 Now, International Day of the Midwife is celebrated annually on the 15th of May, providing opportunities to honor the work of midwives and promote awareness of the crucial care that midwives provide to mothers and their newborns. This year marks the establishment 100 years ago of the International Confederation of Midwives. There are currently 143 midwives associations representing 124 countries worldwide, including the Confederation of African Midwife Association, which was inaugurated in 2013. So midwives who have been an inaugural part of African medicine for centuries are the front line caregivers and backbone of maternal and child healthcare on the continent. They support women through pregnancy and childbirth, providing antinatal intrapartum and postnatal care, family planning services, as well as breast and cervical cancer screening. In emergencies, they can also perform basic emergency obstetric care. So we can help but say thank you to all the midwives in the world. Without them, I would not be here. Do you have any clothes passing to you as a midwife? This day we are commemorating again today just reminded me that I have done one year on ways. Oh wow! Of course, more than one year on ways, you know, because I can remember this conversation we celebrated the same day last year and yeah, that's just what came to mind. Again, we're here again. So that's one profession that I hope that our governments can find a way to restructure themselves and begin to really appreciate them, people in the medical field in general. In general, absolutely. All right, so let me start with you, Norma Effanger. All right. What did he find for us in the news? Well, we have situations going on but we will, okay, I seem to be having trouble all of a sudden. Let us see, start then. Let me first. What I found is a story on premium times headline, it's police arrest hit our own Lebanese driver. It was important for me to take this because I know how the media would always blow out of proportion whatever a Nigerian does outside Nigeria where the unruly ones, where the ones that don't follow the rules and they're always breaking the law, you know, but yeah, this is where you change, I guess. The police in Lagos have arrested a Lebanese national by name John Gregg who drove into a pedestrian as part of a Victoria Island. The common spokesperson Benjamin Hundei stated via his Twitter handle on Thursday that the victim identified as a motola at Kingston, yeah, is currently in the hospital. The incident which happened on Wednesday was first reported by a Twitter user and that was where it was picked up. So on the 4th of May, 2022, at about 745, a middle-aged Lebanese man drove into a Toyota 4Runner recklessly and against traffic on San Lucifer from our road, thereby hitting the lady which resulted in serious injuries to her leg. So I'm glad that he's been arrested and of course he would face the music. It reminded me of, I think it was a story that you read sometime, you're watching the news where somebody also drove against traffic and killed someone and finally was apprehended. The boss, no, I think you're still looking for the boss, the Sienna boss. Even though we're, you know, relieved that it's not a Nigerian but I think some of these things have become possible because of the irresponsibility, generally, about Nigerians. As in Nigeria, you can get away with a lot of things. So yeah, so come here and come and pick up bad habits. Oh yeah, I was going to say that. Oh really? So here, the bad habits, yeah. Yeah, no, it's serious. Most likely because he cannot try it outside the country. He cannot even try it in his own country. You know, this thing you just said, RMD's daughter tweeted, I think, I saw a blog that posted something she had mentioned that after they had, I think, launched a particular project, she was dropped out of that project because she's Nigerian. So it is, I mean, it's not even within the shores of Nigeria anymore. Yeah. Everything that all of these things, you know, come late into affects us globally, anywhere in the world. So just by being Nigerian, you have to be extra, extra, extra to make sure you're doing, because even whether you are abroad or anywhere, you know, that's brand, Nigeria still haunts you down. Right. And it's always about the negatives. So what we just did is I found a way to still blame ourselves. No, well, I mean, I'm not saying what you're saying is wrong, but I feel like sometimes we also need to cut ourselves some slack. Cut ourselves some slack, I guess you. Because I was having a conversation with Miriam, plus politics, and her experience in Uganda, she just came back and all that, and my own experience as well. And it seems like we are the ones who never appreciate ourselves. We are the ones who would always say something negative about ourselves. And other people don't necessarily see us. I mean, we know that Nigerians can be extra, but I just feel like we should, we should cut ourselves. So what's the English you spoke now? Some slack. All right. I mean, we're not the worst in the world. Ah, okay. I agree. All right. So my story has to do with politics. Well, it's the season. And it says support group picks up nomination form for Sibangio. Oh, wow. They picked it up. Did you see the guy that was crying? I didn't pick it up before. I don't know what state that is now, but please go ahead. Okay. So Vice President Yemio Sibangio has picked his expression of interest and nomination forms to