One of the questions that keeps coming up is hey DT, why do I need to actually learn about Linux to use Linux? Why can't I just use Linux as my operating system and never really learn anything about it because I was on Windows? I never really had to learn anything about Windows. I just used Windows Why can't I just use Linux without really diving deep into the shell and the command line? The GNU core utils mem and emacs and all of that stuff. Why do I need to learn any of that stuff? Well, the answer is you don't really have to you can use Linux without actually learning anything about Linux For example, you know most desktop Linux distributions are rather new user friendly You don't have to do much with them. They just work out of the box So you really don't need to learn Linux unless you want to be able to fix the problems that crop up from time to time It's kind of like being a car mechanic. Do I I don't want a car. I don't know how to fix the damn car When I want a car fixed I take it to somebody that knows how to fix it You can be that way with Linux But if you want to not have to pay somebody to fix your problems, right? You do need to be able to fix it yourself and that's what I'm doing, right? That's why I learn a lot of this stuff is I just I like to be able to fix my problem So I like to be able to open a terminal and feel comfortable in it You know and be able to use the bad shell and and be able to you know Work with some of the files on the system and be able to manipulate text and you know change things You know, especially if files are broken if I've played with config files and they're broken or a bad system update Broke some things, you know just for a test example. Let me cat a file So I'm gonna cat my slash Etsy slash shells files a very small file But let's imagine it's a gigantic file with hundreds maybe even thousands of lines of text And I want to filter out a certain section of this file Let's say that I only want the list of these shells that are available on the system I don't want all of this information here, which are just Committed lines well what I could do I could up arrow and I could cat the slash Etsy slash shells file again It's up this time. I'm going to pipe it through grip. Let's do an inverse grip So I'm gonna do grip dash v so I want you to find all the lines that do not contain The hashtag the pound symbol if I do that and now I get a list of just the shells now Unfortunately, I get a list of the shells, but I get the full path to the shells But I only want the actual name of the shell so instead of slash bin slash fish for example I just want fish and instead of slash user bin bash. I just want bash now How would I accomplish that well knowing some of the command line utilities for example all I can use all I can specify all to use the slash as the field separator So what it's going to do it's going to take all these slashes as field separators That is the character that delineates the first column from the second column or the first field from the second field And the third field and then once I have that set up I can tell all to then print me the last field so dollar sign in F is the last field And now I get a list of just the shell names without the full path Although we have some duplication because I have two binaries to the fish you'll I have two binaries to zsh I have two bash entries. So even what they're all Duplicated so what I could do I could up arrow and then pipe all of this into the unique command Which is part of the GNU core utils and so it's going to get rid of any Duplicated entries here and now I get a list of all the available shells on the system without Duplications without the full path to those shells and without the annoying Commented lines that started with the hashtag at the beginning of the fall now Do you really need to know how to use all of these tools? No But if for whatever reason we were doing something with this file and I really needed this important information Is it dire? Is it critical? What if I needed this information because my system was broken, right? And you know that this is the thing if your system is broken and you know how to use some of these tools You can fix your system, but again only if you want to fix your system You don't have to right you can just use Linux and when it breaks you can just reinstall the operating system Right that they can be your fix But for a lot of us we want to be able to to fix things without the need to do a fresh install every time Something minor breaks on the system and of course some of these command line utilities are really fabulous Especially for those of you that do a lot of writing maybe you do a lot of programming or example Let me cat my dot bash RC, which is a very lengthy file Let me up arrow and let's just take the head of it Which is the first ten lines and you can see my name Derek Taylor here in the comments at the top of the fall But let's imagine that there's a ton of instances of Derek in this fall Maybe there's a hundred different lines in this fall where Derek is is there But maybe one day I legally changed my name from Derek to Dirk, right? I don't like the second e, you know Do I want to have to go through all of my documents where I had Derek in the name and change it manually to D-e-r-k Dirk well, you know if I know a command line utility like said I can quickly make those changes Instantly because I can do it a said substitution so I could do s slash and I'm going to change Derek to Dirk That'll be a global substitution meaning change that in every instance where you find it in this fall And the file is my bash RC once again I'll up arrow and we'll just take the head and you can see that said will change Derek to Dirk for me And if there had been a thousand instances of Derek It would have changed all 1,000 instances of Derek to Dirk, right? Now do you need to learn this stuff? No, no, if you if you're fine with just opening up G edit or notepad or whatever plaintext editor you use and spend the next two hours changing all 1,000 instances of that word to the new instance of that word. Yeah, you don't need to know said, right? You just pick and choose do you want to spend a few seconds learning some of these commands like I don't even really need to explain what I just did with that said command right instead and then s for substitution the String you want to replace the string you want to replace it with and then slash g for global And then the name of the fall, right? So, you know that takes a few seconds to learn and that could save you potentially hours of work in a particular file That you're working in now. Do you value your time? Do you really want to save all those hours of work? Well, that's then you know you make that choice and of course I don't have to do this directly at the command line if I know vim You know I could vim my dot bash rc and I could do colon to get into command mode in them What I would do is I I would do a colon percent s of s for substitution once again Let's search for Derek. Let's replace it with Dirk Let's do g for global substitution Meaning if there are a thousand instances of Derek It's going to change all 1000 instances of that string Derek to Dirk And that is really the powerful Thing about these commands is the text manipulation because these kinds of commands They can save you several minutes of work several hours Several days several weeks of work in some cases if you're making very complicated Text edits that you know you really need to manipulate a whole lot of text in a very specific sort of way For example, maybe I have a thousand lines that all begin with the word alias But maybe the command alias has changed. It's been deprecated and now this command for example is Alien, you know, I can make that change if I want to very quickly I would have to spend at least a couple of minutes to change all of those instances of alias to alien If I had to type it out and that's just 10 lines Imagine it's a hundred lines a thousand lines 10,000 lines, right? Imagine, you know, this is a problem I've run into sometimes as I get documents from people. They'll send me things and maybe they're not a real good typer You know the people that have bad grammar bad spelling especially the ones that type everything in all caps or they type everything all lowercase, you know If you know some of the said substitution commands, you know, you can do a substitution where you take You know all the lowercase letters will do a range of a through z and we can substitute that for all the uppercase letters We do make that a global substitution. I do that on my bash rc You can see it just printed out my bash rc Except it changed every instance of a lowercase a through z to a capital a through z, right? And if you had to retype that yourself that would take a long time So if you work with text files, whether you're a programmer or even like you're a creative writer, you know Knowing some of these