Hello, everyone. My name is Paul. Thank you for coming back to this session after a good lunch. So yeah, welcome to this, the day of Edge. Model serving at the Edge made easier is the name of my talk. I am Paul Van Neck. I am an open source software engineer at IBM based in Silicon Valley Labs in California. My co-speaker could not be here today. My co-speaker, Animesh Singh. So it'll just be me. But he will be with us in spirit, or more likely, probably asleep in California. So just to kind of give an outline for the talk, we're going to first kind of go over Edge computing and the whole model serving overview, then the whole notion of using Kubernetes for model serving at the Edge. Then using Model Mesh, something called Model Mesh, which I will introduce to easily manage kind of higher density Edge model deployments on Kubernetes, on Edge. So yeah, we're going to an example of deployment and some challenges that were encountered and some lessons learned. So yeah, so as you all probably already know, we are in the midst of a new generation of computing. Edge computing, that's why we're here. And so with each generation of computing before it, Edge will impact every industry and force IT departments to adapt to new architectures, new deployment models, and business models. And so here we focus on bringing computing to offices, distribution centers, manufacturing sites. And so this kind of create this decentralized approach to application design and bring with it new challenges of workload management across thousands or millions of Edge nodes. And so it helps to visualize Edge computing through the continuum of physical infrastructure from centralized data centers to devices, right? So to the far right of the diagram, that shows the centralized data centers, representing cloud-based compute. And here, cloud resources are practically unlimited, whereas device resources are inherently constrained. And so moving along the continuum from centralized data centers towards devices, the first main edge here is the service provider edge. And this is distributed and brings Edge computing resources much closer to end users. And so moving even more right, we have the user edge, which represents a highly diverse mixture of resources. And as a general rule, the closer that Edge compute resources get to the physical world, the more constrained and specialized they become. So this user edge space is essentially the focus for today. And so as we look at workloads that benefit from running at the edge, we see things like business logic applications, network modernization. Then the focus where I want to kind of focus on today is a notion of stretching AI and analytics to the edge. So in this scenario, a user's predefined train models can then be deployed to the edge. Additionally, customers can train the models on the edge as well in real time by capturing the data and having the models be retrained as they operate at the edge. And so as we look at the machine learning lifecycle, we see that ML models are constantly being updated. You do your training, your retraining, and deployment. And so model deployment is a very key aspect as without deployment, how else will you consume the model and bring AI to your systems? And so as it turns out, actually doing production grade model deployment and inference is actually plagued with complexities, there are quite a number of things to consider. And here are some of the questions that a user might have to navigate when considering model serving approaches. But again, the focus for today is model serving at the edge on resource constrained devices. Single board computers are in systems on modules. Sometimes it's a necessity to use on-premise and distributed compute resources that are closer to end users. So user edge deployment in this sense comes with many benefits. Data locality is the first one. We perform inference where the data is. This ties in the quicker inference response times and bandwidth consumption savings. So you no longer have to necessarily send your data or your inference payload to the cloud or across some expansive network. So this also has the benefits of increased security and data privacy. So remember, we still have those complexities we want to tackle, those complexities we saw on the previous slide. So how do we handle these complexities at the edge? And so one of the ways is, of course, Kubernetes at the edge. And that's kind of the topic for today. So we want to leverage orchestration capabilities of Kubernetes at the edge. So as you all may know, there are several ways to use Kubernetes at the edge. You can deploy a whole lightweight cluster on the edge devices using things like K3S, micro K8s, and something called MicroShift, which is kind of a relatively new project that offers a small form factor open shift designed for field deployed, low resource devices. And so multiple edge clusters can be deployed. And you can do something like cluster management tools, such as open cluster management, to manage each individual cluster. And then there's the option of having the control plane on some cloud somewhere. And this will be your main Kubernetes cluster. And then you add edge nodes managed by something like Kube Edge. And so these edge worker nodes will be available for deployment. And so for us, I'm going to go with the edge deployed Kubernetes clusters to keep everything at the edge. And I guess one typical approach for deploying apps or models on the edge is to just containerize the model server and create a Kubernetes deployment. And maybe you might mount the volume and which contains your model files, your assets. And eventually you'll do a kubectl apply and deploy the actual containers. So this is essentially what other model serving platforms, I guess, most Kubernetes-based model serving platforms inevitably do. However, this can be quite cumbersome, especially when you're dealing with a lot of model frameworks. Different TensorFlow and PyTorch each have their own images and different arguments you have to worry about. So it's kind of like a rabbit hole. You have to jump in and might be a little daunting. And so you might lose out on certain aspects. So feature richness of scale to zero or you might have varying inference request formats or protocols that are used on different model servers, which can be annoying. So can traditional model serving platforms for Kubernetes extend to edge devices? And so first, I'm going to introduce kServe. And so kServe started off in the Kubeflow umbrella as the model serving platform for Kubeflow. So it is now an incubating project in the Linux, the LFAI and Data Foundation. And so what it is, it's a highly scalable and standard-based model inference platform on Kubernetes for trusted AI.  You have underlying kServe is Knative and is TO. This is an optional layer. You can either deploy models using Knative or you can use a raw deployment mode where you just deploy models using just standard Kubernetes resources like deployments, ingresses, and services. So some of the benefits of kServe, it provides an easy to use interface and or CRD called an inference service for deploying models given a format and storage endpoint. So typically, you just need to provide these two items and you can give the kServe. And kServe will know what to do with it. We'll find the appropriate images to load and we'll load it into the container. Another advantage of kServe is that it revolves around a standardized inference protocol. So this is something that the community has helped shape. People from other model servers like NVIDIA, I think PyTorchServe supports this protocol and Seldin's ML server. And so by implementing this protocol, both inference clients and servers will increase their utility and portability. You can seamlessly integrate on other platforms and perform standardized inference using this protocol. So some of the main ones are Triton server, PyTorchServe, and ML server. And these are some of the standardized REST or GRPC endpoints. So what this kServe brings, it's not necessarily good for edge. There's resource overhead because of sidecars might be injected into each pod. Having an independent model server per model or a model per pod, it's a lot of resource consumption being done. So it doesn't make the best use of you're already resource constrained on these edge devices. And so we need a way where we can serve multiple models in a singular pod or container. And that's where kServe's multi-model serving backend for multi-model backend comes into play. So this is a project that was open sourced by IBM last year and is joined to kServe organization. So as users were getting hit with these scalability issues with the traditional model serving on Knative, we decided we needed to open-source or consolidate on a path or approach for handle multi-model serving, aka having multiple models inside a container. So ModelMesh is a platform. Yeah, it's been running inside IBM or in production for quite a few years now. And it's the backbone for quite a few of Watson's services. You have Watson Assistant, Watson Natural Language Understanding, and Watson Discovery. And so ModelMesh allows for multiple models per container, but it allows models to be paged out if it's not being used or loaded just in time if a request comes in that needs that model. So it has some parallels to Knative and serverless, but it's kind of just relegated to a single container. So yeah, so it does strike an intelligent trade-off between responsiveness to users and their computational footprint. So I would say it does make the use, makes excellent use of resources on your cluster. So the overall architecture might look something like this. So when a user applies an infant service YAML containing the model details, the ModelMesh controller will select the suitable serving runtime pod in which to host the model. So the pods for these serving runtimes, that's kind of the important part where you see the green and orange. So these pods are typically they contain three containers. You have the model server container, which is typically a third part of the infant server or server like Triton or ML server. These support loading multiple models and have unload and loading endpoints, which