Have you shaken that spring cold yet? Wondering if you'll get a new Easter bonnet this year? Wanna get away from it all? We offer you escape! You were aboard a Chinese junk on the ground off the coast of Borneo and paddling toward you were the canoes of the deadly dyac headhunters.  Escape produced and directed by William M. Robson and designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. Tonight we escape to the Orient of 150 years ago to the Manila of 1790 in Richard Matthews Hallet's story of a wooden ship and an iron man, Miss Fortune's Isle. The water which was lying at anchor so close up against the jetty I could have leaned over and spit on the wheels of the elegant Spanish carriages clattering along the promenade. And that's exactly what I felt like doing. I've been away from Salem for three years now. Three years of sailing at Trader Briggs through the China seas and south into the Spice Islands. All for one. The whole thing had grown stale suddenly. I was plainly and simply bored. Young Po stood beside me there at the taff rail and tried to console me with philosophy. He'd anchored his sailing junk alongside earlier in the day and come aboard to renew a friendship that started two years before a tin scene when I hauled him out from under an executioner's axe. He was under it because he just sold me six fine fat pigs without remembering they happened to be the sacred property of the tin scene temple. Oh, young Po was a real philosopher, all right. Anyway, my friend, I reserve my sympathies for the poor. You have gained much wealth and trade. Ah, in a few measly gold pieces. But the trouble is out here a man can't go it on his own. He needs backing. Could a rush man desire them? Those eight brass cannon at the rail. No, they're fair guns, all right. But it's a flag I'm speaking of. Do these unworthy eyes not see a pen out there at the masthead? The bonding of Salem swings no weight out here. In the south it's the Dutch who call the term. On the coast the British and here in Manila it's the Spanish. Ah, man, young Po, there she comes now and the second care is there. That's the fourth time since I knew she's come back. Ah, four fine horses and two footmen. She rides in style. Watch, watch, she'll look up at the ship. She has every time today. There you see. Ah, that one. The little Cajun bird. You know her? I know of her. She is wife of Don Nasciso Crispo, the Spanish nobleman who is captain general of the island south of Zambolanga. He is in residence here in Manila. She looks very sad. Why is she called a little Cajun bird? One glimpse of Don Nasciso would answer your question better than thousand words. She's very beautiful too. I'll swear she looked back and smiled just then. Captain Arad, once in pity I set free a parakeet which I had found caught in Annette. I still bear scar from its beak. Some things may be worth taking chances for. I mean, I find it so much simpler to go to sleep and dream of maidens on the moon. Ah, but the moon's too far away. Hey, man, where are you? Huh? Oh, up here, Michael, on the quarter deck. Then the honorable red-headed one is still your first mate? Aye, that he is. What's the matter, Michael? Matter indeed. Haven't you heard all the excitement in town? I've been looking. Well, I'm cool. Haven't they hung you yet? This on what they want is touched by your concern, Mr. OK. What do you mean by excitement? I've been on board all day. Ah, now, last night with all their soldiers on guard and their stone ramparts and all, a band of pirates slipped the shore down close and got through into the city. Pirates? Aye, tin-fels on bush-holds up on this fortune. They may possibly think it was me. Oh, they have no clue as to who it was. Got away scot-free they did. And they almost abducted the Captain General of Zambuango and Scent. What? Aye, aye. An important grandee by the name of Don Narcisco or something or other. His guard finally heard them. Ah, pity. Fortune not with you, Captain Narac. Ah, but here's the part that'll stop you. There is no one in Manila that knows who they were, except yours truly, Michael O'Kane. Go on. Here, have a look at that.  All right. And there's a mark on the handle. It's one we traded to Sarif. Aye, aye, the bandit king of North Bunyo. And it was me found this morning on the beach where the pirate boat came ashore. You found it? No, no, no, not quite. A melee by the name of Jambu brought it to me. Jambu, 10,000 sampans filled with boiled fish. You know the villain? I have used him as interpreter. He speak dayak. But in some form or incarnation he undoubtedly was ill. You know, I think this may be exactly what I need. Need? For what, I read? To make fortunes for the three of us. I certainly remember an unexpected appointment. Aye, young Po. It's a plan that won't work without you. I'm not talking a bear profit. This means a fortune. I am amazed. There is much talk of money and yet very little talk of Spanish lady. I've heard rumors on shore about these Spanish classes. For one thing, they wear no stockings. Huh? And how's the man to know it, Michael? He can't count too much on his thing. Well, Art was a Spaniard that told me. All right, now listen, let me tell you the plan. And if we're all agreed, I'll go ashore and talk to this Donnus Ciso. After I have heard it, I think I shall go and sacrifice White Lusta to Queen of Heaven, though I doubt it will do a great deal of good. The only thing I can understand is why this damn boo didn't take the cutlass to Donnus Ciso in the first place. It is quite possible he did take it there in first place, Captain Harad. It is point worth consideration. It took a bit of talking right enough, but finally the others agreed to the plan. And no more than two hours later, I was talking to the Captain General of Zambuango himself. He turned out to be a little monkey of a man, yellow as a faded sunflower and much older than I expected to find. Thank you. I'm quite well satisfied with regarding your identification of those who perpetrate the outrage, Captain Harad. But no addictions and fatalities. I have also heard the stories of this pirate Salif. No, I think a broad side of my thirty-two pounders can furnish him enough fatalities, excellently. It's not that simple. They say his headquarters on the Borneo coast is nothing less than a fortress. Ah, it's only a bamboo stockade lying at the mouth of the river. And it's in range of the guns on my break. My friend Yang Po has been there. What? Hard against the mouth of the river is the blue chalaca? Miss Fortune's Isle. And on it limestone caves filled with bird's nests with fifty dollars a pound in canton. That may well be, Captain Harad. But there is also the upastry. You must have heard of it. Aye. But I count a little on hearsay, excellency. It is not hearsay. The dyac headhunters poison the spears and owls with its juices. I have seen men scratched by them die like that. Some things are worth taking chances for. I must say that I quite agree with you, Captain Harad. Captain Harad. May I present my wife, Donia Lofina de Cristo. I'm Captain Harad. I'm on it. Martito, I read it all. You must agree to this expedition. Do you know the king's offer? Any man who reads the violence of pirates to be made a convoy with lands and pirates. I can have both lands and pirates, my dear. What is it you expect from this, Captain Harad? Of fortune, excellency. The birds nests themselves should be worth a half million Yankee dollars. And there's golden antimony in the river. And trade with the dyacs. Precisely what is the plan of yours? Well, fifty of Seraph's men are Chinese who once served Yangpoh. They'll come in with us if he can get word to them. That'll make things easier. And how do you expect to get word to them? Yangpoh and I'll sail in ahead of his junk and try to contact them. My mate will bring up the water which twenty-four hours later and then we'll attack. And exactly, why have you come to me? Well, were I to do it without official support, I'd be judged a pirate myself, wouldn't I? I don't know. It would be a great thing if it could be done. Not a thing, sir. Why not think of it tonight and decide in the morning? That may be a wild suggestion. May I allow me to show you what, Captain Harad? By your leave, excellency. See you tomorrow then. Good day, Captain. This way, please. He will agree. He may depend on it. Good. I hope also that his excellency will accompany us personally. Well, you can be certain of it. You seem quite sure of that. Who do you think it was who had the cordless hand to you? You? Here is the door, Captain. I will say Adiosito now. In our language it means goodbye for a little while. For a little while, huh? Well, in that case, Adiosito. Delfino was right. The next morning he agreed to it. And two days later, we sailed out of Manila Harbor. Don Narciso accompanied me on Yanko's Janken. Michael O'Kane followed up the helm of the Water Witch. Our luck deserted us as we rounded the corregidor and sailed square into the tail end of a typhoon. There was little wind, but a heavy sea was running and it took us on the port bow for all that night and the next day. We lost sight of the Water Witch. And the leaky old junk pitched and rolled like a dory. Yanko stayed mostly below in his bunk and drained peacefully of the maidens on the moon. But I stayed on deck and skippered her through it. It was late for second night before I had a chance to go down to my cabin. One is not yet, Captain. Delfino! What on the name of the devil are you doing aboard? Being crossed about mostly. It is a very unsteady ship you have, Captain. There should be a lot more unsteady when a hundred dyke-head owners start trying to board her. How did you arrive here? In a sack of feathers. It's really old that saved me burning the storm, you know. Oh, come on. Don't you realize your husband is on board? Sleeping in the deck cabin. Suppose he should come down here for something. He did one. I hid in the wardrobe. Oh, all the fool tricks. But you did say or you see it, though. For a little while. Yes, but it wasn't an invitation. I could tell. Anyway, I shall prove quite valuable to you. I doubt it. You will see. My visa will become frightened at the last moment. He always does. And what will you do? Whatever is required at the time. I am not afraid of fighting my captain. I have seen it before. Found it. We had a fortune in our region. Now you come along and ruin it. You underestimate me. Well, I won't do that again. You are very rude. I'm meant to be. Why did you marry him? I had no choice. My father was ambitious. Our visa was influential. And did your father realize his ambition? He became a corner. And first killed a son's gag of a chili. Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. And now if you'll remove yourself from my bunk, I need some sleep. If you are going to move in here, then, what am I going to do? Oh, you'll think of something. You made all your own plans so far. Oh. Thank you. But if my husband sees me, then you might think you brought me on board.  