The following is a presentation of T F N N. The Traders Edge with Steve Rhodes toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> The Traders Edge. Now Steve Rhodes. Good afternoon folks. Welcome to the December 9th Magical Monday edition of today's Traders Edge show. I'm your host Stevie Perseverance Rhodes who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Everyone out there is having a great day. Hope you had a great weekend. Let's make sure we have a great day. And the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us. Not to us. That's right. We do not make that one little two by four shift means we can find the gift in every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us. Now today you and I we're going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We're going to go figure out what the bulls and bears what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I just passed one o'clock in the afternoon. I want you to know that I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here but much more important than that during this next 60 minutes I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. You can dial on in<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you can't dial in we've got you covered there too. Send me an email but do it early please. Steve at tfnn.com inside the subject heading please put radio show question. Of course our Tigers done any ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on Magical Monday. Of course this is Tiger Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to last show right now. We got all the indices in the green with the exception of the spotball until next was up 10.28% so far today. It's trading out of 1503. It is above the 50 day exponential moving average. That is never a good scene for the equity markets out here. You've got the Dow off 68 points a quarter percent. Not a big deal. The S&P down one tenth of a percent. Church not coming through correctly. I'm not sure what to tell you. It's the way we've done it all the time out here. Try to repost this again. Not much I can do there. Let's try this here. Here we go. We got that. Start sharing. There we go. Hopefully this will work for you guys out there. So we've got the NDX is up by one tenth of a percent. Russell down by. It's basically almost it is flat out there. The semis are up two points. So not a lot of movement. We're still going to go look into the details out here. Nope. Chart not coming through. Man. I'm not sure what to tell you. Well folks for this next five minutes. I guess you won't see my charts. I don't know what you can see then. I guess we can turn on my face. Although that's that's that that five minutes will will have you turn off. You can see my face. You can't see my face. No charts. Let's try this again because we don't want to do that. That's so strange. No. OK. Well sorry folks. There's some technical difficulties. We'll try to chart should be up but in any event let me just talk about the markets with you. I'll try to visually describe what it is that we're looking at out here. And then we'll try to get things fixed. So the first chart that I would put.  Yeah I can face time. I'll give you some. I'll give you some face time Jester. Hey you know it since since since since you and I are having the conversation here. That's good. Why don't we just go take a look at the TAS market profiles. Let's get that out of the out of the zone here. And so here's what you need to know with regard to TAS market profiles. Last week on Friday we were taking a look at the daily time frames and the new profiles that were forming. Those are in place right now. The Dow itself actually has formed a new daily profile. The top of its box is twenty eight one ninety seven. It's also formed a new weekly profile. The top of which is twenty eight one ninety seven. If you're wondering where there's strong resistance inside the Dow Dow equity futures contract it's at twenty eight one ninety seven. You can't see it on my screen. I wish you could if you did. But you just have to trust me on that. So why write down on your pad of paper twenty eight one ninety seven. Now where's the key level of support for the Dow. I'm glad you asked that question. It's actually at the bottom of its daily box. It's a bullish structure daily profile and that bottoms at twenty seven nine thirty one. What have we traded down to today twenty seven nine thirty six. So real key level out here with regard to the direction of the markets. Let's say the Dow out here would be the bottom of that daily profile twenty seven nine thirty one. Now not that much further below is the center of its bearish structure weekly profile and that's at twenty seven eight seventy five. So any close blow twenty eight seventy five well that could set up a move down to the twenty seven two thirty one area. That's the Dow profiles. The NQ which has been. I can't say it's been the strongest. The reason why I won't say it's the strongest is because Russell two thousand actually took out its prior highs out there where the ES mini the NQ and the Y. M. did not do that. So the Russell's actually been fairly strong. Now the Russell is trading below the top of its daily profile. It never closed above the top of that profile. That level sixteen thirty six and a bit of change out there. So just trading sideways. But the NQ has formed a new daily a new weekly profile J. or it's trying to. We really won't know until next Monday. Maybe we'll have a better feel by Friday. But right now we do have some new figures out here in those new figures. The top of the weekly profiles eighty three ninety three. The bottom of that profile is eighty two sixty four. So there is your range out here. What we're watching is that eighty three ninety three level inside the ES mini. We don't have any new data. The old data is thirty one fifty eight up at the top and thirty ninety seven down at the bottom of the box. Now the next thing that I would typically turn to I see we're still seeing your desktop screen with your face in a small insert. Well OK. Well that can't be too bad. The question is can you see my are you are you folks seeing my black background charts that show you the TAS market profiles. Because if you are man and we're in great shape. And you get to look at my ugly mug you know but in a small little square but but at least you get to see the charts. So are we seeing the charts out there. And I don't know the answer to that but I'm hoping no charts at all. I'm not sending the wrong monitor folks.   Well OK. We can do. I mean so if you see lots of white charts let's take a look at the ES mini. So now do you. Problem is I can't see the. I can't see the. I can't see the dense stuff. So I don't know if that's it. Is that it. Was that it. No that wasn't it. OK. So oh you're seeing my face. So you're looking at that screen. Well all right. Let's do this here. I apologize for this folks but it really would be so much easier obviously for you to be able to see the correct screen out there. So let's try doing this. You're saying that's the wrong one. Huh. How strange is that. How about this. What do you get to. What do you. Yes that's the one. Oh man. No I don't know. I think you're seeing they see my black charts now. Now we got it. Oh you got to love it. I told you. My name is Stevie perseverance roads we will persevere through this anyways. Laura thank you sorry about the first five eight minutes out there. But but here are your daily profiles. Let's just daily and weekly profiles out here's the chart. The charts that we were taking a look at. We'll see if I can get my mouse back here. That would be nice. But it's the black background charts. You can see the dialogue boxes in the bottom right out there. And that's going to give your task market profiles out there. So we get from we get back from the spray. Okay. Things are moving along just a tunky dory out here. Of course I'd love to get a call from you eight seven seven nine two seven six six four eight. If you're not currently using the Taz profile scanner when looking at setting up your trading opportunities, then your arsenal is short a mighty weapon. The Taz profile scanner is a standalone piece of software that instantly filters over 2,500 global financial markets such as stocks ETFs commodity futures and forex Heavied by Steve doll Taz understands that in today's technological world the use of top flight software applications and technical analysis expertise is essential to successful trading in today's market. 