we can use to kind of dynamically alter which models are deployed. And so then we have the ModelMesh sidecar container, which handles the model management and handles both control and data plane request routing. Then we have the puller, which handles pulling models from external object stores or endpoints. So this handles pulling it into the actual cluster, pulling model files into the cluster. So a single Kubernetes service at the top points to all pods across all deployments and external inferencing requests are made via the service and the whichever ingress ModelMesh pod it hits, ModelMesh will determine where the model is actually loaded, which actual model server the model is actually deployed in and will route the request as needed. So just a side note, LCD is used as the coordinate operations in persist model and instance states. Yeah, so like I said, the model servers are kind of an integral part of ModelMesh. So K-Serve or ModelMesh has serving runtimes. This is a CRD that is used for defining model serving environments and which container images should be used or loaded and what the supported model formats are. So currently out of the box, these are the two main ones, Triton inference server and ML server. And so you can pretty much use anything. I think we're working on. We have Open Veno. We have, I think, Torch servers in the works. But as long as it supports dynamic loading and unloading, ModelMesh should be compatible with it. And so as mentioned, ModelMesh has been running in production cloud environments for quite a while. So the question that I guess I was thinking about is, is it tenable to bring it on the Kubernetes on the edge? So let's talk about some of the advantages it might provide. So first, through K-Serve's inference service interface, users are able to easily deploy multiple models into singular serving runtime containers or pods, which drastically reduces the resource overhead compared to the single model per pod pattern that is typical with traditional model serving. So each pod typically has resource requests. And it would be quite easy to hit allocation limits when dealing with even just a few models on resource constrained devices. So another thing we pay attention to that ModelMesh is one of the key features of ModelMesh is its whole aspect of cache management and, to some extent, high availability. So ModelMesh treats the set of pre-provisioned pods on the Kubernetes cluster as an LRU cache. And so ModelMesh decides which models are loaded or unloaded based on usage recency or current request volumes. So if you have multiple edge nodes, a model might be scaled out to have copies on each of the nodes if there are serving runtimes available. And so if a specific model is getting swamped with traffic, it might scale out to produce ModelMesh, might decide, hey, let's load this into additional serving runtime pods to create more availability for that model. But if a loaded model hasn't received any traffic in a while and a new model comes in and the cache happens to be full, the least recently used model will be evicted from the cache. That means unloaded from the model server's memory to make room for the new model to be loaded and used. So with this cache management, ModelMesh works well for handling unevenly distributed inference request load. You might have 20 models registered, and perhaps only five are more commonly used, kind of like the 80-20 role, where 20% of the models handle 80% or handling 80% of the traffic. And so some additional highlights of ModelMesh is it's intelligent placement and loading. ModelMesh tries to balance the cache age across the pods as well as the request load. So again, it's striking a balance, trying to keep it balanced. And there is a priority loading of models. So a model with a request waiting for it will be bumped to the front of the line if there is a request waiting on it and if there is a loading queue. So this all ensures we balance resource usage across nodes or edge devices, as well as improved responsiveness. So after having deployed models, what about day two operations? So a key aspect is the operational simplicity of ModelMesh. It supports rolling updates automatically. So if you deploy a new model, the old version of that model will continue to receive all the traffic until the new model is loaded into memory and is ready for inference. And at that point, the traffic will be shifted. So yeah, this all sounds great. So I wanted to try ModelMesh on edge, and that's what I did. So here, I unfortunately cannot bring my Jetson Nana to this event, but that's a picture of my Jetson Nana on the right. And so on my Jetson Nana, which has a quad-core ARM64-based processor and 4 gigabytes of RAM, I deployed MicroShift, which is a small-form factor, OpenShift, as I mentioned. It's a project that's currently being developed by the Red Hat Emerging Technologies Group. And for those that don't know what OpenShift is, it's kind of the Red Hat's Enterprise Kubernetes platform. So in any case, MicroShift does work remarkably well, especially on this Jetson Nana. It runs as a single binary and runs on less than one gigabyte of RAM and generally less than a core, a single CPU core. So with MicroShift, I have an all-in-one minimal installation of Kubernetes on my Jetson Nana. And on top of this, I deployed ModelMesh as kind of like a standalone installation. So since ModelMesh is a part of K-Serve, but in this case, I don't care. I didn't really care too much about the single model serving. So I opted to not install the K-Serve controller and just use the ModelMesh controller, because right now ModelMesh controller is its own standalone controller. And it saves resources, trying to squeeze out the most from your device. So with ModelMesh, I was able to deploy a mix of TensorFlow and Onyx machine learning models, which by default with ModelMesh automatically maps to the Triton inference serving runtime. Because Triton serving runtime supports quite a few of the model formats. And performing GRPC inference was pretty fast. ModelMesh, the primary API, is GRPC. And so even if a model was loaded in memory, you get less than a second inference response time. And then if it has to unload and load the model, you might have to wait a few seconds. And so after that, I wanted to try higher density model packing. So I wanted to apply more inference services to the cluster to register more models with ModelMesh. And so I deployed around. So in this case, in my scenario, I deployed around 17 or so dense net Onyx models. So these are about, I want to say, about 36 megabytes each. They're for image classification over, I think, 1,000 or so categories. And so on the right, you have a simple diagram where it kind of shows what's kind of deployed on the ModelMesh side of things. And so I exposed the service as a node port. And from anywhere on my network, I can send inference response or inference request to Garner to kind of get whatever inference response for my request. So again, this uses the ksrv2 protocol, gRPC specifically. And so with this, after applying, yes. When I do kubectl get inference services, I was able to get a list of registered models. And all of them are listed as ready, even though not all of them are necessarily loaded in memory. So for those familiar with gRPC, usually you have a protocol that kind of corresponds to the API you're using. So with that, I was able to generate a Python client for which I could send gRPC inference requests with arbitrary images for classification. So in the sample command, I send an inference request to one of the deployed ONIX models and receive my inference results based on, this is my cat, Mabel, who volunteered or got volunteered to be a part of my image classification. So the response times, even with all of these models, response times still sub-second. But if it is a cache miss, so again, not all of these can be loaded in the memory at once. If it's a cache miss, there is quite a few seconds of latency involved, because again, ModelMesh has to unload a model to make room for the target model of inference. So now, of course, even with just a single device, it's an all-in-one cluster installed with ModelMesh. It was very, I was pleasantly surprised to see I was able to deploy and host quite a few models, more than I expected, actually, with multiple devices or a separate control plane. So my control plane and my worker know they're all the same device. But still, I was able to get quite a lot out of this installation, especially on such a resource-constrained device. And so with multiple devices, for instance, if you maybe use a K3S cluster multi-worker node, you could definitely get larger cache sizes for model loading and the opportunity for high availability. You can have multiple copies of models loaded on different nodes. And even more compute power, dedicated compute power for the model inference servers themselves. So yeah, this was overall a very interesting challenge for me. Since I'm a ModelMesh developer, I am looking more into how we can bring ModelMesh to other areas. And so generally, when you're dealing with, I guess, porting things to edge devices, you generally run into the lack of arm builds and support. For instance, KServe has some dependencies on some Python packages, which don't necessarily have arm support. And a lot of container images are only built. You might look for a container image for KServe on Docker Hub right now. That'd just be only AMD64 or x86. And so yeah. And so right now, I guess a lot of the images are huge over a gigabyte, especially. So there's a lot of trimming down that needs to be done. And so that's something that I kind of put into and considered when I was kind of building my own arm-based images. And of course, when you're dealing with edge devices, the whole need to create kind of smaller models and are doing some techniques like pruning or quantization. That's also something to be considered. But anyway, if you want to learn more, I do have some links here. Definitely try out any of these technologies. I do think model mesh, depending on your use case, can be a tenable solution for model serving on edge. And with that, I thank you. And I'll take any questions if there are any.


