Hello everyone and thank you for coming. My name is Kim in Nart and I work at City Network hosting. And my name is Tobias and I also work at City Network hosting. Who are we at City Network. We started at a small Swedish company based in Kastrona Sweden in 2002 and then it was mainly webb hosting and that's pretty much our legacy. Nowadays we're running data centers at 30 different locations in 2009. We started our service called City Cloud and in 2014 we switched to run that on open stack completely and today we are I think more than half of revenue is based on open stack. Shortly a bit about what we've done in City Network. We made a switch to be more focused on enterprise solutions. That's why we took a lot of ISO certifications. And I'm here to talk a bit about the case we encountered. You might get this question a lot. People tend to say if you're in the health care industry you can't utilize public cloud. If you're government you can't utilize public cloud. If you're in bank and finance you can't use public clouds. And these industries are very interested in scalability flexibility efficiency as well and not to mention the cost efficiency they can get from it. So they are very interested but a lot of people industry experts say you can't use public clouds that's not allowed with your regulations. And that was something we actually encountered at a similar seminar exactly a year ago. So we thought challenge accepted. Let's build a cloud where you can actually have a public cloud that are compliant with all rules and regulations. So. We built compliant ISO service. We're focused on bank and finance health care and government. Our case that we encountered was an insurance company. One of the largest insurance companies in Sweden. So we they have patient records as well as insurance records. So we got the big favor of being regulated both by the bank and finance authorities and by the health care authorities. Since we have patient data in it as well and we provide a complete pay as you go is. But it is completely compliant. Vi kan just quickly go through. We are certified for the bank and finance. Now we are Swedish companies. So we are under Swedish authorities but it's comparable to different standards all over the process of doing this is very much similar. If you're in Europe if you're in Asia or if you have the similar way of authorities you have pretty much similar control mechanism. Patient privacy is protected by law in all these countries. So the process is quite similar there as well. OK. Quick show and introduction on what do we actually provide the customer. Yes. I will start off by describing our infrastructure or the infrastructure of one single data center. Was that direction. Sorry. This is an overview of our infrastructure in one data center. We are running on all nodes. We are running red hat enterprise in the bottom. And we are all in kilo release audio distribution in all the modules. Open stack modules. We have the compute nodes that are running Nova and KVM as hypervisor and the network nodes running neutron and the non distributed version of neutron. We have the control nodes that runs all the other APIs that we are providing there among the keystone. When it comes to keystone we are using version 3 and we are using separate keystone for every single data center for security reasons. Eeeh. Because if one data center is compromised we don't want to risk that another data center will be compromised. Since they share tokens. For storage we are using NFS. That is that has extremely good performance. But even though the performance is very good we are looking in for other solutions as well. SEF for example. Svinns. We see that we can get problems with the scaling and distribution with NFS. We have chosen not to use horizon as cloud management platform so we have built our own. The reasons for that was flexibility. We would like to do whatever the customer need to have and ease of use. We sometimes feels that horizon is a little bit too techy to use for a lot of our customers at least. So yes and I will. Try to do a short demonstration of this management platform. Let's hope that network connection works here. OK so the purpose of this demo is just to get some servers up and be low balance. So let's start by creating a network and please be a little bit patient if we have some latency to Sweden here. OK. I choose data center. We choose Stockholm. Here we have made it a little bit simpler than in. Horizon. We have chosen to summarize everything in one package create network. So we create router and subnet and all kind of all those things automatically for the user. But the advanced options are here if you have that expertise. As I said some latency. The polar bears are in the way. Thanks. Then we have our network and we more forward to just create security groups that have the correct security for our servers from the beginning. And make sure that we edit in the same data center. That was quicker. And we move on to adding a new rule because I was thinking that we were going to show a web page. So we have to allow some web traffic. We have some pre-configured rules here that I'm using. Now the polar bears are in the way again. OK. So now we have our network and security group and rules. So let's start. Creating the servers. We choose which data center to put them in. Even here and even here we have summarized the whole flow of creating a server from Horizon into one interface and have made some things a little bit more simpler. And we also think that is really important for our customers. Since we are running a fully pay as you go kind of cloud, it's important to have the cost visible for the customer all the time. We boot from an image and we choose a bunter for this case. And here we have implemented some packages feature that are using cloud init to post install these packages. And we choose Lemp here. We have also created a little flexible. Flavor shows her that on demand creates up a flavor if the flavor is not there when we create the server. OK, so let's make sure that we have the correct network. And add the correct security group and do some shortcuts here. Show them a bit the cost change, I think. Yeah, that's correct. When we update here, it's automatically updated in the box. So that they. They always has a view of how much their servers are going to cost them. OK, so did I hit? OK, so in a couple of seconds we will have three went to VMs running here. OK, they are on the way up. So let's move on to creating the load balanser. Which is using load balansers as a service. And we also think that we have made this a little bit more easy. Then. It is in horizon. Here we have some advanced options as well if we will like to change anything. Just make sure that we put it on the correct network here and that we are assigning a new floating IP to load balanser. And when the load balanser is created in probably a couple of seconds, we will just add the service that we created on that network so they will be in the load balanser. So let's put them in here to be in the pool and save that list. And hopefully that IP will answer with some kind of web page. Oh yeah, it did. Thanks. So I hope that was just a short demo and I hope it shows that it's possible to do things otherwise than horizon does it. And this was important for us also since we are running separate keystones for each data center and have multiple locations in one interface. So yeah, thanks. OK, and well, you might think that's not something new. Other people, other companies do, of course, public cloud as well. But what we did was that we gave make a guarantee. To our end customers that this is compliant, full compliant with all laws and regulations they face. There is a bit to trickiness to making this, actually. We are right now betting our entire company on the fact that we can provide a full compliant IIS. That's, I think, something that bigger companies have an issue with, because there are a few things you actually need to think about when making this compliant IIS promise to your end customers. It's not you that needs to be compliant as a provider. You need to ensure that you follow the rules that are for them. To say this, we as a public service IIS provider have rules and regulations that rule us. But they are not nearly as tough as the rules and regulations that rule an insurance company. But we need to act as we were an insurance company in order to provide this compliance. Otherwise it wouldn't work. This is why there are a bit of a trick issues, bin the media for instance. This is a phrase I usually say, Yale's Trump's fines. And what do I mean with this? You need to have a certain type of organization. The data needs to be stored because a search warrant from the local police and they can confiscate data. And the local police doesn't really care if the data is from a customer abroad. They can confiscate it. But that's not all. You need to have the legal jurisdiction of the owners as well. Because back to the fact, Yale Trump's fines. So local law that can put you in jail will always grant you access to things abroad, even if you have an agreement. Microsoft has shown that this is a tricky part because a court in the US said you need to provide us with all information you have in Europe. And Microsoft said, but we have a separate company in Europe. And the court said, but you are the ruling body of that company. You need to provide us that information or we hold you in contempt and put you in jail. This is a tricky part. And of course, it's not worry. The risk is very minimal that this happens. But still it's not within the rules to take