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Let me see what date that gap. In the 1-08-ish area. So here's what you know. And I guess to answer that question, it's really about finding and identifying support and resistance. So as we were initially going to you, I had mentioned that the daily and weekly time frames that price was trading with inside its range of support and resistance. So the smaller range right now is a daily timeframe chart. That's a left-hand panel. And it's a bullet-structured profile. It's been around for several weeks now. The bottom of which is 1-17-13. The center line, which is very close to that is at 1-17-43. And the top, which is resistance, is 1-19-85. So it just continues to trade sideways. If this is going to get back into that gap area, and what Jim is referring to is back here. It looks like the trading day of August 15th. There was nice big gap to the upside, the bottom, which is 1-10-16. And Jim is wondering, will price pull all the way back into that breakout area? And Jim, the only way that's going to happen is you'll need to see this bullet-structured daily profile fail. And that would be a close below 1-17-13. Now, if you did get that, and assuming the same profiles are in place out there, the next level of support from a profile perspective would be 1-14-93. So the queries could find support there, which is before your 1-10-ish area where that gap is. So I don't have anything here inside the charts that we're looking at.  We really don't need to at this date, because this really helps us to understand really your query, which is, you know, we'll get back into that gap. And right now we know it's trading between support and resistance, and support will have to fail. Does that help out? Oh, yeah, it does. I just, like I said, I'm not in it. I was just wondering, you know, about a good entry point, and I thought, well, probably the gap would be the best, but I didn't know if it would potentially get down to that. Could be. You know, there's this other possibility that's going on inside the markets itself. And actually, Walmart is really a perfect example of it. It's something to really be able to watch. This is where really knowing, I'm not referring to you, Jim, but just everybody that's out there, as far as what I'm going to say, it's really important to understand the proper makeup of a Japanese candlestick. And for example, on this monthly chart here, there are many people that would be looking at last month's candle, the month of November, and calling that a shooting star. And that would not be correct. And if you're going to use the candles associated with other patterns that are out there, you'd get snookered because that is not a bearish reversal candle. Now, granted, price sold off from its spike high out there, but it's still not a bearish reversal signal. Whereas the top that formed back in 2015, I take that back, the January 15, 2007, 15 out here, perfect example of a shooting star, the Rosalindum indicator on a monthly basis, and then a pullback into the, it's a TD set up nine count bottom. What I really wanted to be able to share with you is the fact that we're now in, or last month was bar number eight, price been moving higher, doing a less relative energy in that pullback that you're looking for, Jim. If it does form, we could easily see some type of bearish reversal candle. And if we were to see Wal-Mart closed below 1503, and I know you're looking for an entry price, this could say that you've got a more serious decline underway because of the larger term, longer term, monthly timeframe chart inside of Wal-Mart. So that's kind of the bigger picture. In the Dow and the components of the Dow, many of them, not all, but many of them look just like this. And it kind of makes me think, Jim, something to think about. Alrighty? All right. I appreciate it. You bet. You bet. Good to hear from you. I was Jim in Palm Harbor, and that is a Wal-Mart, which right now is just simply consolidating sideways in between support and resistance. Again, 117 to 119. Jim, thanks so much for calling in. No other requests. No other phone lines are open. Email lines are open. But let's go take a look at the markets. A couple of things that I had mentioned during that first segment that we can go back to. One of those was the spot volatility index. So let's pull up the spot volatility index symbols out here, futures contracts, if you will. And this takes us all the way out to August of 2020 if you're watching us on Tiger TV. Now, the most important thing to be looking at, you could be looking at the panel in the lower left, and then if you were doing that, you would look at its blue line, which is at 1401. That's the 50-day exponential moving average. And what price, when the spot volatility index that is, is trading above the 50-day exponential moving average. That indicates to Stevie and you that there's tight liquidity in the marketplace. What it really tells us is that this is where declines and significant declines can occur out here. So it's a real key to watch that. Now, you don't have to trust me. I don't want you to trust me. I don't want you to believe me.  That's the whole trade what you see. That means I owe Larry another dollar for utilizing that, you know, because he's got that trademarked out there. But here's what it is that's really important when we take a look at the spot volatility index. In this case here, I've got the S&P 500 up there. The bottom panel is the spot volatility index and cordoned off, so to speak, in squares and rectangles out there are periods of time where the spot volatility index is either above or below its 50-day exponential moving average. The yellow areas are the ones where the spot volatility index is above its 50-day exponential moving average. And what you will see there is price tends to go sideways or lower out here, whereas when prices below the 50-day, those would be the green profiles or the green rectangles out there. Price typically moves higher to sideways. So we did have one heck of a nice rally so far back to the highs of just from back on November 29th. But now you've got that spot volatility index, which is living above the 50-day exponential moving average out there. And folks, that is a time to be cautious. But, you know, you put this together with regard to where prices trading in relationship to its support and resistance levels, and that would take you back in essence. I'm from a daily perspective back into the ESMini out here. So with the spot volatility index above the 50, if it stays above the 50, we're going to see price inside the ESMini get back to the 3117 or 3097 area, the center or bottom of its profile level out there. But that is a important wild card. Just out of curiosity, I don't know what the answer to this is. Where is the advanced decline oscillator? So it is above zero out there. So if you're wondering why haven't things really started hooting and hollering to the downside, it's because the market breadth is still in bullish configuration, which would have the advanced decline oscillator just above zero. If that thing gets back below zero, while the spot volatility index is above its 50-day EMA, we're going to see at least a retracement or something even more serious than that. This is Steve Rhodes with TFNN. Would love to hear from you.<PHONE_NUMBER>. Or you can always send me an email, steve at TFNN.com. In that subject heading, please put radio show question. Dow's off 77, S&P down five. 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First, you're asking, can we have a pullback into the June lows and still be in a bull market still? And so my answer to that is absolutely, positively, yes. So, I mean, I ask a question like this to everybody that's listening in out there now. There's several answers to this, but what's the difference between a 10% pullback and a 20% pullback? Yes, one is 100% more than the other, okay, but in percentage wise. So you got me there. But what's the difference? The difference is we call one a correction, whoever the we is, whoever created this, and the other is we call the other a bear market, right? So the idea is that if you get a correction that's more than 20%, now you've entered bear market territory. My contention is I don't have the time to do that right now. We have done it in the past that this bull market run and there's an actual gap that is still open back there back in 1974. And that's when this bull market, this leg of the bull market that we're in took off. I know there's a lot of people that want to celebrate the 10 year anniversary or something like that out there. You know, they look at charts differently than Stevie does. On average, you get a 10% correction at least once a year, and about every three to five years you get corrections that are 20% or more. And you and I, those of us that have grown up in the Fibonacci world would realize that a retracement from low to high out there of 61% would be normal. Many people will just simply buy those retracements out there. Yeah, it's all about a definition, Earl, of a bull market. You can have bear market corrections in a bull market. So I may be using vernacular different than you use it, but I'm sharing with you my interpretation of it. So how can the market pull back into the June area? In the Dow, the June area as an example would take us right into the timeframe, obviously till June, but we're taking a look at the horizontal monthly, horizontal trading ranges for the Dow. And right now, Earl, let's just use the information that we've got. The Dow cash in to see trading out at about $27,939 and change out there, still below the November low, which is $28,174. So Earl, I'll answer kind of go beyond your question out here. If I see the Dow trading above $28,174, then with regard to going lower, I'm not really focused on the going lower, I would say to you that instead the Dow is likely to head up to $29,036, maybe even $30,720. $29,036, that general area is the top of its next