 Alright, you are still watching Waze. Being in HR can be a difficult task to handle because of all the critical tasks that the HR department does help keep the business running and successful. While there may be some that don't like that department, they are vital and essential and sometimes they may not get enough credit for what they do. So Human Resource Professional Day is a holiday made to change the perspective people have of HR and learn about why their jobs is valuable for any business. Ah, HR departments. They are the most hated in every company. Well, hey, I think even for the professionals right now in HR, there's a lot of awakening going on. There's a lot of changes happening. People are a lot more empathetic in their style of leadership as opposed to what it was before. So even they are also redefining and changing the face of HR. There's this girl that Franca had sent to me. I think we should bring her Evie. Evie Chik. I think she's a HR professional. It would be nice to have her discuss why people don't love them. Yeah, it depends. They have different departments too. When I was in the banking industry, I worked in HR in one of the banks and I was a compliance officer and if you had to be sacked, warned or cautioned, it was my email. It was me, they didn't like. If you see my name in your email box, you start crying. So I know what it is to sit on that. We love you guys anyway. It was just my job exactly. We love you anyway. But you still do recruitment for companies, right? Yes, I still run the HR company. Awesome. All right, quickly, let's see what we found. Manny, I think you're ready. Yes, I'm so ready. Okay, federal government plans banned on Pomo to revive the leather industry. My lovely Pomo, no. The federal government has said it was proposing a legislation to ban the consumption of animal skin locally known as Pomo in the country to revive tanneries. So the DG Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology, Niles Saria, Mohammed Yaqubo said this in Abuja on Sunday. Niles was set up to promote leather production as provided in the Agricultural Research Institute Act of 1975. So the Institute conducts research, the production and products of leather and the utilization of local taining materials in the country. Yaqubo stated that this action was necessary to revive the comatose leather industry in the country, said that the habit of eating animal skin, which has no nutritional value, should be stopped to save the industry and boost the nation's economy. So in other connected news, the chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest Development Law, Dr. Yekachi Ubani has opposed this move and threatened to sue the federal government if it goes ahead to ban the Choebu delicacies popularly known as Pomo in the country. So some Nigerians have also kicked against the proposed plan by the federal government stating that they only started substituting beef and fish with Pomo as the result of the high cost of the protein. Pomo is expensive now. What's the value of Pomo? I remember then-president of Batsun Joe, there was something around Pomo that he did. He will say that this thing doesn't have any nutrients. It doesn't have. We just like to chew it. It's just exercise of the chocolate mousse. Thank you so much for your meal. No, I eat Pomo in every meal. Really? So I'm going to be one of the people that will be- I'm not a fan. Hardly hit. They really go ahead with the ban. But for me, I think I support this group of people who really want to use it because what we do in Nigeria, especially Africa, so there are two sides of it or to this story, we actually eat our raw materials in this country. Instead of, you know, trying to process it, eat it. So I understand the ban, but also what's the substitution for the pork right now if they take it out? So I don't know. It's a very hard one. What nutritional value is it giving to the poor? Do you know what rice without is? Have you heard of that word before? Yes, I know. But let me explain something to you. What I'm saying is, whether it's there or not there, people need to be conscious now of what we eat. So it's not about eating. Oh, I live here. It's eating right now. You know what I'm saying? It's not every time we be looking for nutrients. Sometimes just look for some big thing in the middle of your plate. Honestly. Oh, okay. Oh, Pomoite. Pomoites have in the house. We leave you two. Oh, I'm here guys. Yeah. All right. Still on food, actually, we have this capture that says 25 million Nigerians are suffering from hunger. So the story has it that national coordinator of academic and research network for scaling up nutrition in Nigeria, Professor Kola, Anigo has disclosed that no fewer than 25 million Nigerians are suffering from hunger. He lamented that Nigeria is ranked the first in Africa and second in the world in global charts of malnourished children. And then he stated in a book, the Oregon state while delivering a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 52nd annual general meeting of scientific conference of nutrition society of Nigeria. He said that there's prevalence of malnutrition in Nigeria. There should be prevalence of malnutrition in Nigeria. The insecurity has caused a lot of instability and has even further complicated situations. I mean, the situation in Ukraine, a lot of food was coming from that direction, the climate change, so many complications. This is the ripple effect. And already we were, I mean, coming from where you were saying, talking about one more, it goes to show that, look, people are doing anything to survive. And if we continue in this trajectory, it's really going to, it can only get worse from here. They say it's going to get even worse by January. So by January, we don't even know what the statistics will be at the time, the number of people who are malnourished. It's difficult for me to capture this thought because we still have food, right? So we still produce. But in the area of insecurity, I mean, with the bandits of North, it's also making it very difficult. And they're just bringing, they're just throwing some alarm towards this, that if we don't pay attention to it now, it is going to further affect us. Well, they've already said that there will be a farming in the country in a few months. In fact, there was even another report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations that said already that 19 countries, including Nigeria, are going to be suffering acute food insecurity. So it's a very disturbing situation right now. Alrighty, on that note, the federal government, through the National University's Commission on Monday afternoon, withdrew its circular, which ordered Vice Chancellor's, Pro-Chancellors and Governing Council to reopen the federal universities. Now, they have not said what led to this withdrawal, but we know or know, because I had listened to the ASU chairman saying that they are just joking. Because how would you order them to go and reopen the university and give them an ultimatum when the case is still in court and all of that's going on? So from even what I, because I listened to an interview with a journalist, he was saying that the only person that seems a bit rational in trying to resolve the issue is the speaker Bajabi Amila, you know, and all of that. So whatever it is that has happened between the time they gave that ultimatum, because they had given that ultimatum sometimes last week, right, for them to go back and reopen the university till now. So whatever it is, somebody's brain has just been recorrected. So we don't know the reason, but hey, that's the update on ASU and we'll just keep the updates going because I mean, we do not have a choice at this point. Alright, so I can't imagine it, but it's going on 8 months. It's never happened like this. Absolutely. Alright, so let's go on a break when we come back from the break. Let's discuss leadership, right, the kind of leaders that we need right now as Nigerians. Stay with us, we'll be right back.