Welcome back to Yankee Spots Jove. I'm Mayor of the Proactivist alongside Jamieson Tyone. Jamieson, you are officially a New York Yankee. How surprised were you to learn that you had been traded? I knew it was a possibility going into the off season. Our GM, Ben Sherrington and Pittsburgh kind of kept me inside the loop. And I mean, the writing was on the wall with the direction the organization was headed. It felt like the Yankees were kind of attached to me all off season. And when I talked to some of the guys within the organization, they mentioned that they had been kind of following me throughout the off season, watching my videos on social media, talking to the Pirates about me. So it seems like a great fit. Did you reach out to your old roommate, Garrett Cole, to see what life would be like in Yankeeland? Yeah, of course. Yeah, we had a really good talk probably two days ago now. He kind of gave me the rundown. He said, you know, you're going to be shocked at how incredible this organization is and how they treat the players. You know, he gave me some media tips. He gave me the rundown. But we're excited to get to run it back. You know, obviously in Pittsburgh, I was heard a good amount. He got traded early on in my time there. So we never had that full chance to give it a go together, so I'm excited to be reunited with him. What excites you most about the opportunity in general? As far as working with Garrett, you know, he's someone that sharpens me and he loves talking pitching. So to be around a teammate like that, he was always looking to get better and make those around him better. I know it sounds cliche, but Garrett's like, I'm sure you guys noticed in his first year, he's always talking about baseball, pitching, really intently watching the game. So that excites me. And then from everyone I've talked to within the organization, one, the priority's winning, which is refreshing and exciting for me. And two, like from the pitching side, everyone I've talked to said, just, you know, wait until you get in that pitchers room. We have a lot of guys that are extremely smart, good dudes who love talking about pitching. So that lines up with exactly how I am.  Why did you decide to change things and how difficult was it for those new adjustments to be made? Yeah, I felt like I didn't really have a choice. You know, I had my first Tommy John surgery in 2014 and leading up until my second one. I felt like I was never fully healthy. So it was something that was in the back of my mind that maybe I could switch some things to take pressure off my elbow. And then once I got this surgery, that was like the final straw. I saw it as an opportunity, you know, rehab for an elbow takes 12 to 18 months. So I said, I've got this time to strip it down and like completely rebuild myself. So that's what I did. And so far, the results have been pretty great. It was tough at first, it felt really foreign to me. And then now it's kind of the opposite. Like I see videos of the way I used to throw and I really don't even like to see it. So, you know, I've made some big changes and hopefully it transitions into success on the field. I know in my live VPs and sim games at the end of the year, it was definitely translating really well. What are some of those adjustments that you made? Yeah, so I started with my lower body the way my lower body moves. I was super across my body, not really activating the big muscles in my legs. So that was putting more pressure on my arm. I'm like a really long and loose guy. I'm tall and got long limbs. So my arm was really far away from my body. So, oh, I just wasn't moving efficiently.  Like my body just wasn't completely connected and working together. So that kind of left my arm out to dry, you know, creating 95 miles an hour without properly using big muscles and stuff is pretty dangerous for your arm. So I focused on a hip hinge movement, get my glutes involved. And then by doing that, it really shortened up my arm path as a byproduct. I started using weighted balls, doing all sorts of cool medicine ball drills. And that kind of has led me to where I'm at now. Who helped you throughout that process? Was there somebody in particular you went to to make sure that you were doing everything mechanically correct? Yeah, so after I got heard, I think it was like May of 2019 against the Rangers. I knew something wasn't right. And then I started, you'll go see a doctor, get a second opinion, third opinion, fourth opinion. And while I was doing that, I got in contact with a place called the Florida Baseball Ranch. And they, you know, this was before I even had my surgery, but I kind of knew in the back of my mind, I knew the path I was headed down. And I wanted them to be a part of everything I did and all the changes I made. So I did an assessment there. I've been just overloading them with video throughout the process on everything I'm doing. Pitching coaches in Pittsburgh, PTs. I sent Garrett tons of video throughout the process.  But I love feedback. I love collaboration. I love to hear and, you know, having a guy like Garrett on your side. Like he's kind of gotten to see my evolution and my mechanical changes. So that's been cool. Has your off season been a lot different in the way you train? Yeah, you know, and I'm 29 now in baseball years. That's not like extremely young. So, you know, in my younger years was all about lifting extremely heavy, getting as strong as possible. I'm still getting in the weight room, but I'm putting more focus on like mobility, controlling my end range strength and mobility. The goal for me is to stay healthy. If I can deadlift all the way in the world, but if my elbow doesn't feel good, like there's absolutely no purpose to that. So I'm lifting with it kind of being seen as a compliment to my throwing. The throwing takes the priority right now. Arm care drills take the priority, the recovery, the PT, all that. What are your expectations for the 2021 season? You know, I haven't sat down and thought about it for like an individual personal level. I don't know how many innings I'm gonna throw. These are conversations I have to have. You know, having not pitched in two years, I feel extremely healthy.  And you know, as a baseball fan, you know, I've been watching the Yankees from afar. And you know, this team is built to win. This team's built to go deep into October. So I've never been on a winning team. You know, I've maybe been on a couple of teams in ProWall that are above 500, but I've never experienced a clubhouse like this where, you know, guys are showing up and the mission is to win. And that genuinely fires me up. You mentioned the amount of innings you may potentially pitch. Do you have a number in your head as far as what you think you're capable of giving them coming off the second time, John? So there's the idea in my head is like, I'm healthy, you know, I'm fixed, I'm ready to go. So I'll go as long and deep as they want me to. I think it's gonna have to be kind of a collaborative effort. You know, I'm gonna have to communicate with them how I'm feeling, how I'm recovering, bouncing back. You know, they have a great performance team in place. I've already had some calls with those guys. So we're gonna have to stay in touch throughout the season and be extremely honest. But I think, you know, with Pittsburgh, we had set out 20 to 25 starts, 100 to 140 innings somewhere in there seemed like a good number. But, you know, obviously that can change throughout a long season. How anxious are you to just get going again? I just booked my Airbnb for spring training. Like, I'm ready to go. My girlfriend's looking at apartments in New York. She's gonna go up there. Like, we're so excited just to get moving with this process. I've talked to Matt Blake a couple of times now. Like, I can't wait to work with him. I've been following all my Yankees teammates on social media. Can't wait to meet all of them. I'm really excited. What's the first thing you'll do when you get in that new clubhouse? Just try to remember everyone's name. It's overwhelming. You know, I've been getting calls, text messages. I've added more contacts into my phone book in my last like three days than I ever have in my life. So I just hope I don't butcher anyone's names. I'm just gonna kind of lay low and kind of prove my worth through my work. And then over time, I'll open up and develop those relationships. Now you've had to overcome a lot of adversity throughout your baseball career. What keeps you going back and motivated to continue to improve? Yeah, I'd say the number one thing is throughout every injury, like there's this deep feeling in my soul that I have more to offer. I have more to give on a baseball field. I know I haven't reached my full potential yet. I know it's in there. You know, I've seen flashes of it. Other people have seen flashes of it, but I know there's still this talented baseball player in there. You know, I was picked high in the draft for a reason. I've had success in the big leagues for a reason. Now I just need to go out there and do it over an extended time. So every time I've been hurt, it's been like a, I want to prove to myself and everyone that supports me that, you know, I still have a lot to give. Jameson, thanks for the time. Plenty more, Yankees Hopstope.


