And this is Gaming Now, or Gaming News, depends on how I've named it really. It's probably Gaming Now, but the title says Gaming News, so don't yeah, Philip. I know, I know, I'm awful.  It's a lot of fun, honestly. Our first piece of news is a most joyous one. Overwatch, the multiplayer shooter by our beloved Blizzard, or at least mine, is going to come out on May 24th, which is really, really good, and earlier than expected, originally. The game was slated to come out in June, but now, well, it appears Blizzard are happy enough with the beta and its development, so they will release it earlier. That is really, really good. Why? Because Overwatch looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. If you pre-order the game, now or at any point before the 3rd of May, you're going to get in the beta. The beta, originally, is going to be from the 5th until the 9th of May, but if you pre-order, you'll gain access on the 3rd, so that's two extra days of playtime for you pre-order nutbags. In the open beta, players will have the opportunity to play all 21 heroes and will experience the intense action-tactical depth and vibrant world of Overwatch prior to the game's release. That is the statement by Blizzard. The punchline of this whole thing, Battleborn Epic's own hero shooter game, is going to debut on the 3rd of May, which means that we are going to have a conflict of interest. And I'm sure Blizzard could not be more overjoyed. Hi everyone, I'm very excited for Overwatch. It looks good. The beta is on a very serious technical level with almost no issues that I, someone who hasn't actually played but only watched it, can see. The only problem I so far have is the, well, kind of large weapon models. I think that Blizzard would do well to cut down the percent of screen space that they are taking currently. Other than that, from what I know and from what I've seen, the game looks pretty damn finished. Alas, today was also a day of sadness. Why? Because Longhead Studios, the developers of the once great Fable series, half-closed-down doors and Fable Legends, which was supposed to be a 4 vs 1 multiplayer game, has now seized development. Which is kind of sucky. It looked like it was pretty damn close to being finished. I know, I know. None of us actually wanted Fallout Legends, Fallout Fable Legends, but still, a game so close to being finished, kind of sad to see it go. I would have been curious to at least see what could have been. Of course, by far the more unpleasant piece of news coming out of this is that all the employees of Longhead Studios are going to now, you know, not have jobs anymore. I wish them luck and hope that they actually manage to find jobs as quickly as possible. It's tough market out there, but they seem like a talented lot, and maybe they will find a job in better companies with better track records. One is to hope anyway, right? Microsoft didn't only close down Longhead Studios, they also closed down the Dutch Press Play Studios in Denmark. Well, I did say they were Dutch, so you could have guessed that much. In Microsoft's official statement, they say that Press Play imbued the industry with a unique creative spirit behind games like Max, The Curse of Brotherhood, and Kalimba, which both captured passionate fans. Sadly, now that Press Play is out of commission, we will never see anything good come out of their gates again. The reasons stated for the closing of both these studios is due to Microsoft states the continued focus in investments and development of the games and franchises that fans find most exciting and want to play the most. I have to disagree and call a bit of crap on that one, because honestly, gamers don't want to only see Halo games and the like, and these are indeed the main portfolio of Microsoft, correct?  The point is they are closing capable talented studios that house good developers, and that is indeed a pity for everyone involved, except perhaps Microsoft, because we all know Microsoft have sold their souls to the devil. No? They haven't? Oh. At least I'm glad to see that they haven't shut down Remedy yet, which is working on Quantum Break as we speak, and another piece of news, it appears that Remedy is doing talks about Alan Wake 2. In case you won't recall, the original Alan Wake came out in 2010 and is a pretty good horror game, a pretty good thriller. Alan Wake managed to create a fantastic world of fictional horror in which you play as the eponymous writer. The finished studio's desire to make a follow-up to the Xbox game, which later came out on Steam as well, has been an open secret for years with some trademarking happening last week, if I recall. Yes, it appears that Remedy have actually trademarked Alan Wake Returns, and I really really hope that is a very promising sign for the return of this very awesome character. I would love to step into his shoes once again and take command of Alan Wake and fight against these demons of the night and darkness that we fought against during the last game. But yeah, I will have to guess that if there is any news of Alan Wake 2 actually happening, we're going to learn about it once Remedy are done with Quantum Break. Before that, I don't see it happening, they have firmly stated that they are going to focus on finishing Quantum Break and releasing it out there for us gamers. Don't you love Full Conversion Mod? I know I do. If you don't know what Full Conversion Mod actually is, well it is a mod for a game that fully remakes that game in one way or another. 