tools that manipulate text Again, it saves you days of work hours of work weeks of work in some cases But really you should learn linux, you know, if you want to learn linux, you don't have to but if you want to learn linux You should learn linux so you can fix your linux system. Maybe you have a bad update, you know Programs are crashing. You're not sure what program is the problem And you need to figure out what is installed on your system Or maybe you need to figure out if a particular program is installed on your system How can you do that? Well, you should know your package manager for your particular linux distribution I'm on arco linux, which is an arch based linux distribution. I need to know the basic pacman commands I know pacman dash capital q lowercase q gives me a list of all the programs that are installed on the system Now if I up arrow and I use grep once again, I can search for a specific Package to see if it's installed is zero ad installed I can grep for zero ad and there are two zero ad related packages that are installed Of course, I could also use one of the ganu core utils to do a where is Zero ad to search for the location of a binary on the system titled zero ad and there is user ben zero ad So that would also tell you if zero ad was installed And of course, this is not just arch related and pacman related If you're on a debian based system or an aboon tube based system You can do the same thing with apt as self instead of doing dash q q You would do apt list space dash dash installed to get a list of all your packages and then once again grep For the package name that you're looking for one of the problems that you often run into on linux is permission problems For example, if I do an ls to list all the files in my home directory right now You can see I've got this file here test dot txt. It's owned by root So that file is owned by root meaning my user my home user the dt user He can't really do anything with that file. He has no permissions to edit that file And you often run into this problem You'll open in a text editor a file that's not owned by you and then you go to try to edit it and then save it And the editor will complain you can't change this file. You don't have permission. Well, what do you do? Well, what I would do since I know the command to change ownership of a file I would just do a sudo because we're changing a file owned by root I would sudo ch owned change owner to dt for test dot txt, right if I do that give it my sudo password And I do an ls again, you can see now dt owns this file test dot txt Another canoe cord you till command is the who am I command? Which will give you the name of the user that you're currently logged into For example, if I didn't know what the home user of this computer was but I needed to change a file to that home user I could do a who am I to look up that user I could even do a change owner and then I could do dollar sign and then wrap that in parentheses who am I to change, you know test dot txt And that would also Change test dot txt to whatever the value of the who am I command is which in my case is dt One of the things that often happens is you know with bad updates sometimes your desktop environment Is broken, you know your desktop environment or window manager Especially if you only have one desktop environment or one window manager installed An update happens and that desktop environment or window manager is broken meaning you cannot use it yet You can't log in all you have is the command line All you can do is go to a tty essentially a terminal And from there you need to fix your problems. Well, if you don't know any of these good new core utils You don't know how to use some of the terminal based text editors like vim or even something like nano or micro Then you're in a lot of trouble. So do you need to learn linux to use linux to be a linux user? No, not necessarily because again, you don't necessarily have to fix your problems, right? Even though I want to fix my problems you can run into all of these situations where you have a bad update Things are broken. You know what? You could just download a new ISO and reinstall You'll be back up and running in a few hours. You'll be fine for me If I know the problem and I can solve it within just a few seconds from a single terminal command That's the route. I'm gonna choose now before I go. 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I seek salvation from shaitan the accursed. Dearest viewers from all across the world, my brothers and sisters, may the peace, blessings, and protection of Allah SWT be with you at all steps of your life. Welcome to the Ramadan show here exclusively on Imam Hussain TV with me, your host, Dr Shabir Tajani. Once again, throughout this episode, we'll be covering a magnitude of facets about the month of Ramadan so that we can be your one-stop shop for this holy month. Please join us on social media where we can debate and we can discuss these topics from today. Using the hashtag on Twitter, IHTVRamadan, please join us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube as well. Please don't forget to send us your videos as well from wherever you are in the world so we can have an insight into how different people across the globe prepare for the holy month of Ramadan and how they run the day-to-day lives. I would like to also remind you to please remember us in your du'as as well and may Allah SWT accept your du'as. Before we commence on to the show, I would like to quote a hadith from Amir al-Mu'mineen, alayhi salam, where he says, For surely life is a bridge and you should not build your homes on a bridge because as we travel through this life, it's a temporary life. The destination is somewhere else so do not put all of your efforts into this materialistic and into worldly affairs. For this episode on the topic of spiritual refinement, I thought we would talk about the preparation for Laylatul Qadr as these holy nights are coming up over the next few days, the next few nights. It is very important for us as individuals, for us as the servants of Allah SWT, to prepare ourselves in advance, to prepare ourselves physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. And in order to get the best out of these nights, it is very important to optimise our preparation. The preparation exists in many facets so inshallah I will be going through these facets during the course of these segments. The first way to obviously prepare yourself is physically. Get yourself physically ready for the night of Laylatul Qadr by identifying the place where you will be praying. Make sure you're comfortable with that specific place and ensure the room isn't too hot, too cold. Make sure that all of your preparations for that room, setting up that room are perfect. And then as the night approaches, make sure that you're not too sleepy. Make sure you've had plenty of rest through the day. And thirdly, make sure that when you do iftar and you've eaten your food, make sure you've not eaten too much so it becomes burdensome for you, becomes heavy for you. You feel bloated and you feel tired. So make sure you're ready for it physically. It is also very important to prepare yourself mentally. Focus your thoughts on the importance of this night. And think about how unfortunate those people are who don't get the blessing of being able to participate on this night in the a'amal. Every time you think about the a'amal, remember your focus, remember your intention and your nia. Make sure it's as clean and as pure as possible. And it's for the love of Allah SWT. Thirdly, it is important to prepare yourself emotionally. The way to do this would be primarily to make sure at peace with yourself. Make sure you're content with your surroundings and you're satisfied with life in general. But then go further. Make bonds with those with whom you've broken bonds before. People in your community, especially your family, your blood relatives, ask their forgiveness for any wrongdoings that you may have done through the course of your life or recently.  