 All right, you are still watching Waze. Now today marks the first of St. Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese woman who was sold into slavery, abused, but later freed, together with CodeNet and Talitha.com Network. Caritas will host an online marathon of prayers on this day, or this year's theme, joining in dignity, which calls us to journey in dignity against human trafficking by keeping a horizon of the dignity of every person and leaving no one behind. This day of prayer invites us all to explore the world of trafficking and the suffering it inflicts on millions of people. It is an opportunity to learn about what trafficking means and explore its material, mental and spiritual impact on individuals and societies to take that first step in the fight against human trafficking. Ha, I've watched some kinds of movies and when this went like literally before your eyes, you just, you know, there are voluntary trafficking that you are the one that trafficked yourself. The one that is involuntary like you just go and try to pay off the debt, next day you are being trafficked. I've seen very, very horrific movies around these things like it is scary. Nothing beats somebody just, you know, stripping of your dignity, taking away your freedom. It is very, very painful to experience and to watch. Very sad. You know, I had, I have a lawyer friend who told me that so she runs a restaurant and she said one of the reasons why she does not discriminate against beggars is because even though there are some that are not genuine, some have genuine stories. So she told me about a little girl, 13 years old, who came to beg her for money to go to school. So in the process she started asking her, why are you begging, why are you not in school? So she said she does not know who her parents are, she's living with her grandma. So just to cut the story short, she started doing her investigation and she realized that this girl was kidnapped at some point, right, brought to Lagos. Her parents think she's dead. So when she got in touch with her parents, they said they've buried her that she's, it's not possible she's alive. So, you know, that's, so even in our own environment, these things are happening. It's it, yeah, yeah, it's real. And we would actually think this should be a thing of the past, considering how evolved we are. It's worse now. But it's worse. It's worse now. It is worse. Issy, let me come to your thoughts on human trafficking then we'll take your story. Okay, my talk, my take on this is that we have seen women and children being trafficked in the past, basically. But now we also experienced men being trafficked as well. I saw a story of a little girl who was actually trafficked by her family, an immediate family. She was sold into a marriage, basically. That's another aspect of human trafficking, you know. And we've also had all the stories of this, we have stories now. This is not something that happened in the past. It's currently happening, currently in the world. And we also have stories of individuals who have been, you know, taking it to the, they're taking it to another level, which has to do with the cyber space. Now the cyber space, we have people being auctioned online, basically. So that it has, it is escalated and we just need to keep crying for these individuals and for the people who are involved in this to actually change their mind. Ah, that would help us. All right, Izzy, quickly your story then, Mark, come to you, Laurie. Okay, my story, I had to look for something that was good about life in the basic way, you know. So I picked the story, which is like a bomb to my soul and it says, the headline says, pusecacity across Nigeria to reduce from next week. Hopefully, I'm looking forward to this actually happening in Nigeria because we've had a lot of fast stories coming out of the country from the north, the south, basically ranging from different perspectives. And this was promised by the national, a Nigerian national petroleum company. And we are hoping that if you're shorted, we'll come to an end. And this began, you know, the first shorted actually started in 2022, July, and it's been on for about seven months now currently, on running and if it was a baby, that baby would be walking or crawling basically. So we are looking forward to a situation whereby Nigerians can actually, you know, heed the sign of relief from the burden that they've been going through for the past few months which has to do with different terms of past, we've practically queued for practically everything they can think about even down to our little tender. Basically, we are looking forward to a bit of relief from the stress that they've been going through. Thank you. We are praying for that. A very good story. My story, Nigerian singer Anthony Ebuca Victor, known professionally as Victoni, says he will be taking a two-month break from music after undergoing his third and final surgery. I think he had an accident if I'm not mistaken, sometime around 2021. But then, particular, this resonates with me personally because sometime around 2020, I also had an accident and I will say it's by God's grace that I came out of that accident unheard. But, you know, I want to wish him quick recovery and back to the scene of music. And also just to use this opportunity, emotions are high, people are angry, drivers are angry, people are taking their frustrations on the road. So let's be very mindful and let's be very responsible while driving because even about aside the accident on his own, the mental effect of it, I remember then I could not sit on the front seat of a vehicle because of the mental aspect of it. So I just wish him quick recovery. Wow, it is well. It is well, indeed. Okay, so the headline of my story is IMF asked federal government CBN to extend cash swap deadline. And then it says in light of the hardship caused by disruptions to trade and making payments due to the, making payments by the public in spite of measures introduced by the CBN to mitigate against these challenges in the bank note swap process. The IMF encourages the CBN to consider extending the deadline should the problems persist over the next few days. I don't know. I mean, this was today. Yesterday, Supreme Court, you know, gave a mandate and it just begs the question. I mean, can we not do things right in this country? It is well. So actually, I was gonna take the Supreme Court, you know, they have actually come out hours, you know, to what's it called, to halt this February 10th deadline for the old Naira 200, 500 and 1000 Naira notes, right? To cease being used as legal tender. And again, this is coming off of the back of the governors. Kaduna Kogi and Zamfra's data had in a motion filed by their lawyer, prayed that the Supreme Court to stop CBN, you know, the Naira redesign policy. So now there's a pause. We don't know what it's gonna go on. But earlier today, President Mohammedu Buhari met with the CBN governor in Aso Rock, right? Hopefully, the meeting, because this meeting is happening like hours after the federal executive council and the Supreme Court's judgment and all of that. So hopefully, we will see the outcome of this. I have a bit of mixed feeling about this halt, right? I have a mixed feeling about it because on one hand, I am actually looking forward to the system easing off so that the tension and the anger dies down. On another hand, I'm just looking at the implications of flooding our, what's it called? Our streets again with a lot of cash. How that would directly impact elections. Given that Nigeria, we know that money, politics plays a huge role in our electoral process, right? So I mean, tomorrow we're going to be discussing another interesting story that came up today. Anek saying that MCO Luwamon and his people will be the ones to convene our... I thought that was a joke. It's not a joke. I have to hear what Nigerians are saying about it. But hey, that's not a con... You see, these are all the things. You know, mental health threats. You see? Interesting thing, I have this group on WhatsApp and we banter and someone had said something, you know, of course, this kind of thing, people would send forwarded messages and all that. And I remember that everybody just, it was like, open gates, everybody just had to walk in and I was like, okay, today is not a day. No, today is not a day to talk about Nigeria. No, no, no, no, no, no. It cannot be today. We can't do this every day. It just wears down on you. I said my mental health is terrible. I'm looking for what to touch, it's telling me. How to navigate Nigeria. There's such a place for us. It is. I need to declutter my mental health. I'm mad. I'm praying that the election will come and go. Because I need to navigate my mental health. I need sanity. Because Nigeria, you will know for sure. We'll come back after the break. I want to discuss my mental health.