Yeah, hey Matt, what are some of the challenges you all face against this Buffalo defense that's number one in yards and passing yards. I think it's really good defense, you know, talented in front seven, you know, good front four, good interior players in the front four, strong and physical. I think their linebackers play instinctive, they play aggressive, two really good safeties, you know, they're very strong up the middle. They've had some injuries at the corner spot, but, you know, with them playing so aggressive and playing so well up front, I think it, you know, that's the strength of that unit. So it's going to be a good challenge for us, you know, but that's right where you want to be this time of the year playing against really good football teams, you know, with playoff implications on the line. So, you know, I'm excited about that challenge this Sunday. Yeah, and then I was just asking coach about it's been the last seven games you haven't passed for 300 yards. And he said basically told me he and the stat guy he's learned about winning. Yeah, I have to go back in 2010 when that was the last time you hadn't had a, you know, back in the Michael Turner days that you haven't had a 300 yard game. I trade my position right now for the last two seasons that we're in, you know, and with an opportunity for the playoffs and playing in meaningful games, important games. I think, you know, I played for a long time and, you know, the objective is to win regardless of how you do it.  I got to find a way to help our team win. Thank you, Matt. You got to deal with Michael. Hi, Matt. First, I'm curious. Are you or are you y'all as quarterbacks doing anything to mitigate risk from COVID slash Omicron that it's maybe changed in the last few weeks or has been something even this entire season that you've been focusing on as you've seen so many quarterbacks when the league start to kind of pop up on lists.  So, you know, I feel good about that.  But I think in the building, you know, art's done a good job of setting it up to try and mitigate the risk. We just follow, you know, the rules that they set. But as far as, you know, a specifically meeting all year, we've been spaced out. We're not in a tight, you know, meeting room. So none of us are really that close all day. And it's a lot of time, you know, spent separate from each other, which is different from years past. So I think they've done a good job with that all year. Are you talking just quarterbacks there? Are you talking about the entire offense when you're talking about spacing? Yeah, I think just quarterbacks, you know, for throughout the year, trying to put us in different parts of the room to mitigate, you know, just any kind of contact tracing or being around each other. But then, you know, as far as team meetings and offensive meetings, obviously, you know, the rules have changed in the last, I guess last week and then this week as well. So we've been spaced out in the indoor facility and in some of our bigger team meeting rooms and nobody's really close together. And this is a little bit kind of off topic, I guess. But do you remember like what pregame of Super Bowl was like for you? Was it different at all? Was it like more anxiety? Was there more anxiety? Was there more anything in that situation than like a regular game or even a regular playoff game? I mean, I don't, I'm never like super anxious, anxiety, you know, those kind of things before games. I don't think it was that, you know, obviously, you know, very excited. I think the pregame just, the other things going on, you know, the amount of other things that were there probably were the biggest thing that was different. But as far as my approach, you know, I, looking back on it, I felt really good, you know, really confident, really similar. I try and, you know, do the same things every week. I try and, you know, get myself in that same space to go play as well as I can every week.  Appreciate it. Thanks. Of course, Josh. Matt, I don't know how often you get a chance to watch Josh Allen play, but do you, do you ever cringe the way he plays the position just from a health standpoint? Do you think you worry about his long-term viability or? I think that's just the, he's a big, listen, he's got a different build than I do. He's got, he's got a little more size to him. So he's got, you know, a little more probably wherewithal to be able to withstand some of the things that he does.  There's no question about it, but his ability to extend plays and use his legs to make plays have been critical for their team for a couple of years. And I don't cringe or anything like that. You know, I know it's part of the game is, you know, you got to, you got to handle some of those things, but I've certainly been impressed with, with, you know, the little bit of crossover that I've seen of him the last couple of years. Thanks, Matt. Tori. Yeah, Matt, we were talking to Arthur and he was kind of talking about how this duo of safeties that you've kind of already talked about with Buffalo are pretty underrated. He thinks they're underrated. What do you kind of see from, from that, that group specifically in kind of what they're doing that maybe doesn't show up all the time? I think, I think you see two guys that really know the scheme well and have been in it and understand, you know, some of the issues that they have, but also some of the the issues that they can create in terms of disguising different looks for offenses. And so I just see confident players, you know, it's the biggest thing when you watch when you watch them they understand what they're being coached to do what they're asked to do what the issues are with their defense and where they need to be. And they give you a lot of pre snap consternation. I mean, they move into a lot of different places. So you really, you know, you really have to do a great job during the week of getting yourself prepared for for them kind of having moving parts after after the snap.  Probably as good as anybody in the league. Gotcha. Awesome. Thank you. George Henry. I'm good. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Chris, you got anything? No, I'm good. Okay. Do you have any follow ups? Yes, I learned to ask about two main Edmonds, the linebacker there, Farrell Farrell Edmonds son, you know, in the play that he's been bringing for Buck Love. He's done a great job. Big physical player, you know, at that middle linebacker position for them and stout against the run.  And I think he's he fits really well within what they're asking him to do. So I've been, you know, impressed with with both their linebackers, but specifically him, you know, he's done a good job. Thank you. Michael. Yeah, I just want to ask a little bit about what you remember about John Madden like and what like if he taught you anything, whether it was like as a brother because you weren't old enough to be a coach but like as a broadcast or you know, how much you may be played Madden growing up like any anything like you remember about that or about him. Yeah. He was the man with the cure for athletes foot man. It was like the boom tough act into mech that I remember those commercials when I was growing up. Those were, those were memorable. Just watching football games with hit him and Pat summer all I mean that was really, you know, my youth and so a lot of those games growing up in Philadelphia whether it was Dallas Cowboys playing, you know, Philadelphia Eagles we would get those games and and it was just what football sounded like to me growing up, you know, and, and then, you know, the video game.  It was just that's a fabric of, you know, of an adolescent, you know, like a young Matt Ryan team, you know, that was what you did, you know, after school or when you're not outside playing to play Madden and same through college.   What team did you always say? Did you always use the same team in Madden or like, would you mix it up to do brothers or we would mix it up a lot. Like, then they got the sort, you know, the sort whenever that invention came in where you didn't know which team you were going to get and we would just have the random teams picked up. That was what we usually did, you know, with my brothers. Were you any good or did your brothers beat you pretty good? That was pretty, it was pretty even split, you know, we were all decent. I had a college roommate, Ryan Thompson, played tight end for us at BC, and he was the one, he had my number. I couldn't, I couldn't get after Ryan ever in Madden. He kind of wore out our entire room, but he was, he was a pretty serious gamer at that point. Cool. Appreciate it. Thanks, Matt. No problem. All right. Thanks, everybody.