And forget anything that they've done which may actually cause grudges within your heart. Because whenever you have a grudge in your heart, it is almost like you're imprisoned within that hate. So release yourself from that prison. Prepare yourself for this night by being free. Remember, the reward for goodness is only good. The next step is to prepare yourself spiritually. The way to do this is to read the dua and the a'amal that you'll be reciting and try to understand the translation of it. So you can really connect to it when you're reciting it during the night of Layatul Qadr. When reciting the names of the ma'asumin, when remembering the ma'asumin, try to connect to every single one of them. Remember them, remember their stories, remember the messages and the morals that are left behind. Remember their life history as well. Because by remembering that, you will not only be jogging your memory, but you'll also be teaching yourself morals from their life because they're the ultimate guides. And when you're asking for forgiveness, this is the most important thing. Make sure your heart is soft. Make sure your heart is so soft that you're able to cry for forgiveness. Because Allah SWT loves that servant of His that can go through the night and cry and beg for forgiveness. And there's no night better than this to cry for forgiveness. So make your heart soft. When it comes to the night itself, prepare yourself and divide these nights into three portions. The first part should be dedicated to gaining knowledge. So before you engage yourself in the a'amal, listen to some lectures, read some books, make notes so that you can actually learn something positive because proactivity and gaining knowledge in itself is ibadah. The second part is dedicated to meditation. It is dedicated to asking yourself the questions about life, the philosophical values of life. Where do I wish to go? Where have I come from? What do I wish to attain from this life? And for every question, beseech your Lord, ask Allah SWT to give you inspiration to answer these questions because let's face it, a lot of them are rhetorical. A lot of them are matters of deep contemplation and matters for which you won't find easy answers. So ask Allah SWT to guide you. And finally and thirdly, this night is dedicated to worship. The whole night, if you can, try and spend it in the remembrance of Allah SWT. Remember it in the remembrance of the ayimah. Remember it for yourself as well. Remember your bad deeds. Remember the mercy of Allah upon you.  The Holy Prophet peace and blessings be upon him has said that Allah SWT favours Friday above all other days. He favours the month of Ramadan over all other months. And he favours the night of Qadr above all other nights. So remember, you are living through and you're making use of this night which is more important than any other night in the Islamic calendar. Suleiman al-Marazawi asked Imam Ali Ar-Raza, could you please tell us why Surah Qadr was revealed? The Imam replied and he said, O Suleiman, the night of Qadr is a night when Allah decrees what happens to you through the course of the year and what will happen to you up to the following day of Qadr. Use this night to ask for Allah for sustenance and whatever he will decree is your destiny. Therefore, remember how important this night is. All of the A'imah, alayhi salam, have placed specific emphasis on this night. And it is said in Surah al-Qadr, Allah considers this night to be better than a thousand months which is approximately 80 years of worship. Imagine being able to gain 80 years of worship in one night. What an achievement that would be.  Allah said, whoever desires nearness to me is the one who remains awake through the night of Qadr doing ibadah. Prophet Musa said, oh Lord, I wish to earn your mercy. Allah said, my mercy is granted to anyone who is merciful to the underprivileged on the night of Qadr. Prophet Musa said, Lord, I wish to pass on the right path. Allah replied, that is granted to those who give sadaqah during the night of Qadr. Prophet Musa said, Lord, I wish to enjoy the trees and the fruits of Jannah. Allah replied, he says, this is granted to anyone who praises me during the nights of Qadr. Prophet Musa said, Lord, I wish to achieve salvation from the hellfire. Allah says, this is granted to that person who begs for forgiveness on the night of Qadr. Finally, Prophet Musa says, Lord, I wish to achieve your pleasure. Allah said, I shall be pleased with anyone who prays during the nights of Qadr. Brothers and sisters, I hope that this insight has been a valuable experience for you and it's inspired you to prepare yourself for the upcoming nights because surely these nights are special. And who knows whether you will get another opportunity to partake through the a'amal and through Laylat al-Qadr. Finally, I would very humbly ask you to remember myself and the whole of the Imam Hussain TV team in your dua on this very special night on the nights of Qadr. And most importantly, please, please do not forget to pray for the reappearance of the awaited Al-Mahdi, alayhi salam and also do not forget that there are many underprivileged people in this world and they rely on our du'as as well so please do not forget them in your du'as on this night. Imam Ali, commander of the Faithful with the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has said the month of Ramadan has approached you. It is the chief of all months and the beginning of the year. Today in this episode where we go around the world to look at how people prepare their day-to-day lives for the month of Ramadan, we're going to focus on a country in North Africa. This country is known as Egypt. There is many, many Muslims there. It's currently a Muslim country. And as a result, the entire population or majority of the entire population, they celebrate and they prepare themselves for the month of Ramadan. Before this holy month begins, many of the houses there, they prepare by doing a deep cleanse of the house, cleaning almost like a spring clean. And after that, they try and decorate the house with green material and lanterns. Now, for these people, the lanterns are a sign of Ramadan. It's a very cultural and a traditional thing. During the daytime, most of the people, like in many of the hotter countries around the world, they tend to close their shops during the long periods of the afternoon where it's very, very hot and they tend to reopen their shops in the evening. After the time of Iftar, they tend to get together as families and as communities in order to eat Iftar, after which the family members, men, women, children alike, they all go to the mosque or the local centres to join in the Dua and the Amal and the Majlis, if there is one. And the interesting thing about Egyptian culture, especially in the month of Ramadan, is that they like to have their food split into three parts, just like they do during the day, like we have breakfast, lunch and dinner. They would usually have their breakfast or the portion of food that they would have for breakfast at Iftar time. Then they would go to the mosque. After they come back from the mosque, they would have what we would call lunch and then after a small break, just before Sahur, they would have their dinner portion of their daily meals. Just like Egypt, there are many other countries in North Africa, but Egypt has its own traditions and is very subtly different from the rest of the countries in that area. For those of you who don't know, Egypt is a very large Muslim country and one of its main sources of income is tourism.  It's known as a land of the pharaohs because there's a lot of architecture from the times of ancient Egypt. During my time here and as I'm preparing for the episodes, I'm doing a lot of research into different parts of the world and how they prepare for the month of Ramadan, what they do on their day-to-day lives to try and accommodate for this month in order to get as much as they can out of this holy month. However, I would be very grateful and as a channel would be very grateful if you could send in your videos to show us from wherever you are in the world how you prepare for this holy month for what you do on a day-to-day basis, what you do for work, how you prepare your meals, what you do after Iftar. All of these things are very interesting for us so we can get an insight into different parts of the world, different people from around the globe and how they prepare for this holy month be it in the east or the west, whether you're in a Muslim or a non-Muslim country. It would be very interesting for us to see and for the rest of the world to see as well. Insha'Allah, we hope to be able to air these videos that you send. Until then, we move on to the next segment of this show. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Dearest viewers, Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. May peace and blessings of Allah be upon each and every one of you. And may all your supplications and prayers be accepted by Allah during the holy month of Ramadan. Today, we came to one of the stores in the Holy City of Karbala that sells souvenirs. Not typical souvenirs of the Holy City of Karbala but special souvenirs. So stay tuned with us as we go and we will have a word with the manager and the store owner. Assalamu alaikum. May peace and blessings of Allah be upon each and every one of you. Can you tell us about the holy city of Karbala in Ramadan? Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. I am Riyad Al-Qaswini. I am the son of this holy store in Karbala. Honestly, the month of Ramadan in Karbala store has a special taste that is different from the rest of the cities and the countries that we live in. And this is a special feature of the holy city of Karbala. Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. This is a special spiritual gift. Sayyid Riyadh is one of the inhabitants of the holy city of Karbala. I asked him about the atmosphere of the holy city of Karbala. He is saying that the holy city of Karbala is so special and especially during the holy month of Ramadan he has been living outside of Iraq for a while. He is saying that this atmosphere is totally different as we are close to one of the greatest individuals in the Islamic history being Imam Al-Hussein, alaihi salam. Sayyidina, what is the service that you offer to the visitors of Imam Al-Hussein, alaihi salam? Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. In reality, the project of the holy city of Karbala is a cultural project before it is commercial. So, in reality, with this project, Alhamdulillah, we were convinced that this project was successful. We tried to bring a new culture in the community in which we respect the Islamic and Karbala culture specifically. For example, when the visitor comes to Karbala to take the holy soil of Imam Al-Hussein that has the cure, he takes a piece of material or a piece of paper or something like that. So, we arranged it. We put it in packaging bags and put it in a bag like what I told you in the Islamic Wall. So, in reality, it is a new culture. We felt that it should be as close to Karbala as possible. I asked the brother, Riyadh, about what they served the visitors with. He said that we came up with an idea to modernize and develop the souvenir of the holy city of Karbala. Instead of being a simple soil or torba or tasbih, we came and modernized these souvenirs to be some modern and cultural. And the project that they have here is more cultural than beneficial. During this episode in the health tips and medical advice section I want to follow on from what I was talking about over the last few episodes and we talked about the stages of life. Yesterday we talked about old age and one of the most commonest complaints or commonest problems that the elderly have is joint problems, joint pains, arthritis. We hear all of these terms bandied around but do we really know what it's about? Before we go into what it is and how you can treat it, let's just talk a little bit about what is causing it. Essentially, joint pain can be separated or arthritis can be separated in many different segments, different sections. The most commonest form of arthritis or joint pains is called osteoarthritis. We say it's wear and tear, it's when the cartilage, the lining of your bones and the joints have degenerated over time and as a result the bones are grinding against each other and causing the pain. However, in younger people who don't have degeneration of their cartilage they can also get osteoarthritis but it's just a faster process. Before I go into treatment of arthritis I think it's really important to break arthritis down into the different sections and for you to be aware and the science to look out for when you are suffering from joint pain to self. As we've mentioned in elderly people the commonest form of joint problems is osteoarthritis. It's not to say that there is no more or not other types of arthritis that could be causing the problem but in younger people who suffer from joint problems and joint deformities it is very important to try and show them or highlight specific symptoms to look out for so that you can visit your doctor and try and get tested for the more serious types of arthritis. The arthritis that if not treated can leave you with joint deformities which are very severe and inflammatory arthritis. I'm sure many of you at home have heard of rheumatoid arthritis but there is other types of arthritis as well that can cause joint pains and that can actually over a prolonged period of time cause a lot of other problems around the body. Inflammatory arthritis is caused by inflammation of the synovium. The synovium is the lining around the joint itself and when you have antibodies that attack the lining of the synovium it causes inflammation and that's why this is called inflammatory arthritis and it's really important to look out for specific signs because these are the signs that will get you to see your doctor and hopefully get investigated and then treated. The first type of inflammatory arthritis I want to talk about is the most commonest form of inflammatory arthritis and that's called rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis generally affects people who are slightly younger usually middle-aged people but it's not to say it can't affect the very young or the very old and usually it's joint pains all over the body multiple joints affected and it's a symmetrical distribution where both sides of the body joints in both sides of the body are affected people with rheumatoid arthritis have other symptoms as well such as lung problems heart problems they can also go on to develop kidney problems so it's very very important that if you notice that you're getting pains that you actually see a doctor very quickly and to get tested other signs to look out for is that in rheumatoid arthritis and in fact in all inflammatory arthritis you get stiffness first thing in the morning when you wake up and this stiffness is actually worse than the pain and the stiffness lasts for about an hour or so in the morning and it can last for longer in some people so if you're finding that your joints are very stiff it's both sides and that it's causing you a lot of trouble to lead your day to day life I would suggest you go and see your doctor and they can do your simple blood test in order to diagnose you with this condition other forms of inflammatory arthritis are things like psoriatic arthritis or even lupus can cause joint problems again with these joint problems you will notice that the distribution is on both sides of the body you'll notice that joints all over the body are affected it's not just specific joints like osteoarthritis which can just affect a single joint or a couple of joints and also with psoriatic arthritis some people also have psoriasis which is a skin condition which I'll get to in future episodes in younger people in the very young you can also have joint problems especially of the knee and the hips these are very important if you're really having pain in the knees and the hips to go and see your doctor there's a sign of more sinister causes young people who are teenagers can have what we call growing pains where when their body grows very quickly the muscles and the tendons and the ligaments are stretched which causes pains in the joints and if it's something as simple as that you can go and visit your general practitioner or your doctor and they'll be able to tell you that it's just that, that's the problem but if you're a young person with joint pains do go and see the doctor there's nothing more sinister the other condition that affects young people is something called ankylosing spondylitis which again is a joint pathology, a joint problem and mainly it affects specific joints so the main joint pain that they get is pain in the lower back in a region that we call the ilio sacral region and they also get pain in their spine and what happens is in the mornings they find it very difficult to move around they get very stiff and they find that their pain actually improves with exercise and with time if you do suffer from any of these symptoms it is very very important that you go and see your doctor and your general practitioner so that they can give you advice they can investigate you and treat you if needed now moving on to the treatments like I've said the vast majority of people who suffer from arthritis actually have degenerative arthritis which is also called osteoarthritis as I've said osteoarthritis is the degeneration of the cartilage between in the joint space and therefore the bones rub against each other and cause pain the main treatment for this initially is symptomatic relief and it's really important that you're aware of the types of medications you can take my advice to you would be to start off with something simple like paracetamol and then work your way up if you're taking anti-inflammatory medication on a regular basis it is very important to see your doctor because things like ibuprofen or other medications that can help ease the pain of inflammation can actually cause problems with the stomach so it's very important that you see a doctor so they can prescribe you medication that will protect the stomach or to give you something else which will not harm the stomach as much such as a very weak opioid medication which is a weak another form of pain killer other things you can do is get heat packs and gel packs which can help ease the pain and the swelling people who suffer a lot from arthritis from osteoarthritis especially tend to find that over time the mobility gets so bad that even the pain killers don't help steroid injections some people have into their joints which is very good it's worth everyone who