this risk for these type of companies. You have the same with the legal jurisdiction of administrators. We had a Swedish bank who outsourced administration to South Africa and the South African government said we have a search warrant, give us access to the bank records. And the people said, but we work for Swedish company and they say, we don't care. Give us access or we put you in jail. And then Yale Trump's fines. So losing your job or you losing your freedom. You will choose losing your freedom. Are you losing your job over freedom? So that's pretty much the fact. We have. Then we have another issue that makes it hard for big companies, but that's accountability. If a nurse or a medical professional looks at your hospital records just for curiosity curiosity. They don't have a specific need to look at your record. A medical reason to do it. They will be severely fined or go to Yale personally. There are personally accountable for not looking at medical records that are relevant, not relevant for them. This is a fact that they face a personal risk by breaking confidentiality rules regarding your hospital records. If I am outsourced IT administrator, all I risk personally is that my boss will yell on at me because it's my company that takes all the risk. Not me personally. And this is why health care says that it's impossible to use public cloud. This is why we need to sign a way. A waiver that all employees at city network will face the same personal risk concerning confidentiality. As up employed professional at the client we serve. Otherwise it wouldn't work. We need to have the same risk and liabilities as if we were full time employed. This you can imagine that going to Amazon and Microsoft and saying we want you to take this would be a bit tricky. Lawyers would fight them some time for this, but that's the way. Luckily I am at the top end of the boat. I'm just a security officer. It will be the other one. No. Then we have, of course, something you need to think about more when you make in compliance. And this is the basics of information security, confidentiality, integrity and availability or what all cloud providers do. Värver och väl. Det var excellent. Varier, providerings. This is pretty much why you want to use cloud. What you add on top of it is pretty much a lot of logging, because you need to have this non reputability, this no authenticity. You need to be able to provide audit logs that you can provide a forensically sound record, because when it comes to bank and finance, all rules regarding this has to be that you can prove that who actually said who and what to which individual. What were promised, what were. So what we need to think about in the infrastructure perspective is of course that no one is in and manipulated the records. It's just a sound record. So when the applications say we told this customer this and he acted like that on a financial advice, then they can dispute it from my infrastructure perspective. We didn't make a man in the middle possible. That's what I infrastructure needs to do. So from open stack perspective is pretty much debug equals true on everything and send it to remote log server. So we got this question from them. Is it possible to provide a true multi tenant? Because our business model with pay as you go wouldn't be possible if you can share the hardware between customers. Then difficult. We it won't be very cost effective. We can of course price it very high, but then we would be insanely more pricey than Amazon and the other ones. And that's not the part where you're looking for it as well. They're looking for similar pricing models. So do we really need physical isolation for all this high compliance industries? The answer is in the rules that no, there are nowhere in the rules and I've looked at lot of rules all over the world. I usually say I'm chief security officer means I'm a rare tech guy who's not allowed to do any tech stuff anymore. I'm just allowed to read the rules and regulations from all the world. But there are no rules and regulations to say that you absolutely need to have your own physical hardware for information. It needs to be separated and it needs to be controlled so no unauthorized people can access it. So what do you think? Is it possible to trust the logical separation enough to do it? Would you do it? Well, I usually say my biggest argument is it's always a matter of risk. Now system is full proof and actually the laws and regulations tend to understand this. You cannot build a full proof system. It's always a risk. Everything can be hacked. Everything can be broken. But if we look at the difference in the risk between a logical separated and a physically separated thing. We know that it decreases. KVM is getting better and better on security. Open stack is getting better and better on security. Any members of the open stack security team here? No one. OK, they're doing a good job. They're actually getting a lot better. The all hypervisors are getting better. The thing is the cost of having your own hardware is increasing compared to using cloud. So we have one trend that's steadily increasing and one trend that's steadily decreasing. The most important thing is use the money in a security sense in the right way. I usually compare it to injuries in traffic. The most important thing of reducing injuries in traffic. It's not better roads and it's not airbags, seatbelts and safer cars. It's driver's license. How to reduce personal injuries in traffic. The best way is educating the drivers. By far. It's similar. You gain a lot. It costs really, really much to have separate hardware. And you don't gain that less of a risk. You reduce the risk a lot more by putting that money into educating your stuff, not to save their passwords under the keyboards. That's something but like I said, we are open for that debate actually because it's not been tested in court yet. So that wouldn't say it will be interesting if you look at what are the attack vectors that you need to be aware of. That's actually, well, something that differ if you have separate hardware and the thing you're afraid of is, of course, the breakout hypervisor, the rogue VM, a VM that we don't control that can access other VMs on the machine. You can, of course, attack both connections between other virtual machines and the other virtual machines itself. And you can, if you can gain access from a virtual machine to the hypervisor because we are an infrastructure provider. We don't know what the customers are doing here. So we don't really fully can fully understand what are the customers doing on their own machines. And that's how it's supposed to be. But that doesn't prevent, that's the way that we need to really rely on the security of the hypervisor in order to sleep well at night pretty much. But the thing is what we have done with our high security is to reduce risks by having it semi private. We don't take anyone in just as long as they pay with a credit card. We have a public cloud that's totally public that we do that. But we try to be a bit industry specific. So we tend to group insurance companies together, banking together, because then they share a risk and they have a common goal, not to post web pages that are abusive and will run a lot of DDoS attacks and these things. And they tend to know that they don't want to hack each other because that would be arms race they wouldn't like. So we want to group them, they share a risk. That's how you minimize it. And then we rely heavily on Red Hat and KVM knowing that they have a secure setup. And this is what we use for auditability as well. We use the Red Hat templates for audits. So they provide today a very good way of knowing that you reach a good certification and some way that you actually control this. So it's just a matter of adding extra logging and remote sys logs and keeping track on that you actually log what you need to do. Yeah, thank you. Any questions? So essentially what did you have to do beyond vanilla OpenStack in order to be able to make that commitment to be compliant and go to jail if it breaks beyond segregating your keystone repositories? Actually that's the interesting part in the vanilla OpenStack. It's good enough. OpenStack is good enough today. So that's good. The security groups are doing auditability. They're doing published security vulnerabilities. They're doing penetration testing. So we rely on the community growing and we don't see any trend that it will decrease in people. So no it's good enough. What you need to do is on the organization side. Sure. So you're sleeping well at night and you think OpenStack has your back. I'm sleeping really well at night. Ask our CEO. You might say it's a different thing but no I'm actually quite safe. I think we are in good hands. I think it's recording. Did you do something about patches or something like this? The continuous integration for all the regulations that we have to do for the vulnerability or something like this? Yes, actually you need to look at the operating system on the hardware itself. So that has to be in a specific control mode. Then we rely a lot on the documentation that Red Hat provides us. We're using Red Hat Enterprise all over. And we follow the scheme and regulatory commitment. Because the thing is that bankings and these things. They use this operating system themselves in their own personal infrastructure. So if we follow the same schedule and same processes that they do with that. It's well it's the same. Red Hat, just running OpenStack, is still a Red Hat machine. So the regulations are on the hardware and the software operating system of