It is time for, if you ask me, the most important video on my channel. My speed reviews, makeup updates, where I go through everything that I've been trying and everything that I feel comfortable giving you my thoughts on after using them multiple times. If you notice anything missing, it just means I'm not ready to give that final review on. But all of these are, you know, the final stamp for my thoughts on these babies. We have 26 items in today's video. Make sure you subscribe to my channel because I do these every couple of weeks just to keep updating you on everything that I've been trying. Let's go ahead and get into face primers. I have two to share with you. So the first is for makeup forever. This is the step one primer hydro booster. I think this is a really great primer prior to makeup, especially if you have dry skin. Now it's not going to be as deeply hydrating as a moisturizer, but it's not perfect. You know, you've had some time after applying your morning moisturizer and it's kind of settled down. You don't want that extra layer of hydration. This is really good. I think makeup forever did a really nice job with this. So if you have dry skin, even oily skin, I think this will work great for because it is a thinner moisturizing feeling. Yeah, if you're looking for a pretty lightweight moisturizing primer, I think makeup forever did a really great job and it creates a great canvas prior to makeup. It doesn't make the skin sticky or anything. If you don't like that, I know some people do like that, but it really gives a very smooth canvas, which actually helps the foundation kind of spread a little quicker and easier. So I've been enjoying this for my skin type. Next up, I have this item from Fenty. This is the e-straplet all over glow enhancer. You can pretty much do whatever you want with this. Use it as a base primer, use it as a liquid highlighter, mix it into any foundations to make them more glowy. Unfortunately, I'm not in love with this product. It's kind of meh. It really doesn't do too much. I think it looks pretty good on its own over the skin if you do want something kind of glowy on the skin or if you're wearing a super lightweight tinted moisturizer. This could also do well, maybe just a little bit of concealer in this. So this does leave a glowy base, but in terms of pairing it with makeup, layering with it, it doesn't really do too much. The second you have something with coverage on, this doesn't really add much to the skin. I find when I mix this in with other products, this soaks right into the coverage and really doesn't do too much, but it looks pretty on bare skin. So if you're the type of person that wants that glow, it's not really wearing anything with coverage, I think you will enjoy this. For me, I like my coverage too much even when I apply this under my skin all over before makeup. The makeup completely covers it, so it's not really of use to me, but I think there definitely is a group of people who will enjoy this. And I have mine, by the way, in the shade Taffy Tau Paz. I have two base complexion foundation products. So the first one is from L'Oreal. Totally forgot to put this in my most recent monthly favorite, I think I will next month. This is a L'Oreal H Perfect Tinted Balm. I said by what I originally said, this is what the Jones Road Foundation Balm, whatever, should have been. This is not overly oily, it doesn't leak, it doesn't separate, it sits on the skin beautifully, it doesn't stay sticky throughout the day, and it really just gives an overall better look to the skin while being very, very natural. If you're somebody who doesn't want too much coverage, I think you will really enjoy this. It's a much better price point than the Jones Road Foundation, and it works much better in my opinion as well. It is deeply hydrating. I don't have anything bad to say about this product. If you're looking for something that's just really lightweight, glowy, that's just going to take your skin up to the next level, but still keep it very natural. This is perfect. I highly, highly, highly recommend this if you're into that type of product, particularly dry skin girls, you're going to be obsessed with this. Okay, next up. I've worn this foundation so much in so many different ways to try and get it to work. This is the Patrick Tau Cream Foundation Amp Finishing Powder Duo. I give this so many chances because to be quite frank, I was really excited about this, and any time I wore this product, I did not like the way my skin looked. Unfortunately, this foundation is not my friend. It is definitely a foe. It works best when you apply as little foundation as possible. I found that when I applied, I would say like my normal amount of foundation, it was just kind of sitting on top of the skin. You could tell I was wearing makeup. It didn't do my skin any favors, didn't really look any better. When I applied lesser layers, it did look better, but it still just didn't look good and smooth on my skin. It begins to separate the longer you wear it, and it separates a lot sooner than a lot of other complexion products that I have. I do not like the powder as well. I find no matter where I put this powder over what, it does not look good. I've tried using this powder over other foundations to see if it was just the foundation, how they work separately. This powder does not make my skin look good. It sits on top of the skin, it enhances dryness. It's just not the product for me, unfortunately. It does not do my skin any favors, and it does not wear well either. So unfortunately, I do not enjoy this one. I have three concealers. So the first one is from Too Faced. This is the Born This Way Ethereal Light Illuminating Smoothing Concealer. I like this concealer. I don't love it. It has a glowy finish. It gives like a light to medium coverage. I much prefer the original Born This Way. However, that one is very different. It has more of a matte finish. It has more of a fuller coverage compared to this. This one's just definitely more natural and sheer. And I think when you use it like that, it is very beautiful if that's what you are