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You can send it to makemoneycoachingsportsatgmail.com. At this point, I make it a mission to respond to every single coach that reaches out and emails me about, with questions to do their business. Okay, so don't get stuck. Three ways you can get help. Number one, make sure you subscribe to the channel, stay up to date with all the great free content that we put out. Two, you can schedule a free 15 to 20 minute consultation with me where we can talk about your business, see where you are, see where you want to get to and see, and I can show you some actionable steps to take this week to scale and grow. Or if you want to simply just contact me via email, send me a question. You can do that as well to makemoneycoachingsportsatgmail.com. Okay, so let's get straight into today's video. Now, today I'm going to be talking about how to turn your private soccer training business from seasonal to all year round. Now, a problem we have with a lot of coaches who, before they join our program, they're struggling with this one thing, and that is they're becoming a seasonal trainer, right? Most coaches that want to join our program, want to get our help, they're struggling on how to transition from becoming seasonal to becoming full-time. So, when I say seasonal, I'm talking about a coach who maybe does training during one season, during the year. So, it might be during the summer, you might run camps or clinics, it might be during winter, you might do private one-on-one training, it might be the spring. Okay, so there could be a certain time of the year where you're working with clients, and for whatever reason, those clients aren't committed to you for the entire year. Okay, so essentially what you become is you become a seasonal trainer, which means you're working with clients over a season during the year, instead of actual a year-round basis. Okay, so pretty much if you've decided to coach and to set up your business this way, it's pretty much down to you and it's your fault, okay? Now, we are experts at what we do, we help coaches transition from seasonal to all year-round, and most coaches who watch this channel, most coaches that we speak to, that we've had on our podcast, that we get on these three 15-20 minute calls on, are struggling with this one concept, right? How can I become an all-year-round trainer? How can I become a full-time trainer? Okay, now what I want to share with you today is pretty much three very simple things that you can do to grow your clientele base and make sure that you transition from that seasonal type of trainer to all year-round. Okay, and it pretty much involves having two or three offers per month going out. So what do I mean by two or three offers per month? Okay, so there will be three certain types of clients that, or sorry, three two or three certain types of people that you want to target every single month with your business. Okay, and the first one is current clients. So if you're working with one client, if you're working with five clients, if you're working with seven clients, it doesn't matter how many clients you're working with, you want to create promos and you want to create offers that make them more committed. So I'll show you this very simple example. So say I'm working with a client who has been committed to me for one month. Okay, they're a new client. They've registered and they've registered to sustain my program for 30 days. What I want to do is at the end of that month or in the middle of that month, I want to go to that client and I want to offer them a promo. Okay, a promo or an offer. And what this offer is is basically it's a discount to them committing for more time within our program. So how this could work is pretty much I call Mrs. Jones and I tell her that I've seen great progress with her child and that I would like to work with him or her for longer so that he or she can get great results. Okay, so what typically will happen is we can put an offer there that if they extend their current contract from 30 days to 90 days, okay, we're going to give them a discount if they pay up front. So if that extension, for example, is equal to $500, okay, so they're halfway through their current contract, which is 30 days. But if you get them to extend for another two months and they pay up front, you might give them $100 discount if they pay up front and extend for a further two months. Now, what we want to do is we want to go to our current clients and we want to offer these type of deals and these type of promos. Okay, so it doesn't matter if you're working with one client, if you're working with two clients, you're working with $550, $100, it doesn't matter what we want to do, we want to go back to current clients and we want to get them to extend their contract with us. And in order to get them to extend, we're going to offer them a promotion or a discount off that extension.  Okay, now what that happens is if you're typically working with clients for two months and you get them to extend and become more committed, essentially what you're doing is you're increasing the amount of time you have them in your program and you get them to stay within your program for longer. So what happens is instead of going, instead of being more seasonal, you might only be working with one client for two months, now you're getting them to extend and stay with you for maybe half the year. And that's how we transition from seasonal to full-time. We go to our current clients and we get them to extend their contract with us and if they do and they commit, then we offer them a discount off that full payment that they make. Now, second way would be to visit previous clients and by visiting, I mean getting in contact with previous clients. So any clients that you have on your CRM that you've currently worked with or that they've done business with you, we want to go back to them and we want to give them an offer. So this might be an offer to an upcoming clinic, this might be an offer for one-to-one training, this might be an offer for group training, but we want to go back to our previous clients that have trained with us, that we've done business with, that we've got great results with, that we've had a relationship with and we want to get in contact with them again and offer them something that will entice them to join back into our program. So if you've had a past client who was committed to you for three months and then for whatever reason they decided to stop their contract or they decided not to continue with you, we can go back to them and offer them a promotion or an offer that entices them to join back and become a client again. So if you've worked with 20 to 30 previous clients, you go back and communicate and contact that previous client list, you might be able to retrieve five to ten extra clients per month into your business. So if you're currently only working with five clients, but you've worked with a lot of clients in the past, you can go back to that clientele list and offer them a discount or offer them a free clinic, a free training session, just find a creative way to get in contact with them and get them back into the program. Now if you do that every month, imagine the amount of new clients you will get. You will be able to add two or three new clients every single month by going to current clients, offering them a promotion, an extension and upgrades to their current program or going back to previous clients that have experience with your business, have experience with your training and offer them something that will entice them to come back. Now the third way is prospects who haven't experienced your training program yet. So we've already spoken about current clients, we've spoken about previous clients, now the third one is prospects who haven't experienced our training yet. And what we do, we encourage coaches within our program to talk to at least three new prospects per day. So free people that may have access to parents, organizations, other coaches, other teams, other clubs, someone that has links to players that you want to work with and that haven't experienced your program yet. So if you make it a mission every single day to connect with parents, other coaches, other trainers, other organizations, other clubs and you make it a mission every single day to connect with at least three new people and bring them into your ecosystem, you'll be able to add anywhere between five to ten new clients per month into your training program. And five to ten is being a little bit conservative, you might be able to add a lot more, but I'm just rounding up a small number. So three ways in order to go from seasonal to full-time to adding clients every single month is go back to your current clients, look to upgrade them on their current contract, go back to previous clients, look to offer them something that will entice them to do business with you again. So it might be a discounted rate on a camp, it might be a clinic, it might be one to one training, it might be small group training, it might be team training, whatever it is, offer them something. Then the third one is look for prospects or talk to prospects who haven't experienced your training just yet. So make it a mission every single day to connect with at least three new people in your local area that you haven't done business with, that haven't experienced your training, but that have access to kids or players that you want to work with. If you do that, if you do those steps, take them into your business, I can guarantee you that you will go from seasonal to full-time in six or less months straight away. So if you want more help, again two ways to get in contact with me, first one schedule a free call on Calendly, my Calendly link is in the description, click on it, you can schedule a free 15 to 20-minute call with me or you can just send me an email to makemoneycoachingsportsatgmail.com. Okay, make sure you subscribe to our channel to stay up to date with all our latest content. Okay, thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next one.


