We're back with the breakfast in Plus TV Africa and for a second conversation, we'll look at the rate of suicide in Nigeria. Report says no fewer than 79 persons have committed suicide in Nigeria, that's in 2022. The 79 persons comprised of 70 meals, 9 females, within the period, that's 2022. The breakdown shows that Lagos ranked the highest of 12 suicide cases, followed by Oyo state, and 10 in Kano, 4 in Anambra, and 3 in Ado state, 3 in Delta state, Ogun, and 3, and another 3 in River state. The figure does not include the number of cases of suicide that have been reported in the media. However, this morning, to make sense of these reported cases, and not reported cases, we have Ola Bisi and Temidara. She's a therapist and self-empowerment coach right here in Lagos. Temidara, it's good to have you join us this morning. Thank you very much, Merci, thank you very much. Yes, what are your thoughts about this report? I mean, this is not entirely reported cases, however, but this is what we have. So you have unreported cases and reported cases. But what are your thoughts about the cases that have been reported? I think that the deaths by suicide has increased over the years in Nigeria. It wasn't always the case. This is due to a lot of factors, right, and depression being the lead factor for suicide in Nigeria. Obviously, there are other factors that are responsible for death by suicide, which is of course our economic situation in the country, which is not helping anybody. We have emotional and physical abuse. We have prolonged loneliness that actually affects people's financial issues and so on. But depression has been the underlying factor for the majority of deaths by suicide in Nigeria. So, largely, we're saying that depression in Nigeria has increased a lot, and this is affecting people and hands for their poverty to society. Alright, Aunt Temidara, you know, some people could argue that the reason we're having this sort of increase in suicide rates in Nigeria is because we have more suicides being reported with the increasing adaptability of Nigerians and use of people in Nigeria, of social media, news is flying faster. And some would say people have been committing suicide before now. It's just that we hear of it more than we used to hear about it before. Do you agree with this? Could you check that again? I'm saying that some would argue that the reason we have the increasing rates of suicide in the country is because more cases are being reported because of the internet. We have the internet now. We have social media now. So, someone takes a phone and says, oh, oh, someone reports it. And do you think that is the case? Absolutely. I think prior to now, the social media wasn't as big as it is now. So, we're having reported cases of suicide other than what we used to have in the past. Perhaps when people committed suicide back in the days that were not reported, but now because of social media ability to spread news fastest, we are able to report a larger number of people committing suicide. And I think, yes, it's a big factor to help cleaners report the number of suicides being attempted or committed in the country. I hope I answered the question because I didn't really care that very well. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. So, let's begin to talk about, you know, if there's a possibility. I mean, usually when you hear reports of people committing suicide, the comments and the thoughts of a lot of people will be like, you know, why would you take your life?  How exactly, you know, can we fight against this? Is it possible to prevent people from committing suicide? Absolutely. Again, I mentioned earlier that depression is the leading cause of suicide in Nigeria. And if you go by the definition of depression, depression is that most mental illness, right, where people are able to think rightly, they have prolonged mood swings, they dissociate themselves from people, they're isolated, they have very low energy, they're not able to function very well. So if depression is the major cause of suicide in Nigeria, it therefore means that if we're able to sort of address depression, it means that a large extent people would sort of prevent suicide in Nigeria. However, there are triggers for depression, for example. I mentioned earlier the economic situation of the country. There is huge stress within the country as it is, right? People are going through a lot. But when we're going through a lot, does that mean we are all depressed? Absolutely not. So there's a subtle distinction between stress, suffering, and depression. So if we must prevent suicide, we need to find a way to prevent how people are triggered into depression. And I also understand that one of the causes of depression is our prolonged habitual pattern of thinking. Yes, things are not really working in Nigeria, and we're all stressed and suffering. But if we continually be in that state, what happens is you get into the negative, you get to think, oh, this life is not really working. Am I really worth it? I think I will put it to everybody. Once you enter that loop, it becomes difficult for you to get out. So