Shabir 1000 here today. We're gonna be changing this rotor on this 2003 Chevy Suburban 1500 two-wheel drive We're gonna do it without pulling off the brake pads I'll show you how to do that Okay guys, so the reason why we're only doing the rotor is Because the other side My niece excuse me my niece brought this truck to me she was thinking the The brakes were bad and If you watched the last video if not check it out and be a link to it at the end of this video Wasn't the brake pads at all The wheel bearing was bad making all kinds of noise the brake pads on that side over there Were still at about 90% Maybe a little more and these ones are the same But she went ahead and picked up two new rotors This one there is a little bit of grooving in the back It's not super bad But it has been worn down at at least once So There could be hot spots on it, but she's got the rotors. I'm going to go ahead and throw a rotor on here I've already checked these pads. I can see down in there and they're the same as the other ones They're not cracked and they're still about 90 so what we're going to do is we're going to take this rotor off And we're going to do it without pulling the pads off. Okay, so what we're going to do Let me grab my screwdriver I'll have to go get my screwdriver. Hang on. Okay, so I've got my screwdriver And this one has two of these little Little weird-looking washers and I'll zoom in A little bit for you here And see there's one here And one here So all I'm going to do is I'm just going to take this Now sometimes Like especially up north Salt and stuff, you know things rust out These things will break taking them off They're not a necessity We'll put them back on just because they're in good shape, but if if these break on you This is what they look like If these break on you and don't worry about it because this this rotor cannot fall off of here You know the wheel is going to be holding the rotor on So But since since they're in good shape, we'll just throw them back on Because when you put them back on you just they'll just slide right on so I can say not real important This doesn't look like it's been on here that long this wheel bearing may have been changed Okay, so what we're going to do is I'm going to pull this around here So I can get back here to this Now this There's probably enough room there. I know there's enough to get the uh to get the the Rotor out So I'm just going to push these pistons in just a little bit They don't have to go all the way in because you're not taking the brake pads all the way out So instead of I'll show you here in just a second And that should be good enough there. So instead of taking the two bolts out Back here For the caliper Get you down here Okay, so instead of taking this bolt here out and this bolt here out. There's one right up here This bolt right in let me There's a bolt right here Okay, there's a bolt right here And there's one Right there. Let me see where you're at right there Can't see my screen. Let me turn my screen around Right there that bolt right there the other ones hold in the Those ones those three they hold in the the wheel bearing assembly So you're not going to have to take that one out. You just take that one out And the top one out and this whole piece will slide out and this This rotor will come right off. So what I'm going to do I'm going to try to do this without getting in your way I'm just going to yank in bolts out of there I think I brought the sockets I need But I don't know where to put them Nope, let me grab a socket. It's okay. So I got my socket Let's get my gun out here and we're just going to pull The top and bottom bolt out of here and I'm moving you. I'm sorry Okay Take that out That out We're just going to lift this up right up off of there Set it up here out of the way. Don't ever let it hang on your rubber hose And pull that off Now I'm going to get the other one out. I'm going to get it cleaned up. We're going to throw it back on Okay, so now we're just going to pop this back on here Just like that We're going to take our little There's a little wear washers that we got we're going to stick them on there It just kind of holds that in place for you I think I mentioned it in the last video, but some of these Are sprayed with the coating and protective coating so they don't rust these ones or not Just make sure they're real clean when you put them back together now We're just going to take our Our assembly here and we're just going to stick it back on just like that And put our bolts in We're good to go. Now if I can find my bolts in there Got these these caterpillars Are bad Now that can be a little tricky to start them If you put that bolt in there and you move this around you'll feel it start in Just like that that one started On the bottom one I cannot see but I can feel it. There we go. And did it start? Yeah Okay Now let's go ahead and tighten these up. Let me get you at a different angle. Okay I got you at a different angle Make sure these are Are started Then you can put your Put your gun on there or your ratchet whatever you got That's all it takes now Now let's put the wheel on just put take your socket and you put them on and turn them you'll feel click Once that clicks the second time it's locked in That's all it takes. All right, you got that one. All right, they're good Just make sure they're all locked in And that's all them take don't don't ranch on there with a You know just they just screw on top of the uh The lug nuts And there you go now We're going to set the brakes up. I think I've showed you guys this before but I'll show you again How to set the brakes up? Okay guys in order to set these brakes up All you do is pump them. I'm gonna go ahead and start it up Make sure your cap's on which I already did See how far down it goes Just pump it until you get a good pedal There it is These go down a little bit because it needs back brakes, but That's it That's all it takes You're good to go. Don't forget to do that because if you do You won't have any brakes for the first one or two times you're pushing All right guys, so there you go.  Now you can put the rotors on That's how you do it without taking the caliper off Then the mount off you don't have to do that just take them two bolts out of the mount you saw Bam bam a quick fix. So there you guys go. Stay tuned tomorrow. We're going to do An oil change. We're going to try to find a leak An antifreeze leak and we're going to do the back brakes. I know I do a lot of front brakes on this channel, but We're going to do the back brakes. They are uh Rotors as well or they should be so, um I think the rotors are fine in the back. I have drove this truck I didn't feel any pulsation in the pedal, but I did notice Uh today when I got in it moved it over here because it was out here in the yard So I moved it over here on the concrete And uh the pedal does seem like well you saw it's about halfway down You know, maybe 40 down probably somewhere right in there 35 to 40 down Uh With analog brakes, you're not going to get them right there.  So anyway guys, thanks for watching. I appreciate it Shabare the myth man legend more to come on this old truck. We'll see you guys soon. Bye. Bye guys and take care


Is love enough for a blissful relationship? When you first fall in love, it may seem like it. You truly believe you two are just perfect for each other, but after some time, your relationship starts to fall apart. It isn't as perfect as you thought it would be, and you start questioning everything you thought you knew. Was it all an illusion? We saw this happen on euphoria with Rue and Jules. They bonded over their demons, ready to be saved by each other. But in reality, their relationship was led by emotional dependency, jealousy, and a lack of healthy communication. They both need their own healing. They were toxic for each other. And what about your relationship?  Here are some signs your relationship is actually toxic. Stuck inside a drama triangle. Dr. Stephen Carpman came up with a model of human interaction, which he called the drama triangle. In this triangle, there are three roles people take during conflict. The victim, the rescuer, and the persecutor. Over time, both of you may shift from one role to another, and unfortunately, they're not really the healthiest conversation styles. Could you be stuck in a drama triangle? Let's explore these roles and see. The victim. When a problem arises, the victim is quick to conclude that everything is out of their control. Everyone and everything is against them, and their problems cannot be solved, even if they try so hard. They often say things like, I wish someone would care about me, or why does this happen to me? This role is also called a victim mentality. Marriage and family therapist Daniel Danshaw wrote that people with this mindset use passive aggressive statements, don't take responsibility for their actions, and often feel lonely and unsupported by their partner, which leads us to the rescuer. Thinking you can love your abusive partner through the pain. Thinking you can find the cure for their depression. Believing being a better partner will solve all of their problems. Those are all examples of how a rescuer tries to save their victim. They are drawn to needy, emotionally damaged people, and partners who would become dependent on them. Psychologists also coined this term rescuer syndrome, or the white knight syndrome. As clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Lema calls it, in her book, The White Knight Syndrome, rescuing yourself from your need to rescue others. That's when the rescuer is convinced they can fix their broken partner and heal them, but this belief ultimately harms them. Clinical psychologist Karen Nimmo said on Medium that constantly feeling the need to help their partner could make them over invest and push their own needs aside. Up next is the persecutor. Finally, there's the persecutor, with their famous line, it's all your fault. The persecutor is controlling, angry, and overly critical. They might blame you for even the most insignificant things. You didn't wash the dishes correctly, it's your fault we're two minutes late. Licensed marriage and family therapist Tyler Rich says that the persecutor often denies their own weakness and focuses on the weaknesses and problems of others. By doing that, they want to have the entire situation under control at all times, and most importantly, they want to avoid becoming the victims, which actually happens quite often. Are you interested to learn how a persecutor becomes a victim, or how a victim shifts to being a rescuer? Leave a comment to let us know. Give you all of me. As you move through the triangle and shift roles from victim to rescuer to prosecutor, you may find that your relationship has become codependent. This means that each person involved is reliant on the other in some way, mentally, emotionally, or physically. As with the drama triangle, both partners take different roles, the taker and the giver. According to relationship expert Margaret Paul, those roles can also switch depending on the situation. For example, you may be the taker when you depend on your partner emotionally, but at the same time, your partner may depend on you financially, and then you become the giver. In an interview for choosingtherapy.com, licensed therapist Kato Bryan mentioned some signs that your relationship might be codependent. Do you feel totally lost when they're not around? Like, you're not your own person without them. Or maybe you cancel plans with others just to spend at least a few more moments with them. You may also have a hard time saying no to them, or feel like you need to save them from themselves. Some may say that this is nothing but pure love, sacrificing yourself or your partner, but codependent relationships are toxic, because they draw you further and further away from the person you should care for the most yourself. Licensed psychologist and author Dr. Renee Exelbert said for very well mind that this dynamic is referred to as a relationship addiction. Even if on the outside it looks like the greatest love in the universe, both sides may suffer on the inside. You might lose your sense of self, not knowing where you end and your partner begins. And if at some point you feel like you want to leave, your codependent dynamic might make it too difficult to actually take that step. Hot and cold. Victim mentality, controlling behavior, rescuer syndrome, codependency. All of these might stem from your childhood and your attachment style. Are you and your partner anxious and avoidant? Check out this video to find out. Adults attachment theory was hypothesized by psychologist John Bolby. He believes that anxious adults may often feel unworthy and seek approval from their partners, worrying that one day they'd be abandoned. On the other end, avoidant adults are deeply afraid of emotional commitment.  Licensed psychotherapist Sherry Gaba describes the dynamic between these two for psychology today. She says that, because an anxious partner is so afraid of rejection, they push away the securely attached and attract the avoidant style. And even if the avoidant partner doesn't crave intimacy, they do crave attention. The anxious partner provides that attention, but it also pushes them away, and sometimes this dynamic can even get abusive. And then, before you know it, you're stuck in a trap. One of you keeps chasing and the other runs away and together you endlessly run through the cycle of the drama triangle, codependency and anxious avoidant love. Naturally, if you find yourself in this situation, you're faced with a question. What next? Can you fix this? Maybe. Through therapy, you could work on your issues and overcome the difficulties, but sometimes it's just not meant to be. Should you move on from this toxic relationship? Here are six signs your relationship is over. Let us know in the comments if you can relate to any of these situations, and share this video with others who you think it might help. Until next time, take care and remember, you matter.