Okay, so we've been talking about the weight distribution, okay, and here's the definition if you have an mk code, weight distribution usually represented by the library at full normal, and there are various ways of writing it, one is to say it's a bar x power n minus y power i, and what is a i? a i is the number of code words, number of code words with weight i, okay, so another nice representation for the same thing is summation over all code words x power n minus weight of u, y power over u, okay, and you might wonder why do you need bioreal polynomials for just representing a vector of weights, so the nice notion is that there's an equivalent identity which states that the weight distribution of the dual is given by this formula, so when you write it in terms of x comma y instead of x you put x plus y instead of y you put x minus y, then divide by the size of the code, you magically get the weight distribution of the dual, so this is called the equilibrium identity and we were proving it in the last class, we went kind of halfway through the proof and hopefully we'll finish the proof today and I think that's pretty much all that we'll do in this class. Is this okay, any questions? Did anybody try the proof? No, no time, you're too busy, okay, nobody even looked at it, so I'm going to give you a chance to look at it today, okay, so what is the, what is the main idea in the proof, there's a lemma that we used, right, what is the lemma? Summation minus 1 power u dot v when u is over the code and v is sum other than the vector, the summation has a very good behavior, what is the behavior of the summation? The size of c is v belongs to, sorry, v belongs to c power and the 0 else, okay, so this is quite a powerful result and this is something I didn't prove very clearly in the last class but I said it's kind of clear why this is true and there are lots of more sophisticated mathematical descriptions of this later on if you do some group algebra and all you might see something stuff, this is some very basic fact which we can be happy with, okay, so this is something we're going to use and how do we use this in the proof of my full uncertainty, okay, so we started with this summation, okay, so this is what, this is the rate distribution of the, of what, of the dual code, right, so the rate distribution of the dual code, I started with this and then I said, I'm going to sum over, did I put u or v here, maybe I put v here, 3, okay, and then I said, what is u which is v? It's fine, okay, and then I said I'll add over, wow, of course it doesn't matter, it's zero activity but just want to be consistent with what I did in the last class, I wanted to add over all the vectors in the, in the vector space, instead of doing just so c, c tab, and the same expression, but then we wanted to adjust it, right, so whatever adjustment we're going to do, we're going to sum over u and c minus 1 power u dot v, and then we'll have to derive by size of c, so, okay, and then, and then what did I do, I went from, I interchanged the order of the summation, and I said 1 over size c, sum over u and c, what? Sum over v into 0, 1, n minus 1 power u dot v minus weight of v, y power weight of v, okay, so what's the goal, the goal is to show that this is going to be equal to x plus y power n minus weight of u, yeah, all right, so you're going to start and tell me how to do it, I'm not going to do it too, okay, so let's see, take an attempt at it. So we'll look at all the possible ways in which we can get this person's particular score which, so on the answer, we know that it has to be, we know the form and which should be from the answer, and we somehow try to coordinate it. Let's see if we get somewhere, okay, Ignace, just hold on one minute before we try, we'll give you a hint, okay, so one way of doing it, which I think it's the way I know, I don't know that way, okay, so what we do is the following, so you set u to be, let's say u on u and v to be, we want v to be, and okay, so normally when we write it like this, each of these things is a bit, right, 0 or 1, okay, but then this weight of v is a bit troubling, yeah, how do you write weight of v in terms of bits, number of non-zero positions, but I want to write it using vi, okay, if you don't write using vi, the weight of v is not going to simplify very nicely for me, okay, yeah, so you have to now do this dual look at v, okay, the vi I will on the one hand say is a bit, 0 or 1, operations are modular too, on the other hand I'll also kind of view it as an integer, okay, for the powers, okay, just to look at the powers, I will view it as an integer, so when I do that, that dual view, it will kind of give me a nice expression and let me see how to do the manipulation, okay, right, so what I can do is I can write weight of v, basically summation vi, okay, so again I'm going to start going to show that this is a vi equality, okay, on the one hand you're thinking of vi as a vector with bits, everything should be modular too, right, so there's no question of 2 or 3 or anything else in the area, but I'm going to add it up like this and use it as a convenient tool in the simplification, there's nothing wrong in it, okay, if you find it, it's just that I'm writing with that, okay, so once you do that, it turns out whatever vector expression I have, I can write it in this form, okay, I put n summations, v1 equals, v1 equals 0 to 1, v2 equals 0 to 1, vn equals 0 to 1, okay, so again, remember when s is 0 to 1, what does it mean, it's just like the integer 0 and 1, it takes, at one point it takes value 0 as well as 1, I have to sum over those two possibilities, then I write minus 1 power what, u1 v1 plus u2 v2 plus so on to un vm, okay, so and then what am I going to do, x power, okay, so yeah, it's going to be n minus summation i equals 1 to n, vi, y power summation i equals 1 to n, vn, okay, so you notice here that this will satel, okay, I can write this as a product of n things, each thing depending only on the i thing, i equals 1, i equals 2, etc, so how do we do that, let's do that next, so we'll have the same information going along here, end of bug, okay, so let's go over the lecture and lecture by Prof. Nagendra, I don't know if you know, he was talking about how students today cannot, don't like manipulating expressions, they cannot manipulate expressions that are complex enough, they just immediately get tired, they don't, they want everything to be nice, quick answers, quickly type it in Matlab or Mathematica or something like that, so this looks like a readymade case for that, I'm sure I can ask you to do it, but none of you will put pencil into paper and try to simplify this, so I'm doing it myself, okay, so let's write product i equals 1 to n, what's your i power minus 1 power, ui vm, okay, and then x power, yeah I can write 1 minus vi, right, so that's the nice point about just treating it as a quick present, so the product, when I multiply all of them together, I'll get back the subscription, okay, with sigma, no, sigma is going, okay, and you put sigma vi equals 0 to 1 of this term, so the working product i equals 