Like Abacha Lutz, we will recover stolen crude on the Bihari, says presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Prince Adioli Adebayo. Tonight we discuss the 2023 elections and his presidential race. This is Plus Politics, I'm Mary Anacor. The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Prince Adioli Adebayo, has declared that the twin menace of insurgency and banditry in the country will be eradicated within 100 days if he is elected president in the 2023 election. He also said if given the opportunity, stolen crude under the Bihari-led administration will be recovered, giving instances of zero remittance from the NNPC and oil-producing states borrowing to pay salaries. According to him, the elites have abandoned Nigerians to the people and the people should not abandon themselves. Now they should vote right. Well joining us live this evening to discuss his 2023 presidential race and the state of the nation is Prince Adioli Adebayo, presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party. So good to have you join us in the studio. It's a pleasure. All right, I hope that you didn't have to cross mountains to get here. Even if we have to do more, we'll do it. A lot is at stake. Interesting. I think the question that you get asked most often is why do you want to be president? Because I hear people saying it's a tumultuous task to lead any country, let alone a multi-ethnic and multicultural country with diverse needs as Nigeria. So again, I ask why would you want to be president? Well, I appreciate the enormity of the office, but if the job is actually done, Nigeria is one of the lokiest countries to govern because the people want what is good. The people want positive things in life. The materialism about Nigeria that we criticize is actually a Philip for hard work. It's a Philip for people actually trying to improve their lot. So if you have 200 million people individually trying to improve their lot, it's the job of the leader to ensure that while they're trying to improve their lot, that they actually are helping the country that way. So what is hard in Nigeria or what makes it look hard is that people who are in offices are not actually performing the functions of the office. And you don't need too much evidence to know. You can start from your neighborhood. You will see that the sanitation officer doesn't show up. So it's not that sanitation is difficult to do, but it just won't show up. The traffic warden sometimes doesn't show up. So it's not that it's so difficult to be a traffic warden. It just won't show up for diverse reasons. It's not difficult to post letters, for example. But if you try to post a letter in Nigeria, it's quite difficult. So with these little things, you will know that that's why the big things don't get done. So just basic that. So if you come and people who are in government don't understand that they are there to render services. They just think that they are lucky to have privileges or they need to assert the privileges. So if you have traffic on the road, they will not clear the traffic, but they will bring their own vehicles and security guards to let them have a quick passage. But they will not remember and say, well, there are people still live in traffic. So if there is no security in the country, they will just increase the number of policemen attached to VIPs and so on and so forth. So if there is no electricity, even in the electricity minister's office, energy minister, he will just go by generator.  So that's that's just the problem. So if you shift in my sense and we try to repair the collective, then you rise the beautiful countries. This sounds all fine and dandy because this is almost what every presidential candidate says. They come and talk beautiful and talk, you know, sometimes even tough and sometimes tell us what they will do. But then at the end of the day, I mean, let's say, for example, in 2015 Nigerians wanted anybody else but the sitting president. And here we are in 2023. It's almost it's almost feeling like it's the same thing. But why should Nigerians take you seriously? What is that track record that we can point to? What can we hold on to to say, well, this man is an honorable person and he will, you know, live up to the expectations or the responsibility that might be handed to you. First, before Nigerians take me seriously, they should first take them seriously. Which means that if someone comes before you, you should try to analyze what they are saying. What they are saying is not enough because when you say what are they saying, what they are saying should be in the context of what they have been doing and the context of what is happening around their campaign. In 2015 that you refer to, it was obvious to many people including me, I was saying it, it was obvious that people did not care who was saying those things because the person who said he was going to develop the economy he was going to do this and that, has been a colossal failure in previous administration. Number two, he said he was going to fight corruption and he was going to do a number of things. The people to his right, people to his left, were people who were causing the things he said he was going to oppose. So you knew that it was impossible. Thirdly, he was assessing a lot of people's resources and he was spending almost as much money as the incumbent government at the time and with that amount of stray money into your politics, you can't make changes. Thirdly, people did not go into the nitty gritty because do not vote based on politicians promises. Promises mean nothing. You vote based on the plan of the politician. How are we supposed to know the plan of the politician if he doesn't speak to us and tell us, because I mean the promise is all as a result of the plan that he thinks he has that can bring some form of change for us. So again, how do we know the plan if it's not... Maybe the greatest thing, maybe the best thing people will learn tonight is that it's a difference between a plan and a promise. If I promised to build a house, that's a promise. But if I show you the land and I show you a drawing and I show you a costume and I tell you the source of funding for that project and I show you the engineer who's going to build it and I give you a timeline, that's a plan. But you may say, I'm going to build your house. Anyone can say so, but you should ask, where's the land? How long will it take? How many bricks will it take? Where's the iron rod? Who is the engineer? Where's the design? So if we keep asking that question in 2023, it will be an improvement over the situation in 2015. Because right now everyone is saying I'm going to build your houses. But people, because of the noise, don't ask the question, how? What are you going to do? So for every plan that I put on the table, people should not trust me, they should trust their own judgment by asking salient questions. And in the course of the campaign, when it starts and the course of your question in this night, if there is any of my plans that you look at, you can ask me to the minutest detail, miniscule what I want to do, where the funding is coming from, who is going to be the person that I will give it to you. Or you would say that not only me, any reasonable person, honest person who takes that office, if they follow that plan, the plan must work. The good thing about the plan is that it should not work for only one person. There is not a plan. A plan is a scheme of directions that you give, that anyone who follows that scheme of direction and that discipline and that sequence will succeed. So there is just basic, basic planning.   So if I go there and say I'm going to fight corruption, then people are going to like me because that's a promise. People should say, well, you are going to fight corruption, but you are spending so much money on your campaign. And the amount to your right, the amount to your left is actually engrossing corruption. And if I look at how much you spend on your campaign, flying from all over the place to all over the place, with all the aircraft you hired, with governors of oil rich states, spending a lot of money, you should know that that government is not going to fight corruption because how you roll your campaign is an indication of how you're going to govern. So for those who come, getting a lot of trolls, bots online to create artificial noise, it means that they are going to run a government propaganda.  