monthly horizontal trading range. We are in the favorable seasonal cycle, but I need to see price move above the top of February. Why would Stevie need to see that? Why do you need to see that? Well, you need to see that because as we take a look at the Dow equity futures contract, well, it's got two, really three, topping patterns out here. That's letter G. You've got a roads momentum indicator top. That's number two. You've got an A to B equals CD, a sell the D point out there with the bearish engulfing candle. And price just simply bounced back to its resistance level of Stevie's green line out there. We're actually trading below that. Stevie's green line is about $2,806 as we speak right now. So you've got a important or significant topping pattern in play right now. Now you may ask yourself, just get rid of the A to B equals CD pattern. Is that important out here? Well, if I just pull this back, just a tad or if you're watching us on Tiger TV, and you tell me these roads momentum indicator signals here, this is the Dow equity futures contract. Actually, if I can find the Dow chart out here, what would I have to do to do that? I've got to change. Let me give me a moment here to see if I can just change this over here. Because I want to stay with the Dow versus the equity futures contract just for the moment if I can, which I can because I'm controlling the show. But even though I'm controlling the show, where is it? Is it right here? Give me a second to try to locate this. Yeah, I think here it is. Here is the Dow, the cash industry. And what you're going to see out here, these arrows are showing you, and this is 2019, you're going to see the roads momentum indicator tops and bottoms. Now you really need to know how to use this pattern. I'd love to teach you. If you become a subscriber, it happens to be on your members page out there in the archive section. So great pattern to work and look at how it's identified the tops and bottoms inside the Dow cash industry. And what we have going on right now is a top that had formed inside the Dow using this pattern out here. So what I use for that line of demarcation now is we trade over this pattern. We're in that favorable seasonal cycle. We would then see the Dow move on up to 29036. And I've developed a little bit of a presentation out there that I will do in the segment with Tom today at about 315 or so Earl. So I'd suggest that if you have the opportunity to watch the archive that listen back in on that because on that what I will share with you is the downside potential that we're looking at. And the downside potential going back to your question now everything has to come about at the right time here suggests that the downside the June lows probably lower than that. But let's just deal with this one step at a time one pattern at a time right now the pattern that isn't play out here is topping signals I'll go back to those equity futures contracts here. Let me just switch back to that and in each of them and many of the cash indices have topping patterns if not just the simple sell the D point of the A to B equal CD pattern here inside the NQ you've got that you've got a you've got a seventh wave move letter G out there. And here in the NQ which has been very strong where is it finding resistance. Stevie's green line. That's priced at 84 14 were traded 83 91 out there. So I'd say that right now today the important thing is the market breadth inside that New York Stock Exchange. If that New York Stock Exchange advanced decline oscillator line starts trading below zero out there. And right now it's above if it starts trading below zero combined with the spot volatility next above the 50 day expansion moving average. Well that is ripe for a decline. And maybe the decline is nothing more than completing an A to B equal CD to the downside inside the Dow. I'll just simply hear since I've got it that Dow equity futures contract would give you price projections. Let's go ahead and put them in the darn that didn't work. Let me do this again. Sorry about that folks. My finger on my mouse got a little too itchy there. So you're one to one A to B equal CD as we expand this out here would take you down into the twenty seven one sixty two twenty six nine twenty one. And what I would say would be at least the twenty six six fifteen area that would be the more likely target if in fact we did see an A to B equal CD to the downside and a clear close below twenty seven three thirty seven. That's another that's a key level of support out there. So Earl the Pearl. I hope that helps answer my questions to you as best as can be. I see things differently I suppose. And for me it's just simply knowing that a bear market is nothing more than a little bit of a larger correction. Steve Rhodes with TFNN first one that you'd like to avoid at all possibility. We'll be right back. If you're in the CD market and looking for a secure investment the Tiger first mortgage program may work for you. The security for these first mortgages are building lots in the tax opportunity zone in St. Petersburg, Florida. 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But I see Steve these other tools and see what we can see out here. Let's begin by looking at the daily. Lee I think we'll take a look at the daily and assume that's our short term signal out here now. The way that one of the patterns that can form the tops and bottoms would be that rose momentum indicator signal. And when this finally did bottom back here on November 7 it was that rose momentum indicator. So it's when prices pushing itself in this case here down lower but without the energy behind it and energy is really really important out here. And if we take a look at this form that nice bullish reversal candle on November the 8th. And the thing has continued to move higher. Now it's trading out at about 584. And so support levels on this. And one of the things that you really like about this L. B. is right here the trading day believe it or not of November 21st. This was really a key day for you. At least utilizing Stevie's tools. That was the day that the oscillator and change line changed from red to green. And at the exact same time that that was happening. Price was testing that line. It bounced off of it. That was a bullish signal for you. And that has resulted in that. There's an A to B equal CD. This could be a Gertley cell pattern that is forming the A to B equal CD that I would draw on this looks like this. Well it's close to that. There we go. It's really more like this. You can see you're in the stage here with the 1.618 area at 630. But you've got another resistance level 719. Short of some type of various reversal candle forming LB I would stay with this trade 719 looks to be the target. OK. So that's a daily timeframe. Let's go look at the weekly and see what we've got here. Looks like somebody in the den has posted something about rap technology. My den screen is very small folks. I can't see or follow all the conversations. Just just a few lines of it out here. But if we do take a look at the weekly timeframe chart. Well this tells us the picture of support and resistance for you. Now support is three dollars on a weekly basis. Support three dollars based upon that TD nine setup. And what price was pulling down from that roads went to the indicator bottom was doing it right above the three dollar level. That's actually nice and bullish out there. Price forms a bottom above support. Beautiful thing. Now what price is doing for you is moving up to resistance. So on the weekly base your resistance level six and a quarter which you got very close to last week. The high was last week was see if I can find it here real quickly. Six oh eight versus six and a quarter. So you're up towards some resistance now. I would just simply use stops. I don't know if this is a trade for you. It's an investment. But I would just simply at least keep some stop in place. Now the average true range on this instrument is 46 cents in theory. In theory price shouldn't pull back beyond the one point six one eight multiplication of that average true range. I know I had to think about that for a while. How was I going to say that. But basically I'm asking you multiply 46 cents times one point six one eight. And you know you put your stop below the close. Let's say the close of today below that if that stop is OK with you from your trading standpoint and everything is good. And if it's not well then you've got something else to consider out here. But I don't see anything bearish just yet. But we do know that price had made its way up to resistance an important key resistance level. So I'll be I hope that helps you out with the trade and best of luck there. Let me know if you need anything else. Dan writes in and Dan is saying a Steve with one biotech or another going bonkers every day. Can you please take a look at HEPA. Not Peppa Pig but HEPA HEPA and not a HEPA filter out there. But the ticker symbol HEPA which is happy on pharmaceuticals. And let's finish reading the question out here which I'm trading on the long side. But there's time and also appreciate a read on another ticker symbol out here. So let's just take a look at HEPA on pharmaceuticals. I believe we'll have enough time and a price right