1, you want to take the summation inside? Yeah, we have to do it, but then you have to be sure that it's possible, right, can you take products and summation outside, is it commutative that way? Yeah, seems complicated, right, can I take the product outside and summation inside, that's the question, it turns out you can do it, that's because this is a special situation, okay, so always it's not true that the product will come out and the summation will go in, it's not true, sometimes you can exchange, yeah, so here the way the product is coming and all possible cases are there, that's the important thing, so of course it's an easy way to kind of justify this by example and let me try that for you, so if you have a0 a1 plus, no, a0, let me say xy, xy, xy, so if you have two variables, if four variables, let's say a0 a1, b0 b1, okay, and then you take the sum of all possible products two at a time, so you have a0 b0 plus a0 b1 plus a1 b0 plus a1 b1, okay, suppose you have a product like this, this is the same as a0 plus a1 times b0 plus b1, you see that, because all possible products are showing up in this product term, so if you look at each term it contains all the possible products of these n variables and each of those n variables is something, it's a little bit more complicated than before, but each of the n variables is minus 1 power ui vi, x power n minus vi, y power vi, so all this guy has arrived, okay, did I get that right? Yeah, so I think I should be a little bit more careful, so yeah, let me know about that, okay, anyway, so this minus 1 complicates things a little bit, so you have to worry about how the minus 1 is put, but anyway, so if you want you can group it around with one of them, okay, take that as a, take this as b kind of thing and then you'll get all these all possible products will show up, so once you have all possible products showing up, you can group them two at a time, or as many as possible values as you have at a time and then write it as a product like this, then all possible products will anyway also come by the same, in the same term, okay, so if you're not convinced, write out this possibility, okay, so we have a0 a1, b0 a1, c0 c1, okay, so you will have eight different terms showing up with three terms, right, if you look at this term a0 plus a1, thanks b0 plus b1, thanks c0 plus c1, you will get what, eight different terms and that will be all possible products of ADC with whatever position, so all possible products summed up of ADC is the same as the sum's multiplying, okay, so this is one peculiar situation that the product will actually come out, okay, so usually it doesn't happen, product comes out in one, in this particular situation, okay, so it turns out this way can be written as product i equals 1 to n and you put? Sigma v i equals 0 to 1.  Yeah, so you have to put v i equal to 0 here and then v i equal to 1 here and add two times, okay. So when i put v i equal to 0 here, what do I get? x, then I put v i equal to 1 here, what will I get? Yeah, so what do you get? Is it okay? Why am I not feeling very good about this answer? Yeah, I think that's it. I think that's it, that's it. So this is the product, okay, so now I want to bring in weight of you, okay, so in terms of weight that are n terms, how many of them will be x plus y and how many of them will be x minus y? Yeah.  And what is the problem? x minus y. Okay, and that's what I wanted to show. Okay, so that's the end of the proof. Then this way it seems like major magic that there are some sophisticated like a set of fancy group character arguments that will make it look a little bit more mundane, but nevertheless the first time I said I was quite impressed with this identity. I thought it was a really cool identity relating the the in a way it relates every code word, some property of every code word of C some property of every code word of C It says if you have so many code words of this much weight and C there should be so many code words of so much weight and C purpose. So that's a very strong connection between the code and its duality. It's not very obvious at all. Okay, so anyway, so this was named after Florence McWilliams. She's one of the preeminent coding theorists from quite a while back. Lots of interesting stories about her also. It's no time to delve into stories. That's the idea. Okay, so that's the result. We'll do a QED and finish that through. Okay, so let's do a couple of examples. Let me check how that will work out. I think I did this example maybe for the repetition code if you take M1 repetition code the C is the guy and so if you go to the dual dual should have M1 should be equal to X1 X1 and we know that is correct because the dual is what? M1 even weight code it has all the code words of even weight and this summation clearly will give you that. So anytime you have Y power i, i being odd that we cancel with the other term in the summation. Only the even guys will come and the division by two takes you back to the actual weight. Okay, so this is the same as i even 0.25 Is it okay? So that gives you the dual and I think there was there was this curious little code that we had, the 6.3 code that I had. So there was a 6.3 code and what was the weight distribution? What X power M plus 4 X power X power 6 4 X power 3 what power 3? Am I right? Do you remember this? And then 3 X power 4 X squared Is that right? Okay and we saw that the dual also had the same weight distribution. Right? Do we also have the same or the opposite? Exact same, right? So it's a curious little polynomial here. So what is the property of this polynomial?  We get the same polynomial. Let's see if we can check that. Sure, it has to be true but I think it's an interesting thing to check. It gives you something that has some invariant theories about polynomials if at all you learn about them later on at that point you might remind yourself that you saw this once before in a more benign context. So this is a very powerful notion. So let's do that. Let's do what we see of X plus Y minus Y X minus Y 3 X squared X squared, sorry. N minus I, right? So there are 4 coders of Y3 and 3 coders of Y4. So it's a curious little depending on your skill that it's kind of an algebra you might be able to do it very quickly or you can just take your time with it. It doesn't matter that I want you to check it but I think it's a nice little result that if you have like a nine standard means or a view of someone and you want to interest them, you can ask them to try this for more complex things you can do also but this is a nice little algebra problem. You don't have a pen. The first thing you should do is pull the X plus Y whole squared outside. Okay? And then in the next two times, pull X minus Y part 3 outside. And slowly do step by simplification like don't try to expand each term and then add up. You can also do that, it's not too painful but that might be smarter ways of doing it. Okay? So let me try this.  So I'm going to get 4X plus 4Y 3X minus 3Y. Okay?  