to prevent depression and prevent suicide in the short term will be that when you have societal thoughts, for example, find someone you can speak to. When you speak to somebody, it's not really because the person can essentially solve your problem. But the single fact that you're able to remove whatever it is that is bothering you and let it out and somebody can hear you softens those thoughts and also inability to see therapists and all of that. But in the long run, I think the government can do much more than they are doing now. I would assert that the government can sort of adjust the curriculum and put in practical tips, practical subjects where students actually can learn at an early age how to use tools for them to sort of reframe their thinking, sort of remove themselves when they speak in that state, know how to get up, know who to speak to. It would help a great deal. Understanding behavior, understanding that suffering is different from depression. Again, just to say for emphasis, unless you're medically diagnosed to have depression, whatever you're going to be, not be depression, just to be clear on that. So now let's begin to differentiate that. I know that a few would come in in no time. So how do we differentiate between just going through life, stress and depression and getting to the point where it's societal. Okay, so like I said, if you look at my GR, for example, ideally I think we all should be depressed by the... So we're all depressed. I didn't say that. And by this stress we're going through, the people throw it around a lot like, you know, I'm feeling so depressed, but really what we are feeling is suffering, like physical suffering, staying in queues, to buy fuel, traffic, it is crazy. The financial situation is not helping. Yes, we are suffering, but does that mean we are depressed? Absolutely not. So differentiating will be that.  Again, depression is a mental... So are there symptoms?  This is the point where I ask, do we have symptoms just like you have with malaria, you have with, you know, other ailments? Are there symptoms and signs? Absolutely, absolutely. Just that way depression has several categories. If you go to the hospital, for example, they can tell you, okay, you just have a mild symptoms of depression. They may just tell you what you need to do and may not give you that presence. But sometimes if you go into severe depression, then they give you that depressant. And then at that stage, usually people then begin to have suicidal thoughts, but usually if it's mild, they can manage you. Right, the typical symptoms of a depressed person or even people having suicidal thoughts seem to be similar.  You know, just withdrawal and they're not engaged in a lot of activities. That is one. Then they begin to have feelings of whatlessness. Like, you know, I'm not enough. I think I'm important to everybody in this world. There is no hope. I can't get out of it. Usually when people suffer from guilt, shame, maybe they're grieving. I mean, there are several other conditions that you may feel, that may feel like, you know, this life is not really for me. I just need to tap out. And that's really what happens.  You don't have activities. You feel like, you know, I'm tapping out. There's really nothing in this life for me. And really that those are the common symptoms that people get when they're depressed. I think it's important. You also said that we as a public society, we need to know how to relate with people, be caring, check on people.   But sometimes we need to also, because we don't want to be soft, you know. I'm one of those people, I don't want to go hard. But hey, we have to be more empathetic, you're saying. But finally, earlier this week or late last week, I think, the head of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Nigeria, Bouba Marua said on a radio program that according to their own statistics, at least 15 million Nigerians are on hard drugs, banned substances. Does this have a role to play in this increased suicide rate? Absolutely, absolutely. You know, like I mentioned, there are different factors that lead to suicide, depression being the leading factor, but there are all the associated factors, which is what you mentioned, substance abuse. I also mentioned emotional and physical abuse as well. But speaking on substance abuse, we find that, you know, when you take substances, AKA drug, for example, in this context, what you tend to get is to be in an excited state, you know. And by the virtue of that state, that state is not a permanent state. So what happens is, you know, you're going through a lot. You think that by taking drugs, it is going to elevate your mood. Temporarily it does. But the problem is once it wears off, you go deeper into whatever despondency you were feeling prior to taking the drugs.   At some point, you're like, you know, this is not working. I just need to end it all.  Alright, let's... I'd like to ask you this because we're costing down, just in less than a minute, is that we know the legal position for Niger. It will be stated that it's not a crime. But in the case of attempted suicide or attempted suicide, that becomes a crime if you want to take your life.  