now what it did here today as it came back and attested a level of support old resistance that appears to be new support. And that was the top of its daily profile form just a few days ago out there Dan the man Levitane and that's at $5 and 26 cents out there. So as long as price stays above that that's a beautiful thing on the weekly HEPA and pharmaceuticals has the top of its profile at 445. So we've had two weeks of closes above that last week in the week before. So that looks pretty good out here. You got to be careful with this. Well I don't know this looks this. I don't like the volume on this is so sporadic. And when I say sporadic folks what I'm referring to is for example the day of November 12 86000 shares versus let's say the day of November 21st 27 million shares out there. Geez you're talking about bonkers. Let me just take a quick peek out here. See what else we see on Stevie's shorter term or the daily chart out there. I don't see anything. Don't see anything more than that. So your question was I take a look at it. I don't see anything bearish here and today is rejecting level it's called level one area of support again the daily top of that box out there. Now price got below 526. You'd be looking at 475. Maybe even move down to 371 out there. But that seems to be all I've really got for you at this stage of the game. We take a look at TEPA pig or HEPA HEPA HEPA in pharmaceuticals. Let's go take a look at the other requested symbol outer A R W R our war out there. Let's go see what this is. Now this trade in the 89 it's got a different different volume A W A R W R. I want to get that on my other chart of a can a W. If I could just learn how to type A R W R. It's actually I cannot as they say chew gum and walk at the same time. It's terrible isn't it. Anybody else got that problem out there. You can't chew gum and walk at the same time. Yeah. Well in any event if we do take a look at Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals this thing has been a rocket ship out there. This thing identifying a nice bottoming signal back there with that key reversal session. It was a TD set up nine count bottom. That happened. I was looking at that bar on October the first out there. Man that was a nice move. Let's just do a quick wave count off of the low of that bar out there gets to wave number seven forms of bearish reversal candle right now price just dancing along Stevie's oscillator and change line. You get some resistance up at the up at these highs out here that bearish and golfing candle. So your resistance level is going to be the high. This is again a daily bar. So you're looking at that high of November 30th trying to get the price for you here that high is 73 72. So it's bullish. You've got here's the struggle. It's very much looks like some of the daily equity futures contracts. We've got topping signals. So you know you've got resistance. In this case here you identified this with wave number seven and then bottoming or support level which is held. Yes price is trading inside its bearish structure daily profile but prices still dancing along Stevie's green line. This thing here remains a bullish but you're in between support and resistance on this out there Dan. So that's what I see. And you've got a weekly TD set up nine count pattern. So you've got a topping signal out here. So just be careful. Again the use some stops average to range over the last 10 days on this instrument $5.32. We get back from this break. We're going to go answer a question that was posted in the den about the S&P 500 moving higher into about 31 54. 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Could be through the end of the year. Could be through the early part of January. Could be through that ECM date that you're referring to. But the key is going to be is price able to close above those or trade above those November highs out there. If we take a look at all four cash indices you'll see that with the exception of the Russell 2000 which did tick above that on Friday. It's trading below that right now. But if we see all four of these indices trading above their November highs that John my anticipation expectation is that we will see price continue to move higher through the end of the year out there. However, that's a potential problem. The potential problem is and we just we took a look at it briefly out there, which was the Dow's rose momentum indicator topping signal. So if price able to take that out, it should move higher. But here's the issue. Right now, if we were to go take a look at the health of the Dow from a long-term standpoint, and this was touched on by Jim and myself out here. We took a look at Walmart. Look at that right hand column. M stands for monthly. RMI, the rose momentum indicator pattern. And look at all of the topping patterns, either confirmed or signals out there. Let's not worry about that. 16 more than half, more than 50%. And so you are asking about a cycle inversion, John. Here is your answer. Right here. There are problems in River City and the Dow. But we need to see where is it that the Dow trades between now and let's say the end of January. If we see moves above 3154, the market should continue moving higher. Folks, thanks so much for being here. Stay tuned. Your favorite polar bear, David Weitz up next. Tom O'Brien from 3 to 4. And I'll be back with you on terrific Tuesday. Have a magnificent Marvelous Monday.


Everybody forced here ripping 22 23 Donores basketball hobby five bucks number 15 picker team style The Angelo G Pacers Anthony C magic Douglas H Thunder Elton with the T Wolves how he hawks hornets bulls and heat Hilton with the pistons Jeremy with the spurs John L. Rockets Jonathan John L. Rockets Jonathan L calves and Raptors Joshua B. Lakers Justin C. Pelicans Karen C with the Warriors Kihoon K Blazers Mike J. Jazz Randy with the Grizzlies Ryan B. 76ers Ryan T nets Sam J with the Clippers Sean M with the Kings Stephen a Nuggets Nicks Sons and Wizards Vaughn has the Celtics and Mavericks in US with the Bucks. Good luck everybody. Let's go ahead and get started So we've ordered personal now to go later tonight. There's probably about 10 to 15 person in queue Already for tonight, so we're really close to full guys if you don't order soon It'll go tomorrow instead Come on animation press proof Davey on Mitchell Nice start in the break here Jalen Doran a hollow laser rated rookie 75 out of 149 nice Doran jerry sohan Coloco Sounds good Vaughn sounds good I'm excited for my divergers. You guess what's gonna happen press proof jimmy butler a johnny davis rated rookie press through purple to 199 wizards Chat home grand Blake Wesley Malachi Branham again all cards are going to ship in this I'm just getting past that vet basement gives the goods give you trend press proof on lease lukadantich mavericks ravia Akbaji jaden ivy Patrick Baldwin I hope we have some great breaks here because this stuff the card dust is like in the process of just Assaulting me right now eyes are scratchy Nose tingles press proof final corner jr rated rookie for the teawolves Mike Conley basketball parallel 6 to 75 jazz matherin Ben caro press proof evan forney a anthony davis diamond production line lakers Jabari smith jr Bobby portis press for for the buck say net marbles press through scotty barns raptors Missing inserts there is weird Keegan murray Press rookie is a weird structure. This must be an auto then dice and daniels yet rated rookie auto for the pelicans That's some pelicans tray man press proof Evan mobly cavaliers basketball parallel 61 out of 75 Dale and terry isaac mobly Jabari smith jr rated rookie press proof for the Rockets Dale and terry bulls rated rookie red lasers in 99 nice color match for chicago good player too keels dylan williams jaden hardy Daniels and nemard press proof mccullum with a jimmy butler heat press proof purple to 199 walker kessler wyesman a cladrexler throwback press proof net marvel scotty barns aj griffin ladel jang christian shade on sharp oh you weren't live well hunting if you order now it'll go around 1 30 a.m. eastern i would think Well, they'll start we'll start after group breaks with personals and they are pretty darn close to full A lot orders ahead and Shopify does not want to refresh press proof marvin bagley Yeah, keep coming into yeah guys. We're gonna be we're gonna be full of personals real soon here So if you want something now if you want something tonight before the stream ends, I'd order now 1099 Blake Wesley rated rookie red laser for the spurs barry smith press proof perl a devin booker net marvels press proof for the suns jeremy sohan Jason tatum press proof for the celtics a scotty barns hollow laser to 149 raptors chat holmgren malachi brannum press proof seth curry a Collins sexton jazz press proof purple to 199 jill Williams like bhaji jaden ivy patrick baldwin press proof rated rookie christian brawn for the nuggets pascal siakam blew a laser to to 49 matherin ban caro got spring training replay press proof rated rookie luke travers for the calves press proof crunch time kd nets jaylen williams jaden hardy dangles and nemard press proof dylan brooks larry bird diamond throwback card celtics walker kessler on a one of denver jersey kakusma christian brown for the nuggets