Hi, I'm Lance Colburn-Munger, rifleman from Tutu. I'm from Massachusetts, native Massachusetts. I'm here as a summer augment with the Marine Corps shooting team.  They come from all around. They can come from Far East, Oki. They can come from Pendleton, Lejeune, really anywhere around. So, how long have you been shooting?  In the Marine Corps, not too long. I've only been in for a year. But before the Marine Corps, I used to shoot a lot with my dad. He was a CMC coach, so he taught me a lot about shooting. What's a CMC? A CMC is kind of like a range coach. They wear the safari covers. So I haven't been shooting too long for the Marine Corps. Of course, the training, like the qual at the beginning or at boot camp. And then I got to shoot the advanced marksmanship training program at my infantry school. AMTP is like a, it's kind of structures of competition. There's like a short bay, it's a long bay. And you get to learn how to shoot first before you actually do this like competition. It helped a lot with a lot of shooting. And my peers, we saw a lot of improvement throughout the course. How long have you been shooting with the Marine Corps shooting team? Not too long. It's been like three or four months. I found out about them through the MIC MIC. It's a Marine Corps shooting competition. The Marine Corps marksmanship competition, yeah. They had a competition out in Lejeune. And I got texted by my squad leader asking if I wanted to go shoot it. And I said, yeah, so went out there, did pretty good. I meddled and then I got invited to championships. I got a fifth silver, went to championships. I did all right there, but they saw that I was good at a certain position in high power. And they wanted to look at me.  And they liked me, so they put me on the team. My overall experience with the Marine Corps shooting team has been awesome. I've learned a lot. Especially about shooting, but not just shooting. Learned more about being a good Marine. Learning to be like a good leader.  I enjoy shooting because it's calm. It's a lot of fun. Especially out here, you get to meet a lot of cool people. Met tons of people out here. Marines, Army, retired folk. So far, I've met all at the MiC-MiC. Got a medal at Butner. What is Butner? It was Camp Butner, one of our first competitions. And I met all at Inner Service. That was a competition held in Quantico. It was like an all-service competition. What kind of medals did you get? So for the MiC-MiC, the Marine Corps marksmanship competition, that was a silver. And then I got a bronze at Camp Butner. And I got second place at Inner Service. The national matches are Camp Parry, this match right here.  The first match we shot was like an 800-ag, which is 80 shots and 800 points. And a few other matches. Today's match was a six-man team match, which is a 500-ag, which is 50 shots per person. So whatever six times 50 is, is how many shots. So the regular course of fire for high power is usually an 800-ag or a 500-ag, which is 80 shots, 800 points, or 50 shots, 500 points. And then we start at the 200, then we go to the 300, and then to the 600. So I like shooting competitively because it pushes you a lot. You got a lot of pressure on you when you're shooting next to people for score. And sometimes you mess up, sometimes you don't. And those days you don't, it feels really good. That's good. What I can bring back to my unit shooting-wise is a lot of fundamentals in marksmanship. With this sport, one little change in something, if you weren't consistent, if you didn't put your buttstock in the same place, you can go from ten points all the way down to six points, and that can lose you a match. And in like a real combat scenario, a six would be a miss, so you didn't hit the guy. And that can cause you, it can cause you problems. The skills I've learned so far with the Marine Corps shooting team directly relates to my job as a rifleman. I can bring back a lot of these advanced skills that I've learned and teach my peers. Marines already understand the fundamentals from bootcamp or annual qual, but this sport really teaches us consistency and attention to detail about the fundamentals and really helps with your shooting, helps with your fundamentals. Also the mental aspect of shooting, you may have shot like a six or a seven, which is a point value in high power, and that's basically a miss. So that'll rip you right out of your pet space. You were in the flow, you were in the zone, and now you're thinking about this shot. The sport really teaches you how to get back into that mindset. If you ever get the chance to shoot a Marine Corps marksmanship competition, definitely go to great opportunity. So the competition is two weeks. The first week is all practice.  And then the second week is all competition where you use all those skills you just learned from the first week and you put it to the test. So most Marines only get to shoot during your annual qual or they might even skip a year. The MiCMiC really gives you the chance to go out there and shoot, learn like what a basic Marine is, what sets us apart from the other services, which is every Marine is a rifleman. The best way to get in contact with a shooting team is get in contact with your chain of command and then have them try to figure out when the next MiCMiC is in your area.


Great to have you back here on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. Now let's begin our first major conversation for today. And of course it's going to be talking about a review of Nigerian current ministers being done by President Mohamed Abu-Hari. We're speaking this morning with Opponabo Inkotaria, a former spokesman and a media aide for the river's state government. Good morning, Mr. Inkotaria. Good morning. Great to have you join us this morning.  And I remember also that there was a huge clamor by Nigerians when I, you know, there was, you know, people asking that the president replaces security heads at some point. He eventually did it after about two years of, you know, continuous clamor. But I want you to share your thoughts on the president's assessment or what you think his assessment is of the people that he put in power or he appointed to head these agencies. Well, I think his assessment is poor and planned on sent not really on performance. I hope we can hear me clearly. Yes. Yes, we can. Okay. Not really on performance because if you ask me, not more than two ministers, or max three ministers are actually performing credibly. The rest are just still in office for one reason or the other, mostly sentimental with not as a result of that performance. So if you ask me, for example, the quality we treat it okay, it's quite normal. Government vote at state and federal levels go on retreats, specifically for presale to assess their performances in office. But if it does retreats are just to me, imagine both the retreat will only make sense when they are there to learn when you invite experts to taste them, one or two things. I mean, not necessarily to assess their performances in office because if we talk of assessment of performance in office, this is what should be done on daily basis. Not quarterly, not weekly, not monthly, but on daily basis. This minister has to report to Mr. President on daily basis. So are you going to tell me that you turn a blind eye onto when you have a retreat? It doesn't really make sense. So it's just another gamble. But if we talk of a retreat to further lecture this public on how to maximize, how to get maximum performance, then I will agree with you because we'll learn till the day we get to our grave, till the day we die. Tell me that the retreat is specifically to assess the performance carried out on a result of the ministers and their performances in office. And to me, it's just an example. I'm not really interested in that. OK, let's start with the Ministry of Works and Housing under the leadership of Babatunde Fashola. How well do you think the ministry had fed in the area of federal government housing schemes to public servant? Fashola is one minister that has performed, notwithstanding the hiccups, notwithstanding the bureaucratic impediments. Fashola, no doubt, has performed. The Minister for the Constitutional Affairs, Amici, has also performed, talking of the real ways precisely. He has also performed. But that's why I said not more than two ministers. If we talk of the defense, it's an abysmal failure. If we talk of the health, of course, the health minister is down here, one egocentric, one megalomaniac. That's why this means the health minister is probably the worst health minister in the history of this country, full of high blood pressure, deceptive rhetorics and a number of country performance. Same applies to the minister for labor, doping with a disgrace in office. So if you ask me, in most of them, not to be there after Malami, Malami should be fired. Malami is a disgrace to the legal profession. So who are we going to talk about? I mean, in lots of them, family, you know, what are you doing, my friend?  Who are you showing me, that special assistant to this? Well, I don't even prefer to go over. These are those misplaced characters. So in lots of them, I must tell you the truth, I've performed abysmal in a whole lot of them. That's why I said the credit can be given to not more than three ministers, not more than three ministers. And if the public will assess, then why won't we start pressing the process? Or are we talking about the Boko Haram minister, the Paritani himself? So who are we going to refer to? We just have not more than three ministers in this country that are actually performed. The West have no business being involved. They are only there to further their process and also boost their income. That's all. Ms. Enkotari, you may mention of Fascia Land, of course, Rotomi Amici, both of course ministers. And of course, you said that these are some of the people that you would say have performed. But I want you to speak with regards, what standards with which we rate performance of ministers across Nigeria. Are there standards? Are there certain things that we should be able to look at? It's simple. The minister, you expected, of course, the both sides are Mr. President's thing. You can have the best of ideas. You can have the best of brains. And so you can ideate by issues. But if Mr. President says no, he has to ammite them for them to monitor. So not that about that. But where you talk of performance, you are looking at, it's evidentially true. For example, you talk of Fascia Land, that notwithstanding the poor budget allocation, because when we talk of budget, one is budgeted in particular ministry, we are not just talking of the announcement, the pronouncement, we are talking of the release of the funds. So if we talk of federal houses, federal roads and so on, as deplorable as they are, I think Fascia Land has really tried because of starting information that I am privy to. I think he has really tried, given the resources at his disposal, that if we talk of the transport, of course, we all know, I mean, nobody will have to convince you or say that you're a woman. We can see what the railways are, the railways springing up in every look and cranny. And so even though there are delays here and there, I refer to those delays as dilatoriness, they are deliberate. So not on the part of the executive, not necessarily in most times on the part, the fault is from the legislative hand. Will I say legislative hand? I'm very sorry to say that the fault is from the Ministry of Federal Lawmaking. That's what I refer to as, the National Assembly to a