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Hi everyone I'm Malini Bandaru from Intel and I'll be talking about bare metal trust My team Tan Lin, Wei Chen, Jimmy, that's Wei Gang, myself and Shane. We were involved in this project We basically developed a proof of concept and Next steps will be you know taking all your feedback and upstreaming this code So welcome to today's talk Our agenda is to motivate the talk, but I guess you're already motivated because you're here I'll briefly touch upon what we have in terms of software and hardware to establish trust then Ironic with this attestation then our demo and our next steps, which will be our blueprints and references So the motivation Can we trust especially with bare metal you're giving some tenant your machine and What if they've installed a new BIOS on it or have they installed some new PCIE firmware for any devices that are attached to it What if they've changed the kernel? I mean you've just given them your whole machine Are you confident after they've left it that there's no malware on it? Can we be sure that the next tenant that we will allocate this machine is safe? It's free of malware. It will not be harmed. I mean there's a lot of liabilities involved here so We were talking to a couple of people about this and Robert Collins from you know Triple O and they vananda from ironic were like, you know, this is something we really need But is there adequate technology to make this possible said, you know I would never want to give my bare metal again to another tenant that was their sense that was the kind of way they were talking and We said, yeah, we can do this. We have Intel TXT and let's make it do this So earlier on in open stack. We have something called trusted compute pools it was mainly used for hypervisors and There's already a lot of protection with the hypervisor your VM is in there. It's isolated from other VMs So other tenants are not hurt So it's something nice to have but this was absolutely essential to have when we started talking about bare metal in open stack and ironic giving people Appliances to use for their own purposes. So our motivation to detect malware Can we detect changes in the BIOS? Can we detect changes in any PCIe device firmware? You know, if you you can't really go in there and plug a new device device because it's in a faraway cloud But anything that's changed you should be able to detect Any kernel changes any operating system changes? Whatever we want to detect those So, what are we going to use towards this? We're going to use Intel TXT technology and That definitely can detect changes in the BIOS It can change detection in the number and PCI devices firmware kernel updates the whole shebang But there is one caveat it detects this at boot time. So you think about this as chain of trust This is your ground level just the basic at the ground What can you change and what can you detect if you've changed it as soon as you boot the system another place? Where this does recalibrate and detect any changes is if your device has gone to sleep It wakes up then also all these numbers are rechecked. That's how this whole Intel TXT works It measures all the systems that are coming up all the BIOS Then there's called this authenticated code module. So the chain of trust works that way and What are we looking at in terms of the cloud? I have these little green circles They represent compute nodes on which you're going to have hyper visors and we already have trusted compute pools for that But the nodes that we are now concerned with ironic for your under cloud launch or for your bare metal You know delivery are these little orange and yellow ones So that's the ones we want to target now We want to be able to claim that they are trustable at least when you boot them up and when you release it And I'm going to give it to a new tenant So we're focusing on these little orange and yellows and why do we want to focus on the service nodes? Because you know you want to trust your cloud service nodes, too Okay, so let's talk about what we're using to achieve this We're achieving trust by using TPM. That's a trusted platform module then Intel trusted execution technology and OAT is an open attestation service Okay, let's take a quick look at what it looks like This is a very enlarged picture, but that little chip up there is this thing called trusted platform module It's a separate piece of hardware There's a 1.2 release out there and then a 2.0 release that's coming out the 2.0 release supports Additional hash algorithms. It'll be more globally available. So it'll be useful and available in the China and other markets The original one wasn't there was all export licenses So typically what does a trusted platform module have in it? It has a random number generator It has hash sha1 hash generators. It has an encryption decryption engine It's slow, but it does the job and it's secure. It allows you to save some Information that's called a non volatile memory there Then when the system is released through the OEM or through the chip manufacturer You know install a little key on it and that's part of its identity. It's called the endorsement key So this is a whole bunch of stuff in there that makes some kind of security and attestation claims possible Okay, and now there's this thing called platform configuration registers they're about 24 of these and This is where measurements are Maintained so once you start like loading the BIOS it's measured in it's a hash It's saved in some PCR. I think like seven or something Then your kernel is measured that goes into another PCR like 17 and 18 And so there's a whole bunch of things the how you've configured your system that goes into another PCR and there's no way to modify these they're only measured and That's something then you can expose to others through a software stack and say hey This is the measurement and you say oh, yeah, that is exactly what I expect so it's gonna be trustable at that point so So our trust stuff TPM we've seen it and then what's all the software stack that I mentioned So you have like an Intel platform at the bottom then a little chip that went on top of it on top of the platform called the TPM Then on top of that we're using Intel TXT technology and that has to you have to enable the Virtualization you have to enable hardware and the memory and the BIOS all of these pieces have to be enabled Then a piece of software called T boot comes in so you can normally load with grab or EFI or something else But this is another way to boot the system and it's called T boot for trusted boot It's open-source software so accessible to anybody who's using a Linux system Intel is developing that so that basically makes the right calls Uses all this Intel TXT technology, you know initiates an instruction called as enter and things like that That starts the whole launch measuring process So it starts right from you know an authenticated code module and then the BIOS being measured and once the BIOS is done Then the option ROMs and so on so forth and T boot itself is part of that initial authenticated code module It measures it out to see is this T boot a legitimate valid one and it's all signed by the provider in this case It would be Intel who's the