rated rookie hollow laser to 149 go nugs got doran murray and guys all that's left tonight is some p whites some teams for immaculate and unpackable football everything else is full get those spots for tomorrow jeremy sohan rated rookie auto frame 275 for the spurs great hit spurs on the frame parallel once a morris jordan pool press proof to 199 purple press proof for the warriors dylan terry isaac mobly press proof rudie gay got a johnny davis again here wizards press proof rated rookie purple to 199 team ac a j griffin larkards press proof drew holiday clay thompson warriors press proof purple to 199 barry smith jr press roof joe engels for the bucks there pat ewing press proof nix throwback jeremy sohan cushion colloco press proof rj barrett net marvels kevin doran probably diamonds yep diamond for the nets shed holmgren malachi baranum that might have been what they were going for adam washington sadeig bay pistons rated rookie press proof to 199 ron marvels there jaden ivy patrick ballwin jr sorry guys press proof rated rookie was manjang for the thunder a london ball basketball to 75 for the bulls edwards there matherin ben carrow my son sing would you hit ej la del press proof rated rookie for the pelicans press for production line lebron james lakers jaylen williams jaden hardy daniels and nemard oh the holiday printing plate auto yep that's a monster and that'll do especially in a random team spot appreciate that gregg hey thank you gregg let's get you a shield press proof brandon clark evan mobley red laser to 99 for the calf so sold out for that everybody there might be a space for like one or two more boxes for personals that's about it though thanks illegal walker kessler thank you thank you illegal i think everybody here would disagree d'angelo russell we got dairies garland to uh 149 every time i come and everybody just looks away for me duran there's a murray jaylen williams rated rookie auto thunder there you go thunder nice hit press for xyre williams rusbrown nuggets purple press proof to 199 definitely a good auto there so many cards press proof malik monk a gary patin the second hollow laser to 149 for the blazers blazers laser a j griffin all right a couple more it's like micro card dust is in my eyes are like a little like a little burning right now no no night moves tonight we're gonna pull an animation tonight i gotta pull an animation tainan for bonzo he buys me a devers jersey press proof hachimora kyle larry heat press through purple to 199 jabarro smith jr because sometimes illegal when you pull a nice card um for your friends they uh they'll get you something in return press proof steve curry craftsman press proof steve curry got a sohan rated rookie but i'll settle for some uh some slot machine lessons illegal yeah i gotta get slot machine lessons from illegal i must learn isaac stewart press proof white chocolate on the diamond for the kings chet holmgren malachi brandom the zerk casino in rosemont illinois i had just out of here and it just ran real random do they have one there jaylen brown press for the celtics will barton wizards press proof to 199 will barton wizards feels weird yeah strange to say he was on the nuggets for so long jade and ivy oh nice mike i must have forgotten about that last time we were there rivers casino let's go that's what we're talking about rivers casino rosemont illinois that place is that place probably gets busy when there's conventions there especially convention like the national sports collectors convention might be the busiest it gets jade and hardy press proof rated rookie for the mavericks nice hardy halliburton to 49 blue laser for the pacers the pacers with the laser there's a matherin now ban caro it's crazy how a matherin and ban caro is so close in these packs i'm getting destroyed right now by car and dust i might start breaking with a mask on like i might get a mask you're allergic to dust you don't even have to be allergic to richard just starting affecting you like bothering your eyes and your nose and uh rated rookie presser jaylen williams thunder jaylen williams jade and hardy i don't think i've seen that yet what is that illegal that actually all sold out tonight sam more about football breaks tomorrow roost brown press proof marvin back with the third basketball to 75 pistons walker kessler we haven't seen one yet at all sound pretty cool out of out of any of the case that we've opened and that's done quite a few oh yeah i know adam i know because when you're when you're with the like contenders you pull like a clear ticket you see so much dust on the on the clear ticket like it is crazy lonzo got evan mobly cavaliers red laser to 99 d book got a doran keegan murray yeah so things like this bowman paper base top series one this has been worse in series one and stuff though for sure like this is way worse for some reason tops might cut their cards cleaner i have no idea for real hey dyson daniel's rated rookie out over the pelicans dude we need to get an air purifier here it would probably help a lot and also i don't know how much of it is my moustache is bothering me dyson daniel's streus kaleb houston rated rookie purple to 199 magic nice daniel's auto by the way for the pelicans sorry i'm trying to survive over here i'll just buy one and send in the receipt for reimbursement i'm gonna ask permission just ask for reimbursement bruce brown hollow laser to 149 nuggets but i'm suppressed proof there wasn't a big name it's tyos jones that's what tyos jones tatum net marvels a j griffin and onto the last box so hazardous mic i have to start those you have to join the union honestly yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't be opposed to that it's different sometimes we can open up and we have like a fan back there and we could open up the door but tonight every friday night they do a mezzo tournament in the shop so we leave the door shut because i don't want to hear the door time going on and someone comes in uses the restroom it might not be someone that works here you know what i mean yeah that's what i just saw yeah so you never know i mean nobody nobody's done anything well we've had it before but you know so when it's open and the fans bringing in fresh air it's a lot better but when the room is closed off it's 199 draymond green warriors like mosaic chrome dust is pretty tough too daniel's nem hard jabari smith nice boomstick yeah you're gonna get that one in hand i'm sure you're an air purifier it'd be useful then in uh 10 years when i uh oh what's wrong with his illness why is he in the hospital oh he has eight pounds of dust in his lungs don russ dust blue laser to 49 paul george clipper's nice color match all full tonight boomstick more breaks tomorrow all sold out on breaks tonight really josh seriously joshua dang it chris duarte press proof de angelo russle red laser to 99 for the teawolves jet holmgren kevin arant press proof press proof jason kidnets it could be a counterfeit you never know i'm gonna keep ripping looking for it oh yeah sam's crunch i've been there too i've been around stuff like that press for free to drucky laravia grizzlies asia thomas not asia thomas that's asia thomas diamond throwback for the pistons sohan matherin and caro yeah that's that's not good either dude actually when we first moved in here we had the murals painted that was tough because we also had to leave the air off while the while the artist was working because he was using spray paint so we had to leave the a c off and it smelled like it like reeked of like spray paint fumes that was brutal that was really tough kobi white crunch time kd press for for the nets you get nauseous because it's hot here and you get nauseous because you're breathing in paint fumes that was that was interesting jalen doran we probably should not have been breathing during that what are you gonna do we didn't we didn't know we didn't anticipate it to be that like like that i mean i also don't think the artist expected us to be doing anything in there because you know when you turn the air off in a building in florida here we go jaden ivy raided rookie auto pistons ice card pistons press proof marcus morris a jason tatum diamond craftsman a lot of giggling ivy that's so cool mike jayce young we pulled a jayce young red auto tonight it's williams raided rookie press proof mike connelly basketball the 75 jazz again jaylen williams jaden hardy press roof deer and fox emanuel quickly hollow laser to 149 nicks the uh self-exam biggest rival right there is a manual quickly for some reason can defend anybody except him except iq press proof lawni walker devin booker press proof of that marvels for the sun's a jay griffin all right i'm excited to see chat played too all right so we have autos of dyson daniels twice jaylen williams jaden ivy and jeremy so on a 75 really good autos for a five boxer like holy crap cheese man another five boxer coming up thanks everybody


We have two new troopers that are coming to our post. They just graduated today and will report the post shortly. This helps take the burden off some of the guys that are already here between retirements and guys that transfer out. This really helps fill the ranks within our county. These two guys, they will be assigned to Pike County.


