 A world and a pandemic with no end in sight. Nigeria had adopted the COVID-19 measure requiring unvaccinated passengers to be tested twice while they vaccinated once on their return. The contradictory message issued stated mandatory seven-day self-isolation with testing on the second day and the seventh day for the unvaccinated and on the second day for the vaccinated. On the 6th of December, 2021, arriving at the NAMDI Ezekwe Airport, we were all bundled into a room to make payments if you had not done so online. I was subjected to what I would call COVID-19 vaccine immigration, C19VI. This was the first layer before gaining access to the real immigration officers if you did not make this payment, you would not be allowed into the country. This was to take care of the fact that Nigerians would come back from their foreign surgeons and would not be responsible enough to test. However, this government solution turned out to be a money-making venture, not whether it was tracking COVID-19 and unvaccinated, I paid 79,000 soft Naira. On day seven, I got to EHA clinics where I had been scheduled by C19VI Squad. And despite using a microscope, the lady behind the laptop regretfully informed me that she could not find my name. Politically, she stated with my agency to complain. I was livid. As I realized, there had not been any document except a point of sales slip that read the name of an account that was a company that was neither the government nor any of the recognizable payment platforms. I waited patiently for the agency to publish passport numbers and bar defaulters from traveling for six months. I was ready for them. According to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, Nigeria has had over 250,000 confirmed cases, over 20,000 active cases, over 220,000 discharged cases, and just a little over 3,000 deaths. Among all the vaccines I have known, I have never seen a vaccine that forced all to wear a mask, maintain social distance, get a booster shot, still take tests, discriminate against those who did not take the vaccine, threaten relationships, and despite all this, still the virus is spreading. As forward six weeks later, the United Kingdom became the first country to remove all COVID restrictions, including discrimination based on vaccination. The UK has the second worst pandemic death toll in Europe after Russia, with more than 153,000 confirmed virus related deaths. Denmark has followed suit, and more countries are set to. Nigeria missed the opportunity to be big brother from the onset in Africa. Granted the narrative was killed to state that our streets will be littered with our dead bodies. But when we failed to litter the streets, uncle, since we did not lead the charge, it is of utmost importance and urgency that Nigeria follow suit and focus on what is really killing us because it has been clear for a long while now that COVID-19 is not killing us. This advanced form of flu is here to stay. The regular attention and money spent on COVID-19 is desperately needed in our health sector so that women can stop dying from pregnancy related complications. People can stop dying from lacer fever, malaria, and headaches. Here's a thought. Maybe invest in procuring a malaria vaccine that will be given free. Kunle, we'll go to you. Let's hear you. Comfort. You know, one of the things that pushes me with your advocacies is you always lift up the thought and the game. And you know, you always do one little circus in which I find very cool. 79,000 soft nira. Come on. Anyway, anyway, of course, we've looked at COVID. For me, the biggest COVID in Nigeria is COVID-1960. And that is the amount of corruption that has gone on in governance since our independence. That's a better pandemic that we should be facing instead of what we usually shroud ourselves. You know, you find Nigeria that is a country shrouded with a lot of diseases, like you mentioned lacer fever, maternal mortality rates that are higher than should be, and then a very, very high case of malnutrition of children in the country. And we're spending billions on COVID. I think it's either that the name COVID-19 invokes or open CBN vaults, or I really don't get it, because if you look at the debt ratio of COVID in comparison to the number of Nigerians, I think about 6 million Nigerians die from malaria each year. COVID is nowhere near that. And you know, we just tend to... Anyway, you know the way it is in Nigeria, new album, new one-bed. So that's what we're doing with our health sector. Abdul, what are your thoughts on it? It's a broad subject, topic, and touchy as well. But as conference, we have the Nigerian element, where as Nigerians, some of our people always try and find ways of making money in a way that should not make money, which disartens those of us that follow the rules on regulation. And because of that, that will also make us think, why are we bothering to do this? You understand? At the end of the day, to me, the biggest problem with this COVID thing is if there was a world plan agenda, we should do things a certain way so that we're all on the same page. Not every single country having their own different ways of addressing the COVID will make life a lot easier for everybody. But I mean, that's my thought on that one. Kato? Yeah, I mean, just to piggyback what Abdul has said, is the hypocrisy right? The hypocrisy that comes to just paying attention, or not paying attention in this case, to the things that really matter to us. Well, in a way, paying attention to the things that happen to matter to other people. And in this case, in other countries, yes, COVID is probably a big deal. But it's not so much a big deal in our country, because very few people, even though that is disheartening, but very few people, when you compare to other countries, have actually lost their lives. So, if we can transfer that kind of energy to actually solving the things that matter to us, then we would have done a great thing. Thank you, Kato. Before I pass it back to you, comfort, there is a part of COVID we haven't even mentioned. And for me, that's even the heat part. Now, private companies came together and put together stock for the hungry and the needy during COVID. And those palliatives did not get to the ground. People decided the entire situation, and people had to find where it was hidden. So, you know, it's a whole snake and ladder situation we have on this. Comfort, I don't know what to say, really. As I said, for me, I think it was just seeing, you know, the UK just literally throwing in the towel, you know, with these number of people are dead. Please, we are throwing out all the restrictions. Let's just go on with our lives. And I'm just wondering, so what did we do here for two years when it was blatantly obvious that this wasn't our problem? You know, why did we allow it to become such a large scale thing for us without taking the bulls by the horn? As Kato said, you know, it was the sheer hypocrisy of putting our nose where we didn't need to put our nose and keeping it out of where we actually needed to. So, Abdul is next. After the break, stay tuned.