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So when FDR comes into office in March of 1933, he's got to deal with a banking system that is in shambles. People are taking out their savings because they don't trust the banks. A third of the banks have shut their doors, have collapsed. So what FDR first has to do is to prop up the banks. The next thing he's got to do is prop up the agricultural economy because agriculture is where the vast majority of unemployment is. Once FDR gets the banking system set up, he deals with the two fundamental sectors of the American economy, business and agriculture. And agriculture is dealt with with the Agricultural Adjustment Act because it's the issues of overproduction and underconsumption. So FDR says to the farmers, listen, we got to control overproduction, which means that you can't use all of your land. But the government wants to help you and not penalize you for doing this. So if you take 10% of your land out of cultivation, if you leave it fallow, then the government will pay you 10% of what you made last year to help make up for that loss. So once FDR deals with the farm economy, he's got to deal with big business and small business. The legislation is the National Industrial Recovery Act, the NIRA. It sets up the NRA, the National Recovery Administration. Now, instead of saying, okay, take 10% of your business aside and we'll pay you, they set up a gazillion codes, price codes and wage codes. And if you adhere to it, you got this great blue eagle that you put in your window as this great government seal that says, we do our part. And what are you doing? What is your part? By 1935, the economy is back to where it was in 1929. It's back to where it was when the stock market crashed. But the stock market is not the beginning of the Great Depression. It's when the Great Depression hit the middle class. And so what FDR realizes in 1935 is that he has to take additional steps to deal with these crises because the big overarching programs, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Recovery Administration are not dealing with the problems in as comprehensive and widespread way as FDR wants. So how does FDR navigate this? Well, he's got a great Democratic majority in 1934 because the Democrats really come back and take over Congress. So he's got to capitalize on this goodwill. He's got to address his critics. And he's got to address the American people to get them involved. FDR is getting ready to present all of this legislation in 1935. And it's this together that's collectively known as the second New Deal. And so when FDR begins to do this, he understands how to talk. He can talk to the American people without being condescending. Whenever FDR was on the radio, as many people listened to FDR as listened to Amos and Andy, which is the most popular show on the radio. It is a remarkable study in power and in conversation. It's not a press conference. It's more like a graduate tutorial to the American public on how relief policy is going to work and the extent, the limits and successes that his early policies have put into play. He talks about how far they've come, but clearly there's much more to do.


Coming to you from our GIF Studios, I am Anitia Antoine and this is your Mayday News Brief. The St. Lucia Tourism Authority, Ministry of Tourism, and the St. Lucia and Slasper have teamed up to ensure continuous enhancement of St. Lucia's cruise tourism products. Approximately 300 frontline staff of onshore businesses began the Customer Service Frontline Training Program. The training hosted by Florida Caribbean Cruise Association, FCCA, is being facilitated by Aquila's Centre for Cruise Excellence. The two-day training encompasses Tour Operator Excellence, Tour Guide Excellence, and Port Excellence, all designed to help the key players in the cruise industry achieve excellence in their ports, tours, guides, and businesses. In an effort to ensure that best practices are adopted following the training, frontline officers will be evaluated in their respective lines of duty. The officers upon completion of training will become certified frontline experts in Customer Service. The Make It Happen Foundation since inception has been devoted to helping police officers and firefighters with upgrades to their work spaces and providing equipment where needed. The Foundation, spearheaded by Raquel Douboulay, has broadened its reach to support women victims of domestic violence and their dependent children. In recent years, the Women's Support Centre has developed a student assistance program through which children of clients receive assistance with the acquisition of school supplies, uniforms, and in some cases, payment of school fees. In March, the Foundation hosted the first ever Tea and Testimony event which brought over 300 women together to help raise funds for the Women's Support Centre. On April 29th, the Foundation made a check presentation in the amount of $15,000 to the centre from the proceeds of the Tea and Testimony event. As the key economic pillar for future growth, considerable attention has been paid to the Village Tourism Strategy. Some 20 game changers have been developed to accelerate growth in both tourist arrivals and tourist receipts. The aim is to increase scale over tourists from 386,000 arrivals in 2017 to 541,000 by 2022. The Honourable Prime Minister during his budget presentation revealed that whether it is an adventure tourism, eco-tourism, heritage tourism, or wellness tourism, the country must evolve its product beyond the package-based offering, now reasonably well covered in its market. Part of the new approach is formal agreements with sharing economy providers like Airbnb. Village tourism will allow interested persons to become participants in the value chain of tourism and improve their social outcomes. The key economic targets of the tourism sector strategy are to increase GDP contributions to 1.9 billion by 2022, attract investments of 3.5 billion by 2022, and create over 4,000 jobs by 2022. This has been your media news brief. Thank you for watching.


