 Alright, you are still watching Waze. Now motivation and inspiration they celebrated on January 2nd is a day to ignite Your inner spark push past limit and turn your dreams into reality It's about finding the inspiration to kickstart your year or the New Year's resolutions that you've made and make progress towards your goals Fantastic day. I'm very happy. It's a very fantastic day. I mean it probably should be my birthday Right, yeah, and it's my birth month anyway, so so you're a general baby. Yes, when is your month when's your day? Sorry 29. Oh, nice. Nice. Nice. I like the fact that so Do you know it was just? It just dawned on me When I was going through different churches and they're they call them declarations for the year Yeah, it just dawned on me that some of the principles that I've learned over the years You know when it comes to human psychology and how Your words, you know impact your life I mean the Bible says is clearly that the power of life and death lies in the tongue, right? But again, it didn't just occurred to me that Some of these principles that churches practice. They are actually Like natural principles that would eventually make you or ma you yeah depends on how you approach it So for instance a church is declaring that this is your year to blossom, right? Imagine you waking up every morning say that and affirming that and saying that I will blossom Yeah, 2024 or I would make good fortune in 2024 or whatever it is the Proclamation, you know, so this inspiration some motivations, right? They are not there for you just keep it on one shelf It's actually there for you to speak them into reality So for anybody that like like I said, I mean or as I said earlier I'm not really I didn't I didn't really pay attention to writing anything down because Last year was a lot of planting. I was telling my friend. We did a lot of first We did a lot of planting. We did a lot of you know setting up I was setting up the office setting up a lot of things and also this is the year to actually start to yeah So I mean so imagine if you are very Resolute to say, you know what every morning I wake up and I say who are this is your year to blossom What are the steps I'm taking to ensure that that blossoming happens, right? Those are the kinds of Practicality, yeah, but I am approaching 2024. So I suppose just you know aspire to perspire This is not about it. It's about you actually Speaking what you want into your reality. I think it will happen if you if you have faith in it Yeah, most definitely. I'm I think most importantly. I want to build a habit of my Affirmations and so for that to happen it means I need to be clear on what I want It's not and I've I've also come to understand that if what I want is big I need to believe in it because I'm I don't care how other people see it But if that's what you want, you need to believe in it And if I'm able, you know to do those affirmations, it would definitely happen and you know because This year I want to be direct that this is what I want and this is how I want it to Happen I'm not saying God is gonna do it immediately or you know 20 years after but then that clarity of sitting down with Myself to say, okay, you want to move to the next step. You're sure you want to move to the next step So I'm ready to move to the next step and give me the grace to go to the next step And just to add to what you said right when they when they say write the vision make it plain Right when you spoke on clarity. Yes, because the key factors to success is clarity Once you can clearly Have a picture. Yes of what you want that reality it's just a matter of time Yes, come to reality, but the clarity first must happen in your mind. You must really see clearly that This is where I'm going today. Yeah You know tomorrow This is what I want and I don't know how I'm gonna get it God is gonna get it for me. Yeah All right, so what do you find for us in today's okay today? We have the Interior Minister Dr. Olu Bumi, Tunji or Ojo has said that it's his stupid practice in court to Subject married women to the rigorous travel traveling to the Nigeria Immigration Service headquarters in Abuja Just to effect a data change Ojo who said this at a dinner with members of the Asiwaju Bola Med tenable media center and Some social media influencers in Abuja asked if the immigration personnel in Abuja Has more than one head as opposed to those in the various passport offices across the Federation He said in court There's one stupid thing I have seen and it is that a woman gets married Changes her name and then she has to come to Abuja all the way to say from Quarra or Inugu just to come and effect a change of name in password. It is absurd You know, what's your thought on it? I think it's actually ridiculous because considering the flight ticket to Abuja now It's almost like And I mean, you know, I was just gonna say that I think for the Interior Minister I completely share his sentiment and this is what I'm saying that you know when some of these things Used to happen in the past. We didn't have technology. Yeah, we didn't have a lot of like We didn't have access to a lot of things that we have today this technology There are so many sophisticated and what's it called database? Systems right that they are using today that they didn't have ten years ago when these things were reality Right where people had to travel all the way to go and get their passports done and all of that So why in God's name in this century where we have access to some multiple Sophisticated technology we're still having to subject ourselves to this and I want to add to the Interior Minister To say that it should not just stop at women changing their names children any changing Right, okay, like my son now for instance, right? His name is alpha a social Sally Yeah, when we did his first passport, it was just alpha Sally Oh Because all his credentials in school now have no results and everything had the middle name We had to take him all the do you know how much we spent we paid three times into the immigration services because yes We had to take him back to Abuja, right? Don't forget the cost that it came to we have to take him to Abuja for them to add the middle name The same thing with driver's license if you want to change your so like literally, right? Some of these things happened because we didn't have technology now that we have technology some of these things really need to be scrapped So I 100% agree with the Interior Minister that it is actually a Absurd, right? They need to they need to revamp some of these things. They don't serve us They don't you can't leave me. I'll leave Lagos. I'll go all the way to Abuja Just go and get something done if there is a small error in your name I have to take myself and fly all the way to Abuja to get it done pay for hotel. No, it doesn't make any sense So I completely agree with him. Yeah. All right. So in light with the federal government I mean, this is the year of government government government If you made it wants to run away, well, we'll catch you the federal government suspends Accreditation accreditation of degree certificates from Bennet Republic and so now this is it the federal