Ministry of Federal Lawmaking. So these are just the barometer, the yard sticks. And that's why if we look at the health, the doctors are constantly on strike. Our health have known reduced from the worst situation of just prescription centers to death centers. Then if you look at the neighbor, of course, every second we have workers going on strike and so on. So which ministry are you going to talk about? Which ministry are you going to talk about? I mentioned the barometer in Yacht to increase to Major Ministry. If you say you're the average minister for agriculture, what is happening to our rights? The rights they say we produce cannot even be eaten by those who produce the rights. It's a shame because of the quality. You agree with me. In talk of food production, the cost of food is as really astronomically. We all agree that an exponential rise. So what is the Ministry of Agriculture doing? Are you going to talk of the Petroleum Ministry? Of course, Mr. President, we'll talk with the Minister of Petroleum. Of course, we'll see what has happened with NNPC and development elsewhere. And we've seen the rise in the spike in petroleum products, both petrol, diesel, PML, diesel and hydrogen. Which are the ministries? I know we have a lot of ministries. If we often mention them, of course, I will tell you what the failures in those ministries. So I don't give you the barometer with which you can measure the failure of success of the ministry. I don't know if the ministry will be able to do it. And this is what I want you to clarify. Is the standards and the barometallic you've mentioned, is it based on what it should be or based on what we've experienced in the past? And so we have finally seen something different. And so we should give a round of applause to these persons. And I'm focusing on these two you've mentioned now. We, of course, will get to the rest which you have said have failed. The responsibility of the Ministry of Transportation, of course, is for goods and persons across the country and be able to ease transport. And that's on the very basic level. Are you rating them based on what we've seen from previous ministers and how they've performed and how some of all these things have maybe been at snail speed compared to what they're currently seeing now? Or you're rating it based on what do you think a developing country should have as its performance standard for a ministry of transportation? Well, I'm not planning my assessment on anti-seminist. No, not at all, not at all. My assessment is premised on what it ought to be and given the prevailing circumstances. That's where I said it. So much, for example, look at the Ministry of Transportation. We've gotten so much known to a lot of people given as a concrete part, so much known. A lot of us have been given as much as we see the railways bringing up in every nook and cranny. A lot of Nigeria's business has even been eliminated. And the loans are just too much, too much for just Nigeria and generations on board. So I'm not really the antecedent or the past of former ministers and former governments know what it ought to be, is what I'm saying. And that's not based on what their predecessors see or talking about a developing society. No, but what it ought to be, given our resources and how much has been allocated or not allocated to these ministries and what ought to have been allocated to the ministry that were not allocated to the ministry and what the sums are allocated to the ministry, what have they done with it? How have the ministers been able to exhibit leadership qualities in their ministries? We are talking of, for example, the minister for labor, how we are able to carry along the labor family, the labor industry, along to prevent strikes and so on. That's what my analysis are based on, not necessarily on their predecessors or what it is in civilized crime. I'm talking of what, given the resources, given the prevailing circumstances, what these ministers would have achieved within the prevailing circumstances. Okay, but you have actually commanded Baba Tunde Fashella saying that in your own rating that you think he has actually performed very well. Let's also not forget that he controls, I mean, three... Look at the Abbasian ministry now. All the Abbasian workers are going on strike. So are you going to say the Abbasian minister is performing? Okay. They're all in line, pilot and key Abbasian personnel are all in line. So the Abbasian industry is in danger that she speaks now. All right, let's still stay with... So it's not the issue. Let's still stay with Baba Tunde Fashella. Like you have commanded him. You said that in your own list of appraisals that you would rather say that he's done very, very well. And let's also not forget that he controls... I did not do it very, very well. I say he's done well. Okay, so you say he's done well. Let's not forget that he controls the power sector. He controls works and housing. Let's look at the power sector. Do you think that there's any improvement? There has been any improvement in the power sector from 2015 up until this point? Do you think... Sorry? Do you think that there's been any improvement in the sectors that he controls from 2015 up until this moment? Well, talking of the power sector, he himself has committed. He himself has committed in the year 2015 and which he attributed to a Khabar. And you will not agree with me that he tried the much he could, but the bottlenecks were beyond his control. And that power sector, for the power sector to actually work, Mr. President, must be sincere and must be prepared to ensure that the power sector works. You have a Khabar that is frustrating, a Khabar that is hamstringing efforts of any minister. And it depends on, you see, it's a convoluted system. And if I really have to go into the power sector, it will take me two days to explain the power sector with the information at my disposal. But is he actually the minister for power now? Well, talking about 2015, from the time he was up until his... Yes, that's what I'm saying. And because he failed in that aspect, that ministry was taken away from him. So we are talking about the retreat of now, not the retreat of 2015 or 2014, but 2016 rather. We are talking about the retreat of now. He failed in the power sector, no doubt about that. And he has also admitted that much. Nigeria will also agree that he failed in the power sector. But we are talking about the retreat of now. That's what we're referring to. Saleh Maman. We are talking about the retreat of 2016. Sorry? I was just going to clarify, Saleh Maman is currently the minister of power. And of course he will be assessed. That's what I'm saying. We are talking about the retreat of now, not the retreat of 2016 or 2017. Now, let's talk about some of the things that you've somehow, some way mentioned.  And I'm going to spread this across all available ministries in the country today and some of the people that will be assessed in this retreat. Would you say that there are certain reasons why they may have not been able to perform to the best of their abilities? Well, I think principally it has to do with the principle that Mr. President himself, because the leadership determines the pool or should be a larger stage. You know, you have a president that is now alive with his complacent. He doesn't care. What is just interesting is he has a funeralist, the aficionados that will come to him telling him what the thing should be done, right nor wrongly. And because he has so much confidence in them, and he does it and he's satisfied to help with any other character. And so he doesn't really give a penetrating thought to the issues. What the various ministers are doing in their various ministries, or what Nigerians are saying. Just like the Secretary of the Electoral and the Federal Amendment, Sinit responded to the yenings, to the crimes of Nigerians. And they went ahead in their amendment. That is what we respect. But we have a president that is in failure to be delivered. South from now till tomorrow that Minister A is not performing. In fact, that is when he will live with 45 Ministers A the more. Sinit given in appointment and so on. And so as a result of this, most of these Ministers believe that they are untouchable. And the only thing they do is ingratiate themselves with Mr. President and with the kabahs. And once Mr. President and the kabahs are okay, are comfortable with them, then they go to help with any other individual. That is what is very low. And so they are not insurable to Nigerians. So even most of these Ministers you release their budget to them, most of them will use the money to turn online their pocket. Because they know that no amount of demonstration, no amount of protestation, no amount of criticism, we will move them from office. In fact, the more you criticize the minister, the more Mr. President says you are attacking his government. You are the enemy of the government. So if Mr. President has just been case, as a result of, if the president has done what is the party is starting what? You know, so he has just been case. And that is in vain of his government. He has so much confidence in A.B.C. And whatever A.B.C says to him is fine now. Everywhere that person can go to A.B.C. You don't want a system like that. You don't want a system like that. And that is in vain of his government. He is impregnant of participants. And any government that is impregnant of participants is doomed to fail. Well, is it also dependent on, you know, what the president himself? And I want you to also speak on this. You know, what the president himself sees as development. And you know, how much truth he is also getting because they have Federal Executive Council meetings every now and then? Now, when you say it depends on what he sees as development. As a president, you know that the president of the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria or of any country does not make you a master of all. That is why you bring them up to 10 times. You ensure you have square pecs in square holes. That is the whole essence. I mean, a very good example was that of I.B.B. at the federal level. So in as much as I will not give 70% to I.B.B., but you could argue that he assembled the best and when it comes to ministerial appointments. In reverse date, we had a situation like that on that thing that for a day to speak. The first military governor of reverse date, 67 to 75, you know. But as we saw the development in reverse date, it's on parallel to tomorrow. We are talking of since 1967 to date. It's on parallel. I can tell you that. So we are talking of the Dyson. At that time, he did this with him going to university. He was just another officer. But he did well. So we're not saying you have to be a master of all, but you must also be ready and open to criticisms and advice. That is what it's all about. That is what leadership is all about. And that is what is lacking in this present administration. One you have, we're not permitted to use this on any computes around who are there and not necessarily in the interest of the masses. But they are there, principally because first they believe it is their right that they were the ones that ensured the emergence of who are there, Mr. President, therefore it is their turn to enjoy. And that is what they see. So they go there and all they do is tell Mr. President, you have what you call the publicist disquietion. You tell Mr. President what he wants to hear. And because that is what he wants to hear, that is what he does. But it is a president that is open to criticisms. He's