 All right, so, as I mentioned earlier, the quote for today, accountability. It says, accountability feels like an attack when you are not ready to acknowledge how your behaviors harm others. This is from Tamara Rinaie. Now, so, based on the topic that we're discussing today, I just feel like, why is Mary looking at me? I feel like without the drama happening, right, if only we can be accountable to Nigerians, I think it would, you know, lesser problems, like we face lesser problems if we are accountable to Nigerians. But they try. That's what I think. I think they try. I think they try. Right. Your leaders are trying. Are they accountable to Nigerians? The new government now. Really? Yeah. Okay. They sent some officials to cause-of-feeling stations so they're selling above a certain price. Oh, that's good. That's good. That's being accountable now. All right, so, a former Brazilian president, Fernando Collor de Melo, has been reportedly sentenced to eight years and 10 months in prison for bribery and money laundering. Now, the punch also had gathered earlier today that a former governor of the Iquiti state, Caya de Fiamme, was being interrogated at the Zonal Command Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a lowering quora state over, alleged misappropriation of about four billion Naira. So it's our lady's night out. And Jennifer, Mary, and I are discussing the topic. Can our leaders be held accountable? It's a simple thing. Question. And when we open our phone lines, we really love to hear what you have to say about this. But I just want us to jump right into, first of all, our international holiday and what we found in the news today. So, according to, so emphasizing the role of parents in raising or rearing of children, the Global Day of Parents recognizes that the family has a primary responsibility for nurturing and protecting of children for the full harmonious development of their personality. Children should grow up in a family environment and in an atmosphere of happiness, love, understanding designated by the General Assembly in 2012. Global Day of Parents provides an opportunity to appreciate all parents for their selfless commitments to children and their lifelong sacrifice towards nurturing this relationship. This is a very important day. Parenting is not an easy task. And I always say to people that we go to school to become doctors. We go to school to become whatever engineers and all of that. Nobody goes to any school to become a parent, right? It just happens on you. You get pregnant and all of a sudden you are supposed to like get up for another human being, right? Not many people understand what parenting really is about and how intentional we must all be when it comes to raising our children. Because again, whatever it is that we do as parents can directly impact the outcome of the life of that child, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years from now, right? I've seen people that said, even for the fact that my father, my mother like stood their ground on certain things, I would have gone south. Some people's life literally had been cleansed from the shackles of whatever based on just parental guidance. Some other people have been thrown into a life of, what's it called, crime and all of that. Same because of, again, parental influence. So I don't know, what do you think, right? If you had the day to, I mean, if you had something to say to parents, what would that be? It'll be, thank you, actually. I got a call from my mom today and she's somehow funny enough, I really wasn't in a mood, but she just, she was very insistent that something was wrong with me. And she just started saying, you need to take it easy. You need to do this. Don't hold things to heart. And she's been through a lot. Like she's going through something currently, which kind of subconscious is affecting me. And I was like, she's still strong enough to tell you, look, don't worry, God has us. There's nothing we can't face. And I'm just like, where'd you get your strength from? Like, how are you this strong? She doesn't want to tell me what is going on because she feels like, oh, but you're at work. You have your life ahead of you. You have your things in front of you. I don't want to bother you. So she's, and I just wonder, like, how do you just take that on, you know? It's so, to all parents out there, it's not easy. Thank you. Thank you for even birthing, you know, going through the whole process of birthing a child. I'm just grateful to every parent out there. It's not easy because, I mean, there are individuals as well that have their own faults, that have their own hurts and pain that they're dealing with, but they have to push this aside, you know, to groom the child, you know, to give the child the best, you know? And I think it's very commendable. It's not easy to be in parents. Thank you to all our parents. Thank you to parents. My mother can't call you for Africa. But Jennifer, let me hear your thoughts quickly. Yeah, I think it's easy to parents. Yeah, I think I