 Now, you're still watching Waze National Dollar Day takes place each year on August 8th, as it is the anniversary of the date when the Continental Congress established that the money unit of the United States would be the dollar. Now, this happened in 1786, and just six years later, the United States Mint was established in 1792. The U.S. currency has been the dollar for more than 200 years, and this particular currency is the one that is giving us a lot of headaches in Nigeria because we have an economy that is solely dependent on this particular currency. Everything. You have to buy F4. You'll tell you the dollar has gone up. It's a very strong global currency. When I heard that at some point, yeah, the Chinese, they were in talks with President Buhari on them Nigerians just directly buying things from China using their currency. I said, yes, finally, but it did not happen, because like literally, right, for every transaction you want to do in this country, you have to go through the dollar. The only places that I've been to that have not had to buy the dollar is probably when I'm going to Europe or when I'm going to the U.K., but every other transaction, you have to get dollars first, then when you then get to where you're going to, you then have to convert it. So it's a very important currency to our economy, and I hope that if we truly want to change that status quo, like this diversification of the economy that they're talking about, let it not be just theory or just talk truly, diversify our economy, let's have us as Nigerians pushing out more of our stuff to the world, and that we, the burden of the dollar or the pressure and all of that will drop, and we would actually even strengthen our Naira, because it makes no sense. We almost get hitting a thousand Naira to a dollar. So this day is very important to us, very, very important. Especially her. That's true. See the way she's looking at me with corner eyes. Because it's really affecting my, it's really affecting work, and you know, the, there's really no longer middle class, or like someone was saying, before you get to the very top upper class, there's still upper middle class, you know, and that's being shrunk or, you know... All of them, they are in Canada now. Yes, they're relocating. People are stiff with the money, even the one percent, you know, because what I sell is not in necessity, so it makes it... It's luxury. Yeah, it makes it harder for, you know, people, they would rather even buy it when they are abroad, because they're getting an experience, which is they're on vacation today, away from Nigeria's problems, and you can easily, you just spend your money, I forget about it, and when you come back, you think about your problems in Nigeria. So in Nigeria, you're here, bringing luxury to them, it's like, no, we're, we're farming here, while everybody now, every big man in the middle, ah, I'm a farmer. What do you do, sir? I'm a farmer. I feel good. Because our farmer is a new way now, so it's really, you know, it's crazy. Do we have Isi now? Hi, Isi, a father there. Isi, vahome. Hello, sayuame. Hello, Mary. Hello. Isi, don't laugh at me. Hello, Diora. Hi. I said, Isi, don't laugh at me, too. Does she not look like Isi, don't laugh at me. You want us to talk about this story of lamentations here? I really do. It is totally affecting me. I, in fact, Nigeria is, let me just put it the normal way we usually say it, it is well with us. It is well, my sister. All right, mama, what did you fight for us today in the news? Okay, in the news today, what caught my attention is the story about Waik. And it simply says, it simply says that Waik with those results of over 200,000 candidates records 79.81% pass. And the little pic there is on the fact that the Waik boss, Patrick Arega, said that candidates no longer are no longer ready to study, noting that they lack self-confidence and preparations for examinations are quite poor. Now, this actually caught my attention because he is not far from the truth. What he said is quite apt, because currently we had, if you recall, we discussed a story about individuals in the past that did not perform well, and they had a lot of students or exam writers carrying the creep sheet. The creep sheet, that's what we popularly call Expo or Chukuli into the examination hall. So that is, as a result of the fact that individuals were caught with the creep sheet. So they didn't release results in these areas that they had a lot of examination malpractice. Like I stated earlier, it is about time that parents step up to the plate, try to curb this culture of examination malpractice, because it begins from home and transcends to the school and to the society at large. So it is high time we actually curb this menace that we have in Nigeria, but he also recorded the fact that, or he stated that we had a lot of passes as well. So kudos to those who actually did the work. Yeah, I was just going to say that we also received my son's WIAC results today. It was quite good, we thank God. And something revolutionary that I think WIAC is doing is the ability for them to download their certificates almost immediately. Fantastic! Yeah, something that they've not done before. So this is a good fit. So instead of all that time, you have to wait for your certificates. So now it's almost like you can get your e-certificates. That's fantastic. So there's been a lot of improvement especially with WIAC. I was going to say, let me shade the jumps more. We'll make it keep quiet, because the same person will try to jump. The way they give him 60 something for English, the same person that WIAC and A1 will get. So they use the corner eye, they look at the jump. I will seek the jump out, but it's not now. But you just shade and jump. No, but I'm just saying, literally, I think maybe they should start giving us a result sheet or something. Like upload it. It's not that difficult. Technology has made life easy. Let me even see my score. Let me see that this was my script. Because these days, sometimes I just look at some kind of result. You just see one outlier there. Literally, can you not even check