going to listen to the media and will get the feedback from the masses, which is going to be independent of the feedback of what these lieutenants are telling him. And that is the only way, excuse me, that is the only way you can be addressed with what is going on in the country and try as much as you can to make your minds if you are going astray. But you have a president that is already cased. And the moment there is a dissenting voice, any dissenting voice, they say, oh, you are anti the government, you want to topple the government. The one important to say you are anti the government, you want to topple the government. Why are you all such a government? I mean, that cannot listen, it's not open to advice. What do you expect? Such a government will definitely crash, will definitely fail, because those in office, those lieutenants will never do anything that will ensure the exit from power. They will never. So no minister will go and tell the government the president that I'm not performing a removal, or I want to resign. It's not done, it's not a normal, even when I resigned in the university, it was news, okay, but what is wrong with you? Why will you resign? You know, how many ministers will do that? No minister will do that. And unless you have a personal feud with another minister, it is like scratch my back and scratch your back. Now you have Mr. President, who is even insulating himself from a minister? How can you tell your minister to go through your chief of staff or go through your SLG if they want to see you? It is a sin, it is worthless. Your minister and special advisor should have unfettered access to you. Now you say that you go through SLG, that you go through chief of staff. Okay, in other words, you are now telling them to be submissive to the SLG and the chief of staff. Unless the SLG and the chief of staff have personal interest. The ministers will not, they have a choice, but to ensure that they do their business. They will ensure that they do their business, because for them to have access to you, they have to go through this, because suddenly they have to bypass. And we are not just talking of the interest of Mr. President, we are talking of the interest of the chief of staff, we are talking of the interest of the, I said I was talking about government and presidential, that not protected. If this government, why are you still to let yourself from your ministers? If you are too weak to government, list that list.  In this one, the staff, who is the chief of staff? Recognize, that is a military creation. You cannot subject a minister to a chief of staff. You cannot, you do that. Do what we know is, I'm calling the prime minister of the house or the prime minister of the state house or something. That is actually a military creation. Or is it because it is done in America? That is not what we are practicing. Is the chief of staff in the constitution? You say a minister should go to the chief of staff, should go to the SGR. The SGR is actually a secretary to the government. To the government, he takes me to this note and so on. We just glorify these characters. We just glorify them. The actual secretary is like a company secretary. You just note and so on. That's what you are. You have to go to the prime minister whether to flounder in a morass of bureaucratic procedures. The minister will have to go through that to see. And you explain that that government will perform creditably, it's not possible. So your minister cannot talk to you directly. So if I go to the chief of staff now and say, I want to see the president, for what reason? I tell you, I don't like this. If you don't agree with me on this, you're not going to see the president. Do you agree? The minister says, I'm Christian. I'm Christian. You need all these bureaucracies. And that is because we have a man who doesn't understand what governments call a man. That's just the truth. OK. So are you saying that the poor performance of the ministers is as a, that should be on the president? The Biden leadership, yes. Yes, it's a function of the cataclysmic leadership of Mr. President. OK. So which of these ministries should we pay attention to now? I mean, we know that we have several ministries. But I just mentioned, I just talked about two or three ministries have performed above average. So which is every other ministry should we take it on that business? How many ministries? I can't stop mentioning all. So every other ministry. So every other ministry. Mr. Angotare, you tell the minister one minister now and let us see what they have, what that ministry has taught. I'll talk about sports. What that ministry has achieved. You can talk about sports. You can talk, you know, health care. You can talk, you know. I just mentioned health. So which one is health care? Assas now, Assas. Why are you being sarcastic? I just mentioned health care. I just mentioned health care. This one's been in health care. So why are you mentioning health care? I'll be talking about sports. The only sports I did is I played golf and I do. The next thing is I played chess. I played golf. That's all. I'm not a football fan. I've never played football in my life. And even if you are in the walk-up going on right now, I'll turn my TV to Africa Magic. Oh, there's also the Minister of Defense, Bashar Magasi. Oh, please, don't go there. The man who said you should carry a gun and protect yourself without you having a license to carry that gun, is that the man you said is performing? The man who said Nigeria should defend it. Is that not admission of failure? Oh, please, don't talk of the minister for defense. Don't talk of the minister for defense. We were talking of digital approach, military approach. Don't talk of the minister. The minister said he's just a carbon copy of Mr. President. Carbon copy of Mr. President. That was why you're pointing. They are just friends, so you appointed him. Not that he knows anything upstairs. He has failed abysmally. He's daily defense in this country. Where we have protest, we have separatist movement and zoom in apocalyptic dimensions and so on. What are we talking about? We are in danger on daily basis. So it depends. The money we allocated to the former minister for the former chief of our former service team, the entity himself admitted that the money released to them, we are not used to the same purpose. Yeah, they were made ambassadors. The minister for defense admitted that much. The assessors admitted that much. That there is nothing to show for how much they have received. And they were made ambassadors. Are you talking of defense? No, please, don't talk of defense now. Don't talk of defense. We can glorify, we can commend the government for ban digital resurgence. We can commend the government for civilizing the ground for ban digital resurgence. Not that, we can do that. But to contain it, no, no, no. I mean, the government should be praised for the opposites and not for containing ban digital resurgence. You praised them for permitting me. I mean, they are good at germinating it. Yeah. I like that. Well, Ms. Angotara, I want you to... The former president, Ushiko Basando, has also been one of the people who was praised for having a very reasonably good team. He selected people based on competence, regardless of what part of the country that they came from, regardless of their political affiliations also. There's many examples, as to people who he appointed based on their level of competence and trust that he had in them. But I want you to compare that era with where we are today and why that has changed. And also, what exactly do they talk about when they attend federal executive council meetings? That the president chairs, and sometimes the vice president. What are the conversations like, if everyone, like you have mentioned, can see that there's really no performance? Thank you, Fred, that you said if everyone, like I said, this means Nigerians are in tandem with my views. Well, I haven't said that. You asked the question of what they discussed at ESCO. Who said the tune? It's Mr. President. He said the tune. And your level of contribution is consequence upon the permission of Mr. President. I was reliably informed that, especially on legal matters, whatever the attorney general says, no matter how skewed and illegal, they advise me. Mr. President will say, I agree with that. And now, few officials you have, Partiala and the vice president opposing him. They say, no, it is illegal, it is wrong. So it depends on Mr. President. If you allow the conceptualization of ideas, I don't think those at the ESCO, Federal Executive Council, are all done. Even if 10 of them are going off 15 or 20 of them, at least you are going to have another 15 or 10 that will oppose. And you'll come up with policies that will be of national interest. Well, what is the problem, like I said, you have Mr. President being controlled by Kaba. And so every other person is just there to complete the number. We might have an ESCO meeting. And already I can say, OK, fine.  We can have an ESCO meeting. And I say, OK, there is no problem. You, what is your view on this? You, what is the, after expressing your views, I say, I think I agree with Mr. A, because I'm the manager. And I am agreeing with Mr. A not because I am convinced that Mr. A is in the right to, or because Mr. A actually said the right thing. But I agree with Mr. A because I believe that Mr. A is, I'm just, he said, loyal to me that he will be protecting my interest at against national interest. Is it that the truth? And that's why most of the people who have dissenting views, the first thing Mr. President will say are those that want to bring down my government. It is the most ridiculous statement any civilian president will say. We are not in the military regime. We are not in the military regime. So the dissenters in the Star-Cross behind every dissenting world are the dangerous enemies in the Princess Service. That is just the problem we have with this government. So you have an ESCO meeting because you must have an ESCO meeting. It's a constitutional requirement. The ESCO must approve the contracts, otherwise the contract contracts are illegal. So you must have an ESCO meeting. But most of them go into the ESCO meeting with a mindset. And you don't go into a meeting with a mindset. You go into a meeting prepared to submit yourself to superior arguments. That is the truth about it. But I don't think that is the case with the federal executive council. Has financing also been one of the challenges that ministers can say has held them back from performing? None has come to say finance, apart from the minister for transportation, who has openly said it's actually a problem. But apart from them, nobody has come to say finance. Rather, they depend the magnitude of the government. So I cannot say finance is the problem. And why would finance be the problem? This is the government about both more than any other government in the history of this country. And every other in the part of the government we are able to address most of these issues that are there in the air, that are almost developing the country today, negatively. Most of these governments in the past address these issues without boring half of what this government is.  