the machine itself. Not that much OpenStack itself. Anyone else? Do any of your customers have requirements on you to encrypt their data while it's stored in the cloud? And if so, how do you do it? Yeah, actually, we encrypt all traffic. So that's done on the network level of course. And we ensure that encryption. Then it's pretty much up to customer. At the OS level, we leave it up to the customer. We only provide the infrastructure. So then it's to the customer that they want to decide. Is this data regulated or not that you need the encryption? But they are, all APIs are open. So they can put up firewall as a service. We have a firewall image. They can put up a VPN if they want to. But that's, yeah, the customers themselves that needs to decide. But all traffic between our data centers on the layer two level is encrypted by us. Yeah, half and half. At least one big or biggest insurance company, at least dem trusted us enough with this. We are ISO certified, so we have a third party audits checking that we actually live up to all the security standards we try and say we provide. Then of course you need to trust someone. Your outsourcing person is still a matter of trust in the end a bit. So this is very young and this is very untested. But I think a lot of having great flexibility, all these things that they're talking about here at OpenStack and hospitals and banks are crying because they can't take that advantage. I think that motivates them as well. How can you handle efficient packing of virtual machines into the physical host? Or do you maintain a certain ratio when they request a new science? Good monitoring process, actually. Yeah, that's actually how it is. And some flavors are just matched with some nodes. So it's quite now easy as that. I apologize, I was not here in the beginning of the presentation. Can you summarize which security appliances are you using and are you offering all of them to your customers as a service which they can purchase from you? We're actually, what we're offering is not as much appliances. We're offering compliance with banking, health care and government. And then it's up to us to have secure appliances itself. So the customers, they don't, they have no say in hardware. We decide hardware. But you mentioned that they can, you can offer them like a firewall as a service. Yes, and that's the different ways we have one firewall service that's called Clavister and we can offer the APIs in OpenStack like brocade. Yeah, so that's. And the rest of appliances are stuff that you use to be compliant. But can you mention specifically? We use a lot of hardware from Dell and we use Cisco. So that's a lot what we build our infrastructure. Thank you. To just say with hardware. Att. Actuelly, when we looked at this, all the big vendors have good certifications, good documentation, and that's what you need to be able to provide. And no one was a lot worse or a lot better than other one. They had good. De, the big vendors of hardware and service today, there are quite few of them nowadays. De har god dokumentation, så du kan provide det. De usually certified this with third parties as well. Så. Det's god. Ja, folkomplans. Because like I said, we try to build our data center similar like the customer would build their own internal data center, and then we can get by by de compliance rules. En av de kursens. If you come up with more questions, we will be in the. Mingle at the marketplace, I guess, later on. Så just because of them or. Take a card here and contact us whenever you want. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Bye-bye M1 what's up money geeks mr v here welcome to another video guys so in today's video we're going to take a look at how to transfer your assets from M1 finance to webo so before we get started guys if you're new to the channel we talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth so if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button any notification bell so you don't miss out on new content so in the past guys actually did a video on how to transfer your assets from Robinhood to webo so i'm going to hook that video up here so you can definitely go check it out so today we're looking at how to transfer assets from M1 finance to webo i know you're probably just like but why mr v M1 finance is so great why are you leaving let me explain the reason why i'm transferring my my stocks from M1 finance to webo uh number one is because webo gives me an opportunity to earn interest with my stocks so i did a video about the webo stock lending program if you haven't already checked it out i'm gonna hook it up here so let me explain a little bit about the program so when you buy your stocks and you're holding them long term if you enroll in the stock lending program what webo does is they lend out the stocks and then collect interest from investors that borrow the stocks and then they share that interest with you so not only are you getting your growth or you're getting your dividends getting paid but you're also getting interest from your stocks that are being lent out and the good thing is it's not like the stocks are being lent out there you have any risk of losing them no the stocks are still your stocks you can sell them whenever you want so if you choose to sell them right now when the market is open you can definitely go ahead and sell them and that's it you're out of the program so it's not like your stocks are at risk of anything so um here hey we talk about earning money so this is an opportunity for me to end money and add another level of money ending so if i have our a stock that i bought low when it grows i'm getting growth from that stock right it goes from let's say ten dollars to twenty dollars if it's a dividend stock i'm getting paid dividends either monthly or quarterly right and then add another level of gains to that particular stock if webo uh lend out that stock you get interest paid to you so if meaning you have the same stock same amount of stocks you have your portfolio in m1 i have mine in webo you would get growth you'll get dividends i'll get growth i'll get dividends but i'll get interest from lending out my stocks and you will not get it so i want to take advantage of that as a matter of fact i'm enrolled in the program and i'm going to do a separate video showing you guys how much i'm made by just enrolling my stocks in the program i have about 50 different stocks in m1 finance so i'm anticipating that if i move all of that into webo i'm going to make a really good amount of interest monthly and the interest is actually paid monthly which is awesome so um so let's jump on the computer and i'm going to show you uh step by step how to transfer from m1 finance to webo um so you're going to need three things obviously you're going to need your m1 finance account um you're going to need a webo account if you don't have a webo account i'm going to put a link in the description definitely check it out so if you sign up for webo you get two free stocks not one two so the first one value between two dollars and and two hundred and fifty dollars and the second one is between twelve dollars and fourteen hundred dollars so if you don't have a webo account i'll put them in the description below so definitely go check them out so let's jump on the computer and do some transfers into um webo this is a very easy process guys so log into your webo web um platform and then go under uh transfer stocks once you go on the transfer stocks the first thing that you want to do is um select um your account type so if you have multiple accounts it's going to show up um on the way say choose receiving account that you that would be the webo account that you want the the stocks to go into the next thing is that you choose your broker so here if i choose a broker in this case i want to choose m1 finance um it's just going to show up there and then the delivery account type it's individual so it means by individual if you have a joint account that's going to be an issue so you want if it's you're coming from an individual account from uh m1 finance you want to put it in an individual account in in webo so once you choose that then the next thing it would be so the individual account type the next one would be your delivery account number so this is where you have to go into m1 finance so we go into m1 finance if you go under um your account settings you go on the accounts and then you're going to see your account number so your account number is going to be right there copy the account number um and then so copy the account number and bring it over to bring it back over to webo and then enter the account number in in webo once you enter the account number um it's going to ask you if you want to do a partial you want to do a full transfer so in my case um i'm doing a full transfer i'm not doing a partial transfer and then you acknowledge what you that you you you're okay with them going and so if your portfolio is um is over two thousand dollars um webo would pay your transfer fee which is awesome but if your portfolio is less than two thousand dollars and then that transfer fee is going to be on you so once you have that the next step you do is just click um submit so submit transfer and then webo is going to ask you for confirmation and then when you confirm that you're transferring the account and then the next thing is that process is just going to start and and then um you're going to get notification through email that webo has initiated the process of importing your or transferring your assets from um m1 to webo which is which is awesome so um then at that