is suffering from osteoarthritis considering this as it gives you a prolonged period of relief from the pain however in some people it doesn't work and for those the next step is obviously trying other types of stronger pain killers and then eventually working their way up to joint replacement joint replacement obviously is a very it's a very complicated decision to make and it's a decision that will stay with you for the rest of your life and it's very important to when you do get referred on for joint replacement speak to the surgeon and speak about the potential complications of surgery because having done an orthopedic job before I'm aware of the problems of infected joints for people who've had knee and hip replacements in the past so be fully aware of the potential complications you can get and also if you do have a joint replacement it will still affect your mobility it's not like you will have your joints back to how they were when you were a lot younger finally in people who suffer from the inflammatory form of arthritis so rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis or even ankylosing spondylitis they will have immune modulation treatment so this is things that can start off from simple measures such as steroids and they can go up to very high strength immune suppressors such as methotrexate for example it is very important to realise that people who are taking this medication can become infected or can get recurrent infections because what this medication does is that it suppresses your immune system because it is the overproduction of specific antibodies that actually causes the inflammation and the arthritis so for those of you who are taking immunosuppressants or any medications that will affect your immune system it is really important that you see your doctor very quickly if you have any infections because you may need antibiotics or any other treatments finally for people who do suffer from very severe forms of inflammatory arthritis there have been new studies that have been done in which injectable forms of immunomodulators have been found to be helpful it is very important that if you get to that stage of inflammatory arthritis so that's not osteoarthritis it's the other forms of arthritis such as rheumatoid psoriatic or ankylosing spondylitis that you're under the care and supervision of a specialist because the medications that are prescribed in these high strength and high dosages of immunosuppressants you may need regular blood tests to make sure that your inflammatory markers and your blood cells the white blood cells which modulate your immune system are at a satisfactory level and finally just to say that those who suffer from inflammatory arthritis if they don't get seen very promptly and don't get treatment in due course can go on to develop osteoarthritis and also people with inflammatory arthritis can get problems with their hearts and kidneys and also their lungs so it's really important that you get seen too very quickly in terms of day to day exercises and help that you can get it's very important to exercise regularly but stick to your limits if you over exercise with osteoarthritis or any other form of arthritis you can be in a lot of pain so make sure that you do exercise regularly because it will help your joints stay supple and stay moving but at the same time don't over exert yourself and there are other things you can do in order to keep your weight down because one of the other risk factors for osteoarthritis is high BMI so being overweight can actually put a lot of pressure on your joints and can actually predispose you to getting osteoarthritis later on in your life so it's really important to maintain a healthy lifestyle to eat the right thing so eat foods that are high and rich in omega 3 and some studies have shown or anecdotally in fact we've been told that other things like cod liver oil have been shown to help the joints but if you do have a very balanced and a healthy lifestyle, a good diet you should be fine and you should be able to have a good joint protection finally in passing I just want to conclude by saying that as a community and as a society it's very important that you stay active and stay mobile and if there's anything that is affecting your mobility and your independence it is important that you get prompt treatment, prompt investigation and prompt treatment into that so that you may lead an active lifestyle because essentially one of the things that will get you close to Allah is to be active not only physically but also being active physically will allow your soul to elevate as well so insha'Allah stay active stay proactive and insha'Allah you will gain a lot of success in this world and in the hereafter once Prophet Sulaiman peace be upon him said that he would have a son from each of his wives however since he did not leave the fulfillment of his desires upon the will of Allah by saying insha'Allah only one of his wives was a child and even then it was still born when Sulaiman realized his mistake he became sorry and asked for the forgiveness of Allah in return he asked Allah to grant him a kingdom which no one has ever had before and will never have after him for this reason Allah accepted his prayers and granted him a mighty kingdom also known the kingdom of Prophet Sulaiman he also gave him powers over the gins, birds, animals and over the wind they all had to obey his orders and Allah SWT also taught Sulaiman the languages of all the creatures on earth at the command of Sulaiman they built huge temples fortresses, towers places and palaces made out of glass and huge and large water reserves once Prophet Sulaiman upon him in his army of Jinn and animals were passing over were passing over a valley of ants seeing the glory of the army the chief of ants alerted the ants to go into their holes so the army will not trample over them with the help of the wind Prophet Sulaiman heard the chief of the ants and smiled and ordered his army to not step forward until the ants have gone into their holes he then addressed the chief of the ants how could my army trample over you when we were passing way above you in the air and don't you know that I am the prophet of Allah and cannot hurt anyone unjustly the ant replied oh prophet of Allah I did not warn them because of any harm that they may suffer from however I was afraid that they would forget the glory of Allah SWT when they seen your army peace be upon you in this particular episode I want to dedicate the recitation the poetry to a nashid that I've heard recently by a very famous nashid the nashid is called freedom the reason I want to recite it is because all around the world we see this tyranny bloodshed suppression of voices innocent lives being taken and as the lovers of the Ahl al-Bayt have come upon us to make a stand against any form of evil, any form of tyranny any form of oppression gathered here with my family my neighbors and my friends standing firm together against oppression holding hands doesn't matter where you're from if you're young old woman or man we're here for the same reason we're here for the same reasons we want to take back our land oh god thank you for giving us strength too now we're here together we're calling for free no more being prisoners in our homes and no more being afraid to talk our dream is to be free just to be free now we've taken our first steps towards a life of complete freedom we can see our dreams getting closer and closer we're almost there oh god for giving us Imam Ali commander of the Faithful with the peace and blessings of Allah upon him is said the month of Ramadan has approached you it is the chief of all months and the beginning of the year as I end this episode I want to leave you with a final thought something that you can ponder over and after this episode think about and insha'Allah it will allow you to improve and increase in your spirituality that thought and that saying that I want to leave with you is that no matter how high the mountain is or however many obstacles you can see along the way if you look close enough to the ground you will always see a small stepping stone which Allah SWT has placed in front of you and using those stepping stones you can reach towards the top of the mountain surely if we employ that saying it to our lives and rather than looking at the destiny or in the distance and looking at the final place that we want to end up even though that is our objective if we look along the road at every little step of the way Allah SWT places something there for us in order to help us to get to that end goal I would like to remind you once again to join us on Twitter by using the hashtag IHTVRamaldan to join us on Facebook, Instagram and on YouTube insha'Allah this video will be uploaded tomorrow please also don't forget to remember us in your du'as more importantly do not remember to pray for the reappearance of the hujjah alayhi salam insha'Allah I bid you farewell and I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow and insha'Allah until then wa salamu alaykum jami'an wa rahmatullahi wabarakatuh