contest the 2023 presidential elections on the platform of the APC. His spokesman, Lao Lu Akande, made this known today. And he said that the forms were collected by representatives of Ossin Bajor's support groups. That was what caught my attention, actually. So he said that this passionate team of support groups and individual Nigerians from across the country have raised the funds to support and purchase the APC nomination forms for the vice president's bid. And this story, of course, we know that the forms cost as much as a hundred million. And I'm wondering because towards the, I mean, further into the story, it gave an elaborate record of most of the governors who have picked up their forms as well. And I'm wondering in my mind, wow, does it, it seems like hundred million is just like a hundred Naira around the corner or something. They said an APC, at least 15,000 are already in the race. We have Govno De Vomahi of the Boing State. We have Govno Ben Ayade of Cross River. Formal Govno Rocha Socorrocha. Ex-Govno Adamso Schumler. APC Stowart. Sorry, Adam Schumler. Yes, he's running. Bolatino, APC Stowart. Bolatino Bu. Vice President Yemi Ossin Bajor. Govno Kayade. Fiammi is there. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. Amosu. Godzwell Apabiu is there. The Minister of State for Education. Emeka Wadjiba. And the former Senate President. Ken Nnamani has also joined the race. That's over. I can't even do the. To Nebacare joins them today. Yes, today, yes. He has also picked up his form today. At his presidential form. And there's so many of these contesting. And I'm wondering, wow. I need to probably change my circle of friends. If I have a group of people who can. I'm having thoughts. But really, it's just interesting to know how. Quite a number. I think somebody made a comment that the. The bar was raised because they wanted to reduce the number of the quality. Yeah, to filter the quality of aspirants are coming. And then we have more people who have come out now. You know, I saw it for the picture. I saw it for the picture today of one senator. I won't mention his name. He was in tears. Is that what I'm talking about? Yes. That was the one she was talking about. So it's just, it's really interesting times that we're in. And I'm really looking forward to the outcome. There's leading to the election is always interesting. But there's something I saw. Though I haven't read the article completely. But it's a quote from Femi Falano, where he was saying that it's in premium times. He's saying that the illegality of outrageous nominees fee. Right. And he's saying something about the APC ought to have realized that by restricting politics to the affairs of fat cuts, it has violated article 13. One of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, which says that every citizen shall have the right to participate freely in the government of this country, either directly or through freely chosen representative in accordance to the provision of the law. So last I can speak in English. All right. So I also took this story because it's, you know, sometimes we hear things like this who think is unique to Nigeria. That's why I took the story as well, you know, in line with what the LC had taken. A 13-year-old girl who was gang raped by four men, allegedly raped again by the cop when she went to file a complaint at a police station in India. So, yes, this incident happened. It came to light during the counseling by an NGO after which the case was lodged in Lalipto, what had been pronounced this place on Tuesday. So according to the complainant, the mother of the girl, her daughter was abducted on the 22nd by some guys. I can't pronounce any Chakan, Radban, you know, all those Indian names who took her to a particular place where she was repeatedly raped by all four accused men for four days. They raped her for four days and this girl was brought back on the 26th and dumped in front of Pali police station by the accused. She was later handed over to her aunt. A day later, the police called the girl to the police station to record her statement. In the evening of that day, the girls and took her to the police station, the police station house officer, they mentioned his name, where he raped her and the complaint had... That's where she now also alleged that he also raped her, you know. So, you know, when we see things like this, we think, oh, this thing is unique when we hear, oh, Nigeria, Nigeria, you know, when I heard this, I said, okay, you see that this culture, this rape culture is a global thing. Yeah, of course, it's always been a global thing. But I'm saying that, you know, when you hear, you think, oh, maybe it's jazz, it's this, it's that, it's just, you have a lot of... We have troubled people all over the world. This is not trouble, Noma. This is sick people. Trouble is sick, makes it mild. Makes it okay. They are very sick men out there and, you know, honestly, when you identify those kinds of men, they should just, they should just find a way to just eliminate them from the system. It's as simple as that. It's not as simple. That's double jeopardy. Somebody is supposed to protect you. The person is caught, it's part of the people, raping, after being raped for four days by four different men. I can't even begin to imagine what happens. And this girl is only 13. It's traumatic, completely. We'll take a break. On that note, we'll come back to discuss the Asu strike. Stay with us. We'll be right back.