Those who support us intimidate opponents in the course of campaign, you know that when they come to government, it will be a fascist, intolerant government. Those who run sectional campaign based on religion and ethnicity and fault lines, you know that when they are in government, that's how they are going to govern. So if you want to see how a politician is going to govern, see how they are managing their campaign now, then you will know. That's why in 2015, it was a surrogate campaign. The candidate himself will not speak. So people who will speak on his behalf, they will be making speeches that he too was struggling to understand. So you knew at that time that it was going to be a government run by a cabal. So that's how you plan. And that's how you predict to avoid errors. Let's go into things that you want to do for Nigeria. You were quoted to say that you will restore hope and unite Nigeria. So let's talk about the divisions that we have. I started by talking about the fact that we are a very diverse nation. And over the years, especially under this administration, the lines have continued to broaden, whether it be religious, ethnic and now political lines. How easy would it be for you to address that again? We already are seeing it, like you said, propaganda unrest, people being unable to condone others and their positions or opinions. How easy a task do you think this will be for you, especially for the first time at this office if you were to get it? There is a missing ingredient. And if we have that ingredient, it's quite bitter. If we have that ingredient, it's called the truth. The leader must be able to say the truth, starting from the campaign. So you don't go and tell people things that they like to hear, which you are never going to do. And if you try to do, it's impossible to do. So we have to have the truth. The truth in this country is that there is no justice. How do you mean there is no justice? There is no justice if you look at it. For example, if you look at regional justice, there is no justice. The part of the country that supplies most of the income that we depend upon that makes us to say we are an oil-rich state or a resource-rich state, we marginalize the people who are involved in that. There is no class justice. The typist, security guard, the driver to the president of Nigeria, whom he interacts with every day, he knows, if he cares to know, that their salaries cannot take them home. But they work for the most powerful person in the country. But he knows that their salaries cannot take them home. There is gender injustice. If you look at the situation, how we run the country. There is generational injustice. Because generation that went to school on free education, free boarding, free feeding, travel overseas for research and on pleasure, are the generation now saying there is no enough money to pay teachers. So there is generational injustice. So the billionaires in Nigeria are likely to be quite old or the bag carriers for old people. If you look at the life of politicians, vis-à-vis the life of people they represent, there is no justice. If you look at it, you will see that it's like the people who are in the governing classes are living in a country within a country. So that the problems facing the country does not touch them. I was speaking earlier in a different place that I said, look, Elizabeth II from a late Queen of England, or in all her youth, she was in her country. Her education in her country. She joined the army of her country. As a youth, she was given responsibility to lead the country. And in the course of her old age, sickness and everything, she never left England and she died in her country. Can you say so of Nigeria presidency?  Most Nigerians cannot go to Saudi Arabia to look for medical care. Our own president, who is there now, looks for every excuse to go versus medical training. His children are trained abroad. Some of those who are competing with me who want to come and say they want to serve the country or rule the country, whichever they want to do. When they have a little pain or some problem somewhere, they go versus for treatment. Even one of them, who served eight years as vice president, immediately took the money he got and went to live in the UAE, living in a life of luxury, 24-hour electricity, whatever he liked there. And when he now had a second epiphany, he came back here to look for more power. And I believe he got the power. He would finish everything he needs to do and go back there again. So this is a case of injustice. If you look at the legal profession, if you have a case in court, whatever the case, you work in a place where you're not paid, something happens to you, somebody in Georgia, somebody stole your land, you could be in court for 20 years. But if you contest the election, and you want to be a governor or president, the court will say, well, the case has to be finished in 60 days. So anything that touches the elite, case better treatment. So a country in a multi-dimensional analysis that you want to do, that is not funded on truth and justice, that makes people angry. There is a part of this country, the people who go out on Mondays, because the people feel fairly treated. Whether they are right or wrong, the country hasn't stopped to say, how can a portion of this country be having this protest?  And the authorities will go to them, why do you have this ribbon written around your hand? Are you not happy? It is the government that is going to go and ask them, what are you protesting? What are you happy about? But here we had answers, and you know what happened. So this is a kind of thing, and I'm saying, if you do that in a country, irrespective of the wealth of that country, if people don't feel cheated, they are going to be a happy people and they are going to contribute to the country. 30 years ago, 60 years ago, 90 years ago, Nigeria was poorer than now, but people were fairer. So if it were there was a one lane highway, there was only one university in the country, and one polytechnic at Yabba Tech, and just less than 100 secondary schools in this country, people were happier because the system was fairer. So that's what I'm saying. Even if OPEC allows Nigeria to triple, quantify our oil production, Nigerian people will be poorer, even with more money because there's no justice. I'm going to go back to my question. How do you intend to unite Nigerians? You've told me how many of the problems, how do you, you're one person, don't forget, you're one person, and who knows, the National Assembly would be a mixed national assembly as usual, but the onus is on you to carry out the promises that you have made. How do you intend to really practicals, practical plans, what actions, what plans will you put in place to bring this unity to bear? Don't forget, like you have said, what are all the problems around the country, the north, the south, the east, everywhere has a problem. How do you intend to, and where do you start from? I start from what I'm doing now, which is to say the truth. That's how our company is different, to tell people where the problem lies and what I'm bringing. What I'm bringing is that I'm going to bring that truth. And at level of, for example, inter-ethnic, inter-religious relationship, you start by making sure that people who have their resources in every part of Nigeria, where they find themselves, have control of their resources. People who have learned, have control of their land, even the land use act, I'm going to ensure the National Assembly abrogates it. If you get to Abuja, you will see the Bahia people whose land that we took to create a federal capital for ourselves, a beautiful, relatively beautiful federal capital. Many of them are still driving rickshaws, pulling rickshaws in the market. Many of them are living in shanties, but people like us who went to settle there have become land speculators, collecting one billion, two billion. For land of people's ancestral land, there is no compensation done for them. That is a follow-up for what we were doing to people in Nigeria Delta. They are oil and gas. Go to Uganda. They have taken a different approach. If you find oil in your community, the oil company goes to you. You license them. You have cooperation with them. Then the federal government contacts the operation, whether you or your partner. I'm going to do the same thing for the gold in Saffara. I'm going to do it for all other things. People have to have control over their land for agriculture. That is across the country. When you see your fellow compatriots, if your fellow citizen coming to your land, you don't feel threatened. You don't feel at all they have come to take over anything belonging to you. You feel like, well, I'm in control of my situation. These are my fellow country people coming to me to interact with me, but I don't have a sense of losing what I have. When it comes to the ruling classes versus the working classes and the general populace, you ensure that no person who is in charge of public affairs goes to enjoy private bypass. So if you are in public service, your children attend public schools. If you go to public hospitals, you live in public housing. There is no official car for minister or prior anybody because we are going to take public transport. If you use your own money to buy for yourself an official car, no problem. I'm not going to worry you, but there must be because if I'm a minister, I'm a minister of justice. Now the secretary is in my office and the cleaner is in my office. I have an official car taking me to work. We're supposed to start work at the same time, but this other person is having to face terrible public transport together. It wasn't like that in the past. So then you take intergenerational. I have to ensure that number