Okay? Go ahead and do that. I'm going to do it on the screen without any commentary so that we're not distracted. In case in case we even this is not a very nice yes, yes, good. Any did you observe something which you thought was this particular paranormal was any simpler because of any smart observation or no? It's just one of those identities right? It's like saying you must have all these formulae with X and Y, you can you must have a new formula, right?  Okay? Anyway, I mean these are not there are much bigger theories. Like I said, this idea called invariant theory which captures all these things very well. That's something. Okay. So like I said what is the rate distribution useful for? It's useful of course in figuring out probability of error detection, probability of error correction sometimes. So like I said from a cold space point of view geometry point of view, if you're sitting at a cold the rate distribution tells you how many cold words are what distance are they? Okay. So in a way if you're transmitting a code word, the error vector that gets added can push you in so many different directions towards so many different code words. So that's the nice thing about rate distribution but having said that I should say but for most codes that we know today rate distribution is not that well known. For each element codes it turns out rate distributions are exactly known. For any MDS code rate distributions are known exactly but for many codes like VCH codes, lead molar codes there are lots of rate distribution problems that are open. Okay. So it's not but once again I should say these are not very hot problems today. Very classical coding theory problems. People have moved on to other kind of problems in coding theory but nevertheless there are still like dedicated groups of people who keep plugging away at it you know when they'll suddenly come up with a rate distribution of a VCH code which is so far unknown. So it's somewhat interesting once in a while to study. Okay. So that's that's all I wanted to say about rate distributions okay so let me see yeah I think that's it anything more to add yeah I think maybe we'll do this for example the 844 lead molar code right? We have the 844 lead molar code one nice property for this code is you said it yeah itself dual but it also I think it has one codeword of weight 0 and all the other codewords of weight 4 I think so it has 15 codewords of weight 4 and one codeword of weight 0 Is that correct that it sounds believable to you? Okay. Huh? We did the checking yesterday right? Did we do that? Yeah. Yeah. So it could be okay. For the Hamming code we did we saw that for the Hamming code it had some properties and the same thing. So let's look at the weight distribution it's going to be x4A plus 15 you also know that it's self dual okay so what should happen if I do the I should get the exact same thing so let's see if we can check that maybe it's possible to check that so if you do the transformation that you see it's what is it going to be? x plus y power 8 x plus y power 4 x minus y any ideas? Any ideas you think you can simplify this? Okay. Can this be equal to I think it's equal to this? Does that sound believable? It's believable right? So if you look at x power 8 you look at the x power 8 term the 16 is the coefficient it's not too bad and if you look at the y power 8 term what's happening? Can it be the same? Can it be the same? Okay. Then something is wrong in this What did I make a mistake for? So I guess this is not true for the 844 code It's 3, 2, it's 3, 1 right? So it's 3, 1 Maybe it's not all 15 Maybe it's like does it have 4 and I think it has 8 also right? I think it's 14 and then it has y power 8 It has the all 1's code word That's where in the read molar code has the all 1's code word also right? Then it also has 6 Does it have 6? Yeah it won't have 6 minimum distance is 4 So it will only have 0, 4 and 8 But it will have 8 also I think 8 is the mistake Sorry for that Then you have the y power 8 Right? If you have an 844 and minimum distance 4 A0 has to be 1 A1, A2, A3 has to be 0 A4 has to be something So A5, A6, A7 also has to be 0 If you have the all 1's code word I think all 1's is there in the read molar code It's there, so I guess that has to be true So of course you have the x-y power 8 Okay that's your outcome Now it's your outcome Something seriously wrong Self-poking Spoking This can be equal See if you look at the first and the last term You combine it You get only the even power terms From there you can It's not too bad So you can simplify if you like Okay but anyway This is a neat looking Identity that we have Just trying to see if there's a quick way of seeing this result Is this correct? Does it seem correct? But 3-1 code is it self-tool? It is self-tool, no? It comes out to this Okay, I think I've had the expression all wrong I need a 14 This has to work out Maybe there's a smart way of seeing it But Yeah I think it's just It's interesting This would be correct So So Any other code I'm just trying to see if there's some other code which is Very neat and I think it's okay I think it's just Okay Sorry I don't know What it's What it's What it's What angles What angles Yeah I mean So I mean It's asking me some question about How the polynomial behaves when X and Y is rotated You're viewing the X plus Y, X minus Y as a rotation Okay So Yeah I mean there's also this I think you know to be careful about these things Yeah these polynomials have that property If you rotate, keep rotating further and further Only for the self-tool course Not always If you keep rotating further and further You keep doing the same thing over and over What angles? Any other angle you put You won't get this But there could be polynomials which satisfy Other angles also I don't know I think there is Yeah I think there are Higher degree Okay so I think at this point in the course We have to decide what we want to do There are about 8 lectures left I think And then I think the last 2-3 classes I want to do problems And maybe give you one more assignment Also So that's there and we have Some 5-6 lectures left And we have to kind of Make up our mind as to what to do Okay So Now I'll stop there according to now This is not there and then we can talk about What we can do Okay


Today and then for the past three weeks, we've been pretty much doing a supervisor train-ups and getting all of our E-6s that just came from the schoolhouse to get fully command-qualified. The reason we want our diving supervisors to be qualified is so they know how to do the protocols and to conduct safe operations during any diving and once they get fully command-qualified, they don't need a master diver to take them out on medium level dives. There's like a mission that has to do with the port. We'll usually go there, clear the waterways, make sure that there's nothing there so they can actually safely come in to port and complete their mission as well. So without that, they're kind of stuck out in the water until they know for sure that things are safe for them to come in. Pretty much what we do for diving is we have the diver first hat up and once they hat up, supervisors usually just tell them when they're ready, in their water when they're ready. You get them at depth, they do their job. Once they're done with their job, you get them up to 40 feet and from 40 feet, they take one minute to get up and then we put them in the chamber. So this is important because I think it helps everybody, not just the people who are running the scenario, but it helps us. I mean, it might not seem like we're doing a lot down there because we're kind of just looking at each other, but we're getting the experience, we're running through everything and we, as lower enlisted, we see everything that goes on. We hear all the verbiage, all the situations, like everything that the supervisor is going through. We also hear it. Our lives are in each other's hands and coming from our aspect with the rest of the Army, I mean, everybody else is working together to make sure that they're safe. It's a good feeling. Yeah, I mean, it beats everything.