Welcome back to the channel. Hope you guys have great evening day. We're gonna take a look at your weekend messages to see what shows up for love, career, health, money, all that good stuff, whatever comes up comes up. So the weekend messages will be from February 23rd through the 25th, but just keep in mind these messages can happen at any time. Also would like to welcome some of our new members and thank you Steve Oh for gifting all of those memberships yesterday. Super awesome. If you are a member you can gift a membership randomly to anyone in the chat or anyone that is a subscriber to the channel. 2.99 per month and that membership lasts for like I think a month. So Raymond Mercado, Sean Sanders, Sarah Persephone, Bella B, Ralph K, Michelle, and I think I said some of you yesterday. Nelsby Joy Turner, Stephanie Lopez, I may be repeating myself, but thank you guys for being a part of the Virgo gang. Super awesome. Okay personal reading link is in the description box below this video and yeah let's get into your weekend. Okay starting off here you have starting with Friday you have burn out what your hard work will see results but your health needs to be maintained. So check in with your doctor, dentist, and health professional and try to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Okay so not necessarily all of you need to go see a physician but you may have been working extra hard on something and you're getting you be careful of this burn out. Maybe this weekend Virgo is a good time for you to just take a couple days, relax, get some rest, recover a little bit. Let's take a look and see. Yeah there you go kind of zone out Virgo. It looks like take a little time to yourself.  Kind of just give yourself a little time to rest and relax, reflect maybe. Okay and then you can get up and go because I do feel like Virgo you've been burning the candle at both ends. Yeah trying to get yourself in you know some kind of good position for yourself. It looks like whether that's work or with family or maybe spending a lot of time with someone during the week maybe a romantic partner and now it looks like this weekend. Take a break.  You might get an invite to connect with some family. You could also receive some type of message from a Virgo whom is like you know what let's get away for the weekend. You want to do something that could be romantic partner or it could be a friend. Let's just disappear. Let's spend some time together. Some of you might be thinking that you do need to go see a family physician as well so you might do that over this weekend Virgo. Now these messages just keep in mind are going to be a little short tonight but that's okay. I'll add some more as we go. Let me just get a clarifying card for the permit. Okay. Oh wow. Yeah. You got the three of cups. So definitely Virgo. This is you. Your people. I'm hearing either one person or some other people want a refresher with you. They want to spend some time with you.  Putting your nose to the grindstone this past week or the past few weeks whichever. You go if you get an invite to go out or to spend some time with someone on Friday or some friends or you know like your soul tribe I like to say. Do it. I feel like there's a lot of support around you and I feel like it's a good thing. It's like a little R&R. Maybe have some drinks if you like to have drinks or some good food or something along those lines. Just take a break. Okay. So Saturday you have planning. Now is the time to lay down the foundations for your future. Financial gains are more than likely. Little reorganizing on Saturday perhaps. Making some plans on Saturday for some money to come in. Let's take a look and see. Oh okay. So you've got justice. So this could be some of you might be working on your taxes this weekend.  Let's take a look. Yeah. Something to do with work. I see you. I see you on this weekend doing something with your money. Financial gains. Working. Building on something. You know and do you hear that you guys weird stuff always happens when I'm recording. So something to do with home. Some of you might be maybe you got a tax refund already and you're going to do some work at home. Like maybe you'll redecorate or you're going to add an addition or work on finishing a project at home on Saturday. Planning something out for your home is what I feel like. Maybe a family room I'm hearing as well. There's something here. They're telling me like if you're doing any kind of doing any taxes if you haven't done them yet you're going to get some money back to be able to work on something or finish something at home and if it's not a refund it's just you'll be paying a lot less. You can have money left over. You're not going to owe as much. Something along those lines. You may have already started that maybe already that already has happened but now you can plan on Saturday I see you with what you want to do with your home. Something along those lines.  Saturday is like wake up in the morning get your coffee get your tea have your smoothie do your workout whatever and work make some plans lay down some type of foundation you might be also thinking about starting up a business or doing something some type of work relation to your home okay maybe it's going to start working from home as well. Now look at this Sunday is all about love so love is in the air great time for community sorry commitment and taking a relationship to the next level okay so let's see what's happening here on Sunday yeah and just keep in mind you know Friday you might be like no I gotta get the taxes done Saturday I'm gonna go out okay or Saturday could be the day of love and Sunday is the day you start planning for the week so just you know either it happens that way or you just follow along here and make these things happen alright let's take a look at love what's going on commitment and a relationship oh the high priestess queen of cups and you Virgo okay hmm secret lover that's what you are huh there's a secret love there's a secret lover there's a someone that you hmm okay this is this is quite specific there's someone that you have a secret love relationship with okay and remember that's not for everyone if that's you you know I'm talking to you that there is something about a relationship between you and someone there's a hush hush kind of private relationship that is going to start moving forward wow yeah there's there's talk that you and another person there's like a crush energy now for those of you that are in some kind of secret love relationship there's there's talk about taking a relationship to a next level to committing okay on Sunday now if you're not in a secret relationship with anyone and you're just solo on your own there's something brewing here behind the scenes and you will get some communication from someone now they say love is in the air so it could be with an air sign but I'm also picking up a Virgo Tars Capricorn Cancer Scorpio Pisces there's a there's a conversation that gets struck on Sunday someone reveals how or two people reveal how they feel about each other and it you know the page of wands is like my that's always my crush card you know that's like oh my gosh someone's so enamored and excited about you or you excited about them I do feel like it's been a little hush hush perhaps a water sign has been a bit hush hush about their feelings and I feel like you might get some communication while you're looking at your computer or your phone or you get a phone call where somebody shares and then you guys kind of share back and forth with each other about feelings this feels to me this kind of feels to me like there's an energy of hesitation to express it but gonna do it anyway okay you do have the six a cup so there's a message or communication that comes in it's very sincere and kind from someone now for some of you it gets revealed that someone you knew maybe in your childhood or when you were younger is feeling something for you or just someone from your past for some of you that energy is there and on a platonic front there may be some type of apology or something that comes between two siblings where there's this you know a fallout happens someone's a bit hesitant to reach out to another person but they do it anyway to try to make peace okay and it could be a friend but as far as love romantic type love I do feel like there is some type of reconciliation or reunion of some sort that someone expresses feelings from for for you or you and you might you might initiate and do it back either way it's a nice energy I actually really like it it's a nice energy it's sweet it's kind it's simple it's it's a feel good kind of communication and hey I'm really into you I've really liked you for a long time I have I have feelings for you sincere true authentic romantic feelings for you and I want to take our relationship to you know either go into a commitment become more exclusive or do something with us right so let's see what your messages of love are oh wow okay very of fate this is a destined partnership well as far as the love thing goes absolutely this you and this person are meant to come together and spend your I dare I say your lives together okay so you have self-care clear your energy field and focus on yourself before acting you might be hesitant to receive this message Virgo this romantic message so you might want to just kind of do a refresh before responding if you receive this message but self-care over the weekend also because of burnout really important oh wow there's your past life love so for some of you this is a past life connection that comes through or a past person let's see what else shows up here for you okay so for some of you there is a red flag with this person so you might want to pay attention to that and I feel like some of you might already know what that's about okay maybe there were red flags before for others the red flag overall is if you're working on your taxes or working on your home or you got some burnout and you need to relax like pay attention to any red flags over this weekend because they feel like red flags are just basically signs like hey there's something here pay attention your body Virgo your thoughts your feelings you do