Good night. You. You are going to sleep? I hope to. Try the shrine of the Queen of Heaven. It's the last cabin in this turn. No one goes there but young Po, and he'll have to be told about you anyway. Good night.  It's so very sweet. Thank you very much. Well, woman, I know woman, aboard it was too late to turn back now.  And on the opposite side of the junk across a hundred yards or so of water was the beach of Miss Fortune's Isle, sloping back to break sharply on the foot of the limestone cliffs. On the upper shoulders of those cliffs were the caves with a fortune and edible birds nest. And between the cliffs and the water stood the upus tree. A hundred legends were told about the upus tree. How its shadow could kill a man. How the spirit of a white goddess was present in the thick dark foliage of its top. And how birds that lighted on its branches fell dead to the ground. Well, one thing at least was true enough. The Diyaks made a horrible poison from the juice of its bark. And they worshiped the tree. The young pole took the renegade interpreter, Jambu, with him. To pay his respects to Sarif. And at the same time was to pass the word to his Chinese friends. It was late afternoon when he came back and I'd become nearly as uneasy as Don Narciso. Young Pole came aboard alone and motioned me to follow him below, saying nothing until we were alone in my cabin. It is my humble opinion, Captain Arad, that heaven favors us with the sighted lack of fortune. Why, what happened? Sarif, most polite. I, most polite. We enjoy most friendly conversation while we both held our knives beneath our robes. All very polite. Well, did you get word to your men? Sarif, blessed with presence of 200 Diyaks and 50 meleis. My own brethren are unfortunately down the course for two days. Oh, that's a bad piece of luck. Ah, but I have news of much worse one. Jambu, that son of 10,000 devils, has deserted us. Deserted? He has joined Sarif. Oh, he'll tell him exactly what we're planning. So not Billy Jambu would do such a thing? Don Fina, I told you to stay out of this cabin. Jambu worships me. He's my slave wife. It was you who helped me sleep on board. Oh, so that's why he's done it. He has no deserted. What could he hope to gain by it? You probably... This on what they want offers suggestion that we stand out to see until what hour which come tomorrow. A fine idea, except for one thing.  We're grounded on a mudbar with no chance of moving before the tide tomorrow morning. We'll have to stand and fight. Ah, yes, they are so careless. I forgot to tell you, they even neglected to cover powder during storm. The water ruined it. Well, then we'll not even have the four cannon. Really matter of slight importance. They only ornaments. They would blow up if we fired them. You could hardly have picked a more suitable time to tell me. Well, we'll fight without them. The impetuousity of youth. I think I sleep for a while. I dream of maidens on the moon. Young poor, you'll stay on your feet and start your men boiling kettles of oil and piling rocks by the rail. It would be so much pleasant out to die in one sleep. If I know Siriff, you'll not attack them till nearly midnight. Telfina, can you swim? I can do anything. Primarily I want to know if you can swim. I can? Good. Young Po, I'll be back and help you in an hour, but I have a job to do first. Come along, condesa. It was dark when we slipped into the water and struck out for the island. If I had tried to lower a boat, they might have seen us from the shore. I could see no other way to keep her out of it. The rest of us had no chance. I knew how the dyaks fought. We could expect no help. And on board, she would have been the only one of us left alive. Aye, Jambu would see to that. We made the beach safely, crossed it, and worked our way up the steep path on the face of the cliff. Finally we reached the ledge in front of the caves. Oh, it is so dark here. It frightens me. Well, there's nothing to harm you. The caves, perhaps, but nothing else. I am to stay here alone then? Aye, until the water which comes into anchor tomorrow. Light this torch, then, and signal it.  Tomorrow? Where will you be tomorrow, Arit?  We'll have a fighting chance. You have no chance at all, and you know it. Don't go. Stay with me, Arit. You know that's impossible. He meant young boys no better than a pirate himself, and you cannot help him by losing your own life, or stay with me. And what of your husband? We'll not go back. I beg you. Please, Arit. Delfina, you have a deadlier poison than the upus tree itself.  Or will it make so very much difference to you? So much that I would not care to be alive tomorrow.  I prayed for an earthquake, fire, death, anything. But now I pray only that you may live through this night. Delfina? Delfina, I... but there's nothing can be said. And even then, if you must, before you do, kiss me when it's much as pretty as Adiosito. Adiosito. For a little while. Stay there one moment longer. I should never have left him. Back aboard the junk, I found young Poe rushing preparations for the hopeless fight that stood ahead of us. Don Narciso was shivering on the quarter-deck, for no reason to tell him his wife had made the trip with us. The Chinese crew had piled stones and smoke pots at the rail, ready to throw down on the heads of the dyaks who had tried aboard us. And kettles of oil were being heated over a brick hearth by the mast. Paper lanterns had been lighted and hung about the rigging. But outside the narrow limits of the deck, we could see nothing. Nothing but the black wall of the Borneo night. The same dark wall shut off any side of the upus tree and of the cliff face where Delfina lay hidden. But I knew from the ledge she could see us moving about on the lighted deck. I loaded my pistols with the only dry powder aboard and we waited. There was no light unsure and no sound. And three hours went past. What's he putting measures to be taken? My Venerable Captain General, I have offered incense and rice to Queen of Heaven. If our enemies prevail after that, then we have mistreated them in some form or life. I go below to sleep. Sleep? And who is to give orders to your men? They give them to one another. Excellence say they are all commanders in their own right. We may perhaps meet later in third or fourth heaven. With powder I trade that boat and the grounded sheep. I might warn you before the attack starts your excellency. Stay away from the rail, at least until after the smoke parts are thrown. The dyaks use bamboo poles with iron hooks on the end and they can reach up and drag a man over the rail easier than picking coconuts. Captain Arat, perhaps we could surrender and make peace somehow. Well, take no surrender. They want our heads. Look, they're on it. Young boy! The head comes under the side. Tossing over smoke parts, smashing those heavy rocks. It was torn by the screams, shooting oil. And rocks are nearly caught. Either be swarming aboard it in another two minutes. Where's the Captain General? He has retired to heaven. It would be unchartable to say he holds them. Well, a lot of good it'll do it. Young boy! They're on the island. Look! It would appear a copper of sacred uphast tree has burst into flame. The great flaming torch of the tree spread into full bloom and leaped up to the heavens, lighting the whole sea around us. And everywhere about a screaming and hoarse terror, the dyaks grew up in their boats and stared at the blazing death of their sacred tree. And then in full view on the glaring face of the cliff, the beautiful and weird figure of a woman, her streaming behind it swung slowly out from behind the flame and up and up and then disappeared over the ledge in front of the cave. And at the sight of their white goddess escaping from her prison in the tree, the dyaks broke and panicked and turned their boats and raced for the shore. And while I thought of the signal torch I'd left with Delfina, suddenly the battle was over. Ten thousand bushels of unexpected departure.  All right, then you recognize me. These vulnerable eyes have never looked upon sight more fair. I shall address her after as princess of heaven. And I think perhaps another recognized her also. But did you not see it? That was Delfina. It was my wife. I know. She was aboard with us. Abored with us? By your permission, senor? No, she stowed away and asked that the knowledge of her presence be kept from you. I have no doubt she found you quite agreeable to such a plan. Take care, excellency. Take care? I will see you, Hans, senor. And thus for her, I shall rip her through the streets of Vanilla. We will discuss that later. I do not discuss my decisions. In fact, it may be better that I bring her aboard at once and put up speeders of bed on this very deck. And you pardon me. It is my humble opinion that elder they men should learn to control their emotions. Wait, there's a dyke warrior hiding there by the rail. The boats have gone and left him. Excellency! Excellency, away from that rail! They take Norah from you, senor! Get back! Look out! Stay there! Stop them! They come in the ball shooting, Captain Ara. Aye, but a little use to the captain, general, I'm afraid. See what you can do from young Po. I'm going ashore to look after her. See what I can do for him. Now how can I be expected to replace man's head on his Barbie, especially when head seems to have rolled overboard? There's not the least bit of use in giving me a poet's blind you, reprobate.  Life moves only according to dreams of Queen of Heaven, Mr. O'King. Not to mention, of course, those of princesses. Oh, that Spanish laugh, eh?  I plan to devote a remainder of my onwardly life to rescue our small birds from nets.  Oh, oh, come in, Ara. I've been wondering where to find you. I was charting the course. Ah, well, we can sail in the morning. Both ships are nearly loaded. Good. We'll head for Kenton.  You think he might have some good quality of silk to trade? I get these possible. Ah, silk is it now? And what would you be wanting silk for, Ara? Well, uh, well, it's not silk. I mean, not exactly. Come on, come on. It's what, what? It's not silk, Ara, then what is it, huh? Oh, all right, Michael, if you have to know everything, I want to trade with him for a dozen pair of silk stockings. Escape is produced and directed by William M. Robeson. And tonight brought to you Miss Fortune's Isle by Richard Matthews Hallett, adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield, with Paul Freese as Captain Erad, Virginia Gregg as Donia Delfina, Bill Conrad as young Po, Barry Kroger as Don Narciso, and Tony Barrett as Michael Cain. Next week. When you're tired out from doing nothing all weekend, when Blue Monday stares you in the face, next week at this time, when your problems seem just too much for you, we offer you escape. Next week we bring you another exciting story by one of the world's great authors. Good night, then, until the same time next week, when once again we offer you escape. Yes, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Welcome back to the breakfast on Plastiv Africa. Now let's move into our conversations for this morning. They're mostly centered around the Ansar's Memorial and the question is what has changed since October 2020? We're speaking this morning with a couple of people. In studio we have a broadcaster and of course a journalist also, Trost, who's joined us. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Hi, good morning. It's a pleasure being here. Trost was a part of the documentation of the events from last year and of course it was also involved with yesterday's events. We also have joining us VaZoom, the National Publicity Secretary, African Action Congress, Fermi Adeye. Morning, Ms Adeye. Thanks for joining us. Good morning. Thank you very much. Good morning, Nigerians. Thank you. Fair to have you. But just before we get into the conversation, we would of course play a quick report from what happened yesterday. So much of course that was covered by our cameras and by cameras of other reporters and in the process of some of all of that we also had one of our reporters almost injured in the process running from the tear gas canisters that were fired. We'll play a quick report for you and then we get into the conversation after this. At the Toge, the protest ground and surprisingly the whole place is filled up by protesters. Right behind me are security operatives guiding the protesters from coming further so that parcel buys and motorists will be able to ply the route without any hitches. There was a massive gathering this Wednesday morning at the Lekitogate. It looked like a transfer of aggression, of pain and anguish. The protesters rallied and fooled an illegal procession causing some gridlock earlier in the day. While the police were stationed at the Toge for security, liars for the answers movement and other activists advised the protesters to vacate the scene as they foresaw a situation where the process would be hijacked. The point is that we have made the point. They said don't come out and we came out. It is good time to leave. Is that good for we youth now to move out of Lekitogate because we can see now a lot of hoolions being sponsored by the politicians so they will not hijack the protest. The protesters were on the tad as they make their demands known. Let them feel the protestors, the protestors, wonder we need a bad government. The Nigerian government should swallow their pride and come out and apologize to the people. My friends at the Ukwebea island they choose me through my element, I'm a dispatcher. Look at me very well. There are still over 300 protesters in prison. Now, I'm calling them protesters but all of them are not even protesters. Some of them are just bystanders. Some of them are just going to work and after a year not one soldier has been put to work. Alas, gunshots could be heard. The police fired tear gas canisters at protesters in a bid to disperse the crowd. The commissioner of police, Hakim Udumusu, made an appearance. He explained the reason for his men's action. Some protesters were reportedly arrested as the police had warned that anyone sing at the toll gate without an ID card will be arrested. Destiny Momo for Plus TV Africa. The scene is from yesterday and all that took place. Of course, we still have other reporters who will be sharing with you as we have this conversation. I'm going to start the conversation from speaking with trust in Anze who is a journalist and a broadcaster also and was a part of the protest or part of documenting events from last year and of course yesterday also. Mr Anze, good morning. Good morning once again. Nigeria, Africa and beyond. The question really is what really has changed between last year and today. So let's start with from what you saw last year and what you experienced last year and of course yesterday also. Okay, so clearly and it is very revealing and in my memory it's really vivid because last year when I went to Syria over the protest immediately I stepped out and started shooting. So that incident in my head was more or less like, you know what what would have happened if I was still on ground actually, right? So moving on from there to now when I was in when I definitely was on ground again, like it all gets it's pathetic and it's really, really annoying to say that I don't think anything has changed. And this transcend into all our facets of our existence as Nigerians where we necessarily don't understand that we should learn from mistakes, right? Let it all get happened October 20 last year. This year October 20 again there is no lesson learned. It's more or less like the way of solving any issue for the police force and the government seems to be false. Once it's not forced they have no other negotiating chip to other to negotiate with the people and that tells the fact that the only negotiating chip that you can use for your citizenry in Nigeria and even in better climes are good governance and to the extent that negotiating chip can't be actualized through this government then they use the other means which is forced. I think personally that they're ready to adopt or employ the negotiating chip of good governance and all they still want to continue to do is brutal force which is definitely, definitely appalling. Okay. Let's get Femi Adea on. Femi Adea, can you hear me? Yes, Lili. Alright, so you were on ground yesterday I'd like that you share your experience with us what was it like being at the toll gate yesterday? Alright, I will start by saying what happened yesterday is a victory in itself. It's a victory for the Nigerian people in which there would never be a time when the Nigerian people would surrender their freedom will surrender their resistance or the altar of any intimidation or threats. That's why they threated by the police, by soldiers, DSS and other persons Nigerian people, the young people of this country came out to say see this is our rights, our rights to us, our rights to freely express ourselves without intimidation and you know any of your violence repression would have to be there and that was what was going to victory in itself. But then it's just to tell us that nothing actually has changed in the operation of the Nigerian police because the way they address issues nothing has changed. You would see how journalists were being harassed beating, people were being beaten thrown into vans and all of that. In fact, what I consider very, very shameful in the 21st century democracy is that a journalist would come to a protest ground with helmets and bulletproof vests and see if you're covering a war zone. It's very... I don't think even during the military it was this bad as you can see in the video you're playing. There's a journalist putting on the bulletproof and a helmet zone. You're not covering a war zone in Syria. And you can also tell from how the police officers are showing force and everything. It shows that nothing actually has changed and we are not surprised at the African National Congress. We are not surprised because it has always been our position that until you pull down a system that continues to bridge and you know produce brave oxygen to all forms of brutality, we are going nowhere. When we are done with police brutality, we will pick military brutality. When we are done with that we will pick air city brutality. In fact, what I call a common brutality is also without all forms of brutality we will not leave until we have turned that system that is producing all of these brutality and that is the work for every young person who is listening to this, who is also part of the ENSAS movement. It sounds like a lot of work that needs to be done and obviously may not be achieved in a few weeks or in a few months. Those who have said the best way to achieve this change is through the electoral process but hopefully we get to that angle before we wrap up. At King or Lowry, we have spoken with you yesterday you were on the ground at the protest at the memorial yesterday share with us exactly how it played out and your feelings seeing the events from yesterday. Good morning, thanks for having me. There is quite a remarkable outing yesterday by many young Nigerians. A few of us had figured out that leading up to the experiences from last October, I was actually talking witness shootings spent the last few months helping a lot of the survivors through the judicial panel in Leckie and really working with the lawyers and making sure that we kept the state government as well as the federal government on its toes we had an outcome for justice meeting on the panel from the report Leckie is a key thing every Nigerian should make sure this government fulfills ultimately. Yesterday's outing by young Nigerians showed that again they are not misguided they are not hoodlums, they are not out to destroy a city and a country that did love what you saw with the full display of patriotism I don't think in the history of this country you have ever seen Nigerians display that much patriotism while expressing grief so from an event that really kept a lot of people in a very dark mental state I guess it is, I think for the police force I would not go out on a limb and criticize 100% I think there was some level of restraint that was shown however we have to utilize opportunities like this to really coach and mentor our police force in understanding how to deal with the public in issues of protest. So again a few experiences expressed that made me feel somewhat disheartened and disappointed but I think overall people were very, very restrained people were well behaved for the most part it was supposed to be an 8 to 10 auto rally where we protest drop flowers drop flags to memorialize the lives of those that were lost and I think it was successful. In addition to that we also had in Lagos on the panel at the Saransuke Summit two mothers of deceased protesters that went on camera faces not blurred and really spoke about the grief and sorrow of losing children at the toke one of them picked her son in the morning in wee hours and had him buried another mother is looking for the body of her deceased son if you recollect the video of the kid with the flag and was being prayed for I had the mother here in Lagos so again we're not just only memorializing those that were killed who were equally asking the state government we need you to stand up, show accountability and produce the corpses of the young kids that were killed last October Alright let's get back to Tross Sean who's still here with us in the studio now you are a journalist that's a good thing that you were out you know during the first time I mean in 2020 trying to document all that happened now we have constantly seen journalists being harassed and manhandled in the cost of discharging their duties how does this make you feel as a journalist? It makes me feel terrible