And we're back here with more discussions and conversations right here on the breakfast and plus TV Africa. But where the extremes and reports of natural disasters make it clear, climate change is dramatically speaking up speed. This makes it all the more important for everyone to join the global movement to tackle climate change by taking action and the International Day Against Climate Change, which is held today, or holding today, October 24, 2022 per cent, a perfect opportunity to do just that. The issues surrounding climate change and changing climate and its effect on the environment have become of interest and importance to Nigerians, especially at a time like this when several parts of the country are submerged by water or by floods. So we have joined us this morning for a conversation on the politics, impacts and responses of climate change. Fantastic interview. He is an environmentalist or environmental activist and founder of Lufasi Park in Lagos. Mr. Desmond Magie Kodumi is our guest this morning. Good morning to you sir and thank you very much for your time. Good morning. Glad to be here. All right. We'll be joined later by Mr. Joe Fermi-Daguru.  For those who really don't have an idea yet, what climate change is all about, can you break it down for them? Yes. Well, the first reality is that this planet Earth that we're all residing on is an extremely unique entity because now we have access to see what it's like on many, many millions of planets all over the cosmos. And this Earth is the only one, the only one that has the capacity to maintain life, okay? And one of the major reasons why this Earth is able to support and maintain life is because of the constitution of its atmosphere, its atmosphere. When you look up in the sky and you see a blue sky, the reason why it's blue is because the sun's rays are reflecting on certain gases that are there. In this particular case, it's the water vapor gas, okay? But there's many other gases there. There's helium, there's neon, there's carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, many gases. Now some of those gases there are making sure that the Earth is at a particular temperature that is not too super cold or it's not too super hot, like some of the planets that are our neighbors, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, either they're too hot to support any life at all or they're too cold. So some of those gases are called greenhouse gases and there's a particular one called carbon dioxide. That's the gas that we humans and other mammals breathe out, okay? Now that carbon dioxide is very good at trapping some of the sun's heat, but not too much. A lot of it bounces back and release. So the Earth has an average temperature. However, we human beings for the last 200 years have been pumping out hundreds and hundreds and millions and millions of tons of this carbon dioxide, ever since the industrial revolution started when we started burning more wood, more coal, and then later on started burning diesel and petrol and gas. And this extra carbon dioxide is trapping more heat and making the Earth higher in its temperature. It's like if you now have a temperature above two degrees, you know you're sick. And that's what we're doing to the Earth. We're making the Earth sick. So that global warming is what is called, is actually creating the climate change, which is very, very dangerous and we're seeing some of the symptoms now all over the world even in our own dear Nigeria. The floods that we're seeing, a lot of the cause of those floods is because of this climate change. Oh, and by the way, the scientists warned us over 30 years ago that this would be one of the symptoms of the climate change if we didn't stop polluting the atmosphere. But they said it would happen in about 40 years. It's happening 10 years earlier than they predicted. And guess what? We haven't stopped polluting, poisoning the atmosphere. So it's getting worse. And they're warning us that it will get to a certain stage where it becomes unstoppable and catastrophic. So I hope you guys will learn how to swim. No, I see the reason you asked me whether I know how to swim before we came on. But I'll still take you up on that. Merci. Well, we have joining us Mr. Joe Femi-Daguru, founder of Lagos Forum. And now say good morning and welcome to you, Joe Femi-Daguru. And leave a message to take it from there. Femi-Daguru, thank you so much for joining us, unfortunately. We'll move on back to Desmond. Desmond, can you quickly tell us, I mean, if you look at our current reality, it's a good thing that you've asked if we can swim or not. We're talking about the issue of flooding. It has happened. There seem to be a lot of discrepancy with what's causing the flooding. We know that over time we have experienced flooding in Nigeria. But never think that we have seen, just like what's happening in other parts, Lokoja and neighboring parts, and gradually is trickling down. We also hear some reports on the streets, yet towards Saturday, in terms of the rising level of the Tot-Menland Bridge, talking about the water there increasing. So the question is, what exactly is going on? Is climate change also responsible for the flooding that we're faced with right now in Nigeria? Very good question. There's always been a bit of flooding. And in one or two years, you know, every once in a while you'll have quite a lot of extra flooding. This is a natural cycle. And again, it's driven by heat because over a period of time, three, four, maybe five years, the earth goes a little bit closer to the sun and it gets a bit warmer. And you see, it's the most basic of science.  