have a marriage situation that's moving toward a sacred union a relationship and you also have forgiveness wow so even when I was talking about maybe someone you had a falling out with in the past there's a resolution that evolves to a relationship whether it's romantic or platonic there's a forgiving energy that happens on especially Sunday where by it's kind of like let's let by guns be got be by guns let's try to start over let's you know forgive each other let's wipe this late clean let's have a new beginning a new start you know Virgo so that's pretty nice let's take a look and see what initials okay we've got the letter D you have an E someone's in Delaware oh deal owed let's see September 21st August 31st got a Y September 13th someone is 40 letter a you have the letter n hmm okay someone's getting an EKG or just had an EKG hmm 1968 1987 someone's in New York oh 1983 now they just told me toad the wet sprocket someone is 37 okay hold on one second Utah I just heard Utah um okay oh I just got really dizzy real quick just really like a little vertigo what the heck was that all right 1960 or someone is 60 years of age September 1st and the letter H Hoda somebody's name is Hoda they just said someone's in New Hampshire there's a New Hampshire okay 48 years of age someone is 55 someone's having a problem with AT&T just heard or has AT&T alright 63 the letter Q something to do with headquarters I just heard and August 27th significant day okay yep there's the August and we have 1976 September 8th and the letter K oh and then a charm I accidentally picked up a charm let's take a look at this you guys I have not seen this yet ooh I have no idea what to make of that a crown with a wing and some hearts hmm I have no idea what to make of this I really don't let me see okay so the initial C someone's name starts with the initial starts with a C or has a C in their name I give me a second to try to intuit that I'll pull some more charms while I'm looking at that but that was that's a very odd look I've never seen that in my charm in my charms I'm gonna try to dig a little more for something that haven't picked up in a while oh okay getting a lot of hearts you guys and also hold on hold on okay we have a blue heart so I feel like somebody might be seeing a swan in a river or a lake or something to do with the word swan blue swan black swan it's weird because these kind of feel like they attach in some way there's a connection here with the moon a crescent moon a blue and the color blue and I'm seeing these feathers or wing wings okay I'm sorry I can't seem to figure when I finish this reading it's when it's gonna come to me I guarantee you when I finish the reading once I click off that's when it's gonna come to me and if it comes to me once I click off I will post it in the comments but if you pick up anything with that feel free to leave a comment what you might be seeing here and I do just want to get some zodiac signs here to see who the person is this romantic connection okay Capricorn Leo Aries and the Sagittarius my goodness so that's fire for sure let's see what else Aquarius double Aquarius Virgo Sagittarius again and one more for the road before I let you guys go oops a Virgo Aries Cancer and a Leo all right you guys so those are your weekend messages some of you I just heard keep it PG they just said keep it PG will you know what that means but keep it PG all right you guys oh they're also wait a minute now hold on they're pulling me back to August 8th some connection to someone who has a birthday August 8th or something happened on August 8th and they're giving me September 14th September 6th okay now all right so I guess we're not finished here some phone numbers 5583 3140 6376 48682113 so if those last four digits or those numbers are in your phone number that is a specific message for some of you it doesn't mean that it's not your message if those numbers don't resonate for you but that's what I'm picking up right now all right now 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Welcome to another Tick-Mail-Charlie with me, Patrick Malia has discussed yesterday on the live trade analysis session, had a bunch of these yens that I'm paying close attention to as some interesting setups developing, so just want to update here on the Euro Yen, looking for a correction against this impulse of advance off the lows here, a three-wave move down into ideally test this 129 level, watch for bullish reversal patterns there, set long positions, initially targeting move up into resistance at the 130-1 handle and potentially then an extension into an equality objective up towards 130-160 and then monthly range resistance 132 areas, so key levels to watch, bullish reversal patterns in and around this support zone at 130. As always trade, let's plan the trade, trade the plan, most importantly manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.


The police command in Kogi State has raided kidnappers then and rescued a man abducted on Sunday on the Ajau Kuta Lokoja Road. In a statement in Lokoja on Monday, the command spokesman DSP William Aya said that they recovered two AK-47 rifles and 29 rounds of live ammunition. Aya said a team of policemen immediately embarked on a search and rescue operation when they learned of the kidnap. He said the policemen traced the kidnappers to their hideout at about 8 p.m. on Sunday, engaged them in a gun duel, forcing them to flee with bullet wounds.


మార్ర్ఽివాకకంపార్చకాసివాకినోఎని. నిర్వర్ తిర్ంరే మిస్టిటిలినింరాని. కచత్ర్ర్స్రచి వివాల్సిస్నికంపిచి. It's on record, in four years, I consorted 12 livers in four years, not by any contractor, but jealous beggar, Nigerian limited. One of you Mr. President will answer the fact that you have even come to reverse state to commission budgets.  All have come to reverse state to commission projects. And I can tell you what is important, there's no thing like magic. What is important is what part should you have. My own question will be very simple, and it will have to do with your bio data. I just want clarifications around your bio data. Now, on the very first page, page one, you said you were born on the 2nd of December 1980. Now looking further down, you attended St. John's Primary School, Boko. You just wrote 1989. I'm wondering whether you finished primary school in 1989, which will suggest that you either started primary school at the age of three or two for you to finish in 1989. That's one. Two, you also claim that you... So as you know, the screening started yesterday, and of the 14 nominees listed on the other order paper for screening, seven were asked to take a bow and go, while four others were screened. The screening of at least three of the ministerial nominees was put on hold, for various reasons including some falsification and forgery amongst others. And according to the vanguard, some of the nominees asked to take a bow and go are the immediate past governors of River State, Nisom Wike, Abubaka Momo of Edo State, Senator Abubaka Kiari, Senator John Enno and the immediate past governor of Jigawa State, Abubaka Baderu. There was also Inkiru Onye, Jocha and the Nigerian Ambassador to Germany since 2017. That's Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Toka. All were asked to take a bow and go. The nominees whose screenings were put on hold and asked to clarify these issues where Professor Joseph Udsef, Senator Abubaka Sani Danladi of Taraba and Bill of Mohammed of Sokoto State. The screening continued today and the confirmation of the nominees will be done by the Senate upon the completion of the screening exercise. Now some are of the opinion that the ministerial screening is a necessity whilst others believe that it is simply a distraction. We really want to hear what your thoughts are. So please let's hear what you have to say. Remember you can join the conversation, send us an SMS or WhatsApp to 0818 038 4663. Tweet at us at Wayshow Africa 1 with the hashtag Wayshow. So what do you think? Let's jump right into the conversation around what were your first thoughts? We've already addressed what the list looked like and what our thoughts were in various other conversations. But between yesterday and today, what have your general thoughts been about the screening process? It felt like a sham for me. Because if you say that there is a screening process, you must at least observe due protocol. You must at least... Maybe there is a constitutional provision for it in the sense that if you have served in a certain position or I'm not sure any or either of them have served in the current portfolio, they may want to put them. So why not screen? Because yes, I'm not sure it should be about what you have done in the past. It should be about testing your competencies for now. Yes, you have done X, Y, Z. You may have experienced as, let's say, you may have experienced in the education sector. You may have done so much work. But guess what? The president may be looking at putting you in... to manage another portfolio that you have no experience with. And that's what the screening should be all about. It should be about disclosure where yes, you talk about your competencies, your expertise, your experience and all that. All that information, the holistic information, should be what the Senate has in order to make informed decisions as to whether or okay this person can go on to the next stage and then take on this portfolio. So I think you raised a very valid question there because one of the first things that I asked was what portfolios. Now if you're going to screen me, I would compare screening or this screening exercise to almost like a job interview. So if in like our quote said today, are you the right crew to fly Nigeria? Now I need to assess you against something. Now if I'm assessing you for a certain... So if you take occupations, you have professional occupation.  