government has suspended the accreditation and Evaluation of degree certificates on Bennet Republic and to go this move followed a report by daily Nigerian detailing How a degree was acquired from a university in Bennet Republic the report published on the 30th of December in 2023 exposed How corrupt government officials and the fraudulent businessmen? And I'm government officials rather aid the fraudulent business of certificate racketeering now the report also exposed how Daily Nigerian reporter Omar how do finished? Imagine the four-year degree program in less than two months from they called the name of the school a call Supreme They gestion at the technology in Kotono Bennet Republic. He obtained his certificate without applying There was no application. There was no registration. There was no studying. There was no exam writing Although the reporter never crossed any Nigerian borders an immigration officer was able to get his pass put the hill stamped By both Nigeria and Benenoa immigration agents to enable him participate in the national youth service call Now the report lends credence to the suspicions that some Nigerians deploy nefarious means and own on Whatever methods to to get a degree with the end of the end objective of getting Graduates job opportunities for which they are not qualified now the spokesperson for the minister of education Augustina of your Lord who said in a statement that was released today Now the federal government's the federal minister of education But he mentally decries such act and with effect from today They're suspending evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from Bennet Republic pending the outcome of an investigation That would involve the ministry of foreign affairs of Nigeria and two countries and of course the two countries the ministries Responsible for education in the two countries as well as the Department for State Security services that DSS and the national youth core service. So this is Interesting what I saw this acting. Yes But you see they the thing they are feeling to realize with this story That you are not just in directing the Ministry of Education or what's it called the people that accredit the was going to set the kids You are in directing your immigration services Which means that the your borders are porous because they said that these things are based on so how did the person stomp a Entry and exits without even leaving the shores of Nigeria So it is not just and I say this all the time for corruption to happen It is not one agency. It is a it is a was what a syndication of several agencies that makes it happen So I am excited about this because again, this is why you know, I am excited I'm excited that they are there their knowledge in the fact that we have a problem And this is why first of all a lot of things must be scrapped. We should stop laying too much emphasis on certificates Right for education. We should stop laying too much emphasis on certificates You know why if you are laying a lot of emphasis on certificates people would do anything to get a certificate That's what people pay lecturers. They bribe lecturers to be able to pass their Exams you say, okay, you must graduate the two one. Don't worry. They're gonna give a lecture on money They will give them a two one. Do you understand? But the person comes out the person does cannot even spell their names not to even talk about you know writing an exam So the bribery continues all the way then the ministry of the youth service call It's not I don't think it is fair to mandate people that it must go for youth service I don't think it's fair right because it is all of these All these conditions that is birthing some of these corruptions that we're seeing so a lot of things have to be changed A lot of things must be tweaked for what would we have in place? if Not that which of them like how so how would you Choose to employ people if you're not going to you don't have to choose. I mean, okay Let me explain how employment happens abroad right from the school, right? Employers go to the school. I was having a conversation with a friend of mine and he said that see There are some courses that you study right now Anywhere in the world that whilst you are there your lectures already writing to all the potential employers to say come There's a chap here, right? Most of the schools in the UK most of the schools abroad. They actually big actually hand-pick They are Students it's not even about a star. It's not even about a star Do you understand? It's not about it because even if they come to your school recruiters come to your school, right? They can't know they can't recruit everybody But what are you a star or not? Yeah, right if you if there's an opportunity for those recruiters to have direct access to you I am sure they will evaluate you and they will tell you what they want It's not every recruiter that is looking for an A star student Some recruiters are just looking for people that are street smart, right? It's not about your grade and this is why I'm saying that we should we should reduce the emphasis on Certificates because some people do not have certificates, but what they can do they qualify bigger and better than what even people with certificates Cannot I don't see how I just feel like there needs to be an overhauling Yes, yes most most definitely and so it is not just in directing. They saying that they are suspending a Conditional certificate. They should also they should also go and investigate in immigration and our border You know, but I like this story. I'm loving the way I'm just scared because I have a friend who just finished from Kotonu and Literally like no, but that's why they said they would investigate She's a friend you saw different go to school in the process of the investigation now Be a home she's gonna be a home Yes, yes Like I know what it took her to you know go through that because she was our mind before and then she left Yes, so there's gonna be a lot of waiting at home now. It's not like you can go for NYC She's stranded. Yes in the meantime So it also the honest is on the schools as well to come out and speak up Right because at least this school was particularly mentioned. So those other schools I don't think it is all the schools that are fraudulent Right. So the schools need to speak up They need to also write to the Education Ministry in Nigeria to say I mean, I guess that there would be a body I mean because this is a blanket Yeah Hammer that already I think they already have some sort of Things from Nigerian students even these go to new schools. I don't know what it was But I know she was telling me something like that, you know, how Sometimes they being discriminations You know, so I mean, I do I hope the schools would want to or be able to fight for them Yeah, because it seems like they're just gonna leave them I didn't think about I think to help these people let the school write School rights to the Education Ministry and then you then defend your degree to say this our own degree They get it by doing the actual work Okay, so we'll take a break now when we come back from the break. Let us discuss our government Stay with us. We'll be right back