appreciate parents because I don't think it's not an easy job. Like you said, it's not something you learn. It's one of these things where you keep learning as you go. You can either break kids or you can actually make it, that kind of thing. And I mean, I traveled last week for a burial and I saw my mom. She's the only girl in her family. So she had a lot of responsibilities and she has a bad knee. So I saw her walking up and down, up and down and she was doing everything. I have to tell her, please now, rest. She said she can't rest, she's the only one. And I've always known my mom is a strong woman. But this was a whole new level for me and I just saw her in like a different light. And then even coming to my dad as well, I had like a very vulnerable moment to my dad. And it was actually, I was like, okay, okay, this is nice. I mean, we're getting to that point. And if there's anybody who is my cheerleader, my parents, especially my dad, when my dad calls me, the first thing he says is my presidential executive daughter. And I'm like, okay, thank you. We hear that I've not become president. I know. It's very powerful. So thank you to all our parents out there, honestly. I don't think we give them credit enough. My father, amazing. I say, my father is one of the best fathers ever in the, like, he's the best that you ever wish to have. You know, you don't get what I like. Just, you know, live his life, you know, and just once in a while, he checks up and says, okay, I hope, you know. And my mom, oh my God. Oh my God. She'll be watching by now. I know. My mother can call you for Africa, but again, it's because of genuine love. Like, she just genuinely wants to, like, want to make sure that everything is fine with you. I tell her, stop bothering your head. Before you go and give yourself a potential over everything, right? So these days, I try to manage her. Even if I'm going through something, I don't tell her because if you tell her, my mother can literally call you 1,000 times just to find out if that thing has been resolved. So it's also not good for their heart health at the age of, so just try to manage. But thank you so much to all the parents out there. You're doing a wonderful job. And for the parents that I've missed, it is never too late to start, you know, to start to retrace your step because really our lives and the lives of our children and generations on bond, they are all dependent on how well we parent this generation or parent your children up of now. All right, so let me quickly mention something that will now take our news. Crush oil thieves. Tinamu orders security agencies. Now the president today had directed service chiefs and heads of security and intelligence agencies to crush predators of oil theft, saying that his administration will not tolerate the menace. Tinamu said this on his, that said, also said that on his watch, insecurity will not bring Nigeria to her knees while other countries record achievements in key sectors of the economy. The president gave the directive in his meeting official meeting with security chiefs and intelligence heads led by the chief of defense staff, General Lucky Rabbo at the presidential villa today. So I like this, but you see, I don't want us to go back to where we are coming from. Let's stop giving blankets and vague, what's he called? How do I put it? Because we've heard this rhetoric several times. Nigeria has gone past all these other issues. I'm gonna clamp down, you know they work. You understand? Thankfully, your vice president had said in his campaign that he has plans to curb insecurity in this country. So let us start to see all those plans in action. You don't even need to see anything. Let's just be seeing that things are happening. Why are you smiling? Easy. I'm easy, I'm just telling you. Because I don't need for what he said. So we crush it, you bring it and do it. Just let us see action. Just do the work, land with the big. All right, so what did you find when I was married and I'll come back to my other news. Okay. President Tino will reportedly appoint Femme Bajamila as chief of staff. According to PMN News, PM News, Bajamila's chief of staff, Bajamila. Bajamila. Bajamila. It's fine, continue. Chief of staff, Olairaju Smart was CEO. Who confirmed the development? Said that Bajamila was appointed by the president after several hours of meetings and consultations. The decision to pick him was said to have been made by the president after evaluating all possible candidates aspiring for the post among his loyalists. According to Smart, he was picked by the president after a final meeting with stakeholders that ended on Thursday morning, June 1st at the villa in Abuja. I think this is a very smart move. I think he will do well as chief of staff. And I'm- A lot of people- I'm actually positive. A lot of people anticipated this and they're actually quite impressed because people actually had said that the best man for the job as his chief of staff would be Bajamila, right? So it's a good move, right? Even though some places