looking for. It really isn't the type of concealer that I'm personally looking for, so I'm not going to reach for it. But in terms of performance, it does a nice job. If you want a light to medium coverage with a glowy finish. It does not wear amazing, but it wears just fine. It is a slightly above average concealer, if you ask me. So I don't find myself reaching for this a lot, but I don't not enjoy it. I'm very happy having it in my collection for certain days and certain makeup applications. The next one is one that I've been excited to update you guys on. This is a Charlotte Torrey Beautiful Skin Radiant Concealer. So I like this so much more than the concealer that Charlotte Torrey has had in her line for a long time. I really hated that concealer, to be honest. I do not hate this concealer. However, I don't really like this concealer. There's nothing really amazing about it. When I wear it, I don't dislike it. I don't dislike it enough to not want to grab for it. If it's near me, I'll put it on. I have a really nice brightening color as well. But it doesn't wear as well or look as natural as some other concealers. So this one also has a glowy finish like the Too Faced Born This Way. But I feel like the Born This Way has a little bit of a smoother finish compared to the Charlotte Torrey. It's not bad. I'm happy to have it because I do a lot of full face videos of Charlotte Torrey. And I actually have a concealer now that I don't despise. So I'm happy to have this in terms of being a makeup reviewer and doing full faces of Charlotte Torrey. But how it stands up compared to the rest of my concealer collection, I'm really not that impressed, especially for the price point. So I won't go out of my way to necessarily recommend this to you guys. But the performance is okay. And I feel like if you buy it, it's good enough to hold onto. But once you run out, it's not one that I plan on picking up again. So that's kind of where I stand about this. It's just plain old average. And then the last concealer that I have, I've been testing a lot of concealers recently. This is from Sephora Collection. This is the best skin ever full coverage, multi-use concealer. Totally trying to do the original Too Faced Born This Way concealer, but the Too Faced is much better because this one is a little bit too thick. It looks a little thick on the under eyes. It doesn't do any favors to the under eyes. Like I said, it looks a little thick and cakey. You can see that makeup sitting on there. It just doesn't have that smooth finish that I like my concealers to have. It kind of kicks up after I put powder on top. So yeah, this one just doesn't sit very nicely on the under eyes. I think it works better as kind of spot concealer or applying it around the face area, but I don't love it on the under eye area. And then I've done a whole dedicated video on this. I featured this in a haul. I've done shorts on this. I'm really excited about this trio over here. So Melania launched three products in these packaging. And the first one that we have is the under eye brightener. I have mine in the shade number two melon. I really like this as a color corrector. It has a very nice natural light coverage. You can see it has some of a glowy finish and it feels very hydrating under the eyes. So if you are looking for a natural color corrector, this is beautiful, beautiful. You can't even tell really that it is a drugstore product. I think they knocked it out of the park with this. It's good on its own if you want something really soft, but it also is just light enough and hydrating enough to have underneath concealer as well. So normally I'm a proponent of the less layers on the under eye, the better, but I'll make an exception for this one. Then we also have the liquid contour. So I have mine in the shade two ginger, which is going to be more of a bronzer color. I believe there's a lighter shade that's a little bit more cool than I'm interested in trying out. But I think this is a really great liquid highlighter from the drugstore. It doesn't blend out as easily as I would like, but it's not that hard to work out. Anyways, you can still work it out. It just doesn't blend as smooth as some of my other favorite liquid contours. But I did a whole video comparing this to the Charlotte Tilbury. If you want to see how this match up, the Charlotte Tilbury is almost a little bit more watery, whereas this one has more thickness to it, but it still blends out pretty easy. I think Milani did a good job with this. This is a good affordable option if you are looking for a liquid contour slash bronzer. And then the last one in the trio here is the liquid highlighter in the shade number one, Lunar. This is right up my alley.  And this is one that I enjoy. It is on the softer side. And I think that's why I like it, but it really does blend in seamlessly with the face makeup that I have on. Even if I have on powder, this applies it beautifully over top. Now it is very natural. Again, I compared this to the Charlotte Tilbury liquid highlight. The Charlotte Tilbury is much more metallic. This one, very, very soft, but very beautiful. Blends in to be one with the skin. So if you're looking for a really high quality liquid highlighter that's still natural, can go over powder, this one is really good. Overall, this whole trio I am super impressed with as I've continued to wear these products. I continue to be more and more obsessed with them. These are definitely going to be drugstore products that I recommend in my drugstore recommendations videos in the future because they really are of a high quality. Get into my one setting powder that I have other than the Patrick Taugh. This is the NYX Stay Matte, but not Flat Powder Foundation. Truthfully, I don't love this as a powder foundation. I've been using it more so as a setting powder because it does have a thinner, more dry feel that I don't like my powder foundations to have. When I use powder foundations, I prefer them to feel a little bit more thick and creamy. I don't love it as a setting powder, but I don't dislike it either. I find that it doesn't look as good