one, we stop spending oil money because the oil does not belong to this generation alone. So we have to create an intergenerational fund in which we store the oil money. If we don't spend oil money, let's be realistic here, but this is all sounds. Nigeria's major sauce is the oil. Of course, we always pay the service to other things like agriculture. We're going to do this and that. We're looking at technology, which is also budding. But if we don't spend oil money, what do we spend? A lot of money on the economy. A lot of money. Number one, I have a bid 101 for you. For the last several months, UNNPC has not returned any money to the federation account. So what happened? It shows to you that it is possible to live with that oil. This time around, it was because we have stolen the money. I can say that clearly, but... Who's they and who stole the money? Okay, now, two things. We're talking of oil now. Forget about all other things you knew before. Those ones are still happening. Bursting pipeline, wrong entry, inflation contracts. Those ones are going low key. But the major, the new pestilence that has come now is that 80% of the crude oil being produced is stolen outright. And it's not stolen by bandits or local people, because they can't afford it. It's been stolen by international oil operators with the connivance of Nigerian security and governmental officials. And these vessels are feasible. They are traceable. As I'm talking to you now, not more than 80, 180 nautical miles from your studio they are stealing Nigerian crude oil as I'm talking to you now. And they are stealing on the highway and international maritime organization.  Unless you want to mention their names. Who they, I mean... I am saying government officials, people who are surviving on your salary, people whom you will see pay pension to when they retire. These people, starting with the minister of petroleum, who is the president of Nigeria, down was to everybody who is involved in it. So you're calling my president a thief? No, the actions calling them so. I wish they were not, but it is the case. For example, I'm not a noise maker until I start making noise. So when you are in charge of public resources and you are supposed to be accountable to it and defend the country against enemies foreign and domestic because it takes an enemy to do economic sabotage to come and steal all your crude oil. 80% take it to ports all over the world where we know where they are. Take it to refineries in the world. Remember that if you are setting up a refinery to define your refinery, including the one we are doing around here, you have to have a catalytic cracking system that store these different typologies of oil all over the world and ensure that you can. So if you take a bottle of Coke a random take like a crate of empty crate of Coca Cola or whatever you want to use and you go to different parts of Nigeria and you take crude oil and you don't label them or you take them to a laboratory. I can tell you, they would tell you this one is from Kwaibu terminal. This one is from Bunny. This one is from Escafos. This they would tell you where they come from because they all have their molecular signature. In fact, when I used to, we loyal to the oil industry because I run it for election, I have people who just would take a sample and put in the amount like why, we have wine taste that they would tell you, oh, this is a jam crude. So the safari content is different. Everything is there. So these people who are refining this crude, they know it's stolen from Nigeria. The people who allow them to steal it know that they still need to go and sell.  You have to look for an oil dealer in Europe, preferably in Switzerland, to help you sell it. There are other people playing in other places. You can get them in Holland as well. So these things are feasible. And if you see these vessels, you can get their name from Lloyd Register, you can get it from all the maritime reporting. So that's why I said, Nigeria, don't worry. Just let us get in. We will calmly and naturally recover your crude for you because it's an international criminal gang with the connivance of our people. Why I'm racing this, it's not because I like to be a crime buster. Why I'm racing is because all other lies have to follow because they are still in us blind. In order to cover that lie, they have to now tell us one that there's global recession, that's not true, that there is a COVID affecting something that's not true. There is global recession on the other opposite side of our market. Russia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, those who are on our side of the market. This is not our own recession. And why I'm highly alarmed is that this is the period of boon for us if you studied the biblical dream of Joseph, seven years of farming and seven years of surplus. This is supposed to be our several years of surplus. And if we were already expressing farming because of this theft, what happens when the oil cycle changes and oil price comes down to 38? So you will now have aggravated farming at that point. That's the number one. Number two, why I will not spend this oil money anymore and I'll put in the future's fund is that if you look at ginger, for example, I'm sure you're familiar with ginger. Kaduna State is a loan, can be the world number one power in ginger. And there are other states in Nigeria that grow ginger equally. As at present, because of the way we do it, we do it anyhow, nobody's, there's no program supporting them. They can make sometimes a year, 20 million dollars. I've seen that as a year, they went as close as 80 to 120 million dollars. But if you get these women in the market who grind pepper, who grind melons, are you improved on what they do? Are you grind the ginger? Are you produce ginger oil? You will take you from 20 million to 1.2, 1.4 billion dollars of ginger oil. If you further process it into center ginger and all of that, you will see the same thing for cocoa. So I can easily replace in a short order. And I've done that personally for me. You know, I'm an oil-plum-platition owner. At the height of oil price during President Jonathan's regime, it was good to 1.20, 1.14 there about. And everybody was trying to work in NNPC. At that time, I was selling my own palm oil at 660 dollars per barrel. So I didn't drive in past NNPC office. I didn't look at them as pure beans. I looked at them like inferior beans because I could make 660 dollars per barrel. And it's still happening to me now. So I think that if we follow what the Eastern region government did under Michael Opera when he created other palm, I believe that we will do very well and we can do that within a short order. We have the agricultural ministry. We have, you know, it sounds to me like these ideas are always very novel when it comes to election time. And not just about the Bahá'í administration. We have successive governments who have said they were going to deal with agriculture. They were going to improve agricultural system but that always finds a way to take a back seat. So again, why do we have these ministries, these departments, these agencies, if that is not their core duty? We have investment promotion viewers all over the country. Why is that not front and center in a sentence? Because the productivity of the ministry is not based on what's written on the signboard. So you can say it's ministerial agriculture but they will not do agriculture. They will just be doing fertilizer, racketeering. So you can call it ministry of entertainment but if you are doing farming, the crop will grow. So let's just forget about the label. That's number one. Number two, popularity is an asset in politics but it doesn't necessarily come with intelligence. So you have to study the vision that the person has. I will say- We've had one of the best ministers for agriculture who is now in charge of the AFDB at the time he was here heading agriculture. So again- He was one of the best for the regime that he served and because it doesn't mean he's one of the best in his hometown. So there are a lot of talent in Nigeria but even at that short period Akim Umi Adishina was able to improve food supply. I disagree with him on many issues especially in terms of sustainability of agriculture but at least he faced the job. What I'm letting you know is that politicians, policymakers are bound to disagree on issues but if each one were to sit down and implement what they believe in the country will gain by it.  