I can't assess a general physician or a pediatrician for that position. So not having the portfolios for me was the first concern, right? Because I just thought this then just becomes an exercise which then raises the question is it a necessity or is it a distraction? Is it just due process, right? So we don't know the portfolios, we put that aside. Some people have taken a strong view to the whole concept of take about and go. And I think maybe I'll bring Noma in here. Noma we've had, I believe it was seven people who went through that process of take about and go. Essentially we know who you are. We don't need to ask you too many questions. What were your thoughts around this? Thank you Uti. My concerns were around that in fact I had to take a note as to how many people were asked to take about and I noticed that it had to do with the formal governors, the House of Senates, those who had served in House of Representatives and all. So and that also raised concerns for me as well. I like the trajectory that Jolla took in terms of portfolio. When you're talking about screening, let's even break it down. Screening process has to do with certain criteria that an individual is supposed to meet with and I like the context in which you put it. For example, if you are going to be screened for a particular position, take for example, like you said, a neurosurgeon, that means that somebody who is in general practice may not likely qualify even though he is a doctor as well. So if you put it, juxtapose it with ministerial screening, there are different capacities, different portfolios that these nominees are supposed to occupy. And I saw that some people were asked questions in that regard. For example, if you are put in as the minister for women affairs, what are you going to do with regards to this and that questions were asked in that regard. But coming back to those who were asked to take about, it was a safe, oh, these are already, we have already approved these ones so there is no need to ask questions. But the truth of it is that is there a criteria, is there a list of qualifications that these people are supposed to have? Whether it is educational qualifications which they ask some questions with regard to their SSE or their disparity in their age and when they graduated, things like that. Then you come to, apart from the educational qualifications, you come to competence.  For example, the offices that you held, what were the things maybe they could have asked questions around the offices that were held before and how they intend to bring the experience in that situation into the new role that they're expected to play. Things about suitability of the role, do you think that you're qualified? You know when you go for a job interview and they're asking you, this is the position that is available. How qualified are you and you should be able to justify that? We didn't see things like that. Background check. Some of them were done. Some of them were already given pass mark because they feel that they had their records already. But there are some things that could have come up in line of duty over the years where there are questions that could address those situations. For example, if your character something were along the line as a house of representative, you probably were out of character, you had misbehavior one way or the other. Does that still qualify because you were once a representative then you are qualified forever? So these are things that raise serious concerns with regards the what would I call it, the manner in which this screening has taken place has not told us anything new. Tests of character, value proposition, only a few people were asked about their value proposition. Some were just assuming, okay, like the ones I was told to take about. How was their performance, for example, in the different states? I know El Rufai, in the case of El Rufai, somebody raised the question after he was asked to take about. Someone raised the question about the insecurity situations while he was governor. So these are pertinent questions that I would have expected our senate to be hands-on to ask because you are mindful about the people that are going to take responsibility for the state of Nigeria. So unfortunately we have not seen that so far. And they continue to raise more questions whether these are really the qualified people. These are people who are really qualified and are upstanding citizens that should be able to represent at the different ministry levels. So you do raise some points. I think that it would be good to state that of course they have submitted that they were required to submit their documentation before the screening process. I believe also that the security aspect of the screening had also been completed. If we look at this, if we say predominantly this is like a job interview. I think that the first concern there around the questions that they should have asked. Now it's important to point out that take a bow and go is not a unique concept. It happens across other parliaments and other governments across the world. It's sort of like an efficiency type thing for me in my assessment that if I already know who you are and I know the work that you've done so if you've been a member of the house and you're familiar to us you're not a stranger. So perhaps there are certain questions that you don't need to ask. The perspective for me was but you are this is an opportunity to talk to the nation. And if you look at the current context or the way we all are right now in Nigeria there's a huge mistrust. There's a shadow hanging over. I think the tribunal is still sitting on even the status of the entire election itself. I think that at this point any opportunity to speak to the people should be leveraged. So when you are asked do you have a few words to say or do you just want to take a bow? I think to distinguish yourself it's an opportunity at that point to really you are selling yourself to the people in the room. Let me put it that way. Yes we know the people in the room I said take a bow and go. But to the Nigerian people who are watching you have the ability to showcase yourself you have ability to say you know what this may be how you're feeling right now but let me give you some comfort that if I am in the role today this is who I am. And I think that that opportunity was lost because for you to come in and just say oh take a bow and go we understand why but it's a very very big opportunity that was lost to address the people who are really hurting at this point in time who are unable to connect with you. So many people that I've spoken to in recent times are almost in a we're all in a slightly dissociative state like we're just existing we're just going through the motions you know with everything that we are being hit from all sides so this was really a time to showcase so I think that that was a lost opportunity and when you then sort of ask yourself why is this process then necessary that question becomes really really valid because if you're just rubber stamping for yourselves that okay we know this people is fine we don't need to ask too many questions that's another another challenge but when we start to talk about the distraction part of the question I'm going to throw this because we've already had three people who we saw the clip there that was talking about your age and when you left primary school and every time this thing comes up I'm just like why why do we constantly if we stick to the analogy of interviewing right what happens you are interviewing somebody the further away you are from graduating the less I care about what you do at university I want to know about the experience that you've had now that being said the guidelines of I think it's first school living certificate is very clear right provide it and let's move on what we find ourselves constantly coming back to issues of qualification certification is it genuine was it forged what are your thoughts there when you saw this again let me take a little bit let me take us back a little bit from what you said about the opportunity lost in terms of they could have sold themselves to the general to the nation for me I think there is a bit of a disconnect from the red house in terms of the fact that I think that they have forgotten that they are representatives of the people they are first and foremost because all of us cannot be there you know so the senate they are like a spokespeople you know who should be the one doing all the rigorous you know interviews and rigorous questioning and ensuring that only the best hands you know the most qualified people are at that position but again I mean it was lost then it comes back to the question of you see if you are not very interested in how this country moves forward or in putting the right person in the right role you really would not have the right questions to ask you cannot give what you don't have it's as simple as that if I know that I am concerned about how the people in my constituency would enjoy better power or this power issue would be resolved I would be more interested in ensuring the competency of whoever is going to sit in this you understand so again that drives the kind of questions the kind of the kind of disposition they are going to have towards these nominees let's take a quick break please stay with us we'll be right back so if you are just tuned in it's our ladies night out and we are discussing the ministerial screening process we are asking is it a distraction or a necessity please let's hear what you have to say remember you can join the conversation send us an SMS or WhatsApp to 0818 038 4663 send us a message on X at Weshaw Africa 1 with the hashtag Weshaw and we are also opening our phone line so our phone line is now open so you can call us on<PHONE_NUMBER>9 I'll take that again 0702 5007749 remember when you call to turn down the volume of your television set so that we can hear you and your thoughts so Noma I'll come to you this process right the people do you have a sense today given what you know historically about some of these candidates and also what we've seen over the last two days do you have enough information or do you think rather that they've given us enough comfort as the Nigerian people that these people have been effectively screened Uti the feeling and I don't know maybe I might be speaking on behalf of Nigerians or myself but just listening and reading up on the proceedings have just told me one thing that we have done our we have ticked off the box basically