very quickly. So whenever I first apply this, I like the way that it looks on the skin. It looks blurring, it looks like way, you can't really see it, but I find literally two minutes and suddenly my skin looks a little bit more dry. So it doesn't hold up to how it looks when you first apply it. All it takes is literally one minute and it's a bit more on the drier side. I just have a lot of other powders that I enjoy at this price point more, which is crazy because I've dealt with a lot of bad quality drugs or powders. This is not in that category at all. This is kind of just middle of the line. This is in my head how I would think a powder foundation of this price point would act. It's nothing special to me. So yeah, I don't really recommend it. It's not bad. I'm going to continue to use it, but once it's expired, I'm probably not gonna repurchase it. Next up, I have this little duo from Beauty Blender. This is the Magic Fit Creamy Bronzer and Highlight Duo. I like this product. I don't love it. So how it works is you twist it and you have a cream bronzer. Now this cream bronzer is very, very emollient. You only need to use a light hand when picking up this product.  So less is best. When it comes to this guy right here, it is more of a warm color. Well, I have the shade Champagne Highlight and Topaz Bronzer, but I really like this. It's more wet than the cream bronzers that I'm used to right now. I'm used to them being a little bit more kind of a cream to powder. This one is more of a true creamy consistency and it's gonna stay really creamy. I think it's really nice. I've enjoyed my time with this, but what I'm not in love with is this top putty highlight at the top. It's not really easy to be seen and that might just be because it's quite close to my skin tone, but I'm not a big fan of the whole putty highlight situation here. It definitely works. It leaves behind a very subtle highlight. It doesn't break up the makeup, which is the thing that I'm looking for the most. So I will use it if I reach for the bronzer. I'm never gonna reach for this highlight alone. I'm not gonna go, oh, I wanna use my Beauty Blender highlight, but if I am reaching for the cream bronzer, which I will reach for individually, then I'll be like, okay, I'll just use the highlight. So it's a solid okay. It's kind of like if it's on sale, I'd recommend it. I have one powder bronzer. This is the L'Oreal Infallible Bronzer in the shade Light Medium. What a solid, solid bronzer from the drugstore. The drugstore has some really nice bronzers. This is very smooth. It carries more pigment than I'm used to with a lot of bronzers, honestly, but it has a very smooth application, a beautiful color selection, blends on like a high quality bronzer. So if you don't wanna break the bank on a bronzer, I do recommend looking into these. What's different about this than some of my other favorite bronzers is it is a little bit more powdery, so you do get some kickback. If you do not tap off your brush, you'll probably get too much color circulated into one area here, and you have to put in a little extra work to blend it out. So as long as you tap off your brush and kind of lightly spread it along the outside of your face, it's going to be lovely, but there was a very, very easy learning curve to get over. But now that I know I'm good to go, it's a beautiful product. The last face product that I have today is from Laura Mercier. This is the Blush Color Infusion in Peach Shimmer. So they launched, I believe it was only three glowy cheek products, and one was a highlight. This one is a shimmery blush. It's very, very subtle. I'd love to see them come out with this formula in more bold colors, but this is absolutely gorgeous for an everyday glowy cheek. I've been enjoying it very much. I think if you have a deeper complexion, it's also going to look really good as a highlight. For natural makeup days, this is perfect. I love the golden sheen that it has. It's not too overpowering. It's not unflattering. It's not showing off too much texture, considering that it is a glowy product. So if you're looking for something subtle, peachy, shimmery, with the beautiful Laura Mercier cheek quality, I've been enjoying this a lot. I find myself reaching for it more than I thought I would. Moving on to eyes, very, very small amount here, just two products. So we have the new one size point made liquid liners in two new colors.  But I didn't expect to like these as much. I almost gave these away, but then I ended up keeping them. And I'm really enjoying these colors. So there's a brown color in busty brown and then a navy color in bossy blue. Now I'm more often reaching for the brown color. I've been using it a ton when I do natural kind of everyday brown looks, especially because I've been wearing the new Too Faced Chocolate Palettes and the Pumpkin Spice Palette. This looks really good with those types of palettes. So I've been using this a lot. Don't underestimate a brown liner. It's not as intense as black, but it really does allow you to kind of shape the eye. Highly recommend this color. And then I actually have on right now bossy blue. I'm not reaching for this one as much, but I think it's really pretty. And again, a navy is underrated. If you have blue eyes, try it out with a navy liner. I think it will make your blue eyes pop. And I do enjoy the one size eyeliner quality. I don't necessarily love the applicator. It's a bit too long for me and a little bit too flimsy. So it's not the perfect applicator for me and my eye shape, but I make it work. And I think the actual quality of the product that's inside here is very nice, lasts a long time, doesn't smudge. And I think it's fun that we're messing around with these kind of colored eyeliners. Now they're not super colorful. They're still pretty neutral, but they're very nice, not too outside of my comfort zone, but still something different from the black. And then the last eye product I have is a mascara from Makeup Forever. This is the Profession All Mascara. It is a two-step mascara system. So step one is for lift, and then it has kind of a smaller spoolie. And