You apply heat to water, the water evaporates. Apply more heat, more evaporation. But what is happening now is because of our poisoning and desecrating the wonderful miraculous structure of our atmosphere. So this earth is the only one that can support life. So we've been messing around with the atmosphere, pouring millions of tons of this toxic element into the atmosphere that is causing the extra heat. So that extra heat is evaporating more water. So what's happening is that the rains are falling with more vigor. That is, in a short period of time, it's been recorded that a rain that might fall over a period of two months can fall in one day. And it's overwhelming all the natural systems. And it's now beginning to overwhelm even some of the systems that we have put in place, like, you know, heavy drainages and even dams and so on. Because these systems can only contain a certain amount of this rain. And this is why. This is why the scientists, including the International Panel for Climate Change that is under the United Nations, are warning us very, very strongly and sternly that we must stop the pollution. Look, the flooding that's been happening in Nigeria is all over the place. But it's not just the flooding. We're having drought as well. The desert is moving in at an unprecedented rate. Lake Chad, which supports tens of millions of people in the past, has shrunk to about 10 percent, 15 percent of its original capacity. And this is happening not just in Nigeria. It's happening from New Orleans. It's happening even in Europe. Can you imagine that in the UK, they had a high temperature, 40.3 degrees, that Lagos. Lagos has never, ever reached 40.3. The hottest Lagos has ever been is 40.1. And this is unprecedented in the history of recording weather measurements. It is something that is actually the biggest crisis facing humanity. And these are not my words. These are the words of the Secretary General of the United Nations. He said that mankind is waging war against nature. And this is suicidal because nature always fights back. And that's exactly what's happening now. Nature is giving us back what we have been giving her. And we'd better take a lesson from that. That's what Marjorie told me. That's, I mean, it should send shivers down anyone's spine or give anyone the chills when you put it that way. I mean, when Amina, Madame Amina Mohamed was a minister of environment in Nigeria, she really brought this home, you know, she really brought this home. She's left, gone to the UN.  Is it fighting desert encroachment like you talked about, or the results of climate change? And you're trying to ensure that we have a greener Nigeria because Amina did a lot when she was here. Have you been satisfied with the efforts of the government so far? We see the Vice President hopping on the plane going to the United States, you know, to pursue what he calls energy transition.  Very, very pertinent question, but it's interesting that you should mention Amina because I was given a lecture in Abuja and she opened up the floor and she started with this. And you and I, I don't know, she said mankind is waging war against nature. But I assure you that if women had been in a better position of authority, this would not have happened. Hey, all of the men in the room, we were like, well, you know, it's interesting. I mean, yeah, you know, maybe the fact that the female gender with deeper compassion and care, especially for her children, has not been, you know, considered in a lot of the decision making is possible that this is one of the reasons. But the reality is, though, no, we're not doing enough in Nigeria, in our government in Nigeria are definitely not doing enough, but they're not alone. Governments all over Africa are not doing enough. In fact, governments globally are not doing enough. And you're dealing with a problem that has been classified as the biggest problem humanity has ever faced and classified by people who have all the knowledge, you know, Secretary General of the UN, he can pick up the phone and say, hey, what was the average rainfall in Lagos in 1995? Boom. He gets the answer like that. He can say, OK, show me a picture of the Sahara Desert in Yobes state 40 years ago and 40 hours ago. Boom. He has it. And based on all this information that he can get is making these statements that we need to do far more. And one of the major things we are not doing is decarbonizing.   Of course not. You won't because what comes out of that generator is toxic. And it's not just toxic poisons to mammalian life. It is toxic to the wonderful miracle of creation. So in Nigeria, we need to do a lot more. We have tried and they have been instances when they have been some very overt moves like the green wall a couple of decades ago. We were supposed to be planting trees to stop the desert from moving. Billions of Naira was deployed to that. And instead of planting trees, a lot of the people handling the funds, planted mansions and the trees weren't planted. And the desert just moved on relentlessly. And that's one of the major drivers of insecurity in the land. I've been up to Yobes state in those days. The young men there, they were happy. They were just feeding their flocks on the pastures there and so on. Now those pastures, they've turned to sand and the guys, you know, they're kind of fodder. So they're very, very easily pushed into this warped ideology of peace beyond to you.  They wouldn't be doing that kind of madness if they were able to do what their fathers and forefathers before them had been able to do, which is just enjoy the pastures with their flocks of cows and so on. You know, and that's one of the major causes of one of the effects of this desertification problem. But also the flooding, because you're driving people out of their livelihoods, apart from giving them terrible, terrible tragedies. I mean, imagine waking up one morning and then the water is just rising in your house.  You know, this type of tragedies must be avoided by the government. You know, maybe we need to remind ourselves of the job description. It, you know, the government are the civil servants. So, yeah, yeah, if you want to be in government, then it means you want to serve us civilians. Yes, that's what it's all about. And the only kind of really good leader anyway, from time immemorial, has been classified as what they call the servant leader. And it makes a lot of sense because, again, we come back to the law of action and reaction. My dear brother, I'm holding up here now something. Hope you can see it. It's a palm kernel. It's a palm. Now, if I release this kernel, it drops into my hand, right? Why does it drop? It has to obey the law of action and reaction. OK, now, whatsoever you so because I've planted this kernel in my farm in Lekhi, Lufasi Park, and I've planted this coconut. Guess what? I've never reaped a coconut from the palm tree, the kernel palm tree. So law of action and reaction, whatsoever you so you reap. If you're in a leadership position, then your decisions will affect millions of people. So you're showing the effect of your decision into the lives of millions of people, and you will surely repeat. This is not me speaking. This is scripture. It's there in the Holy Bible. It's there in the Holy Quran. It's there in the Bhagavad Gita. It's there in every scripture called worthy to be called scripture. This is scripture. So if you if you believe scripture and you believe God, then you better do the right thing and sow a good seed and stop doing nonsense. We'll come to that in a second. Yeah, we'll come to that in a second. I'm told we have Joe Femi-Dagon role on the line. All right, Joe Femi-Dagon role. Can you hear us? We have