So what I'm letting you know is don't say that Nigeria problems are difficult to solve. They have not been solving them. That's why I started with the pedestrian examples that it is not difficult to claim a drainage. It is not difficult to patch potholes. There's no science that is difficult there but you actually need people who are in that department who wake up every day trying to do their best. So if the president because of the system we have created for ourselves we've put the executive powers in one person. It's not like Britain or United Kingdom generally where or in Europe where the power is dispersed in an executive of equals. No. We wrote our constitution and said that the executive powers of the Federation, all of them will be vested in one person. So if you get one person wrong the rest are going to be people who are going to be assisting him to explain his failures. So you need to make sure that the person has a vision assessed in a similar show that I have not been government before but I personally have created more jobs than the president who is there now his vice president, senate president, speaker, secretary of government, chief of staff all of them combined. I have created more jobs than all of them combined in their entire life. So what does that tell you? It tells you that they are not experienced in the things we need but they are experienced in the things we have been suffering. But being an interpreter and you are being a business person creating job opportunities totally different from leading the country but we'll take a break. We're still talking with the social democratic party presidential candidates Prince Adeola Adebayo will be right back after this break. Stay with us. It's still plus politics and we're still being joined in the studio by the presidential candidate of the social democratic party Prince Adeola Adebayo. Now before we went on the break I was making a point about running a business as opposed to running a nation as I'd like to underline the word diverse as Nigeria and of course all the problems that we have on every side. First, running a country and running a business have a lot in common because you have to have targets that have vision and that's why what I'm doing is a way of talking about Nigeria the same way if you have a business proposal. So the only difference is that public service a lot of the powers are diverse. If you own your own business you can make your own decision or your own. Even at that you have stakeholders there are banks who will ask you whether you're making a good sense or otherwise they won't give you their money. Their employees will not be happy with you if you don't take care of them or motivate them you know. There are other regulators in the industry who are going to ensure that you comply with the law. Besides that there are competitors who are going to take the market from you. So it shouldn't be too difficult to convert from business to government provided that you understand that in business the aim is profit. Whereas in the public life the aim is human happiness when you're dealing with public life. But what people say about Nigeria diversity and all Nigeria is not as diverse as Brazil, India more diverse countries than us. And despite our diversity we have a lot of things in common. And those things that we have in common is that for example we don't like poverty. And so our parties say fair way to poverty. 30 years ago every Nigerian believed that we don't want insecurity. Nobody wants to be kidnapped. There's no ethnic or religious groups who say well kidnapping is okay.  So things that the government is dealing with there are things that we believe in common. There is no ethnicity or diversity in Nigeria that says that people want potable water some don't want it. So the issue of diversity is overplayed. And the issue of diversity where they want to steal money people of different ethnic and religious background somehow manage to forget their differences. So when you see FCC charge them to cause you will see that all religions are present ethnicity present. So I think that it just a way to excuse lack of visionary leadership. However, diversity in the workplace you remember in many countries I worked in a number of years in America and diversity in the workplace is part of what they will ask you to do. So diversity is not limited only to politics. Diversity just means that everyone has a voice and everyone's value is reflected and everyone sees themselves in the government and you could see that that's not difficult to do. What is difficult to do is to run a government based on three C's character, competence and courage. Like I said, I learned before I go to my next question it's sometimes very easy to say things you know talk about Nigeria and how to steer the ship when you're looking from the outside in as opposed to when you're sitting on that seat. But let's talk about the situations that we're facing now. Let's talk first about the fact that students are still home seven plus months gone and the government is yet to come to a negotiation proper with the NLC. Resident doctors, for example in Abiyastis have been on strike for a year. And of course as we speak right now TUC is threatening to go on strike. There seems to be a long list of people who are going on strike. I think no no it wasn't TUC-Pengasin. As we speak also the health sector is in some form of comatose and we see doctors running away to other parts of the country. Why do you think that we're dealing with all of this all at once? Some people say it's political even the government has said that NLC is somewhat political. But can we do better and why aren't we doing better? Yeah you see it's a very simple problem. We need the government. But we do have a government. We don't. Yes we do. We elected that government in 2019.  So you can pay an estate agent to get your accommodation you may not be able to sleep in it. You can buy a vehicle that doesn't work. So you can even buy a flight and the airline doesn't show up. So we voted an absentee government. There are people occupying those offices but they're not doing governmental functions. And you don't need me to say it. You just need to ask yourself anything that surrounds you that is the responsibility of the government. You will see immediately that it doesn't work. So that's why neighborhoods are coming up with their own gates to prevent robbers from robbing them. That's why people have security guards in their houses. That's why I suspect that you have a generator in your house. You look like someone who has a generator at home. So that have a generator at home is your own say I don't have a government because in countries where they have government they don't have generators at home. The fact that you are thinking or you know somebody in your family who has children in private school not because they particularly like that private school because there's no alternative. That's you saying there is no government. If I ask you to come and pay me a visit to my hometown as you leave Lagos by midnight you will say no I'm not doing it. That's you saying you don't have a government. So you don't wait until the person has resigned. Some people have abdicated duty. So why I'm raising all of this is not to be saucy on it. It's to let you know that the functions are not being performed. As a result of that, let me give you. The people who are in charge of paying teachers pay university lecturers, for example, are supposed to be the governing council of the university. That's why you have a governing council. And the president is just a visitor, representative of the minister of education or whoever I do enough to go and represent him. So what has happened? What has happened is that they don't let the governing councils operate. So the money for tertiary education is housed in the ministry of education. That's why you see many people during campaign who gum themselves to the body of the president tend to be minister of petroleum, minister of works, minister of education. They put them according to how much money there is in those places. But if you go around the world, the Department of Education in America does not have education money. It only has research and all of that. And when we come in, what we are going to ensure is that there is no money slush fund. Tertiary education, suburb, all of those things, they are not supposed to be. They're supposed to be where they're supposed to be used. But isn't that what the government is trying to do with the IPPIS? No. What the government is trying to do with the IPPIS is one, trying to hold the money and constrain the remuneration of lecturers. There is the aspect where they say they are looking for ghost workers and all the rest of it, but that can be done at level of the governing council of the university itself. But what they are trying to do, or you have seen it, that part of the money which the government accuses its own account or general of stealing is part of the IPPIS money. So what they are doing is just money grab. When I was in the university, in those days in the 90s, I spent seven years to do a four-year course from diverse reason, most of which has to do with ASU going on strike. Why? Education means at that time, Professor Aminu said, there was no money. ASU was right, but the government had no money to pay ASU. So ASU went, I said, okay, if you don't have money, we can find you the money. So ASU went and created the tertiary education trust fund. That education trust fund, which is now a tertiary education trust fund, is not government money. It's money taken directly from corporate taxpayers to fund education especially. And it was supposed to have trustees that are independent of the government. People