You're welcome back. It's still the break fast and what are the papers saying this morning? So off the press is what we're going to take now. So let's look at what Punch is saying to begin this off the press today. Remember, we'll be joined by August later on to x-ray some of these things that we're talking about or we're mentioning from the newspaper. So we begin with Punch newspaper. I'm not taking it according to how big the story is. I'm just starting from top to bottom. Okay. The very first story that does reminds me of that phrase top to bottom. Buhari hands over 974 billion Naira uncompleted road projects. You'll find out on the Punch page 9. We also have this course backtrack on tariff hike await Naira approval. World Bank okays fresh 500 million dollar loan for federal government. Those are headlines there on top of the punch newspaper, but the biggest headline there on Punch is Senate Minority Leader PDP Atiku set to clash with 5G governors or 5G yeah the 5G governors over Tambuwal. Atiku a party man will back PDP choice says 8 as Minority Leader emerges July 4. G5 backing Jarigwe autumn 8 insist lawmakers won PDP on Sokoto ex governor. Okay. We also have custom CG decorated promises technology driven operations and Salla federal government declares holidays Wednesday and Thursday public holiday. We do hope that you are going to have fun. We will not go on that. Okay. Federal government declares holidays Oshoon cancels free train ride. Oshoon state cancels free train ride and seven passengers or car rider die in or your clashes. And finally Tinobu returns today may present ministerial list after Salla. Watch our way at least. Okay. We'll move from punch to yet another newspaper and this time it will be the nation. The nation newspaper is carrying the headline 7 pilgrims died of psychological challenges says Nakon or pilgrim 7 of them died of psychological challenges. Then we also have remember that is on the nation. We also have another headline here. I'm trying to figure it out. X8 why Buhari didn't remove petrol subsidy and float denier. You will find that story on page 5 of the nation about us kick maker remanded in prison automatic job for lasso's best graduate. Good news and bad news together at the same time. The biggest story on this the nation and the biggest headline there is discourse await next node to increase electricity tariffs. Distribution firms backtrack on hike notification review not justified said Yusuf. Okay. And then Rebado CDS IG will secure Nigeria. That's what they're promising us. That is a national security advisor. Rebado assumes office. A better coon raises special squad. We do hope it's not a return to end source. Floating of Naira in order says IDK Kalu. Remember Kalu IDK Kalu. Petrol subsidy no longer desirable. Those are headlines that we're ready to take. Okay. Before we go work halted on Lagos Ibadon road and then government appeals. Five billion Naira Ararumai judgment. Okay. Those are the headlines from the nation newspaper. We'll move now to another newspaper and this time it will be the Guardian newspaper. The Guardian newspaper leads with Muslim faithful grown as subsidy removal squeezes family budget. That's on page six. Blick festival is how the team did. And then I delayed removal of petrol subsidy for Tinnabu APC to win election says Buhari. Confusion in power sector as discourse hint at 300 Naira per kilo or kilowatt rather of electricity tariff. 300 Naira per kilowatt of electricity. Okay. Good. Now group decries prevailing hardship in Nigeria. Rebado takes over as NSA vows to deepen security and stability. And despite Mba Mba's order Monday sit at home. Okay. Despite Mba's order Monday sit at home persists in Enugu. Remember the governor said there was no more sit at home in Enugu but it continues even with his order. Okay. Now a final thing there from the Guardian is a very small line below and it says Nigeria developing countries at risk of de-globalization. If you want to know more about that you can read up on the Guardian. Then the final news before we're taking this morning is business day. Business day leads with businesses grown as checkpoints illegal tolls on road inflate costs. Poor subsidy removal interventions can worsen inflation that's according to experts. And finally how weaker Naira could affect multinational finance input costs. Those are the headlines from business day that we're ready to take this morning. And okay. So we're being joined by Chris Kaende Wando member of the Chattat Institute of arbitrators in the UK here in Lagos state. Good morning Chris. I'm fine this morning. Very fine this morning. I hope you are as well. I am. Okay. Very good. Yes. Yes. I'm looking for where to go and eat the salamit. The salamit is out of the roof.  It is well. Well in the scripture at least the Bible I know that there was a time God commanded them to eat this kind of thing. And he said if they cannot afford it they should join hands. So maybe families will come together and do what they need to do. But Chris. Yeah. Yeah. Well let's just take a short break and breathe out and we'll be back to dissect the headlines that we heard this morning Chris. You welcome back. Remember Chris Kaende Wando member of the Chattat Institute of arbitrators in the UK is here with us to talk on the headlines that we have seen this morning of the press. This is what we're doing right now. Chris once again welcome to the program. Thank you very much for having me. Yeah. So let's begin with maybe a major headline on the punch but it's somewhere there. Every almost every newspaper carried it this morning. And that was the fact that the president the former president Muhammad Abu Hari said he delayed the removal of fuel subsidy and some other things because he wanted APC to win election. So he knew that if he had removed fuel subsidy they wouldn't have won the election but he kept it deliberately so that after the winning of the election then all hell can let loose. What did you feel when you heard that headline when you saw that headline breaking? You know you look up and ask the world health story and say he tried well well he tried he tried. So let's leave it at he tried very tried. But the paramedic that even the election is still being disputed. So and many still believe that that election was flawed irrespective of the outcome of the election. I know I can't declare the winner of the president and the losers are in calls and it is now there for the tribunals and the call to determine whether president Bola Tumigu actually won the election or not. But that is not true. Don't forget also that there are so many issues that arose before that election. The issue of the redesigning of the new Naira was also a major problem by the former or suspended governor of Central Bank Mephili, Godwin Mephili that in itself was a major factor. But the president coming on to say that he waited for the election. That's no news because there have been consistently there have been stories and news about the removal of sorts. Don't forget that it was supposed to be removed sometime in the past. He delayed it. After that he delayed it again and until the end and it wasn't the phone that it was removed. Yes, he said that there was going to be a removal. I bet it was supposed to end at the end of June. He left on May 29th. So it wasn't like if he said he removed it. It wasn't removed during his time. He waited. It was supposed to be removed. It was the president elected that announced, formally announced the removal during his innovation in May 29th and that was when everything went to lose. That was when everything, as you say in the local parliament, everything caused scatter, scatter. We knew that it was going to be inevitable. Everybody knew and most practically everybody supported the removal of Petrosov City. But the way and manner it was removed was what we had challenges because if the subsidy was supposed to have been weighted to last June outcome that from May 29th, when that announcement was made, it was removed immediately and that has so many problems associated with it. Now, question has been asked as to what happened to the one month that was paid for subsidy. Was it that June was not paid? If it was paid, who was it paid for? Then how come that the Petro stations, including NNPC, you passed or changed the pump price of fuel immediately when this supposed to last? Those are some of the questions being asked. But it has been removed and that is what it is for now. The NLCC negotiating with the federal government that it seems that this has come to stay just as we are having here that in the next few days, 40 percent increase on the electricity tariff that we are going to pay almost as much as 300 Naira per kilowatt. The Naira also has been, the Naira is also hitting the