I like not to mention those places, not to enhance that. People who try to take their life and then they have been rescued, they have been arrested because that's a crime. Does that even solve the problem? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Again, if you understand that for you to get to that position, you don't want to know what the individual is going through. So I would have said that maybe a better approach would be that they should get them help rather than charge you for trying to take your own life. Just being human, my life is my life. And I could argue that I don't want this life again. Therefore, I want to end this. But again, that's just been funny. But I don't think that's my opinion. I think rather than charge them, they should get them help. Alright. So Labisi and Temidara, thank you so much for your time. It's been therapeutic talking to you this morning. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me, Kofi. Thank you very much. Alright. She's a therapist in self-empowerment. Coach, merci. We all need to ask ourselves from Temidara, how are you, my friend? Probably... When did you ask me how I was, merci. But I have. I do ask you every other time, even just a few some minutes back. You know, you have just been very defensive. You know, the thing is, you have somebody, how are you, I'm fine. Nobody wants to say I'm not fine. Nobody wants to confess. See, I remember one time... Even when things are well, not to say it as well. So I know that that's a cliche, and that's the problem with us. We'll definitely move on in no time. Just give us one minute. But usually, I remember very well. I think that it's because of the culture. It's a cultural thing, it's a behavioral thing. It has also become cliche. If somebody asks you if you're fine, it's just natural for you to say, hey, I'm all right. But you're not okay. Even at a time, you probably might just be in danger. And then you say, I'm fine. And that's because it's just human tendency or natural for us to try to put up a face and say, well, okay, because we don't want to appear weak, we don't want to appear like we have problems, we don't want to appear like we're complaining and we're whining and what have you, but hey. And the response is always, I'm fine. I'm not telling you later. I remember a time when someone asked me, that was way back sometime ago as a student, I was on the way, I was trying to get a cab back home. And someone asked me, are you fine? And I asked him if I'm not fine, what can you do about it? I was so angry. Oh my God. You're asking me that. But we need to go, that's it. We need to stop all this. It is well, it is well. All right. There is coffee bar gels. And I am Messia Bopu. We joined the newsroom at 9 o'clock for the news brief and that's it, good morning.


Hi everyone, in this tutorial you will learn how to convert image to text in Python language. In order to do that, first we're gonna install Tesseract to perform optical character recognition. I'm gonna install Python Tesseract on our machine by typing pip install by Tesseract. Then I'm gonna import this module, then you need to go to this link. You can find it in the description of this video and click on one of these two links to install Tesseract optical character recognition. I've installed this 64-bit version. I can find it on my machine on C drive in Program Files, Tesseract OCR, we're gonna use its executable file Tesseract.exe, I'm gonna copy this path. If you do not have Tesseract executable in your system path, you need to include it. I don't have it in my system path, so I'm gonna include it by typing TesseractCMD and I'm gonna provide path to this executable file, but I can omit this .exe extension. This Tesseract command is from this module, so we're gonna call it from this module. And finally we need to find an image to convert it to text. I have one image in our working directory. Its name is imageexample.jpeg, I'm gonna show it to you how it looks. Here it is, we're gonna convert this image to text. We're gonna use imageToString function from this module and I'm gonna provide as an argument the path of our image. Its name is imageexample.jpeg, this function is from PyTesseract. This function is gonna convert this image to the string. We want to print this string to the command line, I'm gonna run this program and as you can see our image is converted to the string. That's all in this tutorial, don't forget to check other tutorials on our channel. See you in the next tutorial, bye-bye.


Hey, this is one of my favorite catches. I played shallow, and I went back. Oh my god. These dudes would have been up and probably underneath the ball nowadays.  Now it's a plate. See, with that ball, that's right down the line. That's going to leave in that new ballpark. That does go in the new ballpark, right? I don't think it will. This one might be off the wall. That it, Adam. I get down. Going right field still leaves. Yeah. So does that. And Adam, I think you're going to be soon in Baltimore. I think they're going to retire your number two. I don't know about that.