then step two is for volume. I'm not in love with this. Now keep in mind, I am quite picky with mascaras. I do have quite short, sparse, thin lashes. So it takes a special mascara for me to enjoy. The step one lift does absolutely nothing for my lashes. It looks like I just made my lashes a little blacker, but everything else literally looks the same. I don't see any lift going on. The only difference I see is when I use the volume, it helps, it plumps my lashes, but it doesn't really do necessarily anything special that another mascara can't do. So I'm not obsessed with this. Doesn't do much for me, but my lashes are one of a kind. So take that with a grain of salt. And we have quite a large lip category. I've been messing around with some different lip products that I'm excited to talk about. This first one is a great affordable one from Elf. This is the Ride or Die Lip Balm in the shade Tough Cookie. I love applying this after I've put on my foundation because you know when you have foundation on your lips, this adds just the right amount of color. It's hydrating to the lips. It doesn't last too long, but it's a perfect kind of natural lip tone color. Lip balm, it has some thickness to it.  This is great to keep in your purse. The biggest caveat I have with this is the application. It literally is an actual tube. So it's kind of hard to control the amount of product you get out. You can't really just put it straight on the lips. You have to put it on your finger. If you apply too much, it kind of globs on your lips. So I don't like the application of this. It's not really that easy, but the product itself is really nice to have on hand or in your purse. It's been right on my makeup desk. So I've been using it a lot for those foundation lip situations since I am on camera with my makeup half done. That's been perfect. I also have a new lip oil. This is from Jacqueline Cosmetics. Now I have had prior experience with her lip oils, but this is the first one I tried in this color maple drip. This is right at my alley. I think she has a very beautiful formula. It has just the right amount of pigmentation in that it's still a sheer lip oil, but I really like this color because it adds the color back onto my lips to kind of just go with any neutral lip liner and then you pop this on the lips and your lips look juicier. They feel more hydrated. It's a thicker formula, so it lasts a long time. It's similar to, I would say like the Dior formula. It's a really nice, solid, high quality lip oil. So if you are looking into these, I do recommend them. And it's very deeply hydrating. And it leaves a nice gloss for a pretty long time. It's one of the longer wearing lip oils, so I enjoy that. And then I have three lip oils from the BT21 collection with Colourpop. This collection, you can't get ahold of it really anymore. So I'm not gonna talk too much about these, but these are fun colors. Now I enjoy the Colourpop lip oils in that they're affordable, but they're not the highest of quality lip oils that I've ever used. They're quite liquidy. You know, they aren't gonna have that stick and long wear that the Jacqueline Cosmetics does, but these do hydrate the lips and they do add a nice temporary gloss. My favorite shade is Mighty Squad. This one makes you look like you have Popsicle lips. It's almost like Asian makeup. It's very popular in Asia for you to have that Popsicle lip. This one is perfect and it lightly hydrates. I'm not as big of a fan of the glittery one, but BFFs, the BT21 and this one, the Popsicle one is really, really nice. So I've been enjoying these Colourpop lip oils just to having my purse because they're cheap. I'm not worried about losing them or anything happening to them, but they're not the highest quality, but they're so very nice. I have this new lip product from Laura Mercier. This is the Petal Soft Lipstick in the shade Amelie. Honestly, it doesn't do much. It doesn't have enough impact for me. I think it is great for somebody who really is not a makeup wearer, just wants something to kind of brighten up the lips very naturally. This is quite a sheer product. It kind of softens the look of the lips, but honestly, I don't find it to be the most flattering. It doesn't make the lips look hydrated or anything. It just kind of sits there, you know? This very sheer layer of color. It doesn't really do too much for me. I don't find myself reaching for this too terribly often. I can definitely see a type of person who would reach for this. It's not really me, though. But if you know of somebody who just doesn't really wear too much makeup but likes to have something to put on their lips, that's quite natural. I think they will like that. But it really doesn't have, in my opinion, the most flattering look on the lips either. I don't most recommend the Elf over the Laura Mercier. They're completely different, obviously. The Elf gives you a glow, but I find the glow more flattering than this one. Because it kind of makes the lips look powdery dry. So I am so late on this, and I can finally talk about the Christian Audette and Tara Lynn Lipstick Collaboration. There's also lip gloss, but I've mostly been using the lipstick. I accidentally have this sent to my old address, so I couldn't use it. But finally, it was rerouted to my current address. So this is the Bare Nectar, and I feel like she managed to create the perfect kind of peachy shade. It goes with almost every look. It's the perfect summer lip. It goes with almost every lip liner, and it looks really good when you apply just a little bit, no matter how crazy your eyes are. It looks really good, just a nice versatile color. Tara did a phenomenal job picking out this color. I mean, I even watched a video where she explained what kind of color she was looking for, what the goal was, and she definitely achieved that. So I mean, it's just an overall solid color. It's been like one that's very easy to grab for that goes with a lot of makeup looks. So I am not about it. I have this lip duo from ColourPop. This is from the Jasmine Chiswell Collection. She launched three. This is the only one that