In giving the Ahli Sporting Club victory over their nemesis Zamalik Sporting Club, this goal was very meaningful. Yet the heartbreaking goal for the Zamalkawea fans was also completely meaningless in the sense that the win didn't really assure the Al Ahli Club any great advantage or success for the season. Neither did it happen Zamalik in attaining an improved position in the league. The only real and tangible meaning this goal provided was to whom the bragging rights would belong to following this particular head-to-head meeting. If you aren't aware, this football rivalry between Al Ahli and Zamalik is one of the world's wildest and most intense. Emotions run high and it's at these moments when passion easily overcomes reason. And here is where our story starts, at an intimate gathering of twelve, when multiple generations of a Khayriyan family habitually come together every instant the two most successful clubs in African history meet. Throughout the last century, a reality of the Egyptian footballing fandom is that many families have their loyalties divided between these two clubs. In this specific gathering, two of the twelve family members are staunch supporters of Zamalik, while the other majority of ten are committed Al Ahli loyalists. All supporters, young and old, followed on attentively with this engaging and dramatic roller coaster of an event. Upon the final whistle by the Italian referee, bragging rights were secured by the ten Al Ahliya fans. And so, in the intimate living room that was so peaceful less than two hours before, the relentless bombardment of insults towards the Zamalik team and its fan base was about to explode. This match though was slightly different. The drama, as it had unfolded throughout the game and the way in which victory was statched infused so much raw emotion, stress and tension for all those enduring its events. It was dead even, score-wise, till the very last second. A neutral result would have postponed any bragging rights and resulted in emotional damage for many weeks. But it was not meant to be and those who were victorious needed an immediate outlet to vent. From the victor's perspective it was now absolutely acceptable to rip apart the rivals as had been done on to them in the past, when it was their turn to experience gut-wrenching loss. Without any show of respect, endless demeaning words would echo throughout the living room. No manners were left unbroken regardless of age and elderly status. The losing fans were taking it hard enduring animosity and rudeness, ridiculed in front of other family members. It was acceptable to behave so uncompassionately by the victors. Yes, for the winning fans it was justifiable, until it wasn't any longer. The elder of the two Zemalik fans stood up, tall and proud and stated, Enough! This has gone on beyond any form of disrespect. We are being humiliated in what I used to consider a house like my own. We are leaving. And for one full year beyond that moment, when an Ahli over King Zemalik by one goal to know due to a last second strike, a family that was once so close, respectful and loving towards each other, grew immediately distant and broke apart due to their self-perceived humiliation. This connection would be total. Apologies would immediately be attempted but would fail. Only time would eventually heal these wounds. How does something like this happen? How do any devout Muslim fans, as were Ahli fans attending this family gathering, allow themselves the right to embarrass their family members? One of whom was a family senior member and elder who was a father figure to all of the Al-Ahli fans, even if the taunting was done assuming a context of jest. Where did all the teachings of Islam disappear to, respecting your elders and never raising your voice at them? The At-Ahli fans were all taught better. But did jubilation over meaningless result demand such antipathy? Not only were Muslims' teachings dissipate but the cultural traditions that Middle Easterners hold so dear that of the filial relationships cherished so deeply and pridefully held so high were also guiltlessly shattered. So again, let's ask the same question. How did something like this happen? Life is hard and when it's very hard, it is usually void of hope and foreseeable elation and success. And for many on this earth, what do they do? They look for these positive feelings and aspirations elsewhere. In associations and belongings to external things, people are groups that offer this type of hope, excitement and camaraderie. For many around the world, this belonging comes in the form of sport consumption and the almost innate connections established with a local sports team as fans. And for a significant percentage of these people, it is their only outlet to a cyclical reality when life is reborn at the beginning of every season and with it an opportunity towards justifiable purpose and fulfillment that can be attained through the highly skilled actions and potential successes of their team.  Everything takes second place when it's game time. Nothing is taken for granted. Families and friends don't exist or easily take a back seat. Only the allegiance and absolute loyalty to their club or team is real. All actions and existence outside the sporting experience strictly serves the purpose of being able to live life fully as a numb to sports fan. No family member, not even an elder, could avoid the wrath of such a victorious rival. It is very disconcerting that this phenomenon exists at such a grand scale. It is further troubling when we see this behavior as common and acceptable in the Middle East when loyalties to a team and its supporter base trump the deeper connections of family and religious edicts or traditions. Sport is fun. Sport is also business. But sport is definitely not life. That is the real disconnect that has haunted us over the last 60 years. And one that we still see today when fans lose their humanity when confronting an opposing fan base triggered by a concoction of familiarity and hatred. Unfortunately, as much as it is about how parents wrongfully conditioned their children to hold certain antagonistic beliefs and sentiments from an early age, it is also the culture that is promoted by the clubs themselves that condones such behavior. The media as well doesn't help with their various narratives created explicitly to feed the fires of aggression and trigger animosity between rivaling factions. All with the sole purpose of increasing their ratings and revenue. So what do we do? How do we overcome the exhilarated sentiments that lead to cold hearted demeaning words projected at our defeated enemy? How do we stay human by separating what happens during wins and losses and upon the referees announcing the end of the game?  The bottom line is, empathy is a gift we owe each other.


You're welcome back, remember it's still the Balot 2023 and we hope that you can be a part of it through all our social media handles, plus TV Africa. And just use the hashtag Balot 2023 and you'll be good. We're glad to have a guest here in the house who will be talking with us. Mr. Bola Obba is here, is a public affairs analyst and so many things rolled into one and it's our pleasure to have you in the house today. Good morning and welcome sir. Your pleasure is all mine, thank you for the privilege. We've had leading up to this election a lot of excitement, a lot of anxiety in the air. I don't know how you feel that we have finally gotten to this day that we were waiting for, as if we were waiting for this day all our lives. How do you feel right now? At least we now know that we were no longer waiting for Godot, we no longer waiting for Godot is here. What we make of it is actually incumbent on all of us, all stakeholders, you doing your role this morning, I think I'm doing my role, but we want to enjoy Nigerians, all of us, especially those of us who are of the age of franchise and especially those who have their permanent voter card to try the best possible to do their civic duty because unlike in Australia and Brazil where it's mandatory and indeed the criminal offence for you to go and vote most liberal democracies and Nigeria is one, most liberal democracies leave it as an option for the citizen to do. So this morning we particularly using this powerful platform want to enjoy in our viewers, even your MD told me a while ago that he was still going to dash out later in the day to go and do that duty and you could imagine if somebody like you could do it, those at home should please, please for the sake of Nigeria do it. Do you think that that system in Brazil, the other country that you mentioned should be applied in Nigeria because here in Nigeria seems as if whoever has the time can go and do it, but if it's made compulsory do you think our election and our electoral system will be a little bit better? I don't quite want to support what prevails in Australia, Brazil and a couple of other liberal democracies. I would rather we leave it to choice option and a sense of self motivation. Democracy is a phenomenon that is actually built on the element of choice and option. When it becomes compulsory, it defeats the organic beauty of it. So Nigerians watching this morning is another opportunity to reiterate the encouragement or exhortation Nigerians watching us this morning please if you really can do it please for the sake of the country. That sounds very, very optimistic and positive right there and I'm hoping that Nigerians would listen to that. It's not compulsory and we're also thinking that it shouldn't be compulsory, it probably will just defeat the purpose of democracy. So yes, you need to know that it's your right and take that advantage, go out there and exercise your right. It's your right and so you have a duty to play. It's our country. Let's decide who becomes president, governor, member of the National Assembly, whoever represents your constituency at the state and national level. But let's get to the crux of the matter now. This election is one that even the empire had said we want to raise the standard. I remember vividly