 All right, you are still watching Waze National Freedom Day, always observed on February the 1st, celebrates freedom from slavery. It also recognizes that America is a symbol of liberty, that they honors the signing of Abraham Lincoln's, Abraham Lincoln of a joint house and Senate resolution that later became the 13th amendment to the US constitution. So, hey, nothing beats freedom. But ladies, let's quickly move on to our story. Let me come to you, Ece. What did you find for us in the news? As we're talking about education today, I actually saw a story which actually resonated with me because it has to do with education. And it says that NDC, which is a national university commission, can shut down schools for elections. And that was what caught my attention in the news. And this was spoken by the name of the, what's his name now? That was spoken by the ASU Chairperson, who is in the person of Professor Bolano Bolaring. He is the Chairperson of ASU at Mina, Mina, I said Mina, so I don't have too much information, basically. So this was spoken by Bolano. And he insisted that the NDC do not have the right to shut down schools. However, let's recall that recently that the federal government was called upon by the Senate to actually shut down the schools. But my take on this is not because they want to shut down the schools, but we can look at it from two perspectives. One, what will the students be doing? And how long, what's the duration that the schools will be shut down for? Is it doesn't mean that politics now supersedes or overrides education? Number two, we can also look at it from the perspective of why are we shutting down the schools? We want the students to actually vote, which is the concept that students make up currently are the newly, we have about 3.8 million students who are actually making up the newly registered number of voters currently in Nigeria. So yes, we need the students to vote, but at what cost? Can't they bring the polling units to the schools or bring the PDCs to the schools to have the students actually vote seamlessly? I think this is something that we should actually so that we do not disrupt the education system of the children or the education of the children. So while I think I tend to understand where you're coming from with your analysis of bringing the polling unit to the school, sadly it cannot work. It cannot work because the structure of the Nigerian political space is you are voting according to a particular, so even if the student is in Lagos, right? The student cannot even vote in a region in Lagos except the region that the student was registered to vote. So that system might not work. Some students might be coming in from say, Kano state, right? And so they school in Lagos, but they are originally from Kano. So it's very likely that their registration would be, what's it called? In Kano, it might be in Lagos, we don't know, but the best I think the approach should be, they should just go on a break because we actually need our students to vote. I mean, college votes in the US account for a lot. So we need our students to go to their polling units, even if it is just for a week. What is the duration like? I think it is the spacing in between, the spacing between the governorship and the whatever, presidential and the governorship elections that causes that, because if it was closed, we would have just done everything, quick succession and they go back to school. But now it means that they have to go, like come back twice. So they will go, do presidential and send it and all of that, come back and go back again to do governorship and the other, what's it called? State House of Assembly. So I think that's where the issue is, but except if we start to think of registering students in a different class, where they can vote maybe on a portal or something. But if it is with this current system, they still have to go back to where it is that they have voted for me. It is my point. If INEP is willing, INEP will find a way to make it seamless. Absolutely. Well, let's find the solution. We can find the solution. They were already on strike for a long time. Now they're going to shut down the schools again and nobody knows what might happen. Well, it's even safer for them to shut down the schools. What if anything happens, right? Let them go back home. What if anything happens? But hey, we'll keep on monitoring the story. Glory, your story please. Okay, I'm still in relation to NIRA notes. Apparently just like Isis said, not everyone is really affected by what's going on. So it says that PDP presidential candidate requested for a non extension of the NIRA notes from February 10th. What caught my attention about this is that is for a particular statement he made. He said, it had become imperative to ensure the purpose and objective of initiating the redesigning of the currency are not destroyed. So the purpose of reinstating the redesigning of the currency, it's not destroyed. So it means there's a bigger purpose aside what they are trying to tell us. Because remember that Sibian released a circular saying, these are the reasons why they are doing this because it's been long and so many, it was almost 80% economic reasons. But now he's, we all already know at the back of our mind that yes, that there is a bigger purpose for this. But he's actually making it clearer. What I'm saying is, what they are doing, maybe it's okay, but then the pressure in which they are putting the Nigerians into and look at what has happened. I've experienced this, as of yesterday, I went to the bank, there was no cash. I could not even do transfers. I was almost stranded, having money and still being stranded. And this is just the case with so many other Nigerians. So I think it's a step in the right direction. But why the rush? If they know that this was going to be so urgent, why did it not start sooner than now? Why is it just within this few, is it a little bit over a month? They are satisfied with that now. They plan that. They plan that. They plan that. They plan that. Again, mind you, we have a disjointed system. So when you implement policy, it takes time for it to be effective. And that's what they are not taking into consideration. There's an extension of 10 days, and I think another extra maybe 7 days. Yes, you just keep putting it. But let me hear your story, Jennifer. Okay, so this is in relation to education, which is the topic for today. Degrees are not enough to equip youths. And this was said by the Minister of Communication, Professor Issa Pantami. So he said that he has called for inclusion of digital skills in the school curriculum of African undergraduate students. He also said that the inclusion of digital skills, training should become necessary because degrees are no longer enough to equip the youths for the task ahead of them in the label markets. And also stated that the focus shouldn't be on certificates, but the ability to do the job. And I mean, this article was actually very, very long. Spot on. Yeah, and they also mentioned how we have a lot of unemployable youths, which I totally agree. And saying that they should add digital skills to the curriculum, I think it makes a lot of sense because going to school for five years, also common because you just have that paper. Once you come out, you have no skills, you have nothing. And a lot of the youths who become graduates are actually not employable. They are digital skills, or the skills they're actually supposed to gather while you're in school that will help you once you graduate. You can easily secure a job. It doesn't necessarily have to be internship. You should be maybe entry level or something like that. And I think those that, I was having the same education conversation with my friend yesterday and we're talking about how we spend five years in school. So I studied information and communication engineering. And then we found that that's one of our, one of my classmates. Her younger sister was also studying the same course in the US. And what I was taught in 400 level was what she was taught in 100 level. And she already had skills. And she already had skills. She was able to do things that we could not do, that we could not even understand. I think it dawned on a lot of us when we went on internship in 400 level that we really did not know anything. Okay. On that note, Jennifer hold me because I want to remove myself. I saw this video because I told you people I said, this is money matter. We see this thing you said here. I'm employing a few people currently. Right. And a guy came into my place in noble school. After Secondary School, he said he did year 100 level. He said they were just teaching him rubbish. So he left and he went to YouTube. Currently he's earning in hard currency. So really in fairness, our educational system here is quite shitty. In all honesty. But again, the story that I want to take is the lady that wanted to go naked in the bank. They cannot flush the story because Mia will continue my story tomorrow. Mia told you people this money matter will continue tomorrow. So I mean she was agitated. It's a no brainer because a lot of people go to the bank. They don't have anything. They don't have anything. So I need CBN to be very careful because now the bank staff they will be punching. But this lady was agitated and I think she just went off and took off her clothes in the banking hall that she was not living until they gave her her money. I mean is the video... I don't know why the video is not that hard. I don't have a father. I don't have a mother. That's what I got. Give me back my money. I didn't let you know that. That's what I got. Mia, I am about the same thing she said. I will not let you go to school. Say this is the only money income. It doesn't make any sense. One night some people were giving to the bank. They looked at them and said we have money. But it's 50-50 and you get... two of you get 3000 each. The two ladies looked at themselves. I don't understand...I don't understand the rationale behind that We are talking about tomorrow, we continue that, today is for education, it's not about me, please Let's do our education, it's not about me Let's go to break, when we come up from the break, we'll have our guest, stay with us, we'll be right back