 Education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24th of January as International Day of Education in celebration of the role of education for peace and development. I don't think we can overemphasize what power education wields. Part of what we're discussing today, imagine if we were well educated, well informed on certain things. I think it will do us a lot of good, I mean there are some things we will not struggle with even as a continent, as a people because now we understand, you know. So I mean for every opportunity to celebrate the space, we would always take on that opportunity. So I mean what major thing has education played, what role has education played in your life Mary? Excuse me, exposure, excuse me the ability to talk intelligently like you know, among my peers and there are just some basic things that like I would see businesses and I can tell if this person went to school and if this person didn't go to school. Education gives you a bit of finesse and adds you know a lot to my life. So it's done a lot for me, I'm grateful and I want to go farther like to take on more courses, masters, if possible PhD, you know because I can see what it does, it just opens up your intelligence to you know so many things, it seems little at first but it plays out in different areas of my life. So yes education is very important to me. How about you NJ, I was going to add that you know when we talk about education people should also understand there are informal education as well. So that was actually what I was about to say that education to me is learning and learning can be done anywhere in the school system, outside the school system, your environment. So the exposure you're talking about also by experiencing some of these things we get educated by traveling, going to learn things from other cultures and countries, we learn different things, we get educated so because there are a lot of people for example a lot of people who have never been to Nigeria or to Africa are being told that when they come to Nigeria or anywhere in Africa they're expecting to see animals just running alongside. So until you come to Africa then you see that that's not how it is, do you understand and when they come here they are re-educated about what they've been told and yes. So it's very very important, it gives you some level of confidence, knowledge is power so education is also gaining some from knowledge so definitely it gives you power to be able to achieve a lot of things in the world you know so it takes you as far as your eyes can see and that's why people go from degree to degree just trying to amass as much knowledge as they can. Alright so let's quickly go to what we found in the news, maybe I'll start with you. Chris and Broharie arrived Lagos to commission some projects. We have the Lakey Dealsil port yesterday and today we're doing the 13 kilometer blue rail line. This took place today at the Marina train station I think they had some blockages today because he was coming in and the train network is to transit between Marina and mile 2 axis as part of the state measure to reduce road congestion. I think this is actually a great idea and I hope we can maintain it because that's really where our problem is today but yeah, good luck to him. Moving on. So my news story is from the CBN Govno, Govno of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin MFLA has said CBN will not extend the January 31st deadline for the old notes. So and in other news a lot of agencies and a lot of companies even banks have been pleading and trying to solicit for an extension and most of the time if you go to the ATM even since you know they claim that the notes should have been with the banks which was last year. So it's quite hard to see I don't know how we're going to achieve this whole transition and everything I don't know how it's going to be done because he even MFLA is pleading with EFCC because a lot of people have cash at home Nigerians are used to keeping cash at home. So now you're saying that there's going to be a transition for the notes, a lot of people you can take there's a limited amount of funds and cash you can take to the bank to make a deposit. So I'm sure a lot of people are looking for it. You know how to really make a deposit, I think more of the withdrawal that's the problem. I can't I can't pay in what I have but it is in withdrawing right if it was easy for instance if I took a billion to the bank and they will give me back the billion worth of the new notes, we'll not be having all this problem. No, but you cannot, I can't take the billion cash without flagging EFCC, that's the problem. So I don't think depositing is really their problem actually. It's part of it. So that's what I'm saying to you that depositing is might be a problem but it is not the major problem. The problem most of these people have that stock cash in the house is so if I go to the bank and I make this deposit what then happens when I want my money back, the real crux of the pain, the pain point for most people is that there's nothing to give me back in return. So if I give you a billionaire please return my one billionaire in the new currency and the civilian is trying to say no, we have a limited amount that we can give to you when you withdraw. So it's going to cost quite a bit. Yeah, it's a big issue. We will have that conversation on Friday. We have one of our in-house and friend of the house coming to discuss elaborately on that. In fact, tomorrow we're also discussing some issues around money. But speaking about money, my story is actually tied to yours because it's now interesting that kidnappers are demanding ransom in dollars. I mean, I remember Uti typing in the group that we have not even got into January 31st yet. I said, but that is the aftermath or this is the rather ripple effect of these kinds of policies. Already we are still trying to solve money kidnapping problem and we've been saying something that why don't we follow the money to apprehend these kidnappers and end their terror. But now we are now seeing that some kidnappers are now demanding a ransom of dollars. So according to the report, one out of three of the kidnappers that were kidnapped near the Fulani settlement in Iwotown in an ocean state had been rescued. So the thing is, it's not like he was rescued per se. They ran into some sets of hunters. And I think in that process, there was a squabble and in that process, he ran away. And they were about eight gunmen. And two other people are still in their custody. And from the report, they reached out to the families and they asked them for a five million Naira ransom. We did. Now later came back to say, okay, pay four million Naira, but you have to pay the people who have led in dollars. Now tell me, how do we move from here? It's a very sad situation. But hey, that's part of all our conversations today because these are the things that we say when we were not understanding the impact of, you know, not really taking ownership of your country. And, you know, you would, you certain things would just, you know, just not work. So we take a break now. Hopefully we will be able to reconnect with Nama. So she will join the conversation and we'll discuss the Western influence on us as Africans. Stay with us.