in one of those press conferences where Aineg had, they said we need to raise the standard, raising the standard, it was also an injunction to all resident electoral commissioners across the 36 states of the federation and the issue of logistics has always been a major problem. I mean some people would say it's a real coring decimal. I'd like to share your thoughts. Do you think that today will be different? Prior to this there will probably say 2023 but we're here now, today is the 25th of February 2023. Do you think that Aineg is going to raise the bar? Elections is expected to start at 8.30. That would mean that prior to this time Aineg should have been, I mean everyone should be at the polling units, materials available at 8.30 on the dot. We should be ready to cast our votes. On the issue of logistics I am not too optimistic. I mean is that there are many variables outside the direct control of Aineg as an entity. Let me give you a typical scenario that Aineg has to play with, inevitably this morning. Aineg has signed working contracts with transporters and Aineg has in its wisdom brought in the umbrella organizations of transporters in the 36 states to be its enforcers. Now in the case of Lagos, Lagos is the smallest state geographically. However Lagos has the highest number of registered voters amongst all the freighting units. But that being said in the case of Lagos, Aineg has contracts with transporters and the controlling transporters union or organization. I wouldn't want to call it a union because in the peculiar case of Lagos it is now a statutory agency of state and that agency has now been barred by a high court from participating because of an individual and we have to respect Cutwater. Now Aineg is in a peculiar scenario now where the ostensible enforcer it ought to have used has been barred by a court order. So Aineg would find another mechanism of making sure that those transporters don't mess up its logistics today. When that pronouncement was made, on the one hand Bolaaba was happy because ostensibly it speaks to raising the integrity of our electioneering system. However, you and I know that in virtually all the states of the federation, virtually all the states, the leadership of transport associations usually fled with the state governments because most of the parks, virtually all the major parks are owned by the government and that is why and you see women want to stand as punished as possible but at the end of the day, at the end of the day, we know that these so-called transporters associations or so-called organizations, they actually provide the enforcers that the political class used to do. They are unthinkable. I won't say more than that but you know what, I want to believe that Aineg should have envisaged all likely challenges to the logistical machinery it has to use but as at this juncture, Bolaaba will be so circumspect to want to believe that further into the hours, say from 9 a.m., 10 a.m., if there is need, we want to get reports from your reporters on the field and we can know whether, you know what, whether we were ultimately questioned but it has been a recurrent or perennial, perennial challenge of electioneering, elections management in Nigeria. I won't say it will not repeat itself. I mean, just before Nyamgo comes in here, one of the, you know, fates and why Nigerians have been very excited about 2023, it's that it's different. Financial autonomy has been granted, you know, to Aineg via the electoral ads of 2022. The fund. I don't know what that means but when you say question, I'm wondering what that means. I'm saying some financial autonomy, this should be different. Aineg should be able to procure vehicles, apart from what they receive, the allowance that would get to them, I mean, the budget for the elections is separate from what they get annually as a commission. So when we talk about that's a concern that you have raised but shouldn't he have been different, especially with financial autonomy that Aineg cannot procure vehicles, because I don't see any reason why we can't have helicopters, you know, transporting these materials, especially to these rural areas, where we're still complaining about our roads not being very motorable. My concern now is the electoral act has granted the financial autonomy to Aineg. They don't have to go through the Ministry of Finance for approval. The funds get directly. So with this, should Aineg still be complaining about, you know, having to contract people to transport materials or they should be able to have vehicles? And what have you to transport these materials? I think you have an over romanticised, with due respect ma'am, and I ate wanting to be rude to my host. But you see, I think you have an over romanticised perception of Aineg's financing methodology, and apart from that, indeed, in your very wonderful question wanting us to, wanting us to have or accentuate on the positives, I would rather not look in the direction that you have chosen to accentuate, because the financial autonomy, look, when you hear financial autonomy in Nigeria, my sister don't be deceived, you know, they will play an ostensible card, but the organics of how that autonomy is delivered, you will still discover that some characters, some latent characters still have a strong role done. But apart from that, Aineg at this juncture is bedeviled by an omnibus status that a single entity cannot effectively perform. Aineg is leading with the responsibility of elections management, like any EMB all over the world, elections management board. However, the electoral act also mandates Aineg to be the DPP. Somebody who was once a politician in England, if I messed up and I did anything illegal, the elections management board in England would not be the one persecuting me. The director of public prosecution would say Bolaaba maybe used the element, Bolaaba maybe went to say some neighborhoods in my constituency, and I spoke to some primitive or primordial points like say, go and vote for me now, I have an idea like you, you know, that would have been illegal, but it wouldn't have been the elections management body that would have had to persecute me for playing up tribal or racial, it would have been the director of public prosecution. But in the case of Aineg, Aineg is leading with the responsibility, indeed the Waste Commission, the Waste Commission has recommended a dedicated agency to be birthed by statute for elections, criminal conducts in elections, Aineg asked that. Now, to the point, to the specific department that or the area that you attend, logistics, where would look, where would Aineg get the kind of money to buy vehicular assets and indeed you mentioned helicopter and I was thinking and I was thinking it was about time maybe somebody engaged me as a talk for Aineg chairman because I could be, I could be more moish than anybody working for, if he could, you know, if he gets that kind of money to buy helicopter, these things still have to be outsourced. No, but Mr. Obar, really, even though you're saying she's been over-romanticized and all that, there is, there is a critical issue here. For instance, there's a state in Nigeria right now that we've heard stories that a governor who has a political rival has gone to deliberately grade the road, heap sand on the road, so much so that it is impossible to the area where that political rival is, which means Aineg, because that's not a boat that they're going to use, they're supposed to use vehicles, Aineg may not be able to pass to that place. In the case of things like this, there should be a backup plan, maybe one helicopter or anything. So what can they do? The two of you are... So in that kind of a place, will those people be disenfranchised because of the selfishness of a doctor? Given the illusion you've just made now... It's not an illusion, it's a reference of a sort, so it's an illusion of a sort. Given, and I don't want to, because for me, it's not been verified yet, and I know the quality, I know the quality of your journalistic, this thing, so I would say reportedly.  I'm not saying it's fake news. So even the governor himself, reportedly, because the governor himself has come out to give reason for that particular behavior. No problem, we want to work on the question. I'm not even fighting the... I just don't want to mention it. I'm not consulting the fact. And it's good, and it's good because it's not been, it's not been proven by your organization. You don't have, it's reportedly. So we can have, at least we are safe on that. Given the, given the integrity. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, let's use it reportedly. Having said that, I am one who believes that INEC must have an alternative for that, because come to think of it, if INEC could have the central bank of Nigeria store its valuable documents or items, INEC has always historically, from when I was a young boy, I'm wishing we had always known that our election management body used to work with the AMP services. And one of the area, one of the specialties of our AMP services, especially the, the Air Force, would be, you know what, we need, it shouldn't be too difficult because there is a, there is an inter, interdisciplinary entity that INEC has around organizing elections. It shouldn't be difficult for the INEC chairman to put a call to, to the chief of the staff and say, sir, we have, we have this challenge around this particular location. No, no vehicular object could get there as a result of, you know, maybe the, this thing of the, of the roads as it is, that you are telling me that, you know, but, and the, you know, and the Air Force will be able to say, don't worry, don't worry chief, we should be able to deploy a helicopter. I wouldn't suppose, you know, INEC is buying the helicopter, but you see, given the direction that the two of you were trying to pull me by the nose and I was seemingly refusing. Okay, let me gladden you guys down. We should see tremendous improvements in this round of elections, given the, given the improvements, I tell people that Wike and Edom