So if it all cannot be the problem, the problem will be mismanagement of our finances. Mismanagement of our resources. Which the president is also guilty of. He's always out of the country. Even his medical toy look. You have the president who has been in office for 60 and a half years and cannot turn around our health sector. It's a shame that until now he's still traveling abroad for medical treatment. Chinibu just left the country and just got back for medical treatment. That is symptomatic of the poor medical state of our health facilities. Six and a half years down the line. That was the last time we had to leave on mass to Dubai and they blocked it. It is not by blocking it. Six years after, the president who's still spent on adding resources, traveled to the UK for medical treatment. Where as you have that, when his wife raised the alarm, but the Asurans clinic is empty and is being used as a computer, they slated her, paticated for making that statement. But six and a half years after, nothing has happened. Recently, they budgeted hard work for the Asurans. Let us watch and see if that money will be spent on reignitating the Asurans clinic. So the boss talks of Mr. President. Because the president is corrupt, his people are not corrupt. There is no other, you know, people say, Mr. President might not be corrupt, but the people are not corrupt. They get to us. It's about some act list of women and poverty of logic. Mr. President is corrupt, so the people are not corrupt. When the head is rotten, the tail will be rotten. So now that we still have, you know, a few more, we still have a few more days. I would say the days, not that they're just one or two, but we still have from now up until 2023. Do you think that anything can be done? Do you think that anything can be done and what can be done practically, you know, to remedy the situation? Like Synergy is trying to redeem his image, battered image. I'm talking about the federal minister of lawmaking, National Assembly. Trying to redeem his battered image. It has started responding to the calls and the cries of Nigerians. It has started with the amending text of 52 of the Nocturnal Electoral Act. The presidency, inasmuch as the period is so short, really, really short, because that is a wider scope. We are talking of the nation as a whole. But the presidency can start to redeem his image, stressed by ensuring that all those that have been accused of financial fraud, they're expected of your party affiliation and affiliation, you approach a future. Nothing starts with that. We have the Babashala. You know what they do? They initiate a court action.  They ensure that you have long adjournments and the processes will go on almost at infinity.  What has happened to the CCT chairman? That CCT chairman who displayed that madness in public. Why is this human office? Why is it, you know, the president, the first thing we expected the president to do was to suspend him. You can sack him, but you can't suspend him. That's what the president got done. He did not. Because the man is doing his bidding. He's a hatchet man. Not the whole gamut, the whole lot of things that the president must address if he has to resume, from corruption to appointments, even the high-poor issue. But assume this dimension because of the wrong handling by Mr. President. Not Mr. President is doing in the South East. He's not doing it enough. Are you going to talk about the banditry, and robbery, and so on, a surrogacy in the Niagara compared to the South East? You treat him not with kid gloves and flip flan masking and in the South you say destroy them. Yes, I may not agree with your paradigm. I strongly disagree with your approach. But the truth about this is that the South East does not have to be marginalized. They're not the South East and I'm a pure South South man. Pure South and I will never be a South East and I will never be a member of the effort. You know, the Congress is marked to say we are part of the effort. Is that madness? He needs to have an example. I can never be a member of the effort. But the truth is they are marginalized. And that's the reason he has secluded, you know, under this present administration. And you should have addressed the whole work of this industry. You have more than a full separation and change discrimination in the system. We, the president, must address. Even in terms of our point points. And if these issues are addressed, we should replace the pleading illusion. He has about 500 days of get-about in office. I doubt that the president I know can affect the desired change in Nigeria's waters. Homicide in Qatar, these are, I don't know if you would agree that these are some of the effects of having political appointments based, not based on competence. And of course, a CV that speaks for you, but instead based on the need to settle political, you know, friends and put people in government. Yeah, we have already said it, that what we are encouraging in this country is mediocrity and not meritocracy. Yeah, so how can we end that? For you to be a member of the House of Assembly, a member of the House of Assembly, it's nothing to do with Assembly members. You must be a talk. And the way they compensate you is you can't take the House, be a member of the House of Assembly. When you see House of Assembly members, they are like talentants. The way they dress, the way they talk, they hang out in the apartment just, I mean the House of Assembly members, of course they are said governors. You mention it. You think that that is the National Assembly's goal? It's gone. So to mention, are you talking about National Assembly? We know of somebody who is the principal of the National Assembly because of what he did with him, is he better than the National Assembly? We are all aware of that. We know what he did. We have the National Assembly, the president of the National Assembly, who said they are not here to oppose the president, that the one-handed man with the president, is that what the leader of the National Assembly, president of the National Assembly, can say to them, how they do it? Look, if we are sure you met, what will I get? Don't worry, I'll make you this, so that you protect me. What is the problem? What's the problem of the former Senate president? Who was the governor? What is the name of the National Assembly? It was the governor. Because they didn't want you to meet, none of you were the strongest character he met, and that was the genesis of the public. That was how he provenance, the public. But what is it? Why should anybody meet, the president interested who you think they met as a Senate president? It's not to control. And that's what is happening. So you ask voters around votes. Unfortunately, that is not what you can do, because they are the money bags. What we need to do right now as Nigeria is take the money and vote your conscience. And that's why we are happy with the presidential vote. Although we don't without the passage, because to me, it's one legislative discussion, because Alec has the right to decide, because you have to ask Alec. And so for you to deny Alec, that you must first of all amend that constitution. They failed to amend the constitution, but amend the letter, which is inferior to the constitution. But it's okay. Hang on, it's okay. But the truth about it is that, let us take this money, because of the poverty in the land. As hunger, hunger is palpable and fabulous. Let's take this money and vote our conscience. And ensure that the right people, and like Nigeria should no longer stay, because you've been abattently watching yourself. But when they get into office, it's another four years. They make more money to elongate.  It's like backing on a sticky weekend. Nothing will come out of it. So I'm trying Nigeria to collect this money. And vote this is a secret in both your conscience and ensure that don't you trust and what's elected if they don't mean to disappoint you. It's a different program altogether. That's the only way we can affect you, Chief. Well, that's also- And that's the only way we can kick out all this money back to distorted perception of life that's a deadly discharge under the political surface. Yeah, well, it's a different discussion. But I will mention that that also fails because you are only going to vote from the options available. And if the options available are one and the same, then you really aren't left with the opportunity to vote who you believe will affect change. My brother, I agree with you yourself. What do you have to say? You're not following my skills on your shoulders. You're expecting divisive needs. But you just said what you said is right, is apt. Because you can only choose from what is available. And those that are available are the ones that are responsible for the problems today. But you see how complicated, how complicated it is. So what do we do? What do we do? Miss Angotara- I think there is a way out. Yeah. I think there is a way out. Miss Angotara, I remember- Yeah, like the Giga and Anko, like the Giga and Anko. Maybe they are serious. Guys, that can be a way out. That can be a way out. It will be a lot of work. Miss Angotara, I'm sure you also remember how long it took and clamoring that it took from Nigerians before the service chiefs were eventually replaced by President Mahmoud Abouar. It took a while of Nigerians continuing to clamor and beg and plead for these changes to be made. Is there a way that Nigerians should be able to reach out to the president to let him know that certain ministers have failed? Is minister for education or for health or defense or whichever? Is there ways that the president can be able to listen or be made to listen to the voices of Nigerians? There is no other way. You have a president with a mindset. They must have told him that these are people sponsored to discredit your government. He said it now. He said it. Otherwise, how are we going to tell the president when that went on strike? How? As soon as it was strike, you are going to start to negotiate it. If you are not seized of this situation, then you must be dead.  Because you are in Nigeria, not well done strike. As soon as you left it, up and up, the situation is going on strike now. Both of us, left, right and center, you are aware because you are the one issuing the order to the military to go and climb down on these protesters. If it's only the president that can listen to us or not, going by the constitution. So if you are not aware and you order people to go, won't you ask the question, what are they protesting? Why is not going on strike? Because the minister, no matter what happens, cannot agree with tools or accommodation, with not, what I mean, as soon as you are a president, doctors, with not, without clearing with the president because it depends on what our law give the approval for any agreement. So are you going to say, is not aware? It's just intellectually helping. That's just the truth. Let's call a state a state, intellectually helping. It's not intellectually competent to move a country like Nigeria. This is the military. Even the military man, he failed. It is now clearly obvious that the man who was in charge of Nigeria. Not it, because it's there. Otherwise how do you explain it? So how do you want Nigeria to do? To kill themselves?  People die.  So what does, what does you want Nigeria to do? Because the only way, you can't have access to him. He does not, he's not even in charge of him. He doesn't talk to you. So the only way is to protest. I have the protest on the streets of Abuja. And I do want them to express that it's approval of a system. Whenever they protest, you send the soldiers out. Whenever they protest, you send the soldiers out. You say, oh, there are people trying to discredit your government. How do you do that? Oh, sorry. I remember one day he said, oh, they are lucky that this is not a military regime. I would have thought like this. How will a civilian president say that or not?  