to go back to Desmond right here with us. Let's talk about. Sorry about. Unfortunately, but maybe I should, you know, push this question to you. However, the question is about what happens with all of this. You have talked about how humans have contributed to damaging, you know, the world, continuous human activities over time has contributed. And we can't even quantify all of that. But let's get back to, you know, the world as it is. Africa is a continent and the West. If you look at the level of contribution, it's reported. And Niger's part of this, two to three percent of carbon emission is what we actually emit, you know, to the globe. And I remember the, you know, a certain agreement. As soon as I remember that, I'd bring it up to you. Now, if Africa is not contributing this amount of, you know, emission to the environment or to the globe, then why should we be part of all of that protocol? This is actually a huge stumbling block question in the whole negotiation for a cleaner planet. And it's a difficult one because you're absolutely right. We are not the ones in Africa, in Nigeria, that started the whole industrial revolution that was responsible for the terrible carbonization, overcarbonization, the desecration of the miracle of creation. Definitely, we were not the ones. But we have benefited greatly from the industrial revolution.  And with the very, very rapid rise of the Nigerian population and the rise of industrialization within our country, we shall be contributing more. But there is a strong argument that, OK, we didn't cause this. And we are also one of the most vulnerable areas. Nigeria and Lagos and some of our other states, as you can see, are very, very vulnerable to the effects. So there's a strong argument that we should be given enough funding from the industrialized so-called developed world. And I say so-called developed because it is not really development. If you're creating a temporary situation that brings maybe a lot of joy and comfort to people, but over the long run, it actually destroys the environment. And remember, the environment is our life support system. OK, if you don't have a healthy earth, you cannot have healthy people. If you wreck the right support system, it's obvious what happens. So there is negotiation going on now. And there are a lot of forces. One of them is King Charles of the U.K., the Secretary General of the United Nations and several other very, very significant voices are saying that, yes, vulnerable countries like some of the island states and also Africa and a few other places should be given funding. We should be having funding that will help us to adapt because we need to adapt. Like all this flooding we've been having up country. You know, there's a lot of adaptation processes that need to be done, dredging of those rivers and planting massive amounts of trees and so on. In Lagos, we need to adapt our coastline. In fact, I can assure you that if the places like the Atlantic City have not been built, your studio would be underwater right now. So we adapted and the adaptation needs to continue. So there's money that will be made readily available. And that's what we have to really discuss at this coming conference. There's a conference coming up, the COP 27 in Egypt in a few weeks time. And it's at this conference we need to discuss. But in order for our discussion to carry weight, we need to come together. We need to come together with a unified voice as brothers and sisters of the subcontinent, that we are now asking for this funding so that we can adapt and also we can mitigate. But we do have a very effective bargaining card and that is our territory, especially this tropical territory is the home of the tropical rainforest and the tropical mangrove, which, oh, by the way, we are destroying rapidly. Nigeria has decimated our forest. We only have about five percent of the natural forest remaining when we should be having at least 30 percent, but it can be regenerated. All right, so we can come together and demand for that money to adapt and to regenerate those carbon sinks. But quickly, I'd like to share your thoughts on this. Still talking about the disparity, some people would describe it as an injustice. I understand what you mean by saying, yes, we're benefiting from all that's been going on with the developed countries, but let's even look at it. If you say countries come together to agree as regards a target, there's a target for a mission, what each country should be a meeting or how much we should be a meeting, you know, to the to the climate or to the atmosphere. Several countries have not been able to co-auto protocol up until now. You have countries like the United States, Canada, amongst others that have not agreed to this. Do you think that there's any space for global prosperity in the fight for climate change and adaptation? You have nipped the nail right on the head. And you see, we, we humanity, we've reached a very interesting unprecedented time in our evolution, where we are now being called upon, demanded of us that we need to evolve. OK, just because we've had the spirit of witty invention to create this wonderful creations, technology and so on. We have not evolved enough in our characters to use these things responsibly. How could we have continued burning this fossil fuel for the last 100 years, especially since the last 40 years when we've been warned, stop this.  It's what your children too will need to rely upon. If you don't want to drive millions and hundreds of millions of people into the eternally displaced camps and yet and yet we have not evolved enough to be able to do that. Again, we take ourselves back to scripture. It is simple knowledge in scripture, the one I'm more familiar with. And it's reflected also in the Holy Quran and other scriptures. The one I'm a bit more familiar with is the Holy Bible, which says we're here to replenish the earth that we should be here to care for the earth. This is scriptural injunction and we can still go and praise the Lord who tells us, look after the earth.  All you have to do is look after it. And then you say, thank you, daddy. I love you, daddy. I praise you, daddy.  