point that's it all you have to do is just wait um it usually takes between three to seven business days when i did my robin hood it took about i think about three or four business days um but you should be very careful during this process please don't execute in an m1 finance don't place any trades in m1 finance because it's going to delay the process so that's that's it guys that's just how simple it works webo is going to do their thing behind the scenes and next thing you know all your stocks are going to be over in in webo and you start earning some interest um the reason why i'm transferring is not because i think m1 finance is a bad platform no it's an excellent platform that's just a i i think where i am right now my maturity as an investor m1 finance doesn't make the need um i'm looking for an opportunity where if i see the market moving moving down i can jump right in sell some stocks wait to go down i can buy right back m1 finance doesn't give me that options um i can trade extended hours if i hear something happening with a company they something new is coming out um i can trade extended hours i can buy that asset early in the morning before the market's even open which um m1 finance doesn't provide that for me and again i get interest earned on my stocks that i hold in in in in webo that uh m1 finance doesn't provide for me so that's the reason but if you're just a starter if you're just looking um where you can put your money and just let it ride that you don't worry about buying and selling and balancing your portfolio and all that good stuff m1 finance is definitely the spot for you but for me i'm mature enough for to the point where m1 finance doesn't make my need so that's why i'm out of here so question of the day guys what do you think about m1 finance do you think it's like an excellent platform what do you think mr v webo is the bomb let me know in the comment section again guys don't um if you don't have webo i said i have a link in the description below that's i'm gonna affiliate with webo so definitely use that link get yourself two free stocks again one between two and two hundred fifty dollars and the second one between twelve and fourteen hundred dollars definitely clean it so um as always guys like share subscribe youtube tells me that 90 percent of you guys watching haven't already subscribed to my channel so definitely go ahead and hit that subscribe button and as always stay motivated


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I'm the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man. And I'm here to read the funnies to you happy boys and the funnies. Yes boys and girls, it's comic weekly time.  Right out of the pages of Puck the comic weekly straight into your living room, he or friend the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man. Little Miss Addy, how are you today? Yesterday, I went on a picnic out in the country. Fine, thank you. And I saw the most beautiful butterflies. I didn't know that butterfly flies. No, not that kind of butterfly. Butter can't fly. Anybody knows that. Oh yes, the ones with beautiful wings. And we collection the butterflies. Well, I think that's a nice idea. And at night. Oh, he did? Mm-hmm. It's bigger than a butterfly. It's the lunar month. Oh yes, yes, I know them. They're a light bluish green. But when they die, the blue coloring fades away and they become white. Oh, they do? Yes, but a lunar month would look lovely in your collection. Well, that's very interesting. 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You got a nerve asking me a thing like that. First picture, bottom row, he slaps the sergeant to the face. You lazy, good for nothing, chow hound? He knocks the sergeant to the floor. Hey! He jumps on him. It's all I can do to control myself. Hey! I try to be kind and understanding. And this is the thanks I get. Now get out of here before I lose my temper. And last picture, Beatle walks by the sergeant who is lying on the ground. The sergeant shakes his head. At least he knows how I feel about him now. Beatle says to himself, I think I'll ask him for a promotion tomorrow. How is he treating a sergeant like that? Well, I don't think Beatle was thinking about getting a raise in salary. I think he enjoyed beating the sergeant up. That way he got even with the sergeant for all the things the sergeant had done to him. Oh, used to beat the sergeant? Yes, that's what I think. Well, and that's why he wants to ask him for a promotion again tomorrow so he can beat him up again. Yes, I think so. Oh, that's Beatle. He's some fellow. Yes, he is. Well, now let's turn over the page and go past little Iodine and Prince Vell who's having an audience with King Rory, one of the famous kings of Ireland. Turn over that page and here on page five is Roy Rogers. Oh, yes. And you remember, walked into a trap that was set for him at the covered bridge. Yes, he fell through a trap door and was knocked unconscious. And then a moment later, Ham Hawks, the outlaw who had captured Dangerfield, owner of the carnival, rode up. And Hawks said that he was going to shoot Roy. I wonder if he will. Well, let's read now and find out. Here we go with Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys. Hi-yip-yo, now here we go with Roy and Trigger. Hi-yip-yo! Roy lies unconscious on the bridge. Ham Hawks, gun in hand, and walks toward him. Dangerfield shouts, Stop! You can't do this! It's murder!  Hawks stops beside Roy, raises his pistol.  Right, watch out! The gun goes off in the excitement, but Mrs. Roy Hawks shakes Dangerfield off last picture top row.  I need sucker! At this moment, Roy opens his eyes and through Day's eyes sees Hawks going for Dangerfield. Roy pulls his gun, first picture bottom row and snaps. All right, here, Hawks, freeze! Rogers, you... Don't move! Hawks lifts his arms.  Dangerfield strikes a dramatic pose and boasts My strength was as strength of 10, Roy, because my heart is pure. Meanwhile, at the camp, Wildwood O'Dowd is guarding the two captured outlaws that Roy left in her hands. They've been sitting in the sun. Odd Rock Higgins asks for a drink of water. Wildwood O'Dowd scoops a cup of it out of the pail. Then goes to him and holds out the cup. Well, come a little closer. I can't do nothing with my arms and legs tied. Wildwood takes a step closer. Last picture, Higgins leans forward as though to drink from the cup.  Yeah, I guess that takes care of her. These other two are going to escape. That means more trouble. Yes, it does, because Roy thinks these two outlaws are tied up safely. Oh, I wonder how this will ever turn out. Well, maybe next week we'll find out about it. Now let's turn over the page. Oh, and look here on page 6, love him. So do I, so let's read Uncle Remus right now. Here we go with Uncle Remus and his tales of Brure Rabbit. Say the magic words with me. Hippity hoppity, make it a habit. They give us music for old Brure Rabbit. Uncle Remus says, when Mami Bami tells Brure Rabbit's fortune, she generally hits it on the head. Brure Rabbit is having his future told by Mami Bami, who does it by feeling the bumps on Rabbit's head. That's called phrenology. First picture, she says, I see by the phrenology bumps on your head that you is going to get a big surprise. I is? Yes, sir. This here big lump says it's coming fast and quick. I is? Yes, sir, Brure Rabbit. Tonight you is here for a big surprise. Well, well, that's good news. I better get going. Last picture, top row Brure Rabbit goes out of her tent. Thanks for the phrenology, Mami Bami. I don't want to keep my big surprise waiting. And he dashes down the road. First picture, bottom row, he says. Yeah, I wonder if I'm going to get my big surprise before I get home. He looks back over his shoulder to see if he can see his surprise and then crashes into a tree and all goes black. And then came the light. Several hours later, Brure Rabbit comes to. He's lying in bed and Old Dark Crane has taken his pulse. Brure Rabbit groans. What happened? You did. Nice prize to see that you is 11th. Last picture, Brure Rabbit groans. I guess that's the big surprise. I was injured. And Uncle Remus says, the reward is often in what didn't happen. Yes, little old rabbit. Brure Rabbit expects to get a wonderful surprise and instead... He forgets to look where he's going and bangs into a tree. Well, that was some surprise. Yes, and Mami Bami said he would get it that night. Well, he did. I guess that's the way most of the time with fortune tellers. Yes, from my own experience, I would say that nothing I was told that would happen to me ever came true. Nothing good there is. Me neither. But I can tell you right now, if you'll pick up the first page of the second section, we can read Dagwood and Blondie. Oh, and I'm anxious to read that because Dagwood does such funny things. Yes, he does. Well, here we go. On the first page of the second section of Puck the Comic Weekly with Dagwood and Blondie. Ramaphoo, Ramaphum, Zim, Zim, Zombie. Conjury music for Dagwood and Blondie. Blondie tells Dagwood. Dagwood, the professor is coming today to give Cookie her first violin lesson. Oh, good. I have to shop. Can you take care of things while I'm away? Oh, sure. Now stop worrying, Blondie. Remember, I'm an old musician myself. A short time later, the doorbell rings. Dagwood goes to the door and opens it. And last picture top row in comes the professor of music. Well, professor, welcome. Your pupil's all ready. Grazie, grazie, grazie. First picture, second row, the music professor sits down in front of Cookie. Buongiorno, Cookie sits down in front of the music professor. Huh? She looks at him.  