 All right, well Teacher's Day is a heartfelt tribute to dedicated teachers who shape the future by impacting knowledge and inspiring young minds. This global celebration acknowledges the invaluable contributions of teachers and their roles in nurturing generations. So in the spirit of World Teacher's Day, it is our own Onye quizzes. It's time to celebrate our own easy of further life as a teacher. So happy World Teacher's Day. It's an interesting day. I don't know what teacher made any impact in your life. Do you have any? I'm not sure that I have any. You can see the person that I am. I'm quite a distant human being. I don't think that any teacher made a particular impact in my life. But teachers generally, I feel like they are not well appreciated. You know, for instance, someone comes to you and says, I'm a teacher. They're very quick to be like, oh, so it's expensive. I mean, because the truth is that especially for children, they spend more time in schools with these teachers than they even spend with their parents. So if you're not appreciating someone who is taking care of your child, who is teaching your child and making sure that this child is a responsible human being, I really don't know what else to say. But I think that teachers should be appreciated a lot more. And I'm very glad that there's at least one day dedicated to celebrate teachers. Absolutely. Mary, how about you? If I have a teacher, I think my mom. Oh, that's so sweet. Yeah. I think every day I'm just realizing you know, how much impact she has made for me. And she actually was a teacher. Oh, nice. That's so sweet. And again, today is, so I'm sure you people don't know them. Akane Mo. Akane Mo's birthday. A.K. is she used to be one of our co-uncles. So she turned 40 today. The big photo. I just saw. Correct. Then Kome Osalo. This one. Kome is also a friend of the house. Kome was at our party the four-year anniversary, three-year anniversary party. This is Kome's birthday today. Today is quite a special day because a lot of people will just say, I've no wish on a birthday. I've no wish on a birthday, but happy birthday to everybody. Oh, really? What is it? Their birthday? Oh, that's so sweet. All right. So what did we find in the news? Let me come to Mary, then I'll come to you, Dami. Okay. The Secretary-General United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Rebecca Greenspan, has stated that many developing and middle-income countries are in a debt crisis. This is contained in the 2023 Trade and Development Report, which was addressed in a press release statement late Wednesday, as published on the UNCTAD website. Gripsan noted that amongst all the key messages extracted from the report, the debt crisis has to be part of the discussions at the international level to be able to find the right solutions for restructuring debts in many developing countries, including middle-income countries. And I'm sure Nigeria falls among them. Of course, we're an emerging economy, we're a developing nation and all of that. And sometimes I'm really scared when I hear the amount of, what is it called, borrowing that goes on. I think I saw in passing, I didn't stop to read that story, but I saw in passing that the Senate was like advising, or would I say, was counseling the President, warning against further debt, you know, like further borrowing and all of that. So, I mean, it's a good thing to borrow. I remember. They can't write off things. You know, so the sad thing is, so there was a time, one of our leaders went to the UK and he took up the entire building and these hotel rooms don't come cheap. The spending, what you spend per night is quite expensive. He was doing his 70th then, you know, and he took up the entire building. In fact, they invited the Queen of England. So, I mean, I remember the story then that we heard was that, so you have this kind of rich people and people are fighting for debt cancellation. It's not going to work now. Genocide, I'm saying. It doesn't make any sense because the kind of lifestyle that people lead in this country does not suggest that we're actually struggling economy. So, I mean, if we were borrowing and we're borrowing to build infrastructure, I mean, I'm saying, I'm saying debit a lot, but I know where the money is going to. It's not like I'm using it to go and buy a Gucci bag or something, right? If you're building, if you're building and you're investing, you're building, you're building. Nobody's going to argue. So, the challenge I have or the fear I have with some of this borrowing that I love, African leaders are borrowing. They don't borrow for, what's it called, for capital expenditure. They borrow for recurring. So, they are borrowing to pay salaries. Those are not productive for us as a people. So, when we continue like this, it's going to take, in fact, it will take the grace of God for us to be able to come out of that debt. Debt keeps passing from one government to another. And our reserves are really, really in a mess. What do you think is so strong? The solution is for us to look inward and really be serious about it, right? If we cut off, see, let me tell you something. I am hungry. Do you understand? But I know that we can build it. I would keep my whatever aside. And it's like farming. You have to be patient, right? But you see, the issue with Nigeria is that when you say be patient, we don't see your actions being patient. So, if you say the solution, the solution would be investing in the things that would generate income. So, look away from crude. Look at the agricultural sector. For instance, let us start to grow what we eat. Let's even just within the economy, first of all, boost the economy and stop being dependent on forex. So, if we do that, we can boost our earning power at the same time gradually rise above this indebtedness. It's crazy. And find a way to look within to solve our problems. So, let's stop bringing, because we are paying forex to be able to bring people to come out and help us build roads, do this. Where can we find people within and, you know, get the label cheaper and keep the money within the economy? So, let it keep going round and round like that instead of going outside? What help us? Okay. So, my story is a funny one to me, actually. The Minister of Interior, Olubuni Tujihu just says reforms are underway to simplify the passport application process with the possibility of Nigerians being able to begin