I've worn day to day. This is the old flame duo. It comes with sex appeal lipstick and Beverly bungalow lippy pencil. Didn't think I would reach for this, but it really created a thoughtless red lip. There was a couple of days this month where I wanted to wear a red lip, and I liked that this one was already curated for me. I mean, I really love these formulas from ColourPop. The only thing to notice the lipsticks, while as creamy as they are, they aren't gonna last the longest, but I don't care because I really like them and they're cheap. And this created a really nice everyday red lip. I love the duos that Jasmine Chiswell created. These are great, super efficient, very quick lip colors that you don't have to think about. And this was a beautiful, flattering red. And then I also had this lipstick set, which has been sitting in my drawer. And I finally want to talk about it and why it's been sitting in my drawer. This is the Lux Lipstick Vault from ColourPop in True Love's Kiss. And it came with a variety of different shades. And I thought originally I was going to love this because I love the ColourPop lipstick formula. They're very high quality, very affordable. You just need to know you're gonna have to reapply. But the colors in here weren't as amazing as I had originally thought they were gonna be. They're a bit too bold for me. I like them a little bit more on the nude side. This set has a lot more reds and deep shades than I had anticipated. I have been using Pocahontas and Mulan the most. They're a little bit more on the neutral side, but they are still quite bright. Right now currently I have the shade Princess Aurora on. This is kind of a pretty pinky color. But online I thought the swatches of this lip collection looked absolutely stunning. But I really don't find myself reaching for these colors. And it's a bit much, you know. There's a lot of lipsticks in this set. So I don't recommend it as much anymore because I don't find the shades to be more too my taste. Now it depends obviously what your tastes are. But I will say when I looked at the swatches online, all of the lipsticks looked really wearable and beautiful. But in person they're just a bit much because I'm an eyes person.  So normally I need more of a neutral kind of lip. None of these are neutral so I didn't reach for them very often. But if you're more of a lip person, then maybe I'd recommend that if you like something more bold. Because the colors are quite rich. They're just nice. I can see why my swatches, but they're not my nudie peach that I like. So I reached for those a lot less than I thought. But my thoughts still stand on the Colourpop lipsticks that I think they're very good quality and definitely worth the price. So I also have been using this Makeup Forever Rouge Artist Forever Matte Lipstick in Endlessly Blush. It is a matte lipstick. It's a decent formula. It is very thin. They actually just recently sent me a PR package where I have a lot more shades to play with. But it's a solid liquid lipstick. I wouldn't say it goes above and beyond all of the liquid lipstick formulas that I've tried. But I've enjoyed it. I really like the applicator on this. I love the color that I have as well. If you're looking for something long wear, this is decent. It's not the longest wearing, but I'd rather it be less long wearing and not as dry. And that's what this is to me. But I normally like to have a gloss with this though because I do like that added hydration. But I really like the colors that they have as well. It's solid liquid lipstick. It's kind of like, we didn't really need it because we all, well, because I have so many liquid lipsticks, I suppose I can't speak for you on this. But it's not necessarily an exciting launch, but it's solid. It doesn't stand out in their line, but I'm not mad about it. And then the last item that I have, this is from the Opal of My Eye Collection from Colourpop, the Celestial kind of lip glosses. So these are glitter glosses. They're very sheer. And what makes them different from one another are the glitter undertones. The only thing that's kind of disappointing about these is the shiftiness of the glitters aren't as noticeable on the lips.  I can't really tell that I have the pink or the blue one on. But surprisingly, I've been reaching for these a lot because I do a lot of looks like this because I'm a glitter girl when it comes to eyeshadow. And I'm gonna put the blue one on right now. We're just gonna pack it on. And it's like, it's okay. The glitters don't give me what I want them to give me. I mean, I don't want pure glitter on my lips, but I would like more of a noticeable shift, right? I feel like these are more noticeable kind of on their own, but when you have a layer of other products underneath, like I have a lot of layers on my lips now after showing you guys, those products just eat up the shimmers in here, so they're not as noticeable. But anyways, they're okay. You definitely don't need all three. You probably don't need any of them, but they're okay. Anyways, there we have it you guys. I just reviewed 26 makeup items pretty fast if I do say so myself. So if you guys enjoyed it, I am happy. I can now put all of these products in my collection because I've given you my final thoughts. Hope this video was helpful. If you liked it, make sure you like this video and subscribe to my channel and I will catch you all in the next one. Bye guys, have a good one.