And that Nigerians should just, you know, just... It is hopeless on that general government. It is hopeless on that general government. I bet you nothing will change. So are you saying that Nigerians should just hold their hands and wait for 2023? We will continue to protest. What are we going to do? We will continue to protest. But can't you see that the 10-year legislations where the encasement has never been distrusting in the history of this country? Never been distrusting. This will tell you this obvious in it when you prove that it is the worst government we have. And have we ever talked of this issue? Have we been louder before in the history of this country? Not even on that biafra, the biafra said, well, we know I wasn't born there, which is part of the problem today, because the South Easterners have never been reintegrated into the system after the biafra. Let's not say it's bad. They've never, they've always segregated it, which is very wrong. Very wrong. So if you think you're going to get a change on that biafra, you must have everything. It's a flit in illusion, my dear. But you came with a mindset. A mindset of an honest people, a criminalist. Nobody knows they have mother. Is he the same person you want to be? How is that kind of change that you're talking about? The man who's romancing with Gumu, is the hand of Esha and the voice of the people. Don't you know that? He said it on this very station. When Gumu was there, I said, Gumu is not alone. And today they are talking of amnesty. What are we talking about? So maybe I'll forget all this. How many, the ambassadors speak? Well, the two prime ministers are ambassadors dealing with it. Confirmed by the NSA. His own NSA. And there are some, what are they called? Those who take over for me, what are they called? At first help me now. Who take over from Gumu? Successors. Successors, successors. Oh wow. Yeah. And those who take over, yeah. And they're successors. Confirmed it. They said, despite that man who? I've never been vindicated. I've never been vindicated. So what change are you talking about? From who? You can't be quick to what you don't have. You can only give back what you have, not what you don't have. It doesn't have it. It's lacking in that. It doesn't have it. So don't expect anything. Have that success. Do you learn how to do it in your lifetime? You can't start change. So it's too late. Yeah. We are going to manage it. We will manage it. On the 20th and the 20th. We will manage it. Ms. Angotara, I asked about something earlier. A comparison between the former president of the Lusheko-Bassenger's time and what he did while selecting his own cabinet and people that ran government for him at that time. I want you to help us understand what we must do in order to place someone in 2023 who would also understand the importance of selecting a very, very competent cabinet. Not waiting six months either to put in those persons but already having an idea of the level of competence that should make up your cabinet. I mean, how we are going to get somebody that will appreciate competence. Yeah, the importance of that. And how that message can be spread across the country as we approach the elections. Okay. Okay. My dear brother, I was asked. I referred to this as a job question. Because, like you rightly said, we are going to choose from the same pool. And most of these politicians today condemn the government in power because they are not in power. It will be very difficult when we have the likes of Pete Obie, if we have to go back to that. We have the likes of Pete Obie and a few others. But we all know that Pete Obie can never be the president of this country by virtue of where he comes from. I can't tell you that. Not at least today. We have few others. But will they allow that? That's the problem. But if we run it all, just like what happened with Pete Obie was to emerge. Pete Obie was just a banker. And a group of people came and forced him. He was practically coerced into accepting it. And I know that people have no regrets for it. Although the only thing I condemn was the issue of not conducting local government election. He never conducted local government election as state government, which is very reprehensible. There's no justification whatsoever about that. But out of that, the whole body said yes, it performed well. He only stopped them. And of course, I cannot show you that some of us are going to run around there. We are going to look at your antecedents as a former governor if you've never been a governor. As a commissioner, I don't think we need to credit you because your performance is dependent upon your governor, your president. But as a former governor, as a senator, where you have the free hand and free will to do what you want to do, we will pick from some of them and ban them. But whether they will succeed or not, it's a different thing altogether. Because there are plans to read the election. And that's why a lot of people were advanced to electronic transmission back for the pressure. Because there are already plans to read the election. So let us see what needs top parties to flow because you need a financial model, you need a crowd. And if you say, for example, you have the YPP, it's hypothetical, or the ADP. You might have credit people over there, but they don't have the financial model. They don't have the clouds. What are they going to do? That's why I said we have to plead with Nigeria to get the money from these money back and vote our conscience. Let it be that at the end of the day, our conscience told us.  Because we are not only worsening our situation. Yes. If we endure and get the right people elected into office, our conscience will end. I think it will be inside. The end will be inside. We now know that for three, four years, these people are going to reshape our economy that will be the interest of all. And not collect one layer that we don't buy off balance sheets. And after that, we'll become slaves. Another eight years, because they have the money to continue for the first time. All right. The only way out is awareness, credit awareness, education, enlightened Nigeria. Look, collect the money from these money backs. We all come from a community. We all come from a society. We know who is who. Get this money from these money backs and vote your conscience. That's the only way we can attend these things. All right. Punabbo, in Kotaria, from our media aid to River State Governor, thank you so much. I always enjoy your thoughts and conversations with you. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. And we wish you a very beautiful Wednesday ahead. Thank you. What's my sister's name? My name is Masi. Thank you so much for joining us today. Masi. Masi. Okay. All right, thank you so much. All right, and this is where we, of course, will be wrapping up the program this morning. Thanks for joining us. And of course, having our breakfast with us here in Plastidia, Africa. If you missed out on any of our conversations this morning, remember where to catch up. It's simply at Plastidia, Africa, on Facebook and Instagram. And of course, our YouTube channel at Plastidia, Africa. And Plastidia, Africa Lifestyle. I am Osaldi Omar. And I am Masi Ibubu.


The grey sky slipped out of view as I left the boat and entered the water. We'd seen no other vessels since leaving the harbor just after dawn. A flock of birds, faint in the half light, had seen to follow us for the first few miles but then they turned away and we were left alone. There were two of us diving that day. No names, you will learn why. We were following an ancient route one which many people will tell you doesn't exist. Lay lines, if you believe in them, are lines that crisscross the globe and along which are sighted ancient man-made monuments and naturally occurring mounds. They were named in 1921 but existed long before. In the modern age, lay lines are not a subject that respectable academics pay any heed to. I am an academic, as respectable as it gets. I have tenure and I'm not going to do anything to risk that because of my belief that there are truths among the myths of lay lines. Truths that I needed to uncover. I'd hired the boat and the equipment and employed my diving companion under an assumed name, all paid for with cash. The water was clear as we began our descent. I looked to my left where my diving companion moved with ease alongside me. He didn't know the obsession driving this expedition. I told him I wanted to explore the waters here for a holiday away from my high-pressure job. He was happy to take me at my word and my money. I increased the pace eager to reach our destination. Studies carried out all discredited or simply ignored now, looked at lay lines on land from the deserts of Egypt to the green fields of England. I was here to follow a lay line traversing the seabed. It was one which crossed continents and surely there was no break. It was simple to project out over the water using a program and overlay onto a map. The seabed here was not so deep we needed specialist support or equipment. It wouldn't take us long. I tried to relax, keep breathing steady, but I was excited. This was new for me and adventure. I felt more alive than I had for a long time. It was growing darker, so we both turned on torches attached to our masks. Moments later, I saw a movement to my side. My companion was signaling, pointing at the seabed. We continued down a little further and floated in place just above the surface. I swept the beam of my torch from side to side, caught sight of brilliantly colored shoals of tiny fish, scuttling crabs, and drifting anemone. After checking our coordinates on the device secured to my wrist with a cable, I signaled we should move forwards following the lay line. My heartbeat kicked up a level. The belief is that lay lines pulse with supernatural energy and I could swear I could feel this emanating all around me, transforming the ocean into the most beautiful place I'd ever seen. Yes, I was stoked. I've no problem admitting this. And my excitement was mounting because half a mile ahead there was a convergence of two lay lines where lay lines cross at what is referred to as terminus points. The energy is greatest and can potentially be harnessed, perhaps also in some way measured. At that point in time, I had no idea how, as I've said, this was my first expedition. This I knew was a quest which could, would take many years. We continued our progress. On land the terminus points are often the sites of constructions of great spiritual significance. I was not expecting any such thing here. I know my beliefs are out there, but I don't believe in underwater beings who built stone crosses to some oceanic deity. I'm eccentric, but not crazy. As we near the terminus point, I began to wonder if actually I was. If all the secrecy, the white lies, the sleepless nights, planning and dreaming had left me detached from reality. At the place where my map told me the lay lines crossed, there was a rock formation. It rose in front of us, a group of a dozen long pillar-like rocks forming a circular pattern. This was a natural phenomena. It had to be. Yet it looked so like a stone circle, one of the ancient sites of worship, the remains of which still draw devotees. A trick of the eye, I told myself. Any conclusions I draw must be based on properly analyzed empirical evidence, not the imagination. We began to swim around the rock formation. My companion seemed as surprised, as fascinated as I was. Then suddenly he came to a dead halt before flailing his arms to propel himself backwards away from the formation. He pointed frantically towards the base of one of the rock pillars and I suddenly felt very cold. Nestled against the pillar, there was a skull lying on the seabed. It was unmistakably human. I told myself to be calm, to embrace reason, not fear.  