because I was also harassed yesterday I didn't like it at all yet right in my car at the company's car at the point where they said like throwing people of course we ran into our car and we had to rescue about one or two people inside our own car and that was when the police came and dragged me into the van and I'm like chill you can see my vest my vest clearly marks my company and I showed him my ID card I've got a lot of drag before you let me go and that goes to show you that these individuals are not ready to change and this is me a little bit disagreeing with I think as Mr. Akin said there was a little bit of restraint from the police I said that can be that can be dubbed as restraint the only restraint we witnessed yesterday was not use of gun not use of bullets and as far as I'm concerned you see the Uber driver that was badly beaten and battered I saw that personally I saw a lady who did nothing that I still managed to go out of the van I saw all of these beating and battered of people I saw the police officers take people out from the road these are people that don't even protest us and this was a situation where the protesters had gone and you're still picking up people that were just walking through the streets through the tour gates I don't think that was restraint I think that is still the height of of at I'm trying to mind the adjective to be perfectly honest but as a journalist someone who always will continue to put himself on the line for the people reporting the people the only joy I got yesterday was the appreciation I got for people from passersby and from listeners and for everyone that I was there to cover the protests and put my life on the line it's so pathetic that when I want to go and cover a protest I'm thinking of it as me putting my life on the line for Nigeria we saw the yellow vest in France we even saw the black light movement in the United States we saw protests about the field like in the UK we don't see the journalists thinking of protest as their life been in danger and we deserve to be that bridge between the people and the government and if they want us to discharge that duty that is to show that they need to understand that they can't continue to brutalize journalists when doing their jobs I don't think anyone is safe from a person who decides to use maximum force for whatsoever reason they imagine if I'm here today I want to come back to you to share also what you think must be done from the events yesterday and from the things that we've also seen not very much has changed with the attitude of the police towards the Nigerian citizen we also saw staff of the Lagos state neighborhood watch that's what they are called involved with the harassment of people who are passing people who are arrested for simply carrying the Nigerian flags I saw earlier this month as much as 30 people had to be released on bail late last night for reasons I really don't know so what would you say must be done if we want to actually see the difference alright I think it should not mean to work at all when giving the Nigerian police a heavy knock what happened yesterday is still brutality it wasn't any restraint or any soft hand was brutality another thing I need to add before I talk about what needs to be done is that you cannot beat a child and then want to determine how the child would cry it is only in this part of the world you beat a child and then you cover the child's mouth if I hear him African parents do that and that is what the Nigerian police and the Nigerian states after beating the child you tell the child not to cry then you tell the child where to cry and just stay in your cars and that was what happened yesterday it turned out to be a very good strategy but we must not fall into that trap when we allow the states to determine where we cry when to cry because I heard Mr. Akinilawie saying 8 to 10 and then everybody should disperse and we all have the moral duty to disobey any unjust law and all that is being said and so on what should be done you see where I come from and the kind of background the ideology background I come from we understand we look at things from the roots of the problem you see what I have said even on my Facebook post recently is that we do not have police officers in Nigeria we have police investors that is the truth I will give you an example to that from the recruitment look at the recruitment to the remuneration to how they are being posted to promotion and everything you can see that we do not have people who are solely interested in protecting the people I have on good accounts the amount some of these police officers pay so that they can be posted to SAS units or where they call juicy places so in the police officer phase I as 500,000 Naira to be posted to a juicy place what do they call juicy places where you have young people where they can do all sorts of things so that person is not a police officer anymore he is an investor because if he has paid 500,000 Naira as an investment he must recoup his investment you go into a DPO's office and you find out that he is the one who got his desk he got the air condition he got his office he got to make his money back and how will he make it back he would have to rate he would have to beat up people he would have to lie against innocent people so it is a systemic issue and until we face the roots of all of these problems we will keep psychomabulating we will come back here next year we will talk about brutality for example like I said earlier if you leave police brutality because of the brutality we have also been paid on young people in this part of the world we must understand how to build institutions institutions that even if we have the worst people in those institutions the laws guiding those institutions we have thrown them to sanity but if we do not go to the roots of all of these problems we will just keep scratching the face see you cannot continue doing painting a house in a house that has a bad foundation and until we pull down that system that continues to build all of these brutalities we would not have a conclusive end we would always come back to the streets to protest to protest and then we would have we would always have when people are harassed you have compensation you start going to a panel and you need us for what happens we put a panel anyways this is another another one in front of us I'm not saying we should discount it that's what's happening in the panel I was part of the panel discussion I always attended the panel and I would also they've done a very good job in listening to petitions the work is just so enormous and what we are waiting for is that there must be a conclusive end especially to the Neki massacre reports and no Nigerians should go to sleep because it's ours can I comment? hold on before we come to you but we would like to take a look at this particular response from the minister of information saying that the peasants were killed the massacre is fake news and nothing really happened let's just take a look at this response from the minister the military did not issue any test at the Neki tour gate on October 25th, 2020 and there was no massacre at the tour gate the only massacre recorded was in the social media hence there were neither bodies nor blood two Amnesty International CNN and Rona Wendity and Rona Wendity and others like them should apologize for misleading warning that there was a massacre at the Neki tour gate and for portrayed Nigerian military, police and other security agencies in bad night three CNN, RK unprofessionally by relying on verified and possibly doctorate social media deals as well as other open source information to conclude that the massacre took place at the tour gate just to share with you the minister of information and of course his thoughts towards the October 2020 you know, happenings we are now going to bring back Akin or Laoyi I want you to start your response from there the minister still says that nothing and there was no massacre probably nobody was killed also CNN, DJ Switch and Amnesty International need to apologize to Nigerians Akin, what are your thoughts? we deserve a country in which we ought to understand that there is value to each and every Nigerian life and I say that with a lot of sense Akin, my previous comment about the pollution and restraint them just correct that, not to offend anyone watching I think what we saw yesterday in this what was this cable I was only speaking my experience as a whole and again using this opportunity for this a global view for someone takes my feedback and run after that but then I'm only saying we can see improvements and we need to see more the right to protest is an alien right and every Nigerian ought to be able to exercise back to what the minister said as I stated earlier I'm here in Lagos we have two mothers grieving one with a documented video with metadata timestamp putting the death of her son at the toll gate a second kid that was killed the mother picked up the corpse buried the kid the same morning of the shootings how you gonna help me sit here and listen to what the honorable minister is saying seriously let me start by mentioning names of deceased protestors Victor Victor about I can go on and on and on we have five known deceased protestors at the scene of the toll gate we have four bodies pictures taken of people who died we have recorded evidence at hospitals at gynecologists showing bodies brought to hospitals across Lagos the night of the shootings we have eight survivors but another 14 more with bullet wounds so if over 15 people sustained bullet injuries how many more were not fortunate to make it to a hospital and lay dead at the ground and then you say it was bloodless I mean please help me here I'm short of words we want to show your thoughts on that one trust will come to you yes definitely you see Nigerians have been so insulted over time and this minister continues to be the chief insulter of the intelligence of Nigerians first is that you are also in live video I do not know anywhere in the world where in live video is being video shot until when the case of Nigerian happened and then so many lies have been told in the course of this whole issue and these lies are always pointing to the truth I was at the Leci panel and when I met Tywo looking to represent the Nigerian army when he came he also agreed that they were at the Leci targets the governor said the soldiers because these are reports that everyone can pick up he said the soldiers were at the Leci targets the ACP forgotten his name was also there but at the end of the day he brought he came just to justify the kind of violence that happened at Leci targets he came with a particular video but when it was played it showed that the time stamp on that video was in November that video some guys didn't match it so when it was shown superior argument he said it was answers that gave rise to all of the other violence that were not happening