yourself that these results. But it's not a story for another day. Maybe because my children are writing that WIAC. That's why I bought Hey. Hey, Nigeria. Let's move on, please. Let me come see you married and I'll take your story. Okay. This evening, we heard the news that the senior pastor of Fountain Life Church, Pastor Taiwo Udukoya passed on today on Monday, 7th of no, yesterday, Monday, August 7, 2023 in the United States of America. In a statement, the church said the Fountain of Life Church family in total submission to the will of God Almighty announces the passing on to greater glory of our father, teacher, a great seventh of the most high God, Pastor Daniel Taiwo Udukoya, founding pastor of the Fountain of Life Church. So sad. You know, I was telling you guys, I had a mental fatigue. Like, I was working, working on my laptop. Like, literally tears couldn't stop rolling down my cheek. Tears were just bringing out tears, all itchy and all of that. Let me shut down. So I just shut down my laptop and just said, let me take a nap because I was feeling a bit of headache. And only for me to open my eyes and try to go through, because I had a few missed calls I needed to return. And going on Instagram, I was trying to find the what's in the news when I now found that post. It was really, really... He's really suffered a lot of losses. In fact, when the last one happened, which was his wife, Pastor Numti, when she passed, like, I was saying that, God, please just comfort this man. You know, just comfort this man because I really don't even know how this man will be able to cope. You understand? It's really sad. I'll just say that my heart goes out to his family and I pray for comfort for them. I pray for comfort for them because they've suffered a lot of losses. His twin had passed. He's had a loss again. I mean, well, thank God, that they are Christians and this is the time that they truly need the comfort of the Holy Spirit. And I know that he will definitely comfort them. So our heart goes out to the entire fountain of life, church members, and the immediate family of Pastor Taiwo Dukuya. All right, Diora, what did you find for us in the news? Yes, so this one struck me because I remember that a couple of days ago, you know, on the show, we had discussed fake news and all that. Yeah. So this is Acuabio, Gowon, Shoinka, others to attend the three-day summits on fake news misinformation. Um, the president of the Senate, Senator Goodwill Acuabio, former military head of state, General Yacobo Gowon, Professor Waleshink and all the dignitaries that are expected to attend the three-day summits aimed at addressing the issues of fake news, misinformation and disinformation. Um, the summits are organized by bloggers, bloggers and content creators from all 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory. Um, I think this is fantastic. I mean, this is the first-ever national bloggers and bloggers summits. And, um, you know, there's been some concern about how many bloggers are failed to distinguish between accurate information, misinformation and disinformation. Um, the bloggers have been attributed to being agents of fake news. This assertion may not entirely be correct, but the effects of fake news, hate speech and campaigns of Kalini that characterize the last election, I mean, this was really visible in the last election, you know, in terms of the fact that there was a lot of... Miss communication. Yeah, miss communication, miss representation, hate speech and everything was just flying up and down. It almost felt like there was no there was no line, you know, everything was up for grabs, you know. So, I think this is fantastic and, um, you know, so the whole goal here... See, auntie, what do you mean? What do you mean three-day summits? I mean, for you to get national... So, I get it. The goal, I don't have a problem with it. Yeah. But how can these three-day summits truly be effective? Because summits are just they come, they talk and then what? Do you understand? So, see, honestly speaking and that's why for me, right, attending all these conferences and all of that, is a bit... Just talking about the problem. Do you understand? Yes, you would have all these speakers come, they talk about all the implications of fake news and all of that. How would it truly translate into us becoming a lot more responsible? Because right now, the bloggers are not just your people that are officially making money from blogging. Anybody with a mobile phone and data can become like literally you can spread fake news. This is beyond just putting together a conference, a three-day summit. It's a fantastic idea that they understand that it's a problem and they're trying to solve it. But, you know, Nigeria and summits, I think I have a very, very bad... The occurrence of summits. Yeah. Summits are just like opportunities for a lot of money to be spent. Right? So, you put it together, all the grand things and all of that. But it really does not affect the change that we're seeking. That's why, you know, when I say all these three-day summits, one-day summits, whatever, because I can literally tell you that a billionaire went into the summit. I can literally tell you that. But imagine if I'm taking that money and probably look for a more creative and innovative way to tackle fake news, right? I don't know. I'm not the one that would give them the solutions, but I just believe that things like summits and all of those things are just talk shops, right? It's just like what we do here, we talk. But beyond the talk, personal engagements that, you know, we're able to then affect real life changes, you know? So I think that's what it should be, not really so much of... Because if it is for summits, a lot of people have talked about impacts of fake news and so what would be the kind of topic line-up and all of that? It will still be talk. How do we move it away from talk to real life, you know, practical solutions? That's the only question I'll leave it, you know. I'll leave to them to answer. All right, so we'll take a break now. When we come back from that break, stay with us. Stay with us.