 Every year, ITU and partners work together to inspire and encourage girls to pursue a future in ICTs towards bringing the gender digital divide. The aim is to encourage young women and girls to pursue their studies and careers in science, engineering, technology and mathematics and other fields and help them achieve their dreams. This year, the theme of Girls in ICT Day is digital skills for life. This one is for the women and girls in tech. Yeah, general words about the holiday. Are you in tech? No, you're not. Oh, you were. What was the experience like? Was there any gender bias? Did you ever experience any gender bias of any sort? Yes. At one time, I remember that I had gone for an interview and the only reason I didn't get the job was because I was female and the guy had said, the person who was trying to recruit me had said that they were working on a project and it would require long hours and you know they might not be able to accommodate you know the needs of a female you know. I have to go, I have to probably in my career, I have Omo now, you know so they'll probably be there like two weeks straight you know how would I cope with the guys you know all that so but I think it's so much better now. There's a lot of women in tech now. Gradually you'll be so divided. Let's see. Yeah, I think it's great really. Girls need a lot more visibility. Closing that gap and there is a gap. Closing that gap is really important. ICT is just even a part of it. I think you know getting more girls into STEM in general just would be really really impactful because we know that women wherever we go we change things we improve things. So I'm glad that there are days like this that shine the spotlight on the fact that we need to start to or we need to continue to work on the mindset of girls do not think that some of these things are for boys and you know not for their gender so I like that there are days like this that just highlight the fact that I mean you can be anything you can do anything. You can be whatever it is you want to be. All right Dami what did you find for us in the news today? Okay well what I found in the news today is about full subsidy or not and I don't know if it's a good news or it's a bad news but anyway I would read it. The National Economic Council on Thursday in Abuja said it had agreed that petrol subsidy should not be removed as earlier planned for June 2023. The Minister of Finance Budget and National Planning Mrs. Zainab Ahmed disclosed these to state house correspondents shortly after the 2023 council mixing presided over by the vice president Yemi Osibajo at the council chambers of the presidential villa at Abuja. Well you know this I don't know like I said earlier I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that full subsidy is being removed. I mean I can understand that because already in the budget of Nigeria full subsidy is supposed to be removed by June this year and currently they have the opinion that we cannot as a nation afford the full subsidy again for very maybe understandable reasons because Nigeria is currently in debt so adding more debts to what we have already I don't think is anything logical by any chance but removing full subsidy is going to have effects on it's going to have a very major effect on the masses because a lot of people because already many people can afford to buy fuel so removing the full subsidy is just going to put everything in jeopardy and I mean it's a good thing that they are delaying it but the truth is or rather the question is if for a good cause because truthfully I don't know if they are delaying it for a good cause because they said they are delaying it to you know they want to give the new administration more time to prepare and all those plans to stop but are you sure that it is not also giving the new administration a venue to root funds because with Nigeria I don't know these days you really can't tell but yeah I'll just leave it there we can't afford it we can't afford it I mean I can't say it's enough we can't afford it we just can't I mean but yeah I mean I don't think that I'm surprised I'm not shocked at all by this extension we keep kicking the can down the road I mean think about the last fuel subsidy and fuel scarcity this is a decision that I mean we should have even if we you know okay let's not say don't rip off the band aid and take the plaster off a little bit by increasing the price little by little by little but the administration well let me not even say the administration the federal government has decided that this is the best way to to go and I think we're literally just kicking the can down the road and it's like when a snowball is rolling as it keeps going it keeps getting bigger so the impact and the effect on our numbers it's just not great but but then they promised that they were going to you know remove take off the subsidy you know in base so that it doesn't right from time so that that brings us back to what I said are we sure that they're actually doing this now for a good cause or not both like I say that I'll just leave it there's no question we can't afford it okay so this one I particularly like this one it's a fifth Pebeck award Gombe crown best best state in ease of doing business and that is a pleasant surprise and this is for the second year running they arrived at this ranking you know which and looking at six indicators namely infrastructure secure and stable environment transparency and access accessibility of information regulatory environment skills and labor and economic opportunity and um I mean when we have ease of doing business it grows the economy it leads to nation building and um I don't know I like I like saying this I mean but they is Gombe very surprising okay Gombe you know for the second year running is the infrastructure one that I'm still questioning because I don't know what's going to be having good infrastructure but if this is if Femex is so well in the west this that has been mentioned frequently like that's really so cute let's see what you do find for us and then you know sometimes you're scrolling down and you see something and you're like I'm not sure I just saw what I saw but let me read my headline parents put padlocks on daughters graves to avoid the rape in Pakistan see it's not only in Nigeria that mad things are happening but there is an increase in necrophilia cases of bodies corpses being raped being exhumed and raped in Pakistan to do to do causes property so when you are two streets they have entered the market this time what they grieve yet so too much of a yeah too much of anything yeah when you restrict to be too strict so I think that the restrictions that are making them yes yes the story says Pakistan has created such a sexually frustrated society that people are now putting padlocks on the graves of their daughters to prevent them from being raped I don't need to say anymore about the story enough said like but I mean I just wanted I wanted our viewers to get a sense that you know when you talk about these being fact that you are just on that stuff yeah we now have to keep so for me my story is the popular Jerry Springer is dead he died today at 79 I saw this and you know what kind of women were like Jerry Jerry Jerry could I remember my mom used to she didn't allow us to watch you so anytime she's watching with her friends she would tell us inside but I mean you still used to hear it and I still used to watch it sometimes I'm not about now sometimes I just go on YouTube and I look for those because the stories are very funny yeah to me but yeah so he was one of the most influential and controversial figures in TV history and he died today after suffering very very he was diagnosed I think a few months ago of cancer I think two months ago also and he he's dead now sad but too great in one week very well in front of him and now and then now him sad anyway there's always rest amen amen to that I know right okay um like I said earlier tonight we're discussing the war in Sudan and how Nigerians have been evacuated I think there's a video that we can play but then before we watch that video let's take a break and see you shortly