across Lagos so just to tell you that all of these lies are pointing to the facts that that place on that day was blocked everything that happened in that place is just better imagined than you experiencing it some of them have been permanently injured some of them are still feeling pains in their body there was an operation that was done on the Seventh River and still has serious pains there so when a minister especially on a day like this were in a civilized country in the 21st century it's rather than sharing consolation and restitution you are coming to tell Nigerians that's nothing to distract the massacre as phantom I think Nigerians should, right now from this minute seek that this minister resigns from office I think that's the first thing we must do at this time we are telling like Mohammed that he should start putting together his resignation letter because you cannot continue to insult Nigerians with your media wounds it went if what's his name if like Mohammed is not insulting us today semi-additional is insulting us tomorrow if semi-additional is not insulting us this is something we also CNN came up with a particular report and then you are not even looking at that all you have to say is that and it comes from this arrogance of power which is also from the system we are talking about we call it a shot for these guys they would continue robbing all these other places okay trust you can also go ahead I think that it's like Mohammed surprised that it's never shocking when like Mohammed speaks not as ever surprising it just continues to solidify to the fact that most times in vast majority of instances the people we have in government are clowns, people who necessarily lack the intellectual capability to even lie in the first place right so the honest truth is you need some level of intellect to be able to lie you can't just come outside and insult people without tactics without knowledge, without experience and without intelligence and this clearly shows that these people are not tea for you to understand how clownish what he is saying is some of the government of legal state agrees that they were shooting like Mohammed say there is no shooting now the question is is it some of you or like Mohammed like it's obvious then you say that oh it is for at times yeah it is really imperative and I think this is something government should be all about it's really imperative we understand that there are things we say so that we don't look stupid right you can't say this international public that hey an IG live will photoshop it is simple they ask you how then where was your schooling how then did you how then were you able to rise to power it's so annoying understanding that because before the protest yesterday a friend called me and was crying all through how she witnessed the protest and was really begging me not to go cover the protest and you then tell me that there was no massacre, no shooting nothing quick a police officer yesterday confirmed to me that police officer shot at Leckie yesterday and you didn't tell me there was no shooting or clownish all right let's get back to you now Mr. Akin Ola Oye now that the government is saying that there was no massacre this is all fake news it's fabricated what next we will keep demanding accountability there's something that this generation is well positioned for and talented at doing and that is documenting we've never seen in the history of this country where events unfold and within minutes or hours we're not putting out factual information to counter a narrative I will tell you something is happening and that's the fact that a lot of victims and their families are beginning to find courage to speak up we've seen that with two of the mothers yesterday I'll be glad to equally refer them to come on your program and talk about their experiences and equally demand from the government answers to the killings of their young ones I would equally tell you that a lot of young engineers are saying hey enough is enough we're going to keep pushing we will keep speaking true to power we are not the docile generation that will be silenced and I can tell you something anytime more than ever we've seen a lot of political consciousness and engagement watch the BBC registrations go up people are going to the polls and we will send a message on election day I don't care who the politician is people are now ready so you know what you make the wrong move we're going to hold you accountable and that's the attitude we need from top to bottom Femi I think same question to you what next and where is this all headed what can possibly be achieved by a continued agitation remember also Twitter is still suspended and the platforms for which these conversations can go on seem to be restricted alright I totally align my thoughts with Mr. Ken Laughey we cannot say because we tried something and then we got just political sanctions and then we are banned on it we must keep pushing and protests is just one out of the many political processes that must be employed if we want to have a free society where we all can call our country and that's actually as it has a movement of citizenship people tried to become citizens they showed but at the end of the day they were killed for that and so we must remember this in the context of what it is the answer to me is one of the biggest movement that showed our credibility and transparency and how government should be everywhere in the world at some point when Woodlands were sent we protected ourselves and that is what we call security we fed ourselves that's what we call welfare so government anywhere in the world but these are the things that are what's missing in Nigeria who will keep pushing actually and keep organizing ourselves talking to ourselves and making ourselves involved in all of the political processes not just the protests okay Sean is still here and I'm directing this question to you because you are a journalist and the fact that you know the media the press would always be here especially in a democratic dispensation and because we cannot flee the scene how then do we go about the job it's simple orientation of course Adiye and Mr. Akin have spoken very succinctly about electioneering and elections and for that to happen they have to be orientation and that's why I tell my colleagues like we all have a job go to the crossroads talk to people let them know that if a third of all your vote don't count and all of this stuff are actually lies let them know that no matter how much they rig once your number is much you out rig them so that is the orientation we need to do we need to start organizing town hall meetings start organizing seminars, conferences start organizing village village meetings and just in the city square start doing all of those grassroot meetings with people so that they can understand what needs to be done and how it's going to be done it's not enough for us to just sit and talk every time do you understand a lot but do you think this in any way would solve the problem of police brutality and harassment I'm talking now to the profession not to say that I mean in particular because even before the protests we constantly see that journalists then you know those in this profession have been harassed of course it's part of it right so when you say people when you talk to people about their future they begin to understand that for them to gain a future they have to be present and present now is the struggle unfortunately I don't see any of this ending anytime soon so we are presently in the struggle to achieve emancipation there is a stage for struggle and that is the stage we are presently we can't keep the stage of struggle to the stage of emancipation right so let's embrace this struggle let's embrace this process and let's realize as journalists that see we are here right now we give all we have for this and this is all we have right now so that we can achieve the greater good alright Mr. Olaori I'm back to you I want to know because you were out yesterday Mr. Makaroni I think you were driving with him Files was also there FK Abudu a couple other people who else would you say or what else needs to be done you know to boost the struggle and to boost the amount of pressure and the energy around this conversation do you need more celebrities do you need the church do you need the mosque do you need traditional rulers what else needs to come in to support this whole conversation sure as I just said everyone is a victim of bad governance I don't care what you say on the structure economically socially or academically some of the names you made you mentioned are people that have been committed to the struggle they've been there since they won they've taken a lot of criticism even when they wake up every day to you know do things I call selfless active citizenship and I think we just need to really understand that it takes all hands on deck but most importantly the average Nigerian walking the street is a key stakeholder that's needed to solve this problem and I think if we all understand that again as Nigerians in a constitution for a country such as ours as imperfect as it may be guarantees our certain rights and our ability to criticize those rights every single day we wake up leave our homes is something that should not be deprived from any one of us in terms of pushing forward and really seeing that again we have a larger tent bring more people again there are a lot of government officials that would leave office and then they see these problems that many of us haven't speaking to they don't need to take you coming out of that private jeep with police security to really understand what plays this country it's all around you right now Nigerians are living way below you know what word you call global standards for existence there's so much hunger and suffering in land but on top of that we have to deal with police brutality we have to deal with the harassment of citizens validation of human rights I'll say this everyone is needed in this struggle and I think until we get to that promise land we will stop fighting alright we still have Mr. Fermi Mr. Fermi do you think that this is a time where we should be talking about state police because I'm thinking how do we now address this issue at the end of the day arguments would be that government or state governors they don't really control the police in their state so should we be talking about state policing maybe that might help in reducing police brutality well add your thoughts or bring this into your thoughts also when you respond in all your state there was a protest yesterday but the energy was totally different there was pictures and videos they had their memorial they had their candlelight procession they were escorted by the police so Fermi share with us what this means and you know how you know all this really is different in different states alright this issue about police brutality we cannot discuss it