He will not. And so what's happening is that nature, nature is hitting us back. Whatever we've been giving her, like the example of the two fruits, you give nature something, she gives it back to you. She's bound by that. She doesn't know grace, even though grace operates and we thank God for the grace. But believe you, me, the grace cannot be effective if there is not a genuine repentance, not just with the mouth, but with your deeds and activities for those things that you might have done that would have brought you into a contrary relationship with the scriptural injunction. So humanity is time to change. Interesting, very, very interesting. genuine love for our creator and love our neighbors. Very interesting. We love our children and we're destroying their life support system. Change, change, change. Renew our minds. Very interesting indeed. Yes, very interesting indeed, Mr. Maja Kodomi. I'm told we have Joe Femidagaro finally able to join the conversation. Mr. Femidagaro, can you hear us, please? Yes. All right. Thank you very much for your time. I'll pose this question to you and afterwards I would like Mr. Maja Kodomi to also respond to this question and please make it very brief. As the 2023 presidential conversation heats up, some candidates have had the opportunity to comment on the issue of climate change. One particular presidential candidate who happens to be of the Labour Party said that he was not aware or he doesn't see climate change as a priority because there are things to tackle. Like insecurity and also, you know, the economy that's putting money in the pockets of people and food on the table of Nigerians, those are more important than climate change. The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Metulbo, also asked about climate change and he used the analogy of the church rat and the communion and he said, you know what, you can't, you know, see a church rat, blame a church rat, rather who is hungry for eating the holy communion that is in the church. You know, some people have, you know, taken that another way. But I think what this basically means is that African countries not jumping on the climate change train because of the way things are, you know, in the economies. So what are your thoughts on what these candidates have said and the importance of climate change in determining, you know, in determining who Nigeria's next president should be? And that's me, that's where I can put it. So any word that people in any country are into giving back to nature and to affecting our environment was not desired goods of the people of this country. Because what I, you know, we are seeing what is happening. Maybe some of these people feel they are safer wherever they stay and it's only for the poor. But it is not because look at what is happening in Bajesa. Look at what is happening in Ananda, wherever, maybe. Even in Asia, in some part of Asia, we cannot run away from the fact. Let us not be made, let us not be put into all this plastic. We see what is happening all over the world. We cannot deny the fact that this will happen in Nigeria as well. So now, if anyone is saying anything contrary, the person is naive or does not know anything about nature. You know, you see, some time ago in Lagos here, there are a lot of no-fashionable plants, plants, no flowers and a lot of roots all over Lagos. Apart from the aesthetic value of it in nature, it was beautifying the city. But look at what is happening, look at what we have right now. Look at what is going on. We have to educate the people. When you cut all these trees and don't plant, there will be consequences. When you drive the water at the lagoon and you see it wherever, there will be consequences. You see what's happening in some part of Lake? So let us not listen to these people, let us ask them questions. And if you don't know what to say, it is better to keep quiet and keep silent than saying something as if we don't belong to the world. This is a common thing. Look at what the election is going on in Brazil right now. The people, the Amazons, we are talking about a great issue. You cannot come and tell the Nigerians that it is putting food on the table, putting food on the table. When the whole food that will come to the table has been washed away, the farmers are crying, where do you get the food? So now, that is what I'm saying. It's naive to say putting the food on the table and so on. No, it cannot be. People have to work and have the reward for their labor. But now they cannot get the reward for their labor. And they are suffering. Not only that, there will be a lot of diseases and sicknesses. You know, but then we have this ecological fund. If someone is talking against these environmental issues, that means the person does not even know what this ecological fund is for. What are we using this ecological fund for? Who is accounting for this? Because of time, let's... We have to keep to ask them questions. If you cannot answer these questions, they don't deserve a vote. All right, all right. The interesting points you've made, if you can't answer these questions, they don't deserve a vote. Finally from you, Mr. Magikotumi, the climate, the environment, green energy and of course, the presidential elections. You've listened to two of these candidates, one who says security, the economy and things like that are more important for now. Because you can't tell agents to protect the environment if they can't be secure, they can't eat.  You can't tell us as church rats not to eat the bread in the church. So your thoughts on this? Yes, my brother on the other line, he got it, he hit the nail on the head, you know? And there's hope when you have people like that, with that kind of consciousness and attitude, there is hope. And we need to drive this message home to the people. We're dealing with our life support system. And any body that's going to come to be your leader, he better be aware of the various things that are possibly going to destroy your very life support system. We need to insist, we need to insist that the candidates get very, very deeply into their consciousness. The reality of what we need to do to protect our environment. And one of the major things that we can do and should do and must do is put the green back into Nigeria. There's a reason why our flag is green, white and green. We need to plant trees, trees and more trees. They are the givers of our most important commodity, oxygen for God's sake. And we need to protect our wetlands, care for nature. Look, if we love nature, nature can love us back. If we fight nature, she hasn't started to hit us here too. So we, the electorate, we now need to insist that the candidates come up with very good sound policies for protecting the environment, for restoring the environment. And then we need to all come together. Because believe you me, nature is not identifying what party you are. It's not identifying what ethnic group or religion you come from. You're human beings, you're doing this to me. Boom, I'm going to do it back. If we do it good to nature, she give us the good back. So the silver lining on this very, very dark cloud, not just for Nigeria, not just for Africans, but for we as humanity is we must come together with a change in our attitudes, express a genuine love for our creator. A genuine reason for worshipping our creator. And obviously a genuine love for ourselves and our neighbors, who are our children. Yeah, we have to close the home at this point and say goodbye to our guests. Joe Fermi-Dagon Rose, the founder of Legos Forum. Thank you very much for your time. And of course, Mr. Despot Magico Dumi, who is the founder of Lufasi Park and environmental activists. Thank you so much for your time, sir. All right. All right. Basically, important conversation to have. We have so much to say, but so very little time. But I think the justice to the topic, we have to come back to these two gentlemen at some point in time. Definitely. We take a breakdown on what we return. Hopefully we have a second conversation. Please do with us.