And then what?  What is up with these guys? Super bummer, dude. Yeah, in fact, this is the Salute to Service hoodie. I buy the Salute to Service hoodie every year. I don't really like this one that much.  But I always like the Salute to Service hoodies because you know, they got the patches, they got the flag, they got this fly-ass Eagles patch over here.  I really could have. I have entirely too many hoodies, boys. Probably upwards of 30, 30 hoodies. What's our hoodie number counting the closet for the boys?  Yeah, I have, I mean, all my hoodies are like Eagles or Sixers or Phillies.  There's no way he doesn't just snap, tighten, and attack off. Third and eight, like, are you going, I mean, he's got a lot of vanguards, I think. Okay, this guy knows something, hold up. But this Emmett Smith, this Emmett Smith seems to be the favorite running back of the box. Yeah, he's breaking it all out, right? Bro, it all makes sense. RPOs are my counter to the dollar until they don't work, and then what?   Just like that, we lost. Just like that, we lost. Just like that, we lost, you know? Bull Jackson, by the way, you know? All right. I mean, I'm just itching to get, I'm just itching to get eyes in the ball here. That's a blister, let's go pick Jesus. We're dead, we're dead. Oh my God, we're dead. It's funny, cause he tried. All right, let's dial it in here. Richie is in off the field. He's just got a old school, and they should like put a flat rod out here, you know?  Oh, off-sides, he's off-sides, he's off-sides. Dog, all right, let's, let's, let's, everybody, everybody dial it in real quick, please. As a unit, please. There's off-sides again. I can't lie, that was a good discipline. Dog, like fuck, man. Like he died. This dude wore a sap, it's just going nuts, man.   This is why, bro, you need to get a secure protector over edge protector. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not putting myself in a bigger hole than I already am. Dog, like, like, come on, Chancellor. Yo, dog. At least he got glowing linemen though, dude. At least he has glowing linemen, right, right boys? He's got glowing linemen, so he's gonna be sweaty. Of course, he go, he sheds inside. His user goes the other way. I really wanted to use, I thought about going to, as I was with my family today, I was thinking about going back to this defense because of threat detector. I think threat detectors wanna be, like, kind of an earth dollar a little bit. Oh no, I didn't change my arrow. Skill, skill gap, skill gap. I mean, dude, when a defensive end runs right through the middle of the line, yeah, I'm back, I don't know, I don't have an answer for that. I don't have answers for the dude just unblock defensive end in a three-man rush. I have no answer for that. I mean, I know I'm God, but I'm not Jesus as well. What do you want me to do here? One round here, right? Like, what are you gonna say he's doing now? He's still rolling.  What was the plan there? JT, no limit? Just everybody's streaked? Dog, I am like appalled at what's going on here, dude. Now, now. I'm working on it, boys. I wanna become a PG streamer, dude. Like, maybe not PG, but like PG-13, but I just got too much passion. Like, I just got too much aggression. Can I show you what abilities I run on defense? Yeah, dude, definitely. It's called knockout zones as many as you can on the field. All right, boys, can we block Warren Sapp? What do you guys think here, guys? Warren's trying to roll out.  I'm gonna go with this one.  I mean, the 30-yard clouds are just bagging me. I can't even lie. Block, man. Luckily, 6-1 is just, like, God's here bagging me. Dude, I have six points. Like, dude, I really am bagged. I know what the play is. I just don't have, like, I'm not getting time right now. Here we go. This is exhilarating right now. I need to dial it in. I need to dial it. This is embarrassing is what it is. Doesn't matter how late I am, how old I am, this is an embarrassing gameplay. Why would people watch this? If you watch this, you might as well watch Skomo. But I'll tell you what, boys. I do have the answers, and I promise you I do. The problem is I cannot block three people. Like, when three people get good pass rush, like, you have no shot. That's four people now. We got a shot now. Get by him. Oh, we need a better animator. That's Bo, though. Oh, you are catching Bo? No, you're not. Never mind. I told you, I have the answer. I just can't block these four people. They're literally giving me the sausage. It's sticking. All right, here we go, boys. I mean, this guy's really not, like, a pro where I should, like, really be worried about that type of thing. But honestly, like, doing this, just pinch my line here. We're playing the sticks. Pinch my line and put a spy instead of that blitz. I don't like when that happens, though.  I swear, that's, like, the best. That's a better rush than then.  