in isolation that's from states to states because when you have like when you said state police it does not change the brutality you know we will just add in the end of the day you're just adding a particular adjective to the brutality then it becomes state police brutality it's as simple as that we we go to the roots of all of these things which is that then it's just a system that is making sure that all of these things do not work a system that places you know profits over people a system that does not see humanity as how it should be if you're talking about state police let me tell you there are eleven answers protestors who are still languishing in detention in all your states where you have the best governor Shayi Makinu that's happened since they were going you know he's the best governor right now but eleven protestors are still languishing in detention in Qiri Qiri you have 300 you know languishing in detention 300 people who were picked during the answers and post-ensors I mean when I mean post-ensors I mean 21st of October 2020 people will just buy standards and all of that so if you talk about state police if we make police closer to the governor the governor then determines who becomes the commissioner and all of that maybe police brutality will go no it will not go because the system that gives rise to all brutality is still very much around and that is something we also see about elections you see all that in elections there are two questions we must always ask ourselves who to change and what to change so who to change answers the question of personalities maybe if you change one very good guy for a bad guy or a bad guy for a good guy something will change no it's just a step that is the first question and that was what happened in 2014-2015 everybody wanted to change out to the PDP for the APC maybe let's change out you know Jonathan for Guari you know the disciplinary and the incorruptible and many many other colleagues that were even saying but till today we can now see you know what history has brought before us now it wants to change question is the system that we're on which is the economic system that places you know profit over people until we crush that system if you like bring the most incorruptible guy into that system the guy is going to mess up big time and that speaks to what you are saying about state police state police we have a we have another quick report to share with you and this is you know from our reporters in ground yesterday what they experienced and we'll talk about it right after this so quickly watch this I heard a sound I was like is this a gunshot what is this and people started running and then it became intense they continued I am a cameraman we started running we were crossing the road at the other side of Lake Itoh Gate where the cars were coming with so much speed we were crossing we didn't care and I was praying I saw some other people going through a barbed wire into the water the waterways where the water was around the Lake Itoh Gate and I looked at it I weighed it I viewed it and I saw that it was I might not be able to fit in to that barbed wire I said let's dig in sand as if I was swimming inside sand just to be able to pass through the barbed wire that will help me make way into the waterways and then people were like my camera I saw my camera on the ground I was like God as I was carrying the camera people were shouting leave the camera and run your life is more important leave the camera and run and other people were asking us not to pass through where the barbed wire because they were scared that the police would start coming and then they were driving us and I had to lie that I was pregnant because of my size they believed me before I edit I heard shooting teargas and all I don't know what they were shooting but I didn't know what they were saying sounds and everything so I picked up to my ways I was running with my camera I was running as well so as we were going what made me feel so bad was that these teargas were so so powerful it felt uncomfortable I was choking, I was crying what I was coming at my eyes was red I couldn't breathe very well it was like I was going to give up that's how I felt like I was going to go at that moment so as I was going my camera fell down I let my camera not because I didn't want to pick it up but my brother was leaving me already I was feeling weak already at that moment so I had to call my MD this is it, this is what happened at the moment I was still panting, I was feeling comfortable I was like where is Destiny and where are the other guys I said I don't even know where Destiny is at the moment and I left my camera at the same but my MD is a very lovely man he was like okay nobody come out am I okay, am I good after like 30 minutes I went back to the scene I had to check back to the scene this is not the first time I'm coming to protest but this one was so intense because of the tear gas it was going into my system I felt uncomfortable I was passing out totally so a little bit to God I'm still talking to you I'm still feeling uncomfortable I'm feeling funny in my system some people were harassed, me myself I was harassed by the Nigerian army because he almost took my phone from me and he said I should stop filming because at that time there were harassing some people in a bus they were destroying the Nigerian flag they pushed them, they tore their shirts and all that so I was trying to capture that moment when the Nigerian army came and almost took my phone from me so all I had to do at that time was to hibernate my phone at that time so they wouldn't even know I was filming just to get those moments and few minutes later they started shooting the tear gas on some people and with the time we have left I think we can just take final thoughts from all three of our guests and then it became final thoughts we just have to do better let's know we have to do better and as a journalist I want to speak more to journalists in Nigeria today unfortunately the executive had failed Nigerians the legislative has failed Nigerians the judiciary has failed Nigerians that's supposed to be the home of the common man we are supposed to be the fourth estate of the realm just journalists are we also going to fail Nigerians with maybe bribes and brown envelopes and all of this stuff we shouldn't let that happen let's be the person or the organization or the people that ensure that we bring the news accurately to Nigerians let's try, let's not fail this country and let's hope we have a better country moving forward alright Mr Day you can go ahead alright final thoughts is to all Nigerians especially the New York people who form the largest demographic so they understand that this country belongs to all of us we must all stand about this time and never should we fall into the trap of dropping our resistance for those who are present there should never be a time when we all become silent just by their traditional threats let's always make sure that we find strategies to always protest injustice there are times anyways when we get weary it's understandable when you wake up every morning and everything you see about Nigerians bad news and all of that and then this syndrome keeps coming alive every day but we should understand that those places were going to people's thoughts to make those societies the same and we must not leave our own society we must stay put here and make sure that we fix this country because it belongs to all of us I can allow you and just to add I appreciate all the great work many of you are doing even in the face of what I call tyranny and pushback from the government as relentless propaganda can only count on you all to keep doing this very difficult work being an active citizen does not make you an activist I think every Nigerians should wake up active every single day demanding more from this government demanding accountability speaking true to power making sure that until we have a country where I don't have to pick up my green passport to feel like I'm in a blessed environment I don't think we should rest and lastly to many young people out there this is the time to take control of your country we're not going to have the old generation write the rules for our generation every generation writes these rules from everything you've seen where they're clapping down on young people's ability to prosper, to succeed to really make the best out of themselves we have to own the future stay active stay engaged don't wait till it's your problem be part of the struggle, thank you alright, thank you so much gentlemen for being part of the conversation we really do appreciate your time and this is where we call it a wrap thank you so much for joining us as well we'll definitely continue tomorrow and to catch up on all of the conversation just in case you missed out do not forget to follow us on our Instagram page, Facebook and Instagram is at PLOS TV Africa and on YouTube is at PLOS TV Africa I am Messia Boko see you tomorrow


A transcription behind the scenes of the police headquarters in a great American city. We're under the cold, glaring lights. We'll pass before us the innocent, the vagrant, the thief, the murderer. This is the line-up. Do as tried, Captain. I also will suggest remembering to do the scene again, Captain. Yeah, sure. Sergeant Pete Cogger, I'll explain the line-up to you. Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call off a number, their name and charge. If you have any questions or identification, please remember the number assigned to the prisoner as I call his name. At the end of each line, when I ask for questions or identification, call off the number. If you're sure they're not too sure of the suspect, have a name. For the questions I ask these suspects, a minute to get a natural tone of voice, so do not pay too much attention to their answers as they often lie. All right, bring Troy Street. Play on Troy Street. Send four up on a smaller number. House, wake it up before that. Please, that's in Arizona. I know where it is. I'll also test the homicide. Sounds like they want you real bad. Suck me with an assistant for the new sewers. And that kind of put me in the hole with the coupesons, ain't I? Can't you tell you what my wife calls me, though? It's good. Do you worry as to when one gets home after you lose it? The plan in the middle of the bar is mental disaster. Throw me outside the city limits. You've got no jurisdiction. Don't open the handbooks and move your policy wheels in the end. You run around town once. That's right. You better change your mind before you get downtown. Why's that? A suspicion of homicide. That's right. Looks like his old rope and pants were all done in a bookie, and numbers racketed down the stove. He ran a super-couple of bugs in the furniture in his rooms. I don't know what luck he ran. I sat up that machine by Sheridan's Macallion. The line-up was transcribed in Hollywood by Jaime Del Valle.