you respect in society, they will be trustees on their account to be audited, and that money will be given to the universities and there will be no strike for life. What did the government do? When the money accumulated to about 75 billion, and they saw that there was so much money there, more than the regular budget in the ministry, they went overnight and amended the education trust fund decree and said the money now should be with the executive secretary under the minister. Do you see government coming to some agreement quickly with NLC, rather with ASU and of course all these other bodies who are going on strike before the elections happen? I've advised them to do so, but I have no good record of them listening to advice. I've told them one, get rid of Boko Haram now. I've given them a formula to get rid of Boko Haram. They're not following it. I've asked them to stop stealing of crude oil. If they stop it, more money will flow into the country. I've asked them to stop this nonsense. Over the name of the ceremony, they give to NNPC. That's nonsense. Three, I've asked them to stop lying that subsidy is taking six trillion. Subsidy is not taking six trillion. No, subsidy is taking about 900 billion to 1.1 trillion. Government people are stealing the rest. Ah, they're stealing the rest. A vessel that is 2,000 miles outside Nigeria is being recorded as offloading at Atlas Cove. So our consumption metrics, they don't look at, I can put on every pump, every pump in Nigeria, a meter that will aggregate how much we consume. They know. You could see the debate between, or the storyline between customs head. Both of them are lying. Just that one is embarrassed by the deeper lie of the other. So I don't know the day, this government can solve most problems before we are elected. My prayer is that problems get solved before we are elected. But they are not in the habit of doing so. Why? Because the people gang up together to put the government in place, want to make as much money as possible in the remaining months. So they're not going to do anything. Because we're almost out of time. I want to ask you something about the politics that you are in. You obviously are running on the platform of the SDP. And many people would wonder how much structure the SDP has in terms of across the country. That's one. Secondly, do you stand a chance against the two major political parties, especially the Pitao beef phenomenon? What's your take on that? Number one, we have structures everywhere. I have the largest number of delegates nationwide of all the presidential aspirants. I have more delegates. But the votes of your delegates is not what you're looking for, is it? No, I'm telling you that these two big parties could not get delegates from every word. I got delegates from every word. I have 1,708 delegates. Vote for me and I have the highest number of votes. So that puts pay to the issue of structure. That's number one. We had a election in Echiti, my party. They were buying votes. We were not buying votes. So if you have structure, why are you buying votes? Three, these big parties as they are called, they can't solve big problems. They are even the big problems of Nigeria. So I'm happy that they are big, but the dinosaurs were going to defeat them. Do you stand a chance against the Pitao beef phenomenon? Lastly, Pitao beef is my good friend. I don't want to talk about him, but he is campaigning, virtual campaign. It wasn't me. It's the Center for Journalism. What do you mean by virtual campaign? The Center for Journalism came up with reports. Scientific reports that 80% of their so-called supporters are bots, robots online. They are software. But it's their style. I don't want to criticize their style. I don't want robots to be here on my behalf. But maybe in their campaign calculation, they need to create a momentum of some sort. I wish them luck. I like the guy. I think I'm going to be a better president than him, but I wish him luck. But I think that in reality, we have a full study campaign. I want to be an underdog, but on election day, I want people to see that Nigerians can actually vote for someone with a clear thought, with a clear communication, and with the character to prove it. All right, Prince Adio Ali, Adio by your presidential candidates of the SDP has been speaking with us. We want to say thank you so much for being here in the studio. We wish you all the best of luck. Thank you very much. All right, thanks for watching. Well, we have to wrap it up here. But before we go, we will leave you with the major highlights from this week. I am Mary Anna Cohen. See you on Monday and have a great weekend. Don't forget that this whole thing is driven by the frustration of Nigerian businessman, the anger of Nigerians to use, the failure to see the progress Nigeria should make, take any indicator. Nigeria is at the bottom, literally at the bottom of just any indicator you can think. Why? Compared to our peers that don't have the factual endowments that we have, that don't have the human capital we have, it's clearly a leadership challenge. And the center of the problem is that it's leadership that is focused on transaction, tradeoffs. You don't vote for me. I come and scram the road that is in your neighborhood. You do this, you do that. Everything becomes me, myself, and I. Where are the transforming leaders? Because they won't think of today. They think of the future. And what I see happening in Nigeria today, these transactional leaders are dividing Nigeria as much as they can. They are creating fake news. They are trying to dig up some stuff, all kinds of sentiments that prevent Nigeria from going anywhere. Just so they can have power. I think that until we can get people who think long-term and the greater good of all, we're going to find that we're going to be mad in these transactions that ultimately hold us back. Our current status of unemployment in Lagos is extremely high. 66% of Lagosians are living on the poverty line. 20 million people are living on the Lagos transportation. It's a crash. We have a lot of issues in this state. And we think that the method of the current leadership is snail speed and it's focusing on gratification of individuals rather than attacking the problem, rather than facing the problem. And during our time, we are trying to critically analyze not to accept these situations in Lagos, Ukraine, and Senka, and the duty to perpetuate it. Now, and Shia Dibala and Netibubu will show the criminals telling each of the aspirants that traverse the length and breadth of Nigeria, conversing for votes, for delegates, like Shia Dibala and Netibubu, and every and all three of the people here, they are saying, he was here. He couldn't move. And he was moving all over the country. He was traveling. Even younger humans didn't have the same stamina. And tell me, even after the parties, when he became the candidate, tell me another person that's been moving around, consulting with all categories of people, these first groups, voters, and all that. And apart from all of these, these are things open to the public. Let me not tell you what's not open to the public. Which some of us are privileged to have, mainly for delegates within. If you work with a Shia Dibala, that's when you will know the man's style of working in early sleeps. And please, go and do a content analysis for the others of Europe, all the people that are close proximity to him that have been working with him.  Because of the brilliant nature of his working style in early sleeps. He's always pouring out books, meetings, developing ideas, thinking, looking at issues for all angles to early sleeps. He is an unworthy person. He cannot keep up that schedule of work for the last 30 years that I've been in. I will say the same thing tomorrow. After I've been in the fluke, is the fluke. How do you mean? And I'm in the fluke, and I'm saying that you don't sense of responsibility. Apart from not having structure or anything, the women in Nigeria's closely scrutinize everybody's antecedents and records of performance. You will see that people are being very, very significant. He moved a number for eight years. He will do these levels for eight years. Put their achievements on the table, on the vision in man like he in college. Put everything on it. You will see that people are being very, very significant. People are being very special to the women as the largely ignorant section of the populace. One. Two. The anti-communist leaders treat the lack of a section of the youth that really don't have a sense of history. That did not know when people were in office or when people who was in office and they don't know about their records to do a comparative analysis. These are the issues. And this all, as we go along, is confusing. We have seen such before in the past. And then we've now come to the little gritty of the dynamics of electionary and pattern of voting across the nation. Go and study it. You will see that it does not want the youth and cry on social media. Social media doesn't win elections because that's not why you vote. You vote in the telling books.