Nigerians react as Brigadier General Zama Zirkusu and four other soldiers lose their lives at the battlefront in Bulguma, a few kilometers from Askira Uba, local government in Burnham State. Niger railway workers spoke out as they issued a three-day warning industrial action, bill to commence on Thursday, November 18, 2021. They said that the safety of passengers who use the train is in the hands of workers who receive less than 30,000 hours. And as always, we will be reviewing the papers on off-the-press this morning with our guests and sharing with you some of the major stories making headlines across Nigeria this Monday morning. With a few minutes gone after 7 a.m., we'll say good morning and thanks for joining us on Plus TV Africa this Monday morning, the 15th of November, 2021. I am Osau Gye, Ogbama. Welcome to the breakfast. And I am Merciable. It's good to have you join us this beautiful Monday morning. We hope you had a very brilliant weekend. We're of course going to be starting up the conversations this morning with talking about the top trending stories, just two of them, that have of course created conversations across Nigeria over the weekend. For some people who didn't necessarily have a great weekend as good as Merci's, who we're starting of course with a person called Samuel Ogundipe, I hope I pronounced it right, who is of course a publisher of the People's Gazette. If you know that Media House is an online media platform that has been very, very popular in the last few years, mostly churning out media reports and investigative reports on the Nigerian government and beyond. But the story is a very dirty one for Samuel Ogundipe this morning. Of course, these are still allegations. It is said that he's currently on the run from the EFCC and the DSS after he is accused of trying to take some amount of money for a blackmail rather, a certain very popular person, Alan Uyema, the owner of Airpiece Airlines of $300,000. The story basically says that he had written a story on Airpiece Airlines on Alan Uyema and of course had called him. I reached out to him to tell him that there was a story that he was working on and he was going to go ahead to publish it, these are the allegations, except of course he got some money from Alan Uyema. And then it goes on to say that Alan tells him that this story is a false and that no part of it is actually true. But of course they eventually got to talking about how much money was required to end this conversation and Samuel Ogundipe allegedly then says $300,000. Alan Uyema offers $115,000, they come to an agreement and then he invites him. At this point, Alan Uyema then reaches out to the DSS and the EFCC who then ask him to continue with the conversation and then it goes on and he invites Samuel Ogundipe to his office to pick up the money in three tranches. Samuel then says that he's not in the country at the moment and he will send an assistant to pick up the first payment. And so he sends one of his staff I believe, a female, she goes to Uyema's office and then she's arrested by the EFCC and the DSS operatives and that's where the story wraps up. So it's basically a very, very dirty story. Normally when you see things like this, the first thing that will come to mind for a lot of people would be that it's simply just a way of the Nigerian government trying to bring down a media house, an online media platform that has been very, very vocal. Putting out anti-government stories or at least putting out some very, very damning investigative reports on the Nigerian government. But I've looked at it also and I would say that I don't want to just hold that narrative. There seems to be more of it or more connected to it because you wouldn't necessarily drag Alan Uyema into a messy situation like this. If there wasn't some element of truth here and there, might be 10% truth, might be 90%, nobody knows. No, but you know, I'm thinking that, first of all, if this is anything to go by because according to the law, he's innocent until he's been proven guilty by a court of competence jurisdiction and so therefore it is what it is. But if that story is something to go by on ethical, it's actually unprofessional of him to do that. So yes, it's possible that yes, there's an element of truth to the story that yes, Alan Uyema did XYZ according to that report. But the fact that he's actually telling him that if he gives him, he needs to take money not to publish a story, it doesn't make sense. So if you have a story, have a report and you're sure that everything is together, you're sure that all of your facts are correct, why not put out a story rather than wanting to blackmail. I think that's where the issue is.  We're going to clear the air because I think everything now falls on his table. It is left for him to now come out and say exactly what the situation is. If there truly was a story concerning Alan Uyema or Airpiece Airlines, if there truly was a conversation on $300,000 or some blackmail, if he acts for money or he was offered money, I mean there's a lot that needs to be unraveled here. But we cannot act like these things don't happen. We can't act like in Nigeria's journalism space today that there aren't reports that don't get put out simply because somebody was paid. I'm sure that those things happen. No, no, that's the story correct. You cannot point any direct fingers because you don't know who and who is involved in situations like this. Sadly, this is the people's gazette that a lot of people have trusted for a long time now, mostly in current administration because of the reports that they've put out. And so this might do some damage to their reputation and to the credibility of their reports and some of all of that. But, you know, once again, it's really dependent on what Sama Lo Gundipe is able to say from here because it's really left to him. He worked at premium times. I remember when he was at the premium times and it was also very popular at the premium time before then setting up the people's gazette. So everything really, the ball is in his court. It really does. And we're hoping that you remember it time over time. You constantly hear the fact that journalists have been accused of the Brown envelope and the fact that they heard the stories. And that's really not cool. We have talked about corruption over time and corruption is not just limited in a particular space. Like I always say, you might not become the president. You might not become the governor tomorrow or a senator or chairman of your local government. But I'm saying in the sphere where you have control. What are you doing with that control? What are you doing, you know, at that little corner? So everyone in everywhere that we find ourselves, you know, little, you have control over something. And if we begin to