Emmanuel, both, Governors of River State and Aqua Ebum, wouldn't have emerged, wouldn't have emerged as governors if we had, if we had the use of technology the countenance in the electoral act 2010 that was used to conduct the elections in 2015. You know what? Because at the court of first instance, that's at the elections petitions tribunal, they lost. At the court of appeal, they lost. It was not until it got to the Supreme Court that the Supreme Court said, you know what? The use of technology, that the use of technology was only, was only embedded in, in annex regulation, but that it was not in this. We will come back to you, that's because we have been joined by Nika Gule via Zoom and Augustine Ega. They'll be joining in conversation. Gentlemen, if you're here with us, it's a very happy day and it's good to have you join us. Nika Gule, can you hear us? Yes, I can hear you very well. Nika Gule, can you hear us? Yes, can you hear me? Your audio doesn't seem to. Well, if you can hear me, then I'd request that you please unmute your device. That would be very great. My mic is unmuted. Augustine Ega, can you hear me now? It's unmuted. My mic is unmuted. Can you hear me? Nika Gule, it's good to have you this morning on the ballot. Thank you for joining us. Yes, thank you very much. Can you hear me? Yes, yes. Okay, so I am actually sitting here in Bandeka in Benway State. I have come to cast my vote. Bandeka is the last local government before you get into Cross River State. So I'm happy to be here. Good morning to the panelists and good morning to all Nigeria's women abroad. What's the situation like in Benway State? Is there any complaint? Because in some states we are hearing some complaints coming, maybe because of logistics or because of one problem or the other. How is the situation like in Benway? I don't have the position now in all 23 local governments in Benway State. But at the same time, if there was anything that was happening that was not going right, I would have been aware of that. It would have become some sort of news because I'm very much connected to what is happening in the state. So far it's been calm. There has been no news of either insecurity or logistics problems. In fact, on my way yesterday from Makode, which is the capital, traveling to Bandeka, I saw a lot of activities by INEC officials. I saw so many buses, commercial buses that were hired by INEC at a point in Boku. I saw a great number of them. Then at a point after I left Boku, I saw some of them at a petrol station filling up. So far, I'm heavily connected on social media. So if there was anything that was on towards happening in Benway, it would have been picked up now by social media and I would have been aware of that. So I can say that Benway so far is calm and getting ready for the polls. Alright, so let's talk about where you are now. One of the issues that we've been talking about is the preparedness of INEC for this election. And over time, logistics has been a recurring issue that has been always an issue for us and for the country. But INEC has said that 2023 will be different. Elections are stuplated to commence at 8.30 and that's it. I'd like to ask you, do you have the presence of the officials right there? Are the materials already around? We're looking at a time now that it's 7.40. So I am not yet at my polling unit for me to be able to make an assessment if materials for the elections have arrived at my polling unit. But I believe that INEC is well prepared for this election. INEC had four years, four years to prepare for these elections. And within those four years, INEC have been testing their systems, their processes and procedures. They have even had the opportunity to test the new electoral law in elections, mid-term elections that have happened in Akiti and Oshun and in other places. So I think even an umbrella if I remember words. So INEC, and if I look at the body language of INEC, I have said this thing on this show before. I say that INEC was very instrumental to the passing of the 2022 electoral law. If INEC as a body were not for free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria, they wouldn't have given their backing, so much backing to the electoral law. Majority of the provisions in the 2022 electoral law were actually from INEC. And I think I was speaking to an INEC official who said that the National Assembly only took like 25% of the provisions that INEC had wanted inserted in the electoral law. So from the conduct of INEC, right from the body language of the chairman down to the conduct of the officials, I have every sense of judgment to believe that INEC is ready to give Nigerians an election that will probably be the best in our history. The reason being that the 2022 electoral law has actually empowered us as a people. I'm sitting here now on my computer. I have already developed a template that has 176,000 rows on it, each row being a polling unit. And as the results of polling units are being posted on the INEC server, I will be entering those results on my spreadsheet. And probably by 6pm today, we Nigerians who have voted, we already know who has won. I will just be waiting for INEC to make it official, probably on Monday or so. So this is an electoral law that has squarely handed over power to us as Nigerians. And I think INEC is ready for this. Okay, I'd like to say when you get to your polling unit and you have more activities happening there that you can talk to us, you please reconnect with us so that we can get inside information to what is happening where you are. Even if you don't have information about everywhere else in Benway State, at least where you are and voting, we need to know that as well. Thank you very much. But just before we go, I mean, there's also the conversation we had in the studio. I don't know if you were part of it. And the conversation, the argument is, we think that at this point INEC should be able to take care of some basic things. And I made reference to the Electoral Act and the fact that of 2022 and a financial autonomy, which has been granted to some extent. And now Oba is here also in the studio with us. And he thinks that that's in the books, right? So at this point, there's also a video part today that made the rounds where a vehicle was reportedly broken down under the road. I mean, you need to see the vehicle very sad trying to take materials to across the state. And that video was user generated. But I'm saying at this point, should INEC not be able to cater for her needs, get her own vehicles without having to contract people, and, you know, just maybe, if I'm sounding too extra, get a helicopter. That is going to be very difficult. Because we have 176,000 polyunits in Nigeria. And if INEC were to buy 176,000 vehicles, that's going to probably the entire budget that is given to INEC. So the only thing INEC can do is that there are very, you know, high quality commercial vehicles. They don't have to go for rickety ones. They can partner with commercial entities like the quality of vehicles I saw doing electoral duties in Benway as I was coming here. They were of high quality. So probably this is a situation where there was a misjudgment by someone who decided to go for a vehicle that was not competent enough for this election. But outside that, one other thing with the 2022 electoral law is that if electoral materials don't come to a polling unit, and specifically the beavers, if that beavers is not used, the election in that polling unit will be postponed. You know, in the days before the 2022 electoral law, the provision was that if the card reader was not available or was not working, they resorted to manual accreditation. And most times a card reader that was there was working will be sidelined so that politicians will be able to resort to manual accreditation and then they will go ahead with their nationality guns. These 2022 electoral laws say we must vote by beavers. So even if a particular polling unit does not have beavers, does not have electoral materials, their election will be postponed. And when beavers is found, it will be brought and the people will vote. It's a good thing we are having this time around.


As for the Gidebes people, most of them don't know that this kind of issue is existing because, for example, if they receive the call from overseas, they keep on receiving that call from that number. There's no number from their contacts. They didn't report that because they don't know that that's an issue. PNG also experienced a number eject where its country called 675 was ejected but they called to access the service, never terminating PNG. Just come to our international level and then seamlessly terminating the Asia country. From my perspective, number misappropriation is probably going on for a long time. I think the biggest issue is there's been a lack of knowledge of the activities, particularly at the regulator level and a lack of knowledge of actually what do we actually do about it and how can we go about trying to curtail this particular activity. In one way or another, it will get affected because this foreign government would not stop once they see it's a bit hot to operate in the Pacific Islands. Then they'll start operating in other country numbers so it will get around to every region. So I think if we do a global act together that would be a good platform to set. Number misuse can have deep economic, social and trade implications. In collaboration with our neighbouring Pacific Island countries, we've worked closely with the ITU to raise awareness and build capacity to combat this issue. This project is expected to result in real benefits for island countries and improved telephone numbering management practices. Progress to date has seen increased sharing of information between the nations and the development of best practice guidelines. And these will enable us to counter misappropriation. Australia is now looking at ways to share the outcomes of this project within the ITU so that others may learn from and build on the work.


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