that's the impression that I have because like I said earlier the Senate represents the people and really like Adiola had added that if they were really passionate about bringing change about bringing hope and about bringing the necessary transformation for the citizens of Nigeria then it would not just be a case of take a bow yes you might say these are your colleagues these are people that we've worked with but we continue to mention I remember the previous the when we first talked about the ministers and when the list was released we had mentioned about square pegs in square holes being able to feed people and this would have been a beautiful opportunity like you had said for people to showcase their competency their ability to stand in a role and to function optimally in that role I like the case of I think Mrs. you know who was talking about the healthcare sector she had made mention about different things about the government not taking advantage of the pandemic season to upgrade the healthcare sector in the country she talked about being able to really pay grade for doctors and their welfare things like that she talked about national healthcare insurance and things like that so already you see that this person is positioning themselves for a ministerial appointment with regards to health we were looking for other I mean some of them I just saw them they just said oh thank you for the opportunity you know my competence has shown for it and I would be glad to be confirmed and all of that there was nothing convincing that this person has passion for a certain area within the government or within the ministries and they want to bring light they want to bring hope they want to bring transformation in that regard this was something that we were looking to experience with Nigerians watching the plenary session looking at these supposed representatives in regards to the ministries and coming up and it looks like if I will borrow Deola's language a charade oh okay is our people is our person so it just felt like this was something just to tick off the box that oh we have done something with regards to ministerial screening again we do not know if there was some form of criteria or list or some a guideline so to speak when it comes to ministerial screening that they were using it could have been at the top of their head it could have been something that was not really planned for and therefore the implementation was just lopsided so it just continues to purchase the fact that Nigerians given other opportunities with future elections we have to be more conscious of the people that we put in positions and to represent us as a people because the more we put in the wrong kind of people the more the misrepresentation will continue to take place and from this screening we've seen so far that this has not helped the Nigerian citizens to understand clearly how these people who have been appointed or nominated are going to make any difference from what is already existing in the Nigerian Government and that's the thing for me right so if you're going to share a process with us if you're going to give us access so if it was a closed door activity right where we had no insight into it and you were going to come out and tell us they've been successfully screened and here's the next step and I think it would have been fine to see what happened but given that you've invited us in you've given us the opportunity to see it then it's also an opportunity for you to be able to communicate to us that this process is not just a checklist but it's actually a tick box activity it's an activity that is really taken seriously even as it stands now right we've gone through this process I know we're still expecting more names right and interestingly enough I think I was reading something today where we're also supposed to be expecting new ministries I think we have a caller good evening good evening good evening let's hear what you have to say thank you for calling thank you the situation here somebody is coming to tell us that he passed common contract at the age of 3 years that is his his sort of a sensitivity a serious sort of a sensitivity can you imagine these are the people who want to hand over a Nigeria for me it's just a trade because when we decide for themselves what are they coming to do and somebody is coming not even telling us to watch everything they really attached portfolio so that they can even screen them on the portfolio they are going to give to them the God says this thank you very much thank you for calling so again I mean that just goes to echo right so that it's a lost opportunity it's either you do it in a way where we all are carried along or we don't know and we know that we've moved on exactly so if you come back so we were having a conversation just before the show started we were talking around the argument of not needing the portfolios right to vet so as it stands today I think there are two parts of the constitution in that section 147 one speaks to the fact that if their area of responsibility is not stated that the entire house can sit so I think we have another call I think this is Lohman from Abia good evening Lohman thank you for calling this is Lohman let me just tell you see that's committee to me in Nigeria it's a distraction remember we had a meeting and the minister for education was clean he told us you know nothing about education so this one they are doing now something else from the city he removed about suffering us so everything they are doing they are doing means that has been nominated Australia will make anything better unless they will tell truth to power by letting him know of that Nigeria are suffering let us reverse the 12th prime and make sure that our refineries are working the modular refineries are working and stop letting us know that the Niger data is breaking the linear refineries when you are unable to build the ordinary refineries so if they are able to tell the president I will do my job for them and take their assets for business for now they are not single for any business it's just a distraction but we are still not through we will come out on the streets and tell them so far they are fine go no more for that thank you thank you very much Lohman it's not uncommon if you speak to anybody over the last 2 days that is the same feedback that we are getting nobody is connecting with the process it just seems like yes we are doing it we have done it and that's what it is it just goes to show that everybody now is seeing this for what it is in terms of the fact that the process is not I want to say the process is not inclusive I mean it is not designed to be inclusive because they are being screened by the house they are not essentially being screened by the people of Nigeria but it is just the opportunity where you have given us the opportunity to see what is happening then we also have some expectations and whether we are meeting those expectations or not so Nama I will come to you just for your final thoughts around this process what are you hoping for as we go through this process what are you expecting to see next what are you hoping to come through next before I answer that let me just quickly read a message from one of our viewers he says the ministerial screening process distraction or necessity to me the screening process is not a distraction but a necessity the screening process is a way of testing someone's capabilities my dear beautiful sister made mention of two things she said that when there is a screening process there is need to follow due process and test the competence of the person my dear beautiful sister Nama asked about the criteria of occupying an office whether it be through education or performance I am in full support of these screenings because you do not put people or put someone in office every office is sensitive those that took a bow and left maybe they were not qualified and capable nice anchoring of the show sister Uti my name is Daniel Ilo way's regular fan so just Uti this is day 2 already and it's almost almost lost hope because it almost feels sometimes that we continue to empower people that are not qualified to make a difference for us because if these things are things that we study I mean even going for an interview for a job or position sometimes you go back you read up on the position you read up on the expectations you read online you google you get information that empowers you or informs you before you step into the limelight to project whatever it is that you are proposing so it almost feels like we just continue to do things it's almost as the senator said it's not going to be business as usual we can simply say that it's just business as usual but it has proved to be business as usual because if they really did their due diligence then there are pertinent questions that would have accompanied this ministerial screening process but we haven't seen that around we don't know if it's going to come up in the future what the other nominees are released I think that's a good note to end it on for us in saying that of course we've seen what these first two days have gone the way they've gone and we want to hope that when the next set of nominees are announced that is a bit more rigor to the process but it's been a great conversation thank you Noma, thank you Adiola and before you go or before we go please ensure that you follow us on instagram at wayshowafrica interact with us further, drop a comment and most importantly follow all our social media engagements remember to like, share, comment and invite your friends and family to watch and follow us if you missed today's quote here it is again this time screening will be very thorough it's not going to be a situation where the screening will be any how we are going to know the background of the nominees and we are not going to disappoint Nigerians it is not going to be a shallow screening you must have the character you must have the face you must have the behaviour to be among the cabin crew to fly Nigeria this time around Nigeria is going to be better on that note we look forward to seeing you tomorrow at 8pm as we bring another great conversation to your screen have a good evening