What do you think the word transformation means? It means to change, inform or appearance, which is actually pretty much what it also means in maths. When a shape is transformed, its appearance changes. It can be rotated, reflected, translated or enlarged. In maths, we learn about these four different types of transformation. In this video, we're going to look at rotation. Rotation involves turning a shape around a set point. This point is called the centre of rotation. A shape can be turned, a quarter turn, a half turn or three quarters of a turn, clockwise or anti-clockwise. However, no matter how many turns a shape undergoes, the centre of rotation and the shape will always be the same distance apart. Let's look at an example. Let's rotate this triangle through a 90 degree turn clockwise around the origin. Rotation questions always include an angle, a direction and a rotation point. 90 degrees clockwise means our shape is going to end up in this quadrant. But where exactly? Choosing a starting corner on the shape, so 2, 1. Point A is two along and one up from the origin. To rotate something 90 degrees, there's a really great trick. Switch the number of squares along and the number of squares up or down around. So it was two along and one up. It's now going to be one along and two down. And then do the same for the other two corners. So four along and one up becomes one along and four down. And two along and four up becomes four along and two down. We have our triangle, so join up the points. If the question wanted us to rotate it 180 degrees, then we would have just done each point twice. So 90 degrees to where it currently is and then another 90 degrees. So let's carry on rotating our triangle. Give these two questions a go. Pause the video, work them out and click play when you're ready. How did you get on? If you're lucky you'll be given tracing paper, so then you can just sketch the original shape, rotate your tracing paper around the correct amount and see where the new shape should be drawn. Easy peasy. One quick tip for using tracing paper, make sure it's always either horizontal or vertical. So then you can easily see when you've rotated the tracing paper 90 degrees. There are other techniques for rotating shapes by 180 degrees, but we think it's easy to just use the same method for 90 degrees and 180 degrees to keep things simple. Ok, so now we know how to rotate a shape around a point, but sometimes we might be given the starting shape and then a new rotated shape and be asked to find the center of rotation. The most important thing to remember is that the center of rotation must be the exact same distance from both shapes. Grab a ruler and a pencil and let's get started. Drawing the corresponding points A and A apostrophe with a straight line. Measure exactly halfway along the line and draw a dot. From this dot, draw a line that is 90 degrees to the line, so that the two lines form a cross. Now do the exact same thing but for the joining points B and apostrophe B, where the two lines crosses the center of rotation. So at zero negative one. Cool, now try one for yourself, pause the video and have a go. Did you get it right? The center of rotation is at two negative two. So finally, can you remember what three things we always need in a rotation question? Yep, that's right, the angle, direction and rotation point. Watch our other videos to learn about reflections, translations and enlargements. So if you have any questions, why not check out our Fusco app as well. Until next time.


if I could turn the whole thing. Hey everybody, I am Dr. Kiki and I am here at Portland Maker Faire, the mini Maker Faire that could, and I'm sitting here with Lily Safranski who is a software designer for these amazing LED art projects like the LED bra, which is mesmerizing. I've been told. So tell me a little bit about the art that you and your group have brought to Maker Faire. We brought a lot of different LED pieces that we do over in our maker lab, Lumina Lab, which is primarily me and my maker partner, Jesse Banks. And he does most of the hardware design and I do a large part of the software design. He also does a little bit of software. And together we usually come up with the different sort of form factor construction things like how to get the PCB into the bra. Right. And what we brought primarily today was the piece, our main piece, Stoikeya, which is hanging up over there in giant, maybe able to turn the computer. Can I turn the computer without breaking any connections? Hold on. Cables underneath. Well, while you're turning it, I'll describe it. Stoikeya, it's a big, large four foot in diameter hanging dodecahedron that has, there's a lot of people in the way. It has 20- There's a lot of people in the way. You can kind of see it down there. Got over 2,200 LEDs and thousands and thousands of lines of code and it runs all different crazy patterns. Each face of the dodecahedron has the iconography of one of the 12 Olympians, which are the main 12 gods in the Greek pantheon. Nice. And it's all laser cut acrylic that looks like stained glass and it's digital stained glass is what we call it. So each little pane of glass has some LEDs behind it and the code controls it. And it's always random procedurally generated code that never repeats and does all sorts of crazy patterns. And so together we designed it. I drew the pictures, I wrote all the code and we built it in our lab. It's beautiful and it really does. I've been looking at it and thinking how much it does look like stained glass.  How do you, what's the secret? How did you get it so amazing looking magic? That is the secret, that is the secret. You know, we have lots of work. Yeah. Like diffusing plastic and then just magic code and magic inside stuff. Mostly hollow. Mostly hollow, because it's just, so the dodecahedron, it's basically these, as I was watching them build it yesterday, it's these panels, individual panels that are all attached. Yep, we attached it with piano hinge. So they're all, there's 12 pentagons and they all attach with piano hinge on the corners. And then the code runs and inside we have a ventilation system like it's really hot and a lot of computer equipment, power supplies and lots and lots of LEDs. And so that's our primary thing that we came here but then we decided to bring out all the rest of our LED goodies. Because you're here, so bring it all out. Exactly. What inspired that project in particular? I saw something similar but not even quite the same at Burning Man last year. Okay. And I said to Jesse, hey, I wanna do this project. And I think I was imagining something more two dimensional. And he said, no, we're gonna do it, we're gonna make it bigger, we're gonna make it better. And so we just sat around on the computer and we were just sort of Googling like what can we do? And he wanted to do an obelisk shape. And then we saw the dodecahedron and it was perfect.  And so it was really important to get something like that. And the dodecahedron ended up being the perfect shape because 12 was just enough complexity. Yeah. And to like make it interesting without being overly complex, five sides was a really fun shape to work with the Pentagon. It was a really fun shape to work with. It has a very Greek theme. It is one of the five platonic solids being like, you know, Play-Doh's elements. And it took a lot of geometry to make. I ended up having to do so much geometry.  And then all of the software when they're, some of the software modes work on the shape as a whole where it'll have like snow falling down the shape. So each panel is connected into three dimensional space. And that was a lot of geometry, a lot of math or there's lines that sweep around it. It's a fit where sphere. And so they're like longitudinal lines. And so in geometry, the most famous book ever written in mathematics or geometry up until maybe Newton's book was Elements by Euclid, who was also Greek. And so I named it Stoikeia, which is the word elements in Greek is the name of the book originally in the Greek language. And then each of the pictures is part of the Greek pantheon. So it just has a very sort of Greek theme which really drove a lot of the inspiration with the end result of that. Yeah, and it is just beautiful. Moving on from that to other projects that Lumenola. Well, last question. Did this go out to the burn this year? It did not go to the burn. The burn destroys everything. I have a little mini one. I have a mini one that I did bring to the burn. Okay. You can see it's the one sitting down on the ground and it's broken. Okay. The burn destroys everything. The burn, the dust gets into everything. Yeah. When you're talking about little circuits and. Oh yeah. So I wasn't bringing the big one. I