He's wearing baggy trousers, a black coat and a big, flourishing tie. And he has big, bushy eyebrows, a long nose and a big, big, curly mustache.  This is the front and this is the back of it. Uh-huh. Why do you blow it? You earn no, no, darling. This, you don't play with the mouth. You play with the arm. Oh, you mean you blow on the arm? Oh, no, no, no, darling. This is what you do. Second picture, second row, Dagwood is upstairs rummaging in the attic. Daisy, the dog, watches him curiously. Daisy, I bet you you never knew I played trombone in our school band. Now, where did Mama hide it? Ah, here it is. Dagwood trots down the stairs and into the living room. So, you see, Cookie, you play it with the bow, which is this long stick.  I love it, I love the swagger. The scared professor is lying on the floor. First picture, third row, he gets up. Uh, come on. Bicks up his violin and music muttering to himself. Hey, somebody, come on. Hey, professor, you mind if I sit and watch the lesson? Maybe I can learn something. The professor says nothing, sits down in silent anger, grits his teeth. Now, professor, don't pay any attention to me. You just go ahead as though I weren't here. Last picture, third row, the professor holds up a sheet of music, looks at Dagwood angrily, then points to one of the notes and says to Cookie, Now, that's what we call a full note. First picture, bottom row, Dagwood jumps to his feet, puts his trombone to his mouth, and...  And the professor is on the floor again. Dagwood smiles. A full note! And I am a fool, way up to my ears of these interruptions. A moment later, the door opens, and in comes Blondie, and out goes the professor without saying a word. Blondie turns to Cookie. Did the professor give you your lesson, Cookie? No, but he taught Pop a lesson.  Blondie takes one look at him. Whom do you call to remove a trombone from a person's neck? Dagwood gives her a thunderous look. Try a plumber! A lesson for budding ears. Yes, you bet he did. And now he's all tied up in his music. We always love Dagwood and Blondie, don't we? Yes. And now let's turn over the page. And I'll read that in just a moment, but first here's that nice man again with something interesting to say. Now here we go again with Pop the Comic Weekly, and on the second page of the second section, Flash Gordon. Magic words for the music, please. Very well, my lady. Rega rega doon doon saskum attach. Let's have music for heroic flash. Flash, Dale, Midas, and the pilot have been captured by the giant on the planet Titan. The pilot in desperation starts to run away hoping to escape. Midas shouts, Hey look, George is making a break for it! Stop, you fool! As the giant bends down and scoops up George, Flash says, Here, this is our chance. It's now or never. Everybody scatters. Some of us are sure to get out of here. Flash picture top row, they make a dash for freedom. First picture bottom row, the giant pauses George to the ground and starts after the others. Flash hearing the steps stops and heaves the basket into the path of the unrushing giant. The giant trips on the basket and falls. Flash picture. Flash shouts, All right, I stopped him. Come on, Dale, fast! You bet it was. Do you think they will escape now? Well, that's hard to say. That giant is so big that when he gets to his feet, remember he can cover a lot of ground fast. Of that, I'm sure. I hope they get away. Well, we'll find out more about that next week. But now I'm sure you'd like to find out what happens next in Walt Disney's story, The Sword and the Rose. Oh yes, I'd love to. All right then, let's turn over the page. And here on page four of the second section is The Sword and the Rose. And this story is wonderful. And it's long ago in England when Henry was the king. And the king's sister, Mary Tudor, had fallen in love with a man named Charles Brandon, who was captain of the guards. But King Henry wants Mary to marry the king of France. But she said she wouldn't do it. And the king was fierce. That's very angry, you know. Yes, yes, it is. And then she sent for Brandon to come to see her. But instead, his friend Cascadin came and told Mary that Charles Brandon was leaving the country. That's because he loved Mary and he thought that he would cause her trouble by staying in England. But I hope he doesn't go away because I want him to marry Mary. I wonder what will happen. Well, let's read now and see what happens next. Here we go with The Sword and the Rose. It's Mary, Mary, England when knighthood was in flower, music to bewitch our story hour. Charles Brandon has resigned as captaincy in the king's guard and has gone aboard a ship that is preparing to sail to the new world. Abored the royal hind, the name of the ship, in Bristol Harbour, he waits for a westerly wind that will take him away from England and the impetuous princess who has kindled his love. He sits at a table thinking it could never be. Lady Mary was born to marry royally, not a mere guardsman as I. Last picture, top row, he's rousin' his reverie by the opening of a door and he sees a figure standing in the doorway, draped in a cape and a voice says, Charles. First picture, second row, Charles stares in surprise. He recognizes the voice and then hears the captain of the ship shoutin' Way anchored! Through the open door, Charles sees the ship's men spring to action, hoisting the sails. Quickly he closes the door and last picture, second row exclaims, Princess Mary! Mary tells him to be quiet and she says that she has told the captain that she is shipping with Brandon who is his master. First picture, bottom row, Brandon exclaims, Why, you must be mad. No ship's captain will permit a woman not so long a voyage. Mary removes her cloak and says, May not a gentleman take his page wherever he goes? And Brandon sees, she looks like a boy dressed in a page's costume. He stares at her in amazement. Princess Mary, you'd hazard this for me. Mary looks at him with love in her eyes and says, I've defied my brother and spurned the king of France for you. Last picture, as Brandon tries to persuade Mary of the folly of attempting to masquerade as his page, an alert seaman pauses outside Brandon's cabin. The seaman hears the voices inside, turns to another and exclaims, A woman's voice. Yes, it was. That was because she loves him. Yes, it is. I hope Charles Brandon lets her go along because I don't want them to be separated. And neither do I. But listening at the door there, you think he's discovered their secret? Well, I'm afraid we'll have to wait until next week to find that out. But now let's go to the very last page of the comic weekly and see what's happening to Dick. Oh, yes, because he's having a very exciting adventure. He's in the early days of America. Yes, in the state of California. And gold was discovered at a place not too far from where Dick was. And everybody in the town rushed off to try to dig for gold themselves. And Dick has finally persuaded his friend, editor Campbell, to join the gold seekers. And last week they started out. I wonder what will happen. Will they find gold this week? Well, let's find out right now. Here we go with Dick's adventures. Rickety-pack-a-zack-a-zick. Let's have music for adventurous Dick. Dick and editor Campbell have become part of the frenzied march to wealth, later to become known as the California Gold Rush of 1849. As they near the banks of the river, they hear sounds of anger rise from the crowd of gold seekers. The only way to get across the river is by a ferry boat. And the crowd is objecting to the high price the ferry boat owner is charging to take them across. First picture, second row, Dick hears the ferry boat owner say, All the gold's on the other side of the river, Gents. I'm only asking to palkry $25 ahead to ferry you over. Now get aboard if you're coming. All right, I'll pay it, but it's an outrage. Outrage, Campbell upraised the ferryman as a brigad and a thief. But a gold-hungry mob swarms the board just the same. As the ferry boat pushes off, loaded with men, last picture, second row, Campbell thunders. I just won't be made a fool of by that thievish rascal. We'll find another way to get across, Dick. Dick watches as the boat pulls away from shore. And then he sees it caught by the current and swept out into the middle of the stream. Then suddenly Dick stands petrified with horror. The boat is caught by a swirling current and smashed against the rock. It begins to sink and fall apart. Hey, help me go! We're sinking! We're sinking! Help me go! Every man aboard is pitched into the rushing river. And last picture, while those on shore are fishing out some very wet gold hunters, the rascally ferryman is yelling lustily from a rock in midstream. A thousand dollars to the man who saved me! Because even though some of the people are being saved, it's quite possible that many of them will be drowned. And Dick's just a little boy and he might not be strong enough to swim all the way back to shore. No, not against that swift current. I wonder if anybody will save that greedy ferryboat captain. Well, next week we'll find that out. But now look below Dick's adventures. There's Rusty Riley. Oh, yes, and Tex were taking a very valuable horse back to the Milestone Farm. But a man named Velvet Kane, who doesn't want the horse to get to Milestone Farm, has sent two of his men to delay Tex and Rusty. And these men set up a sign that led Tex off the road through the forest and up beside a shack. And there's no room for Tex to turn his truck around. So Tex has gone out in the dark to chop trees down to make a clearing so he can turn the truck around. But one of Kane's men is going to blow