Until I saw the hole in the skull, it was a jagged rounded shape in the forehead. I thought I have stumbled onto a crime scene and began to wonder if I could lie to the police about the reason for being here as easily as I had to my dean and my students, my diving companion who continued to keep his distance. He was signaling that we should surface. I did not know the signal for I need time to think, so I just waved my hands around until he seemed to get the idea. With him placated, I decided to explore the site further. It seemed highly unlikely I would be able to return as I had planned. I'd need to find another underwater terminus point. I maneuvered myself past the skull, wanting to take a closer look at the other pillars and saw something poking just out of the surface of the seabed. I reached down and worked it loose, cleaned it a little with my gloved fingers. It was a coin, an old one from the condition and the markings. My mood lightened. If the skull dated back to the same era as the coin, then it would be historical remains. There would still be questions when I reported it, as I knew I had to do the moment I saw it, but now I felt I could handle any inquiries. I looked up at my companion and waved that he should join me. He hesitated, then began to swim down. I turned away and froze.  A skeletal arm rested on the seabed in the space encircled by the rocks around its wrist bone, a shackle hung. It was attached to something, but I couldn't see what. Was it another rock laying flat? A slab toppled over onto the seabed, maybe? I thought so, but I couldn't be sure without going closer. I swallowed. My throat felt desperately dry, but I had no way of easing that. I moved towards the remains of the arm. My mind was racing with images of stone circles on terminus points on the land I'd seen. Many were temples, it was believed, places of worship, places, some where human sacrifice was practiced. A victim laid out on an altar at the center of the circle, held down, so there was no escape when the killing blow came. I knew my breathing was far too rapid. I was becoming dizzy, disorientated as I neared the arm. I did not see the dark shape until it was too late. I noticed matter disturbed from the seabed drifting up towards me. I stared dumbly at it, then felt a pressure on my leg and suddenly I was being dragged backwards. I looked back and I saw it then.  It was still partially buried in the seabed, must have been camouflaged there until moments before, but from what I could see it was more than a dozen feet long. More tentacles spiraling out from it were thrashing at the seabed and I was close to blinded by the now swirling dirt. Not blind enough. I recoiled as a rib cage struck my mask and drifted away. It must have lain on the seabed, its eternal rest now ended by this monster. It continued to reel me in. Its prey I realized. I was a dead man. Soon my bones would join those others who died down here. I screamed a muted last plea. And then the pressure on my leg eased. I looked down, mystified. My companion, a blur among the dirt, held a length of tentacle in one hand. In the other, a long blade, he'd cut through the thing's limb, freeing me. Inky blood now mingled with the storm of dirt and bone. I started in horror as another skull, sightless and with its jaw hanging on by a sliver of bone joined the maelstrom. I felt something grab my arm. I swore, thinking the creature had entrapped me again. And then I saw it was my companion. He was pulling at me, pointing upwards. We had to get out of there. I looked below me once during our ascent. A cloud of dark matter was spreading out. The creature's frenzy raged on. We surfaced just in time. Our oxygen tanks were close to drained and exhausted. We helped each other clamor back into the boat.  I wanted nothing more than ignorance for myself at that moment. For now I would leave the dead to their secrets.


Now take a look at this thing. When you're playing music with drums is really the the beat and a lot of rock and roll or a lot of music is four four beats right now I don't I've forgotten my music symbols I've forgotten I've forgotten everything so I'm going to use symbols that musicians music people are going to go what what is this guy talking about but I'm just layering on the mat right Gersley I used to be a pretty good trumpet player now I probably can't even blow nice boom down rats boom down rats check this out so we have oh my god I'm going to draw music what do you call these things so this is the way I learn how to play drums believe it or not this is the way I learn how to play drums right this is the way I learned how to play drums remember I had zero I was a very good drum player by the way not like I first song I learned how to play it was YouTube Sunday Bloody Sunday next song I learned how to play was a nice thing said she was the police wrapped around my fingers okay I learned the Van Halen song I learned some other songs and then I realized I try to play Rush Tom Sawyer and I couldn't do the drum solo and I realized I wasn't technically I no wonder how much of practice I couldn't I couldn't do it right so and it wasn't by listening or anything I had to read the notes to do it I memorized the notes staff is that what it's called I don't know what it's called so check this out we're gonna put two chords here and what's that symbol here's the music symbols is this what we do how does this go you're like this is that what we're doing it I don't know and the way I learned was this this would be the bass drum right this would be the hi hat let's put the hi hat here this would be like a symbol symbol this would be like snare okay and then you'd have a like a tom tom here or something like this right tom tom one tom two or something like this right so if you're playing a four four beat right that means you got that's one is it a chord it's not a chord it's one section right so for a bass a four four beat I don't know if it's four four or whatnot but basically let's assume that's one set that you're gonna do right you would go bass boom sharp boom okay and then you would do snare I'm not even doing this right I don't know if I'm doing this right almost like let me do this with my lines hold on hold on let me do this properly let me do this properly so you start off with the bass the hitting the bass is the foot right and then in the middle so you go boom boom and then you hit the snare in the off beats right and then the hi hat is usually going four one one two three four so you're going so that's going pretty fast that's like a punk beat right I'm doing a Rembus job explain this by the way and then you would have like a symbol and with the other hand you go pan smash a symbol or something like this let's do it you could do it on the on the offs as well I don't know I don't even know if this works like this right so this is the way they break it up four four like really I gotta get my notes I'll show you guys my notes one day right my symbols one day and you can put toms here you can do double toms boom boom right undo this one boom boom right like if you look at Neil Perch stuff shut up let's just filled with stuff right and then the same thing would repeat here you're doing the same thing boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom and this is this would be a four count right break out the drum set break out the drum set nice tadpole thanks fun says so this would be like on it was a zero four eight whatever right now there are other beats that people do and Neil Perch was some of the some of the songs that he played he'd go from four beats some some songs it's not even four beats it's seven eight beats right so the the rhythm doesn't end on the four doesn't start on a four natural count it's an off beat right so he would take this so this is up to an eight so he would take it right here's the eight and tool does this tool does this right here's the four right here's the eight here's a zero but with some music you don't do the repetition here again you do it on the seven the seven count so from here to here is what the beats going and it's not natural like when you're dancing you're doing this and then all of a sudden you would have do and then and then like do but it's not even that it's it's just an off beat and then how many of these do you need to get back to a regular beat right and then you can take a seven seven beat i'm going to make it smaller here right so you would take a seven seven eights and then you would take my god you would take three fours right so you do seven eight three four seven eight three four seven eight three four what a trippy song that would be right dream theater does it to dream theater is amazing oh my god no name boy dream theater is beautiful music if you guys have never listened to dream theater you listen to dream theater i seem to recall this e g b d f on the lines going up is that what it is yeah i you know what i got my notes drum notes somewhere one of these days we'll do an ASMR video and we'll do the top view with the the way we do the comic book readings and i'll show you right maybe right so this is the way math plays in it and when the musicians are getting together to create this music right now just imagine this is one section one little part right and a song may have multiple pages of these right and they have to break it down so it's not chaos but there is at some point where everything goes right there it's it's an epic moment music builds up the lyricist is going crazy and also it just goes everything hits on the same moment right boom and then you can go back into the rhythm of the chaos again and then boom now you must have grizzly thank you very much for the twitch prize so you must have listened to music or been to shows where all the sun everybody at the same time goes wow right that's what's going on that's the mathematics of it that's hitting okay that's the rhythm that's hitting there is you know taking this to sort of literature book one of the most fantastic science fiction books that i read was by c.s lewis it's a trilogy one of them is called the hideous strength and then palant palindra or something like this it's a three book trilogy right and in one of the books i'm going to give you a little bit of a spoiler but that's okay in one of the books the main protagonist travels to another planet right and he encounters aliens and the aliens are listening to music right he understands that they're listening to music because of their behavior but in the book as he's explaining this music he explains that you couldn't understand the music there's no it didn't relate to him his music because the heartbeat because our heartbeat follows this right right it's it's a constant beat every now and then there's a rhythmic offbeat right but our heartbeat is rhythmic right that's why the seven eight and three fours and stuff like this is hard to comprehend right but in this book he's c.s lewis is explaining that protagonist is having a hard time relating to this music because he can't because their heartbeats beat differently than our heartbeats right that's the way he was explaining it and i read this many years ago like 30 years ago right i'm not doing injustice but it was really good rest in peace professor neil indeed intrepid indeed indeed in