brought a little one and it broke because that's what happened. And I'm okay with that. It was a little on. You just expect it to happen. Right. Expect it to happen and so. And this went to the burn. This is kind of a little dusty. It's a little dusty still. I can see it. Yeah, it's a little dusty. There's playa out there. With stuff like building clothing. I mean, there's a lot of work now by different people about incorporating LEDs into clothing in different ways. Like what are the challenges? Again, geometry. The job is falling off of circuit boards. Oh, okay. We have flexible PCB in here. It is like the thinnest kind of PCB that you can get. And it's just flexible enough to be shaped. But if it were any more flexible and the LEDs pop off and the whole thing gets ruined. Which has happened with our earlier prototypes. So it's just a matter of finding the right materials that are going to work. Exactly. So it's nice because the bra itself has a lot of structure to keep it kind of rigid. But it's harder to get a lot of really elaborate LED stuff and clothing without having to consider the rigidity. We have a coat that we made for a fella who has had a lot of issues needing repairs because the coat goes through a lot more with being worn and being bent that the LEDs tend to break a lot. If you don't pack it super gently, if you shove it in, you'll pull it out and it'll be broken. And that's probably one of the biggest concerns dealing with clothing and batteries. And batteries. Cause I noticed you're walking around with a battery pack plugged into your pocket. So there's a long way to go before the LED clothing actually really takes off in a big way. Yeah, it's called the battery problem. And there are different methods for solving the flexibility problem, but the more flexible it is, probably the harder it is to make. Yeah. And make on a large scale. And make on a large scale. Maybe on one off pieces of clothing. Fine, but on large manufacturing ones. The hands are good, the process are good. Anything like elbows, knees, waist that take a lot of bending, you're going to have a lot of failure at those points. And I've seen full LED body suits and I always wonder, are you not breaking that? How did you do that? I'm going to follow you around until I find out. So I know you have to go, but where can people find information about Lumina Lab? The best place to go is to Facebook. You can find us just Lumina Lab PDX on Facebook. There's also our Facebook page for Stoikea Elements, which is a complicated thing to spell. So if you Google Facebook Lumina Lab PDX, I think you'll be able to find us. Or my name, which I guess is up in there. Yeah. It's up in the title for this YouTube video. Exactly. And then that is, I'm the only Louis Fransky out there. Nobody has a name like mine. So to be really easy to find. Good to be one of a kind. And you're making one of a kind work. Thank you so much. You are welcome. It's been really, really, really fun. I've never had more fun doing anything in my entire life than I have in making this. It's been really fun to finally see software that I've written come to life in such a tangible form. So much of what I've done has just fallen into the corporate cracks of my regular paying jobs. It's been great and fun, but it's been really great to see something so physically tangible. I love writing software. And I really hope that the stuff that I'm doing will inspire more people, more women to go into STEM and write software. It's incredibly satisfying for a career. It's get more girls, get more girls coding. Coding is the best girls. You should be software engineers is the best job ever. It's the best job ever. You pay a lot. You're super creative. Nobody really tells you how to do your job because then if they were going to tell you how to do it, they'd be doing it. Like they'll give you the job, but then you get to solve the problem of how to write the software. So it'll be a software engineer. It's great. Okay, software engineer, creativity, problem solving, and awesome good times. And good pay. And good pay. You'll have a good life also. Everything you want.  That's a downside. Yeah, you can, there are fixes for that too. Ups and downs, but thank you so much for talking with me. I really appreciate meeting you. Yeah, getting to meet you. So great. Thank you. Thank you. All right, you guys. This is Dr. Kiki signing off from Portland Maker Faire. Stay tuned for more.


There are only so many different facets of your own personality. For a screen icon to philanthropic entrepreneur, Paul Newman lived an extraordinary life. Get ready to step inside the magnificent Connecticut home where the actor made memories for over 40 years with his wife Joanne Woodward and their daughters. This charming 10-acre estate oozes history, character, and old Hollywood charm across multiple buildings, including Newman's carriage house. Before we tour the legendary actor's home, let me give you a quick recap of Paul Newman's incredible life. Born in 1925 in Ohio, early life wasn't always easy for Newman. Newman actually began studying economics before World War II sidetracked his school plans. He served in the Navy then attended Ohio University, only to reportedly get expelled. Newman studied theater and landed his first Broadway role in 1953, before making his film debut in the Silver Chalice. Over the next 50 years, those famous blue eyes would melt hearts across classics like The Hustler, Coolhand Lou Gooch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid, and more. Alongside his acting career, Newman had a passion for racing fast cars. But it was his philanthropy and entrepreneurship that truly made a difference. In 1982, Newman launched Newman's Own Food Company, which has donated over $500 million to charity over the years. Paul Newman. What a guy. After meeting actress Joanne Woodward in 1953 while working on a Broadway play, the two Hollywood stars married in 1958. They remained by each other's side for 50 years until Newman's death from cancer in 2008. This brings us to Paul Newman's magnificent Connecticut home. The iconic couple spent over four decades of their lives together. Tucked away on 10 sprawling acres on North Avenue and Westport, the main residence is an anti-colonial salt box, built in 1763, known as the Ebenezer Coley House. Newman, Woodward, and their daughters called this place home for over 40 years, filling it with laughter, memories, and plenty of family dinners. The original salt box section maintains gorgeous original details, like brick fireplaces, beamed ceilings, and stone floors. Imagine Newman relaxing by the living room fire after a long day on set. A more modern wing was later added on by famed Hampton's architect Kirby Grimes, echoing the salt box style while expanding the home to over 6,400 square feet. A transitional space links old and new wings through seven sets of French doors that open to a wisteria-covered patio and pergola, perfect party spa. Inside the home has six bedrooms, 5.5-pops, and plenty of common areas decked out in Paul Newman's classic style. From the country kitchen, updated with modern appliances, to a quaint floral bedroom upstairs flooded with sunlight, even a family dining room warmed by a central fireplace. Every inch of this home hosted the Newman family's joy for over four decades. And the Aspetuck River winds right through the 10-acre grounds, crossed by a charming footbridge leading to an old waterfall. The rest of this magical Hollywood history-filled property includes a 1900s carriage house with three beds and two baths. And there is another guest cottage where Newman's mother-in-law once stayed. Property also has two antique barns, including one reimagined as a swanky studio space. Melissa Newman, daughter of the late actor and philanthropist, had fond memories of life in this home, including sledding down the hill with her siblings atop their father's back. After 40 years of monumental Hollywood success, memories were made in this house. Now the entire package can be bought as a whole for nearly $10 million, or in two parts, for $7.5 million for the main house and $2.4 million for the secondary house. Before we wrap up this tour, answer this question for me. If you could pick any spots on Paul Newman's estate to chat over some lemonade, where would it be? By the barn? By the waterfall? Or maybe in his main house? Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Don't forget to hit subscribe and turn on your notifications so you never miss a video. I'm Keira the Vampire Tare. Follow me on Instagram to chat. And if you'd like to check out another tour before you go, stay tuned for this look into the homes of Marlon Brando. Bye! A lot of actors have become synonymous with Hollywood over the years, but few are quite as infamous as the one and only Marlon Brando. The late actor captivated movie-going audiences from the 50s all the way up to his death in 2004, ensuring he'll always be remembered as one of the all-time greats. But Brando didn't just work in Hollywood. He lived there for most of his professional life as well. One of the finest homes he ever owned on the California coast was a Hollywood Hills property he lived in back in the 1950s. A house he was so proud of, he became one of the first actors to ever provide the public with a tour via satellite link on the CBS talk show Person to Person in 1955. Known as the Laurel View Residence, this property is tucked right into the heart of Los Angeles, situated above Nicholas Canyon and boasting 270-degree jetliner views of the City of Angels. But this four-bed five-bath home is notable for more than just its views of esteemed properties nearby, like Frank Lloyd Wright's Stora Residence. It's also an architectural treat. Designed in 1926 by renowned architect A.F. Leashed, the home offers a relaxed quality with Spanish colonial styling. Outside, the mansion boasts unique circular tower structures and red-tile roof.  Out front, a winding stone path leads directly to a heavy antique front door that opens onto a tiled front foyer with set of stairs that steps down to the informal living area featuring a dramatic fireplace. As you can probably tell from this space, the property was built for entertaining. And with Brando as its owner, you just know it's seen its fair share of Hollywood soirees. There is even a second living room located on the very bottom floor of the home with carpet floors, built-in shelving, white walls, and large gated doors that lead directly to the outside. Brando used to use this space as his own personal bongo studio. Away from the gathering spaces, the home's remodeled kitchen offers sleek white cupboards and subway tile backsplash as well as polished wooden work tops, stretching from one wall to the other. As for the nearby sunlit dining room, it's simply begging to be put to use and has enough room for close to a dozen guests. Rounding out the ground floor offerings is a stunning library with a ton of built-in shelves. Moving upstairs, the bedrooms are perfectly sized and drowning in luxury, striking just the right balance between coziness, warmth, glam, and minimalism. What's less minimal is the master suite, which features amazing views alongside a sunroom annex that you just know the former Don Corleone put to good use. There's also a detached two-car garage on the property. The one thing this home is missing is a swimming pool. If you're gonna buy this place, it's probably not to get a few laps in. It's to become part of Hollywood history and stand in the very room where Marlon once famously took a photo in 1955 while holding his first Oscar. So if you've got a little over $4 million to spare, why not consider this offer that seems too good to refuse? That last home might have been Marlon Brando's nicest in LA, but it was far from his only one. During the 1950s and 60s, he spent the majority of his time living in a home opposite of Universal Studios. Built in 1939 and designed by pioneering African-American architect Paul Revere Williams, this home in the San Fernando Valley is where Brando was living while shooting the wild ones and on the waterfront. Set on a triangular lot that's nearly an acre large, this gated estate includes a 5,000 square foot main house with 16 rooms, including six beds and five baths. Spread out across two levels, a couple of those bedrooms are large guest suites and there's also a family room to enjoy with a brick fireplace as well as a wall of windows that lead out to a Sunday. The kitchen decked out in cherry wood covers and built-in stainless steel appliances partnered with some hardwood floors. Just a couple steps away from there is the home's dining room with its low-hanging chandelier and picture frame windows. The home also includes a relatively small home office with a fireplace, as well as a comfy den with tile floors and French doors that lead directly to the backyard. The amenities out back include a pool, barbecues, sports courts and an expansive deck. Pretty nice spot, right? Well, as nice as it is, it isn't where Marlon would spend his final days. For that, we have to travel to another of his former homes located on Mulholland Drive, a 12-bedroom residence that was originally built in 1954 with three bedrooms and four baths in slightly more than 3,000 square feet of space. While living here, Marlon was next-door neighbors with Jack Nicholson and the street quickly earned the nickname of Bad Boy Drive. Nicholson and Brando would remain neighbors for over 30 years until Brando died at the age of 80. In a tribute for Rolling Stone magazine, Nicholson remembered Brando as not only his neighbor, but one of his closest friends, writing, Hell, he's Brando, but we shared more than a driveway. As a neighbor, he was perfect, a great guy who was always there for you. He liked his space and so do I, but as he put it many times, we'd always be watching each other's back. After Brando passed, Nicholson lived up to this promise by spending five million dollars to buy Marlon's former home. According to reports, Nicholson did so with the intention of passing it on to Brando's children. Despite having at least 11 kids, none of them wanted to hold on to the place. Once Nicholson discovered his friend's home was overrun with mold, he demolished the place instead and turned it into a garden of frangipani flowers in 2006. But there was one other residence that Brando would frequent towards the end of his life. His home in French Polynesia, which is exactly where we're going next. While filming Mutiny on the Bounty in early 1960s, Marlon Brando fell in love with two things. His female co-star, Tarita Terripaya, and the island of her birth, Tahiti. French Polynesias are renowned for its stunning beauty and after this pair was married, they purchased a small island just off the coast of Tahiti known as Titi Aroya. There, they built a small house and a hotel while having two children. As time passed, Marlon and his wife would separate in the property they shared felled into obscurity. While occasionally holding himself up on the island as a recluse in his later years, Brando would envision turning this spot into an eco-resort, a self-sustaining luxury environment for guests. He wouldn't get the chance to bring this idea to life, but his children would. In July of 2014, Brando's descendants renovated the entire property and transformed it into one of the world's most stunning luxury beach hotels known simply as the Brando. This resort uses sustainable energy systems such as salt, water, air conditioning, solar energy, organic gardens and so much more to leave as small and environmental impact as possible. What's more, there's also research facility on site with special accommodations for resident scientists. When it comes to your everyday guests, there are 31 bedroom villas to choose from all of which are very spacious over a thousand square feet of space. Each of these villas looks out onto the ocean and has its own private pool with a secluded beach area. With the Brando being all-inclusive, meals and drinks, including most alcohol is already taken care of and there's even 24-hour dining services available with delivery directly to your villa. Each guest receives a bicycle upon arrival to explore the island in a daily 50-minute massage. Each guest receives a bicycle upon arrival to explore the island in a daily 50-minute massage. There are also several water activities to participate in such as swimming to Mermaid Bay, snorkeling over reefs, stand-up paddle boarding and scuba diving. But if you prefer to stay on land, you can go for a hike, birdwatch or a search for turtles. If a little R&R is more of what you're after, then head over to the spa which is located in the heart of the jungle. Considering the natural beauty of the spa I'm kind of surprised Marlon Brando ever decided to leave and I wonder what he'd think of the place if he could see it now. One thing's for sure, whether it was in California or the Pacific, the man knew how to pick a beautiful home. Alright, that's going to bring this latest house tour to a close. Thanks so much for watching and before you head out consider answering the following question. If you could be next door neighbors with one world famous actor, who would it be? Let me know who you'd want to form a friendship with as strong as Jack and Marlon had in the comments down below. Otherwise, like, subscribe and turn on those notifications. My name's Cara the Vampire Slayer and I'll see you all in another video. Bye!