Like, he just runs strategy, tries to get past it. Not a hot route here from the kid. Like, dawg, he doesn't see the field. Oh, my God. How are we in a game? We're in a game because of a glowing Warnsap. Yeah, I mean, this, he means running 30-yard clouds. Warnsap is pegging me. Three-man rush. Just block him. Nicely done, boys. I got nothing. We're in cover two. 30-yard clouds again. I mean, dawg, was that the, look at the, look where I'm at with the ball. That was the worst route ever. I really thought that would be the route that I need. It was just terrible. Yeah, as a secure protector, I can't stop Warnsap. There's nothing I can do when this, when a three-man rush does that. There's just nothing. There's no route combos. There's no e-book. There's no, you're dead. You're dead. Luckily, this guy just, I mean, dude, Warnsap is just having a day. Stop the arc. Dog, like, what, like, is that a tight end that just ran somebody over?   Tackle! Shitter. All right, boys, double team Warnsap here. You made a mistake, kid. Tackle? Good Tackle, respect. I don't really want to say I was trolling.  I mean, what do you want me to tell you? What do you want me to tell you? Warnsap was killing, and I fumbled to the crib the first, like, what are we doing here? Baby, sing my song. Oh, come on, Chanel. In balance, please.  Outside, dude. And then you contain and look at them, dead. My God, dude, what a player. And for the content, he's going to get an onside kick here, because why wouldn't he, right, boys? Here we go.   But that wasn't even Warnsap that made that play. It was the other guy who made me step up and then Warnsap just disengaged. You got to take that, you got to take that.  Like, and like, dog, the lay routes are so broken. The sea for the check and release was over top of that guy's head the entire time. Literally the entire time, the sea was, when he was blitzing, the sea was literally, literally over his head when he was blitzing. And he just, the running bag never even shipped him or anything.  That's what would have been crazy about it. But I put my running bag on the delay route. So what it did was it allowed the running bag to block that guy, but he just never did. He just, and he didn't even release right away for me to throw it to him. He like, it was just bad. It was just all bad.  Dog, Cam Chancellor, come on, dude. Like play aggressive, I need you to play aggressive down here. Play aggressive, play, play aggressive. Be aggressive, beat, beat, aggressive. Be aggressive, beat, beat, aggressive.  All right, can we buckle up right now? Double team Morissette. Wheel route, post route. Extra blocking with the tight end. He blitzed everybody. And we're dead. Half of my routes just fell on the ground. Half of my routes just fell on the ground, by the way. If anybody at home was watching, half of my routes fell on the ground that play, by the way. If anybody was watching, dude. Man, I just can't double team Morissette, bro. I just, like, I just literally can't blitz the game. Dog, stop playing.   Slide right this time. Can we block this, please? Nobody's on the tight end. Go get yards, please. 42 yard line, we can win this game with a field goal. Oh my God, be aggressive, be, be aggressive. I might've missed. Not even close. Get me out of this hellhole. I'm gonna go on the record and say I should've missed that field goal for my piss-poor accuracy, but Madden sucks and kicking field goals is entirely too easy. I'm gonna put a record there. Like, that should've been a miss. Should've been a miss.   Again, like, dog, that's the secure protector. And someone's gonna say, what's up here with the opposition?  Like, there's nothing you can do on eight-man coverage and you're getting that. Like, dude, this guy's gonna be open in the back of the end zone at some point, but, you know, you just can't do anything. Bull Jackson, third and goal. Here we go, boys. Buckle up. And that guy runs right in the backfield. Like, like, man, I just got a high ball here. If we high ball, he has no shot, but.


So, you had mentioned that this past year has given you such a platform to meet with so many people to see so many things in person, everything from the Children's Miracle Network to, as you said, the Kentucky Derby, and I imagine so many things in between. And you had also mentioned that you, this had been something you had been working for for a really long time and that you really wanted. Do you have a next dream or a next goal in terms of, like, even if it's short term, something that you would like to, like, is there something that you're now working to next given that your reign is almost over? There is. I think I started thinking about the, you know, day after I was giving up my title, the first day I won, because this year goes by so quickly, I mean you can't even process what's happening to you because it's just, you know, you're going, going, going constantly. And so I knew the biggest thing I could do for myself this year is to set my sights higher for what I can take from this year and escalate myself from it. So with that being said, my site right now is to, you know, I'll be taking this next year to continue my speaking tour and I'll be traveling, continuing to travel across the country, which I'm very excited about and looking forward to because I get to do more of what Nina wants to do opposed to the obligations you fulfill with the Miss America organization. So it'll be a different kind of schedule that I'm on. But my first sites are set on to getting into a good MBA program. My first choice is Duke. UPenn is up there as Harvard, so there are opportunities to go into acting. There are opportunities to go into modeling and, you know, all these, this entertainment industry, but that only lasts for so long.