I come in to go Mustangsports.com, post-game interview with Mustangs football head coach Ed Hoddle. Coach, for the second straight week, your opponent scored first, but you guys didn't blink. You fought back and got things rolling, especially in the second half.   Last week it was Ryan Sedgwick throwing for 425 yards. Today it was the Sadiq Pitt Show. Talk about what your freshman did today. I mean, he was outstanding.  Four weeks ago, you guys were two and two entering this three-game homestand. You knew you had to have all three. Now that you're on the other side of it, your thoughts overall on the month of October for your team?  There's still a lot of meaningful football left to play. And, you know, for us, it's not about where we play or who we play. It's us being the best football team we can be every Saturday. And, you know, there's some things we can clean up from this game, of course. And, you know, I'm excited to get back to work tomorrow morning and you're looking forward to next Saturday. All right, Coach. We'll see you in a few weeks. Congrats on the win today and good luck on the run. Thank you very much.


Welcome to The Advocate on Plus TV Africa, where a panel of five discuss five thought-provoking topics. Here we call a spade a spade, and like we say, no holds barred. I'm talking about the real big brother in Nigeria. Shola points out a spotlight on the growing discussions on the issue of value-added tax. Adebola is explaining to us clearly the difference between feminism and misandry. Tolu is asking if we are broke because we are sick or vice versa. And finally, comfort speaks on the human cycle and need for healthy living. It's an array of topical issues, spiced with seriousness and laughter. Don't go anywhere, we will be right back after this break. The real big brother. Most young people are entwined in the popular show because it's something they actually understand. It's also very quite straightforward, but the real big brother in any country is politics. You don't have to like it, but it will always have you in the diary room, engaging you regardless of what you think of it. Most people blame the below 35s for the reason Nigeria is the way it is and attribute their focus on the reality show to the inaction of politicking. But if they are young, they've asked what is politics. Some will say, someone in Abuja. Others might think, someone in Babariga or Agbada. To some's mind, posters will come to it. It's hard for some 18-year-old to relate with the constitution and how it affects them. I think it's a bit much, asking them. After all, when I was 18, all I wanted to do was have the latest 50 cent CDs. Let's be honest, for the older generation that blames them repeatedly, if we did our jobs, they wouldn't be so lost in translation. They're youth of Nigeria. The real big brother is politics, but what then is the world called politics? Politics is made up of too much to place in a conversation, but its cardinal points are governance, which is how, of course, an elected government handles its citizens and its policies. Political parties, which are, of course, vehicles to a political office. Influence, which, of course, is what's exerted to cause people to make decisions. Power, which is the use of political will. To solve this problem, the onus is on us ahead to stop the knowledge of everything and our transmission of knowledge being nothing. We must first educate. The level of politracy in Nigeria is poor, and we must learn to make political literacy attractive. Next, we must participate to imbibe a culture of practice and teach little nuggets like, do you know local government elected representatives like your councillors and chairman don't have immunity? So if they defraud any of you in a contract or with something else, you can sue them and they'll actually go to jail. We also need to stop telling them elections can be won on social media. If we do, we will enable them to be bred just exactly like us. Finally, we must allow them, that is the use of Nigeria, the freedom to choose. While enjoying the reality show, we could maybe teach them that politics could be as seamless as the show if the foundation laid for it was solid. Lastly, we cannot discuss the future of Nigeria with the Jurassic Park of the country and of course the Jurassic Park, you know what I mean. Inclusion is everything. There's an aziki way in all of us. Age is a perception of wisdom in Africa, but vision will create the Obama of Nigeria only. What were you saying? Because this conversation is what we have been saying all this while, that we have failed and in failing, we haven't carried the, as you said, the below 35 along with us. And so because of how the Jurassic Park is, let's be fair or honest, the youth are lost in escapism. I'd rather be in that sphere. Does that make it right? No, but I don't also want to talk about the helplessness of the situation because even you and I, who are somewhat educated, political wise, at least you've thrown your heart in the ring. I'll give you kudos. I haven't bothered to. But I have my PVC, so I'm part of the political cause. I'm doing something. I'm serious about how do we, we have been emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, everything better than this country. How do we, even we, who are supposed to teach them, how do we rise above that to help the next generation? And honestly, I'm asking because it keeps me up at night, really, because I have a younger generation and I'm bringing up as it is, but I'm helpless. I feel helpless. The truth is, I think somewhere along the line, we are actually forced by that, those Jurassic Park, to think we are helpless. And the only tribe, because they know they have imbibed that thought, that knowledge and that process, that we are helpless into us. If we instinctively stood up, there would be a problem. This if has been going on for a while. You know how they say, perception is stronger than reality. Right? I think that's a big factor in this case. Because you can't give what you don't have. Right? If you think about the fact that these people already believe, I mean, for instance, something as simple as an election, there's already the belief that, you know, votes don't count. So because votes don't count, people do not vote. People do not vote, then there's no election. So because that perception is really strong, until someone starts to deliberately change the perception of the younger people, nothing will happen. Because they don't know. And you can't give what you don't have. So they need that information. They need that reorientation.  I'm one of the corporates, because I had the perception. But I'm very clear now, having seen things happen around. Sorry, my alarm always goes off. Even my phone is off. Sorry. So I just start from, yeah. So I, for instance, I'm a corporate when it comes to elections. Right? And because the perception is so strong, but I've now made a deliberate effort to say, you know what, if it's that one vote, let it count. And then if another person joins me, another person, then before you know it, we're 200 or 5,000. We're 200,000. We're 1 million. And then we'll start to make a difference. So I think it starts with that education and reorientation. Talking about people joining forces, remember what happened during the NSAS protests? During the NSAS protests, a lot of people came out to speak. People slept outside, made sacrifices. People cooked for each other. Everybody came together. But at the end of the day, what did we, what do we have out of it? Nothing. So I just believe the NSAS protests, I wouldn't call it, I wouldn't say it had no impact. But the desires of the youth in that protest wasn't fulfilled. We do not, and at the end of the day, there was a lot of issues. We had a tribunal set up to make inquiries on all that transpired. So how many youths today are willing to come out to stand for justice? Like to say, we don't want this anymore. A lot of people would rather sit back and watch because they do not want to die for Nigeria. Actually, it's not even worth it to die for this country. So nobody is willing to make that sacrifice. We know countries, even Ghana, Ghana, yeah, had their period where they had to go through that reform. So how many Nigerians, even young Nigerians are not even willing to make that sacrifice. Those who have made the efforts in the past, all efforts proved abortive. So that's my own opinion. I had the opportunity during the answer stand to sit down with quite some people high up in the legislative system. I've never seen them so scared. Do you know what was the flaw in answers? The poor understanding of politics and how it works by the... Because the truth is, the number of people that were out were enough to take out the entire legal state House of Assembly to recall the entire legal state federal representatives. But because they were looking at something else, if they did that, you would have triggered massive recalls of state House of Assemblies across. And once you've recalled, and this is constitutional, once you've recalled the House of Assembly, in between a governor is zero, it's down the road, and this would have totally changed the whole game. And we could have... You don't need to wait for a whole election to take out such a system. But they have implantarity. Come on, recalls are hard. Don't try it. That's what I had to say. You shaped the fact that you brought out that point. And this is where then you would also say it's the responsibility of the youth. It's their responsibility to get educated. But you see, because as you said when Miss Jurassic Park, and there's a lot going on, they've allowed the externals to distract them. And so escapism is the best thing. This is the best way. You would find them in their droves, but where? In the wrong places. So what makes... How would I put this? Why aren't they angry enough? I think that is it for me. Why aren't they angry enough about the leadership, the politics in the country knowing full well that they are in the majority? I think for me that is where the question should be.  I think she could address... Okay, she should tell us. Why aren't you people angry enough? I'm still putting my thoughts together. Okay, so for me at this stage you were talking about even knowing your local government chairman when we were growing up it was part of your exam. You had to know the states and the capital and then the governor. I don't think anybody bought us anymore. So that deliberate action too by the government has been taken away because it was part of the curriculum. You had to write the exam on it. So it became part of you as you grew up that you knew about your country, your state, what foods were eating there, what were the traditional ceremonies and all that.  This generation doesn't know anything. You know, in closing I like to say something. I said something one day on the media and on the show and then I said local governments don't have immunity. And people were shocked and some people were like they are going to check the constitution and I was laughing because they actually don't and something most of us don't know. Anyway, up next is Shola on the issue of taxation. Stay with us.