shine our lights and begin to sound our spiritual now, well, if we begin to do the right thing, I'm saying, imagine that you do the right thing. Let's follow the procedures, the practice of what we ought to do. I remember a time where one of my relatives had to share an experience of, you know, getting to a hospital. And then you find out that the doctor is trying to play very smart on you, trying to tell you that you have XYZ. When you don't have it, you have some kidney failure. It could be, you know, all of that fear so that you could probably, that could charge you for more and treat you for what it actually is. Maybe you just have a fever or malaria, but then they constantly tell you, oh, it could be kidney failure. It could be some liver issue. It could be cancer. You know, you have this. It looks like this. And then you'll be scared, controlled to actually drop more money. And then they'll be treating you just for malaria. So yes, the corruption is in every area of our economy. And like I always say, that's not on the president now. That's not on the governor. And that's on you. Let's do the right thing, especially in this profession. Because, you know, when you talk about the judiciary, people constantly say the judiciary is the hope of the common man, as well as the media as well. I mean, we're there, you know, to be the watchdog of the people and for the people. And we cannot compromise, you know, the practice. I mean, I agree. You know, but once again, you know, these are still allegations. And that's what they would be until there is some truth, you know. And sadly, well, not sadly, actually. This is, you know, the level of information that we have concerning this. It doesn't mean that it's not true. There's a tendency that, yes, there's an element. It is true. Also on the other hand, it's also possible that it could also be government. Absolutely. It could also be that government is just the... And that's why we need to hear from the other side. So, you know, this is... Like I said, this is the amount of information we have on this story now. It is now left for Sama Lugundipe and the people's gazette to go ahead and share their own side of the story and let us know if all of this is false. If there was any interaction whatsoever, if there was any report whatsoever concerning Allen and Yemma, if there was any talk about money, if they have any conversations, you know, phone conversations that have been saved, if they have any text messages that have been saved, so that, you know, show that it's absolutely false. I mean, it's left to him. And I'm hoping, you know, that there is some clarity as quickly as possible. Hopefully. We'll definitely follow up. Also, talking money now, but not through blackmail. We're moving to talk about the CBN and, of course, certain financial institutions in Nigeria that have been called out on social media for closing or shutting down accounts of some of their customers. And this is with reactions to trading in cryptocurrency. I also got to see a report. And, of course, the focus mostly is on Kuda Bank and a few other, you know, banks in Nigeria. They've been called out bitterly by persons on social media and, you know, they've been accused of illegally shutting down accounts of their users for simply having transactions that they didn't necessarily verify where cryptocurrency transactions. This is in reaction, of course, to the CBN ban in the trading of cryptocurrency in the country. And, of course, the circular was sent out. I remember that I've also gotten to see a couple of other banks putting out their own internal memos, saying that, you know, because of the CBN's policy on cryptocurrency trading, you know, this is what needs to be done, you know, in order for them to save their heads and some of all of that. But Kuda Bank has been called out mostly because of the way and manner that it has carried out its own, you know, checks and balances with, you know, the cryptocurrency, you know, watch. The challenge with it mostly is that, you know, a lot of people have complained that even accounts that have no business with cryptocurrency have been closed because they seem to have fraudulent transactions. They seem to have more transactions than normal, more than is expected. But I'm going to share where I think the biggest challenge is because I understand the concerns of the points that people have made that this is illegal, that there is no law actually in Nigeria that says that gives, you know, any bank the right to close an account because it's not an actual law. The CBN doesn't make laws. But I think, you know, the argument for them would be that the CBN is the regulator. And, you know, these banks, the Kudas and the likes, can have their licenses withdrawn if they don't, you know, go through or follow through the policies that have been set by the regulator, which is a CBN. But I'm going to share something, and this is from one of the banks. It's compliance, advisory, and cryptocurrency dealings and transactions. And this is where I think the challenge is coming from. The fact that a lot of these banks do not do enough to verify exactly, you know, what these transactions are about. They do not, there is some level of stereotyping with, you know, the way that they are carrying out their activities. And that is where the challenge is coming from. It says here, and the topic here is the lead of the story says compliance, advisory, and cryptocurrency dealings and transactions. This is from a particular bank, one of those that was mentioned. It says, further to the email below, we wish to reiterate that the Central Bank of Nigeria is strictly monitoring noncompliance with the directive enclosure of all accounts involved in cryptocurrency for high impact regulatory sanction. In view of the above, all staff are hereby advised to again identify persons, entities, transacting or operating cryptocurrency exchanges within their systems and ensure that such accounts are closed immediately. I'm not going to go further with it, but there are certain things that they've pointed out as red flags. The first one here says, I'm