stays there, I will die. But you see, before you can remove it, you can't just wake us up. The tooth is decayed. The tooth, you don't put playa. You have to, first of all, sedate the place. Prep the area. I say, okay, now the tooth is ready to be pulled out. I didn't think I would take this long on this matter. On that note, please, I want to discuss flooding in this hour. Nigeria's team does go right back.