roof. It is almost about 800 to one dollar now. And the question has always asked how come that we are having all this at the same rate? Couldn't we find a way of trying to spread this so that the average Nigeria can be able to, the federal government can push the effects of this. Don't forget that with all this increment, over 300, almost 300 percent increase in price of fuel, almost 40 percent increase in electricity, not a single Naira has been added to the salary of the average Nigerian. Even the 30,000 Naira that's supposed to be minimum wage being paid by various organizational states. So many states have not been able to pay the 30,000 Naira that you can ask yourself, where are we Nigerians able to survive this one slot? For me, I don't think this is the right time for all this. Can we be able to find a way of accommodating without pushing Nigerians to the cliff? Yeah, you just mentioned something that salaries have not gone up and in spite of everything that is happening. And I keep wondering to myself, yes, subsidy is gone. And one of the things that tell us is that when subsidy was going on, we were buying fuel as it were and also furnishing the needs of other countries. So that's the reason Aptite has been removed. They found out that instead of maybe 60 million liters used a day, it is now about 15 million. So now is the only time in my thinking that they have had data concerning the consumption of fuel in Nigeria, which means if they were spending, let's say 100 billion to buy petrol, now it might just be like 1 billion or 5 billion to buy this petrol to subsidize for the Nigerian populace. So why can't that kind of a thing not be considered even though we are clapping that subsidy has been removed? I can tell you without mentioning words that the palliatives, the so-called palliatives that will be given for the removal of subsidy will cost more than the subsidy. Will cost more than, even not the old subsidy, it will cost more than if they had thought about continuing it with a better data than they have. So like I said, I've been wondering aloud, why is that not even on the table at all? First and foremost, that data that they've always been writing is false. It's not true. 60 million, 63 million is not true. Don't forget that the former general of the customs immediately questioned that data. That there is no way that we have been, because in about 63 million hours we say... Yeah, but that is the data that we're using to siphon the money. Now they know that it's wrong data. Yes, I understand you. I'm hiding somewhere. So what it says is that that is what they are using. It's part of the corruption within this system. Some people have just siphoned that money using that data to be able to vary and to steal as much as they could. It's a part. Let me give you a classical example. The same you remember during the COVID, where there was restriction of moving for close to about three weeks to four weeks in a day. That's when we were not moving. The same data was what they've been writing. Even when the vehicles are not on the road, they still tell you that we are consuming about 63 million rest of it. It was all those things we are just processing by those in government and within them. We were using that to be able to steal or dry. And, well, it has been removed, something that we removed now. They say that it has come down to, our construction has come down to about 22 million by day. And I totally agree with you that the difference would have been used as a right bet. Come to think of you. So what happened during the COVID period and some of the measures taken by the former government, when the Minister of Ministerial, what do they call them now? Military, whatever they call it. We are giving up pallets, running into trillions and trillions of Naira. And you also saw the trade and money that the vice president was fishing at and rest of them. All those we are just using for the money. And at the end of it all, how many Nigerians got those money? How many people that they don't even have the clear data on the number of these? That list was questioned by the National Assembly. It's totally, it got to the National Assembly. It has to represent it. And the Senate question has said most of these names that we are just writing that we are fictitious names with no address and rest of them. So the pallets, so-called pallets, which we have not even seen, which is still under discussion, they have not told us, they said, I would tell you what normally happened. They go into negotiations with Naira, they will now say they are going to buy 100 buses. That is what they normally do. They say they will buy 100 buses and they will not give 100 buses to Naira. Ask me how many 100 buses, how many people will be able to ferry? They will drop about 30 or 20 in Abuja, send 20 to Lagos and distribute many of them or two to various states in the federation. That is what they call pallets. States, they have not touched salary because they know that most states will still not be able to pay those salary. That's why they find that there is 30,000 Naira minimum wage that has been agreed over how many years now. Most, they still can't be able to pay that. The way you talk about minimum wage, most often you have to realise that that's why it matters that both the federal and state are not paid. If what will happen to the private sector, the private sector is facing serious challenges now. Most companies are closing down, many people are being laid off. And I just remembered, VVD, I just used the other voice that manufacturer association of Nigeria came out to cry that this 40% increase in electricity and also the increase in price of fuel that is affecting the various manufacturing and various companies in Nigeria and most of them are closing down because they cannot be able to cope. So what we are trying to win with the right, we are also losing with the left. There is so much poverty within the country now, people cannot afford to eat. People are not trekking. If you go to the bus stop, I'm sure my brother, you see what's happening legally. When you are going home, you will see the number of people that are in the bus stop and also see the number of people that trek. In fact, most organisations now have advice in these, where they say their staff should come to work just about two times in a week because they cannot be able to afford the luxury of taking transportation to come to work. That is where we are now. And I'm representing the travel that is coming back today. I hope that we just sit and be able to analyse it and be able to come out with a solution as quickly as possible. Nigeria's are being moved. This is not the best country in Nigeria, across the board side. Well, a lot of us are very askings about this palliative. A lot of people are not comfortable about it. Just do the needful. If fuel is affordable now that we know a data so, so low, maybe you should reconsider this removal and do the needful based on the data that you have and try to monitor it well. Because this is not the best country in Nigeria. Have you also realised that in this discussion, nobody is talking about either reviving our existing refineries or using new ones. Nobody is talking about it. This whole disease is now based on importation. Even Dangutee's refinery that was commissioned a few weeks ago, he has been given a license to import fuel. He has been given a license to import a petroleum product. We will move from there. But Nigeria is struggling and always complaining about education. Now the worrisome thing is in a dosed state, workers were asked to stay home for two days, at least in the week, and come to work three days. That included teachers as well. So schools will now be opening for three days when we need more time to study. Schools now will be opening three days in a week. Let them just tell us to have homeschooling so that if parents stay home more nowadays, they should teach their children as best they could. Okay, let's move to another thing. We see that the discourse are backtracking on paper at least that they are not going to do the price hike, the tariff hike, because they need some approvals here and there and the announcements were not there. But it seems as if this tariff has been hiked without our knowing, the announcement was just a formality. So backtracking, where are they backtracking to? Do you think they are being honest with us? In the past three or four years now, I would tell you that we had over 186% hike in electricity tariff, about 118% hike. That is what a manufacturer's association of it. And these hikes are being done without you and I knowing. They treat on a monthly basis.  