the bridge up if Tex can turn the truck around. Yeah, but don't forget that last week the sheriff discovered the displaced detour sign and he's decided to investigate. I wonder if the sheriff will get there in time. Well, let's read now and find out. Here we go with Rusty Riley. Gallop and run till the road is dusty. Give us music for his horse and Rusty. After chopping for hours, Tex finally says, Well, Rusty, I reckon we've cleared enough of these saplings to turn the van around. We better get rolling. But, Tex, I've been thinking of what you told me, though, about Mr. Miles Trouble. How can it save Milestone Farm if we get Silver Lad to Lexington by tomorrow? Well, Rusty, I'll tell you. There's a big shirt from South America who by every yearland Milestone can raise. If we can prove we got a stallion of the line of Gallant Corporal. Oh, I see, Tex. And Silver Lad is the only one alive. Last picture, top row, Tex says, Yeah, it's right, son. And this senior, Carl Dara's, leaves for South America tomorrow. Now, if we don't produce Silver Lad, the contract goes to Velvet Kane and the bank won't extend Mr. Miles' loans. Well, Collie, let's get going. I'll put this axe back in the cabin where I borrowed it from. First picture, bottom row, Rusty as we turn the axe to the house. The wind has blown some letters to the floor. Rusty begins to pick them up. As he picks up one letter, Rusty looks at it and then exclaims, Hey, oh, Jiminy, wow. Wait till I tell Tex about this. And a moment later, Tex is saying, But, Rusty, are you sure? You positive you read it right? Positive, Tex. Three letters addressed to Mr. Markey at Great Oaks Farm. Isn't that Velvet Kane's place? Meanwhile, in the car behind the cabin, scrubbed one of Kane's men is watching the house carefully. He says to himself, That big cow poke starts. There are two blasts on this horn and Porky will blow a truss out from under the bridge. And last picture, not far off, a curious sheriff approaches the cabin with two deputies. Then the sheriff stumbles. Hey, hey, what's up, Britt? Why, there seems to be a wire running through the grass. I tripped on it. The other deputy says, Yeah, but they don't seem to be no sign of hijackers like you thought. Because I'm sure that made Tex suspect that something is wrong. I think so too. And if the sheriff follows that wire, he'll find Porky or else he'll find a dynamite. And then maybe he can stop them from blowing up the bridge. Well, let's hope he finds it before Tex starts to get in his truck.  I wonder what will happen. We'll find out for sure next week. Now, that's all the time I have. But before I go, I'll just follow with some more interesting information. Well, honey and all your boys and girls, I gotta go now. All right, Mr. Wheatley. Okay, that's a date.  Be sure to meet me with our little friend, Miss Honey, next week, when I read Puff the Comic Weekly. For I'm the Comic Weekly Man, the jolly Comic Weekly Man. I'll be back to read the funnies to you happy boys and honeys. Don't forget, boys and girls, see you all next week. We're friends, the Comic Weekly Man, the jolly Comic Weekly Man.


The Action Aid Nigeria and other civil society organisations call for the reduction of salaries of political appointees and legislators. We discussed party primaries and internal democracy in the second segment with the new Nigeria People's Party, NNPP. Well, this is plus politics. I am Mary Anna Coughlin. The Action Aid Nigeria civil society action coalition on education for all, YAGA Africa and others have called for cuts of salaries of the federal lawmakers and political appointees to fund education. Now, Country Director Action Aid Nigeria, NLB, stated this saying that it is demoralising that the public universities that produced the present crop of leaders and manpower being currently enjoyed in the country are locked due to unresolved labour disputes between the lecturers and unions and the federal government. They also called for collective efforts to end the ongoing ASU strike in the interest of the nation's education and national development. In 2018, the senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, revealed that he and his then colleagues received 13.5 million Naira as running cost. Well, joining us to discuss this is Deji Awobiide, and he's a legal practitioner and be able to show me who is a political analyst. Thank you so much, gentlemen, for joining us. This is my pleasure. Great. So let's start by looking at the running cost of members of our legislature. This is not the first time this conversation has been had. Nigerians have always continuously called for a cut in the running cost of the National Assembly, the take-home pay of the National Assembly, but it's all just been talk and there's never really been action. I remember when Senator Bokala Sariqi was the Senate president, there was also a cry for the finances of the National Assembly to be made plain so that Nigerians could know how much these people were earning.  Do you think that this is another talk or what a pawn in the back of a chicken in terms of asking for a cut in pay? Well, thank you. So firstly, you know that the revenue allocation and fiscal commission is empowered in the constitution to fix renovation for our legislators as well as other political office orders. Specifically, section 1784111 and 124, make that provision in addition to Biograff 32D of part one to the third schedule of the constitution. However, you will see that remember that had a lot of difficulty in trying to implement its constitutional mandate of fixing renovation for these political office orders and the challenge itself stems from implementation because you had two attempts at a review. The first one was in 2009, we tried to review the package of this political office orders. After the review, they submitted the report, they didn't follow up on it. In 2015, the same thing was done, they tried to review it as well. The people were supposed to actually implement these things in other words, when the RMAFAC does its own review, it submits it to the National Assembly, which is supposed to make it into an act, a law that guides it. So the extra law that we currently have is called the setting political, public and judicial office orders, salaries and allowances amendments act of 2008. Now, since then, they have been efforts to review it all to no avail because the persons who are affected by it have made themselves a stumbling block towards the actualisation of these amendments. So in other words, you have a package, if you go to the RMAFAC website, you find a package there, but that package does not reflect what they actually end. So in Trevi, you have that there for all to access, but of course there's no transparency as to how much it actually ends. And you've seen in the past few years that every National Assembly tries to entwine a negative into putting what their own budget should be into the national budget. In other words, they would not pass the budget or approve a budget unless their own needs are what they get care of. And of course, it also also emphasises that when it comes to these packages, there is no division. I mean, they are united even though they are from different tribes, different religions, different backgrounds. They are all united in ensuring that our collective, our common good is looted by them. And there seems to be no end in sight into how to resolve this problem. And that's where we are currently as a people, that we can't hold them to any accountability because they are the persons who should actually pass this law. And that will leave their packages. Mr Showmie, let's look at the core of this call. The reason why this call was made in the first instance is because they're saying there's a deadlock between university lecturers, the unions, ASU and of course the federal government. And we know that it has entered, I think this is the hundredth day since universities have been shut down and the hundredth day of that strike. And it might continue to linger if federal government and ASU do not come to some form of agreement. But let's do a quick side-by-side look at how much the university lecturers earn as opposed to what our national assembly members earn. I mean, we've seen the show Sandy saying that they earn about 13.5 million, even though there are several ridiculous allowances that we will get to later in the conversation. So looking at these guys, what they're asking for and what we have as pay for our national assembly members, will there be a justification somewhat if this call were to be pushed further? If the budgeting or the budget of the national assembly be cut into half to be able to deal with the problem of our ASU. Again, during the APC's form buying and people declaring their intentions, we also saw how much money were being doled out, whether it be by groups or associations or certain persons saying, well, we want to pick a form for you. People have also queried that, but that's a political party and that's not a government agency. It's not also an arm of the government. In asking for this, how do we go about getting not just the legislature, but also the executive to the table with ASU? Yeah, we need to go a little bit backward to understand what is actually going on and why they call for the reduction in the salaries of political office holders. When you look at in 2005 or 2006, the intention of the former president of ASU, when he declared that he was going to monetize all the facilities, housing and everything being enjoyed, mobile ex-laters, they went ahead and did that. Many of them bought the houses and bought the vehicles and