submitting online application applications as early as December. He also stated that one of the reforms the Ministry is implementing in passport management is to put an end to the chaotic passport application process. I don't know, but I think that this particular, should I say policy now, has actually been in place since what, since 2020 or 2021. Because I remember seeing that you can apply online and just pay 25,000 naira and ideally in maybe two weeks your visa should be, your other passport should be out. But you find out that even where, is it at the, maybe the website or something is even down to start with. And when it's not down, when you eventually apply online and pay, you then go to the passport office, maybe for capturing and something and then immigration people are trying to frustrate your life because they are fighting for their own pockets. They are saying, you know, because I've literally seen it happen in real life, where they literally told somebody, maybe you have to go and pay 25,000 naira, who sends you message, you will see come back here and come and pay under money and I'm like, but it doesn't know what they said we should do. It doesn't know the process that we are supposed to follow. So how come now you people are saying that, why did we go and follow the process that the country seems to follow? But because you are fighting for your own selfish interest. And so at the end of the day, I always say something, like Nigerians, we don't like each other. We just like to exploit each other at the very, at the slightest, any, especially when there are people in power, they just feel like, okay, I can't do this and then go ahead to do it. Because really who's going to question them? Because if truly there was, there was a body or something that was going to question these people and make sure that these things are actually going where they are supposed to go. I don't think we'll have some people, because these days people pay very ridiculous amounts of money just to get their passport done. Not because if they register online, it's going to be done, because it is one thing to first of all register online. And you don't get swear as opposed to capture on it. I'll tell you why the deal runs with. It's another thing for you to not even go through the entire process. And your passport will be delayed for God knows how long, because you did not pay somebody to help you fast track it. Why do we need to fast track a system that should be working? You just brought a soft point for me, because I remember doing my son's passport. I paid three times C. I paid three times because first of all the first person, when we did the payment, it was a wrong location. Second payment was the fact that we couldn't capture in Lagos because we wanted to add his middle name. And the middle name was also we now had to pay a third time. And that went to Abuja. But to your point, right, I actually think it is the immigration personnel, because God bless her, Mrs. Adishokon, anywhere. In fact, she was one that eventually sort of that. Why did I say I didn't want to stress her? Because she's quite a senior person in immigration's office, right? When I reached out to her that I wanted to renew my passport, she sends me a link. When you finish applying, you've paid and all of that, let us know, select you or whatever. Everything was done online. I only went, I captured and I left. And again, it happens like that anywhere she is in charge. So I think again, the system will clean up. But you're not coming to say it's from December. It's not like you do not know that this online, whatever it is, because I remember when I read my passport in 2020, I asked you if you knew that this thing was in place. I paid online. No, I even did, I think it was 75 because I was doing the 10 years and I was doing the more pages and all of that. Okay, that's why. With the basic ones, I don't know, it's just, wow, you're a big girl. Oh my God. I'm not paid as I paid as the official because I paid directly to the thing from the portal. And she was one that said, please, when you have done the payment, you've done everything, just let us know, then we will shadow you for captioning. You might as well just like to do like this. I didn't know that they have power because why are you trying to pay somebody to do something that should work? I don't get it as well. All right, so today is actually a very sad day as well. It marks the 11th anniversary of Alu Killings, a tragic event that took place in River State and took the lives of Chia Dika, Beringa, Favo, Eri Kenna, Ugona, Obuzo, and Tokulioid in River State. As I said, the young individuals were brutally lynched and burnt to death for no reason. It is important that we remember that they were all sons of, first born sons of their parents. Very, very heartbreaking. I remember the movie that Linda KJ did. Oh my goodness. I cried. Like literally, I cried to the point that I didn't even have tears to come out anymore. It was really cruel. No, no, no. The cry was heavy. You know why? Because I was just putting a lot of, you know, putting myself in the shoes of the boys, in the shoes of their parents, in the shoes of their friends. It was just so much emotions. Like it was too deep for me. Like I cried for days. I said, what is this? You know, and you know, it's painful. It's painful. And you know, when we ask for leaders that are empathetic, they are compassionate, this is why we ask for things like this. Because so many needless deaths have happened in this country. So many people have died just for, just been Nigerians, just been in, you know, in the wrong place, right? So it's important that I'm really commending daily times for remembering this because it is very easy for us to forget. It is very easy for us not to remember that these things are actually things that are the reason we are always, whenever an election circle comes, we're always demanding for, you know, good governance and all of that. But thank you to daily times for this. And our heart goes out to their parents, honestly speaking. I don't even know how you can comfort anybody. You know, after how many years of investment, you know, sleepless nights on these children and somebody just wakes up and thinks it's okay to take their lives. Sad. All right, so we'll take a break now. When we come back from that break, we want to discuss the certificates. So stay with us. We'll be right back.