I'm still seeing that he's still unconfirmed, but- They said he's yet to get his certificates, but- Well, congratulations to everybody, Bajamila. Hopefully, it will be a fantastic tenure for him. All right, so your story, Jennifer. All right, so for me, Brazil's ex-president, Fernando Collor de Melo bags 106 months imprisonment for bribery and money laundering. Okay. So the former president has been sentenced to eight years and 10 months in prison for bribery. So it is said that he had received about 30 million- 30 million raise in bribes from a subsidiary of state-run oil company according to the courts. And then they also mentioned that the current Brazil president, Luis Inatio Lula de Silva, was sentenced to a long prison term in 2017 for corruption and money laundering and spent 580 days in prison, but then the Supreme Court later overturned the sentence. This way. That's our conversation for today. So we'll rest this today, we'll come back to that. So this story also caught my attention given that today is Global Parent Day, right? It says Waseh, student supervisor, proprietors and others arrested for exam malpractice. Now the head of Nigerian National Office of the West Africa African Examination Council, Patrick Arega, on Thursday disclosed that 56 roadside operators were apprehended over their involvement in examination malpractice in the ongoing 2023 major senior secondary school certificate examination. He disclosed this while on inspection tour to some schools in Abuja. And he added that 15 others, compromising students, school proprietors and teachers were also arrested. He said that the arrest was made in Meduguri, Ibado, Biokuta and Umuahia. Adding that the students will, they added that the suspect will be handed to the police and will parade them on national television preparatory to their prosecution. So I like this, what's it called? This news, first of all, my son is writing work. So if it's absolutely not fair that some people are using their brains to write exams. Yes, I'm very biased right now. That some people are using their brains to write exams and all of a sudden I've seen, I've heard, now I've heard things like this happening. And the reason I say I wanted to tie it up with parents. Parents are just so interested in, oh, A stars, all A's, 10 second A's, 50 B's, you know, you do not understand the process with the child gets those seven stars and eight stars and all of that. Let me tell you, in a lot of schools and these schools they know, I said they are lying to themselves, in a lot of secondary schools. They conduct examination and practice as a school during most of these examinations. I heard, I saw someone that, when I looked at her, so you don't have the strength for mathematics. How come you are getting A stars? No, we had an A's conversation. No, because you will know somebody's strengths and their weaknesses. I mean, I mean science inclined to, so when I see someone that has the capacity for science subjects like math, English and physics or understand, you're making A's in maths, you're making A's in further maths, you're making A's and you're studying maths. I said, why? Where is the correlation? Let me not just lie to you, they helped us to write the exam in the hall. And she's studying maths communication. Yes. You can switch now. You don't get it. They helped them to study how and to come down. I'm going to, don't distract my story. Because they helped them to write the exams in the hall. So she said, you know, it's almost like most schools, you know, when it comes to examination, because parents are only focused on, I want to see seven stars. They want to see the record of the school, how well the students are doing. So two schools have become very, you know, very, okay, let's give them what they want, regardless of how the students make it, how they pass. So most of them go to the university and you see them struggling, right? So please, I'm happy that Wase is clamping down on this examination. Why is, why is Mary smiling and looking at me? Why are you clamping down? But it should go beyond that. I think how we can really solve the exam malpractice problem, must come from the angle of parents. Exam is not a do or die after. If your child fails, let them go and rewrite the exam. You don't have to start to bribe teachers, bribe these, bribe that. My children, during the exam, I don't even ask, I just say, okay, how was it? Fine, that's it. Do you understand? Even from when they were children, writing entrance examination, I took my sons to a particular school to go on. They didn't know they were going to go on an exam. That's how I, you know, I try to not put my mind on examination. So I think if parents are a lot more, you know, relaxed with this idea of, oh, I want to see the performance of the school, it will also curb, it will have a ripple effect to curb what's called exam malpractice. If you ask me, stop smiling at me. On that note, we'll take a break. We come back from that break. Let's discuss accountability. Stay with us, we'll be right back.