And on business news, the World Bank has sanctioned AIM Consultants Limited, a Nigerian consultancy company and its managing director, Amin Musali, for alleged corrupt practices. The firm, which was involved in the Nigerian erosion and watershed management project, was sanctioned for 52 months for improper payment of 12.95 million Naira to certain project officials. And this was contained in a statement titled World Bank Group, the BAS AIM Consultants Limited and its managing director, which was published on the bank's website.


This video will show you how to get started with ArcGIS Pro. Prior to launching ArcGIS Pro, you'll need to make sure you have a valid ESRI account with ArcGIS Pro permissions. So reach out either to the license administrator or your instructor for additional information. When you start ArcGIS Pro, you'll be prompted to login with your ESRI account. Once again, you must make sure you have adequate permissions to login to ArcGIS Pro. You'll then be taken to the ArcGIS Pro project. We can open a recent project or create a new project using a template. In this example, we'll go with the map template. We're going to create a new project by specifying the name and then specifying the location. We're also going to leave the default checkbox for creating a new folder for this particular project. This way the ArcGIS project files will all be contained within a single folder. Your initial view in ArcGIS Pro will depend on the template you selected. In this case I've got a map or 2D template. I'm going to go in and adjust the base map to change it from the topographic map to the imagery layer with labels. The explore tool is selected by default. It allows me to pan and zoom around the map using my mouse. There are different ways of adding data. I can do it via the add data button on the top menu or I can go over to the side and open the catalog window. The catalog window gives you a little bit more functionality. Here I'm opening the catalog window and I'm going to pin it to ArcGIS Pro so that it stays open. Within my folders you can see my home folder for this project is the demo project folder I created when I created my ArcGIS Pro project. Now I'm going to right click and add a new folder connection to navigate to other locations where I have GIS data stored. This folder I've just connected to contains some tier wintering data. I'm going to drag and drop it into my ArcGIS Pro map. Once I've loaded it into ArcGIS I'm going to unpin the catalog so I have more real estate for viewing my data. Clicking on any of these tier wintering polygons will open up the attributes for that individual polygon. In certain cases you may find it useful to adjust your project options. Go into the project menu, scroll down into options and here you can find things like the default location of your project, the home folder and the default geodatabase.  It's always nice to give your maps and layers meaningful names. Here I'm going to change the name of my map by clicking on it once and then calling it the deer map you can see it automatically adjust the tab up above and I'm also going to rename the deer wintering areas, removing the underscores. Clicking on the color for the deer wintering areas will open up the symbology tab. I can go into the symbology tab and adjust the display properties of those polygons changing both the fill color and the outline color. I'm also going to go to the appearance tab up top and adjust the transparency to make my polygons more transparent so I can see through to the imagery below. The layout is where you put all your map elements together to create a real map, scale bars, legends, etc. To do this go to the insert menu and choose new layout and then select the appropriate format for your layout. Once you've created your layout you can add one or more of the map frames you already have in your project. A map is good for 2D data but if you have 3D data you'll want to insert something called a scene. When you insert a scene just as you did with the layout you're going to see a new tab appear in your ArcGIS project. Once you've created your scene you can add some data but it's only going to appear in 3D if it has 3D properties. When working in 3D your controls will be a little bit different. Not only can you pan and zoom but you can tilt, swivel and carry out other 3D functions.


Well, the wait is finally over. It's time for some playoff hockey for the BSU men. Their home round one hosting Michigan Tech. The Beavers and Huskies just met early in February at Houghton, ending with a series split. It's a best of three at the Samford Center, starting with game one tonight, but the visitors strike first off a rebound. Gavin Gold gets a stick on it and knocks it in. Makes it one-nothing Huskies. BSU though answers later in the period. Hemp is showed all one timer off the faceoff. We're all tied at one then a few minutes later. Man advantage. Justin Bojary from the point. That gives him their first lead of the night, then more in the second. Shot on net. Brendan Harris right out front for the goal. Beavers up three to one, but penalties the killer tonight. Tech on a power play. A majority of the third period. Jake Lucini scores here to tie it up. Then later on off the draw. Seamus Donahue beats Michael Bitzer for the score. That would be the dagger. They would add an empty netter later on. Tough, tough loss for BSU. They fall 5-3, so back up against the wall. They'll look to bounce back to game two tomorrow night. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Strasbourg Cathedral has been undergoing regular maintenance and restorations since its construction in the 13th century. To ensure the longevity of the structure, the cathedral's southeast stair turret was recently modeled using 3D technology and a building information model, BAM. This model will serve as a basis for future restoration efforts and provide a comprehensive understanding of the structure. This article was authored by M. Cole, V. Steiner, Eski Ma, and others. Thank you for watching.


Ikis, Grom, Oblina, you're late for class! We're talking about our real monsters and what a joy and privilege it was to be the Gromble. And the fact that they're back on the air on Nickelodeon Splat, and I'm here at Rhode Island Comic Con representing the Gromble, representing every project I've ever done, and thankfully that involves a lot of projects. Now we're competing with the PA system. Meet Grimlock, Meet Dinobot Leader! Let's see, I also am one of the Eeyores for Disney, so I get to lose my tail in the 180 degree. I still do the Garfield Show. I'm Odie the Dog. Na, na, na, wow! And squeak the mouse who's a mouse that Garfield won't let out of the house. I don't want to get out because there's lots of cheese. And Hi-Ready Alley Cat and Herman the mailman who always gets in trouble at the Arbuckle House. What's your relationship like with these characters? You take on a lot of these different personalities. People have different relationships with each other. What's your relationship like? My feeling is what gets me, what draws me as an actor is character-driven work. So I teach now, and part of my teaching is that if you fully realize these characters, find yourself in them, find them in yourself, you never will not be able to maintain and sustain a character and keep it fresh. You don't get mixed up about the character, even if the voice feels uncertain. It comes right back as soon as you remember who you are. So they're my best friends. I'm their best friend. It's a big happy family. I've been very fortunate and I know it.