going to take maybe like two. Number one says, accounts receiving high daily inflows from a huge number of multiple payees from all over the country. Staff responsibility is engage customer further and involve and inform compliance. So this one for me doesn't really make a lot of sense, but it's really not enough reason for you to be shutting down an account simply because the person is receiving inflow from different parts of the country. You remember the time where the EFCC, at the time where you had the chairman, Abdur Shik Power saying that banks gave the instruction that banks should investigate the source of incomes of your customer before accounts can be opened. It's more like one of the same thing that we're talking about right now. First of all, we begin to ask the question, what are the banks created? The banks are created for us to, you know, put our valuables, keep valuables and keep monies. And that's it. I don't know if the banks were created for, I mean, they were meant to audit, you know, the income of people. So it just makes it very confusing, not very confusing but totally embarrassing because it feels like we do not know what we're doing at this point in time as a country. Yes, you think you want to check out, you know, financial crimes and all of that, but should the banks be the one auditing and all of that? And I'm thinking that right now, he would actually pave way for cryptocurrency, you know, to be practiced. If you have these banks telling right now, I mean, how do you now call on EFCC on me that you found XYZ amount of money? I don't understand. It's completely madness.  But then we actually have the E-line. Well, E-line is not necessarily cryptocurrency. It's really just an online. E-line is like Kudabank. My point really is, it continues to look like the Nigerian government is trying to choke on people who are thriving somehow, some way. I understand, you know, that these banks fear the CBN. They don't need to wait for any directive or any court of law to give orders. Immediately the CBN sneezes, they catch a cold. Which shouldn't be so, because we live under democracy. But they shouldn't understand the essence that they were created.  And when someone begins to ask you to do XYZ, that's not the way, that's not why they were created. I don't see any reason why the banks should be sneezing or should be freezing at the sneeze of CBN. But it really is because of the country that we currently are. And that's the same thing with telcos. When the Nigerian government said that Twitter should be shut down, there was no argument. They didn't need to wait for any court. They didn't need to wait for anybody. I mean, there was no legal directive with regards to that policy or that directive. And they all complied. So it seems like they are also living in fear. The banks, the telecom companies, and every other person seems to be living in that same fear of, oh, if we don't obey, we will have our license withdrawn or we'll be punished or something like that. They don't need to wait for any court of law for any court ruling on any of these things. And that's where the huge challenge is, why one person who heads a certain agency in the country can give a directive and nobody argues. Nobody points at that, oh no, we shouldn't do this. Some other thing. And I'm going to share some other thing with you. Number 20 on this list says accounts such as this, this, this, savings account, business savings account, whatever, a couple of accounts that they listed here. With high volume, listen, with high volume transactions operated by individuals between the eight brackets of 18 and 30. What is going on? Can you just imagine that? Between the eight brackets of 18 and 30 years are signatory. So you're saying that in the current Nigeria in 2021, a person between 18 and 30 is already seen as a criminal if they have multiple inflows into their accounts. It doesn't matter if they run POS businesses at the side of the road at the junction. It doesn't matter if they run food businesses and they have a lot of people ordering food every day. It doesn't matter if their makeup... It doesn't matter. It's pretty much the same... Apologies, it's pretty much the same way the Nigerian police would stereotype and criminalize a person that they see that is young and has a car or has a laptop. It's the same thing. You know the stereotypes? It also goes to the short, long way. A young lady pretty dressed up like myself right now and you've been tagged, you've been given all of those names and all of that. But it's quite worrisome. You begin to live in... It looks as if we're without laws. It looks as if we don't know what we're doing and it constantly looks as if there's a way the government is just trying to make life very unbearable and uncomfortable for people. You just want to understand, you can't take out the fact that here you have financial crimes, right? So illicit activities going on and what have you. But that's not the way to handle the situation. You don't begin to ask banks and begin to audit since when did that happen? And then the banks themselves can come together. They can't come together to begin to ask questions. Why should we do... Is that your job? Was that why you were created? Is that the papers you were created for? Let the government do their job. They need to find ways and pattern of checking out all of these excesses if that's the one to do. And then like you rightly mentioned, how do you not begin to say that if you find someone between the age of 18 and all of that, they're not supposed to have money. Let's not forget that sometimes people go to school. You remember that as well. So you have kids who are in school and then you need to send them resources for school fees and what have you. It's really, really sad. It's ridiculous to be honest. To be honest. All right. Those are our top trending stories this morning. Stay with us. We'll take a short break. When we come back, off the press kicks off where we have a review of the stories, making headlines across Nigeria this Monday morning.


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