all that, so they were expected to maintain those houses and vehicles. But immediately of ASU power, the next turnaround is for the same legislators to hide on their committees duties. They were not supposed to have any vehicle belonging to the National Assembly, but they hid under the work of committees and bought the vehicles and claimed that the vehicles were for committees work using the public funds against the monetization. So, basically, they took one thing with one hand and also double it with another hand, creating a very terrible situation for the open trade. Unfortunately, the federal government would not do anything about it because they expected, the legislatures are expected to pass the law, but if they fail to enact the law, then there's nothing anybody can do just like they just said. Now, when you now move a beat for that and look at the report of Oresai's report, I think it was in 2013 or 2014, when Oresai came up with the report that there are duplications of existing functions of statutory agencies. In some cases, you have multiplication of agencies. Essentially, politicians using it for job for the boys, rather than amniasing those agencies and creating one agency to deal with one particular issue, multiple agencies are created. And since then, government has failed to implement the Oresai's report simply because they need to keep these jobs in those agencies as jobs, you know, can go for the boys, rather than looking at the national, the imperative of national spending court, you know that to fund the priorities like education. So, we've been in this lot job right from immediately after our bus was just letting tail now. And now we found ourselves in the situation where we are unable to fund education, we are unable to fund the health sector. So, we'll be having rampant, you know, strike actions both in the health and the education sector. Specifically on the education sector, since 2009, the federal government reached an agreement, no with us, and that agreement was negotiated in 2018, again by this very particular Oresai's government. When it comes to implementation, the federal government is short on that. We've seen the federal government refusing to implement agreements that would improve education, save the country a lot of funds on foreign exchange. And the only way you can understand the savings on foreign exchange, if we invest in educational model, is just to consider in 2018, 77,000 Nigerian students went together to study in five universities in Ghana. And the total amount of money paid to five universities in Ghana was more than the total budget for all Nigerian universities, federal, state and whatever. So, it makes me ask the question. I'm so sorry to talk over you, Mr Showmie. It makes me ask the question, because sometimes there's that argument that Nigerians don't want to pay for good education. But then we see Nigerians working very hard to pay these school fees abroad. I mean, I've even heard somebody say she's going to school in Benet Republic, you know. It goes to show how bad the situation is here for us to send our children to next door, the next door country. So is it really about us not being willing to pay for good education or it's just that the environment is not conducive enough for good education and learning to happen? Yes. What Nigerians don't want to do is to pay for bad education. They are happy to pay for education. Otherwise the private universities in Nigeria will not be surviving by now. What nobody wants to do is to, to to to to to solvent inefficiencies to solvent poor education. And what government needs to do is to invest in it. The only way you can gauge government performance on education is to consider UNESCO recommendation. Okay. o fod yn fwy ddweud. Felly, haethwn i chi'n dweud o ddweud o ddweud o yvectraf? Dw i'n dweud o'r bofyrdd, dyfodd yn ddweud, dda chi'n parwch ar y cosedd Gall Milgoon, neu wedi ddweud o fod ar unhau 7-8%. Felly, felly, ito'n gyfer gyfledd o driver i ddweud o ddweud, dwi'n ddweud o ddweud o ystyried�b gyda ddweud o ddweud o ddweud o ddweud. Fi't ddweudio ddweud o ddweud, hwnnw'n gwybod i'r ddweudio. Mae Gwbeth yn ystod ar fy llynigadau'r llefydd, rydym gynnwys y plan ar gyfer y dyfodol, gyda'r Ynysgwr Dynion Nigriol, yn yddy'r unig er mwyn i'r Ynysgwr Dynion Nigriol yn y ddweud i'r Ynysgwr Dynion Nigriol, gan ddweud i'r Ynysgwr Dynion Nigriol. Yna'r ffordd yna yn ynnu'r Afri ac mae'r gweithio'r ddechrau. Gweithio'r ddweudio'r eu ddweudio'r Ynysgwr Dynion Nigriol i gyfnodd o'r Dariusala yn syniad ar gyfer gyd yn ysgrifennu i gyfnodd i gynnwysgwyl. Rwy'n ddim yn ysgrifennu i gyd yma, yn ymwysgwyl yr extra-resources, yn ysgrifennu i gyd yn ysgrifennu o'r economi. Felly, ysgrifennu'r problem wedi'i gyd yn fwy o'r aswyl. Ysgrifennu i gyfnodd i'r aswyl i gyd yn eu cyfnodd i gyd yn gweithio'r gyda unifesrwythau i'r ffrifennu o'r Ffymiau, unedlaig, UNN Unsocia, y Fifeldio Fifadol, bydd ymgyrch gyda'r byd, yma ymgyrch gweithio'r bydd yma'r bydd yma. Bydd yma'r byd yn ysgrifennu bach ar gyfer. Mae'n ymddangos ar y bydd i'r ymgyrch gyda'r ffordd. Mae'n hynny i ddim yn yr ysgrifennu ffordd o'r byd. Mae'n ymgyrch gyda'r byd fel ymgyrch gyda'r byd a'r byd ei wneud i'r ffordd. Both applies, or when they get into the economy, the productivity – The contribution of the economy, so in those interest – do we serve when we refuse to poor education properly? Let me throw it back to D spaghetti. Unfortunately we're having some connection issues to show me We will come back to you Newspaper. There are, too, who also say that this might be deliberate on the part of our leaders being that there are several ways to go about dealing with the Kassu situation. And just like Mrs Holy herbs. He said, we've been graduating half baked in his words, I chose his words. Half baked graduates from our different universities in every era were chunning them out. But could this be a deliberate move from politic ishy pen c παدwx honcess and also as he mentioned, a you mentioned are the SDGs on education we have barely scratched the surface. When you look at Raphael bollid, year in year out, the budget do not hardly reflect anything on education, it's a mega, mega sum that is, you know, allotted to education. Why do you think that we are paying this least attention to education which should be the most important, I mean after health care? Thank you very much, Mi Mi. Well, I think that the greatest challenge that we face as a people is the leadership challenge, because if you look at the education budgets and health budgets side-by-side with how much the National Assembly is allocated in the budget, you would see that there's a very huge disparity. For instance, I didn't get one budget for 65 people in the National Assembly and more than the combined allocation for the health and education sector. I mean, that tells you that the deliberate, the systemic attempt to ensure that our educational sector and our health sector are in the comatose, because if you see what's going on with an agreement between the federal government and us, an agreement voluntarily entered into by the government. Both parties sat down and agreed. Now, you have a case where a professor in the major university is earning about 500,000 era. That's the highest level of the Professor of Canada, 500,000 era. Meanwhile, that amount is not even enough as running allowance or running costs as a red member. So it means that our priorities are misplaced. If you allocate that much money for politicians, while you leave those in the academia, those who produce the graduates, who supply you with the human resources that the country needs to develop with peanuts, then I mean, there's a need for an overall of the entire system. So advocated that we should return to part-time legislators, people who are gatefully employed, who will come and legislate maybe in the evenings or part-time businesses, but not full-time legislators, lawmakers who sit down in Abuja, sometimes on TV, you see that they are sleeping, either sleeping or absent. You see important motions are being moved by their serious colleagues, and you find a very scanty number of people in the house or in the Senate chamber. So that tells you that there's a disconnect between what these people are going there to do, and what they're actually doing. Because you're supposed there by the constitution, you're required to go and make laws for the betterment of the people. The people including the students who are at home, the students who are not able to go to school for the past 100 days. So that's why in final year, some are going to go to law school, some are supposed to go and start their housemanship. All of them are just there at home doing nothing, all because of these politicians. There's an agreement that is in place, as suspected for this welfare.  