That is where you get to know that the increase have been, because they have this systematic way of increasing the price. They said that they are going to increase it on a monthly basis. And they have not informed me in Nigeria. So all this noise about 40% of it, there is a way that they can remove it without you knowing, or you need to put it in just go and buy it and you just realize that you haven't been recharging it. And the government is not even helping at all. The government is not helping matters. It is like we are just on a freefall. The Naira and the RSI have not come out to fully tell us what this is all about. They have already said, this cost they are going to increase. But now, because of the shout and the noise being made by Nigeria, they say, okay, we are waiting for, I saw a release by the Babuja Electricity Distribution Company that, okay, we are going to wait on Naira. I can tell you briefly that that increase is going to take effect from the first of the line, whether they got NEC approval or no NEC approval. That is what is going to happen. The percentage is what I cannot say or talk about. It may be 10%, it may be 15%, it may be 20%, or it may even be the same 40% they are talking about. But what I don't see now, nobody is talking about improving the surface. You know, nobody is telling us about increasing the capacity to be able to distribute. We are still, we are still between 4,000 and 5,000 megawatt of electricity, a country with over 200 million people. When some states in South Africa, just one state is doing about 10 or 20,000 megawatt, just in South Africa here, we are talking about 5,000 for a population of 200 million people. No single, the last government promised that on a yearly basis that they were going to increase to about 10,000 megawatt. Remember that promise? There was no single megawatt that was added to the national grid by the past administration. What they met is what they left for 80 years. Just like the way they did in the petroleum circle, where we had promised that they were going to build refineries, no refinery was built, even the one that they met, they could have met it. And we placed and we pushed some premium to spend it about 11 trillion Naira to be able to turn around the refineries and not a single petroleum has been refined. So the same thing is the, we are talking now, we are talking about increasing, you know, I said this time with the number. The problem, in as much as I don't base government on the land, I am going to blame the Good Lord Jonathan government that privatized the electricity sector and hand over this electricity company to incompetent individuals, to people that have no capacity to be able to do what they're supposed to do. And just, and apart from that, even after selling it to them, we were also subsidizing some of this electricity. But billions and billions of Naira were even paid to them for them to be able to maintain the services. Our money was paid to people that fought over the discos and jacos. Where is that done? So that is what we're having now.  And they start comparing to what is paid in South Africa, what is paid in United States. And it goes on abolished as what is the capital income of a Nigerian compared to somebody in the U.S., tell me. The minimum wage in Nigeria is 30,000 Naira. My brother, that is less than $50 in the U.S., $50. That is the minimum wage of a Niger. $50 is what some people make in an hour in the U.S. So when you start making those comparisons, it does not make sense to me. Okay. Well, our time is running out just briefly now. I would have loved to talk about a PDP and a TIKU clashing over with the 5G governors over Tamboal as minority leader. But if you can touch it, fine. But now what I want to say or ask is we're expecting back the president today. And people are saying, ministerial list may, may follow after Salah. Salah has, two days have been declared, maybe so Friday or by Monday, we should have ministerial list. If the rumors are true, that could happen. What are you expecting in that ministerial list? We can wrap all about this story in one minute. One is the fact that airports have been, about 10 airports have been renamed. And I'm sure you are aware of that. More than that, yeah. More than that. Yes. Yes. You saw it. More than that. Yes. We are renamed. Yes. That is, that probably confirmed. Two is also the issue of the PDP and that TIKU and the district. The fact remains that Tamboal is a ranking member of the national assembly. And he was the former speaker of the House of Representatives.  There's always a lot of selection, which ordinary problem to have gone, that for the big crisis within the parties and the G5 and so forth, G5 and the Miki and rest of them. I think this is just the time for them to shift and find a way coming together and put their ass together and see themselves as a formidable opposition. What we need in Nigeria is a formidable opposition that can give the APC government a round for their money and speak for the people. We don't want all these big rings between G5 or G7 or G22 or whatever they call themselves. We want a formidable opposition in Nigeria and that can be able to fight and speak for Nigerians. Then the president coming back, yes, is coming back today after a trip to Paris and London. And we hear that the ministerial list will come out. Don't forget that that's a time frame put to that, unlike before. Unlike the former president that took almost six months to be able to come up. This president has about 60 days to be able to put his ministerial list and send it to the national assembly, the senior statistics and the national assembly. We are looking at for what we can have, take no class, people that can deliver, not just a yes man in politicians who just come and don't know. We are in a critical period and anybody that is appointed the minister and should be able to hit the ground running. There are a lot of things happening that we don't even know what to do. The health sector, the education sector, the energy sector, even those tools that are speaking for the government. So I hope that the president will be able to come out. We've seen what he did with the service team. Everybody's happy. Well, happy is more like a national spread and we put the right people in the right place. I hope that that will also happen with the list. We started hearing something, but you know in 90 minutes, so many lists will be branded onto a single list. Let us see what is in the list. Okay. Well, that would be all for this segment of the show. Chris Wando, we'd like to thank you so much for coming to the show and being a part of it and helping us dissect these headlines. Thank you very much for having us. We've been talking with Chris Kehinde Wando, member of the Chattat Institute of Administrators in the UK. He spoke to us from Lagos State here. And the show still continues, but we'll take a break now. When we return, we'll begin our first hot topic and we hope that you'll still be there. Stay with us.


Stephen Gatz made a specific request that I had to come to the Targus booth to see this wicked new HDMI dock from Targus, so I've tracked down Nick Markowski to tell us about it. How you doing? Perfect. Wonderful. How are you? I'm doing good.  We did. We did. We did. Dock 520, Quad HD docking station. Quad. As in four. Quad. As in four. Let's see. Four HDMI's out, single USB upstream, all the USB connectivity you'd need, and Quad HD quality. So you're actually running, are these 5K, or 4K then? No, no. No, these are single HD. Single HD? Okay. So these are individually HD? Four of them. Quad HD. So what's your definition of HD? What's the resolution? 1080p. Okay, great. So they are literally running, let me run my cursor across. There you go. That's right. And again, single USB-C connection. There it is. There it is. You see it? Whoa, there it is. It's actually happening. That's amazing. Yes. So that's the Dock 520, and in a couple of months, we're sort of teasing it at CES right now, but we're going to be announcing and releasing the Dock 570, which is Quad 4K, with power. It's going to deliver 100 watts of power to your host device as well. Wow. So that's the big boy. Small enterprise grade is coming in a couple of months. That's this little guy hanging, it's hiding back there. Can you see that scene? That's right. All right, so this was the 520, isn't it? That's right, Dock 520. Dock 520 is on the market today? It is. And what's your price point on that? 274.99. Really? Yes. That's bananas. Yes. I was looking for a much higher number than that. Can I pay more? You may. We accept money, all of it. Yes. So I'm not completely sure I understand what you mean when you say USB-C upstream. What do you mean? That is this guy here. So your single connection, in fact, that computer, you see the single cable coming out of it. That's USB-C. Simply plug USB-C into this Dock, connect 4 HDMI's out to your displays, and you've got all the real estate of 4 displays, just like that. One cable. Holy cow, that is just so cool. Yeah, it's awesome. All right, so if people want to learn more about these Docks, where would they go? Targus.com. All right, easy enough, targus.com. Thank you, Mark. Thank you.