So who is fooling who? You have universities that are not properly funded, the libraries are obsolete in terms of stock of books, the libraries are not properly equipped. You have medical students who cannot have facilities that have sit on the house. So you see that the challenge that is there for all to see, but the government is disinterested. The politicians are also disinterested in what's going on. I told you when I began, I said when it comes to sharing money, there is no tribalism involved, there is no religion involved. They are united in sharing money, but when it comes to things that will move the country forward, you will not find them adversely people's course. They are all about themselves. Just ask me your question, it is deliberate, it is systemic. And if you find out what's going on here, most Nigerians, even in the middle class, don't send their children to further universities anymore. They send them to the private universities. So what does that tell you? You will see that if you observe, that's what they did to the public primary schools. They did the same thing to the public secondary schools. They did the same thing to the public universities. They are gradually eroding public confidence in them and systemically ensuring that people are not going there anymore. Because before you would send your child to school now, they are having two strikes in about three years. I mean, a combined period of about seven months now, if we tell you it's up, seven months. Some schools are still running the session of 2019 before COVID. They are supposed to start a new session now and there's another strike on going. So students cannot graduate, those who are doing their PhDs cannot graduate, masters cannot graduate, Bachelors cannot graduate. So what are we talking about? So it is systemic and it's deliberate and it's really good. On the part of the government, it's very wicked because if you enter into an agreement, it is par casun savanda. You enter into an agreement with the person, you must honor the agreement. You cannot come back and say that it was entered into erroneously. That's how much I deal with this. Let me ask a discussion. I mean, I see that we're saying that government, and I'm not in any way trying to absolve government of the blame that they ought to carry on this particular matter. But in terms of us always finding other options when our leaders do not leave up to the leadership that we have handed to them. For example, like you said, the middle class person is sending their children to private universities and some even sending them abroad, scraping the bottom of their piggy banks to send these children abroad. But what are we supposed to do to make sure that these people who we call leaders, who are supposedly to serve us and do whatever it is they're doing in our best interest? What are we supposed to do to them to get them to do their jobs? Because it's not enough for us to be crying foul and saying, well, the government is not doing its job. Who's going to make them do that? Is that not supposed to be our job to keep them accountable and responsible? Correct. Absolutely correct. We should not forget one thing that one of the drivers for corruption in Nigeria is the desire to fund education of wards outside Nigeria. And you see parents holding public offices, you know, looking for other ways of means to accumulate capital, even primitively to the extent of being able to fund those luxurious education for their children. So therefore, if we fail to build our own institutions here, which the same people are the ones responsible for, then we'll continue to have corruption try being in our country. So one of the ways in which we can do this is first, somebody came up with a suggestion in the gas of reps, I think, and his colleagues rejected it. There's a new opportunity for Nigerians. Nigerians should ask anybody seeking for their goals. What is their view on education on sending their children abroad to school? Anybody can tell us what we want to hear. It's very easy. A desperate person who wants to get our votes can tell us what we want to hear. How about we begin to make demands instead of asking questions and getting very nice answers as opposed to what will happen in reality? Absolutely. It's one of the ways in which to sensitize political office seekers about the priorities of the rank and file Nigerians who they need their votes. Even though they will tell you, yes, when they get there they will do something else, but at the end of the day, they will be more sensitive to the fact that there's the likelihood that a movement, excuse me, will build along this line to what's forcing them or comparing them to do the right thing. We were very close to it with answers, safe for the agenda. The youth fields to include education as part of the agenda. I would not be surprised if, in the nearest future, we would see either the National Association of Nigerians, or some other civil society groups, governising public opinion and also mobilizing people to work, compelling the federal government to listen and not possess the federal government, the National Assembly to do the bidding of people, but applying the children of political office holders from studying abroad. The moment they know that their children will be affected, believe me, they will pay more attention, they will vote more money to the educational sector in Nigeria. I said we do that, I cannot see the ruling class yielding easily. Don't forget they have a very rapacious test for public wealth. Daisy, I want you to chime in on this.  Before you answer, I had a member of the House of Representatives here on the show last night. He was talking about sudden ills in the National Assembly, including himself, and talking about the fact that legislators are only passing bills and making laws that only are in their interest. I asked the question, if I'm benefiting from these legislations and it's helping me and I've been there for 30 to 35 years, why would I want to change it? So, yes, he's saying that we should make them do those things, but really, is that it? Can we really do that? Will it ever happen if we, the people, don't do something? Well, honestly, I was not in the long to what Mr Shom was saying, but I want to define a little bit as it relates to accountability of the elected officials. Now, don't forget that right now we're in the election season, a lot of primaries held across Nigeria, I guess, I think today and yesterday, or the PDP. And you could see on social media the amount that these delegates were expending. Are you seeing the news about people asking for refund of their money or getting a few less votes than they expected or anticipated? Now, it is a system that allows people to pay their delegates or have delegates the time it will become the flag bearer. If a person spends all that money to get to that particular office, there's no thing that is accountable to the people. He thinks that accountable first to himself and his pocket, and then to his colleagues who got him there. So you have a crisis in terms of accountability, because not really, the question says, when you get there, you're supposed to go there and make laws. But the first thing you need to do is to recoup how much you have spent, first and foremost, then try and get some more money to bolster your finances for the next election. So, really and truly, working for the people is not a priority. Now, the only way we can get these people to do our bidding is to activate the recall process. And even at that, you saw what happened with, I think it was Dino Melair that was about to be recalled, but you saw what happened with the process. They ensured that they twatted the process along the line. So there's a process for recalling the lawmakers. We can actually explore the opportunity. But we need to have a strong base, a base that would not be shaken by financial considerations, because eventually you can recall these lawmakers. And that's what happens in every civil society. People have left political offices for less abroad. But in Nigeria, people do a lot of things. There was a senator who slapped somebody, I think it was a senator or a member, I think it was a senator or Abba or something in Abuja, who slapped somebody on camera. I don't know what became of him eventually, but I'm not sure that he left his seat. And you have a lot of instances of people who have done all kinds of things and who have remained in power. So the problem is that we don't have a culture of accountability yet, of recalling lawmakers, of ensuring that people have resigned their offices. And that's the problem we're facing because we just, you know, we have a very, very large bandwidth for accommodating nonsense in Nigeria. We tolerate the law of hardship. We just make excuses and we keep taking it and taking it. And I'm not sure what we said. We are put almost upon with answers on to political interests intervened and it's got through the entire process. But we need to rise up as a people to demand these changes. Otherwise, it's very impossible and impossible for persons who are benefiting from the system to now cause the change that we desire. Like I said, a senator will get to the National Assembly who's been paid these false allowances. Who will not refuse it, whether he's a pastor or an imam, who will not refuse these false allowances because that is what he has met on the ground. And if he tries to refuse it or tries to propose a motion for an amendment, his colleagues will shut him down and ask democracy for you, majority will always have their way. The majority will have their say, but the majority will always have their way. So if you're outnumbered in terms of people who have like minds who want to build a better country and you're outnumbered, then there's a problem because there's not so much you can do if you're in the minority. And that's why we are where we are. And until there's an holistic approach to changing all that we currently have as a structure in Nigeria, I think we will still continue to sing the same song. Well, the other show is a political analyst. Dheji Awubeidei is a legal practitioner. Thank you so much gentlemen for being part of the conversation. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you all for staying with us. We'll take a short break now. When we come back, we'll be talking about the NMPP and of course their plans to us 2023. Stay tuned and we'll be right back.