platform provider the BIOS is also going to be signed But it's going to be signed by the OEM which might be HP or Dell or IBM whoever is the provider Then a layer of software on top of that is called trousers Which is really a user-level library to access all these PCR contents and then at the very top We have something called the open attestation. Then there's a commercial product called Mount Wilson. There are two components to it There's the client and the server so the client is the one that will reside on your host nodes That you're going to be giving away through ironic to different tenants And then there's a server component that will say hey, you know, give me your values your PCR show me your ID card pretty much and then it'll check against a whitelist that you should have provision and say oh, yeah good to go Okay, so that's pretty much how this whole software and hardware stack works So let's just briefly look at what the setup involves to do this in your cloud You'll have to set up the OAT server You'll have to provision known good values like it's like taking photographs of who's Malini who's Devananda etc So you know how these trusted entities look what their value should be Then for your bare metal images that you want to launch you want to have entirely trusted You have to give their signatures to so typically from the OEM you can get your BIOS and those kind of measurements And then from the image itself is it a Ubuntu or is it red hat? Whatever? What is that one signature? You have to capture that Then at each node level when you open the box when you've got the hardware in your data center You'll open it you'll say hey, you know enable the TPM in the BIOS You'll say enable Intel TXT VTX VTD It's at the VTD so that you don't have any direct memory access type of Attacks on your system and you have to take ownership of the TPM So when it comes out of the factory, it's not owned by anybody so that you know other subversive attacks can't happen You the data center provider will have to accept it and put some password So currently these are all manual steps and it would be nice to have scripts But we'll need OEM support and there's a little bit of a chicken egg problem here The OEMs will say, you know, a lot of people are going to use it Then it's worth making it and then a lot of people say hey No, it was already available easy to use that kind of stuff and then after you take ownership There's also this issue of saving this password and this is where maybe barbecue can can be used another open stack project so What else do we need to do as part of this setup in ironic just like in you know, Nova Compute You specify flavors and you can say I want trust it You would have an ironic flavor and say I want to trust it and as I said we have to Specify, you know whitelist provision that you can do this either through iPixie or Pixie boot both work You'll need to inject the old client into these images of yours that you want to launch in some cases You don't need to like There are certain distributions like Ubuntu etc where the old client is already baked in into the Distribution, but if not you need to do that Then after the ironic second boot first you have the deployment boot You know for those who know what the ironic how it works and in the second boot is when you actually boot up the image That the end tenant wants That's when all this attestation piece that's kicking in So how does the workflow go?  So that's the second step it boots What happened the number two are there? There's the ironic. Sorry Then the PCR hash values that you have to send up to OAT and then it you know compares contrast checks everything And I says hey, it's all good to go. It's trusted allocated tenant So the last steps four and five are not quite that way We wanted that way if it comes back untrusted you don't want to give it to the tenant So that's a piece that we have to still address So let's go to the demos and Go to the beginning Here we go So the very first one out there is our OAT server and the plan now is to launch a new VM and We call it our OAT client Everything is pretty much how you would do it today.  It does this little thing It'll come soon. Okay. Good And there it came. We still don't know if it's trusted. Okay, and this is the second pixie boot as I mentioned The monitors a little dirty This is its monitor It's booting up. So we're just seeing that whole thing run by and it's a reboot boot loader that we're using and As it works all those measurements are going into the PCR registers Oh and by the way, this is the client is a Java client So that's been a bit of an issue with like Susie and all saying hey, we'd prefer a C client So if there's enough adoption it makes sense to you know, rewrite it in C Hey, and look it's trusted Okay, so how did all that magic happen it booted it had all those PCR values We've told it to go talk to the OAT server and the OAT server says yeah It is what you had provision. Those are the exact values that I'm expecting and says good to go So Things that we did Okay, where is back to here? Okay, so in let me just go back to my slides one second So the first of the demos is what we looked at So the first one was just a bare metal trust the second one We wanted to demonstrate was detect firmware change. Oops. I made a fire wire change. Sorry So we wanted to detect any firmware change, but we had like a Like a you know 10 gig PCIe and Nick etc So we didn't want to quite mess that up because what if we can't put it back together properly So what we said is let's see what else we can detect So we said how about we add another PCIe device will we detect it? So the second demo will basically say I had a new PCI device attached to my system Will its measurements change and that's what we're going to demo over there Okay Back here, and I have to show you number two and I have to rush here quickly Okay, so we added a Nick card All this is the same old stuff We can say how's the weather in Paris while this is going on I Really didn't want to do this online because then what if it takes longer at least we can do fast forward here Okay, so this is our second appliance. We're launching it. It's still unknown Think we've done some fast forwarding here And it's untrusted.  Okay So that's exactly what we're going to do. We're going to pretend this PCI device that we attach is something we want and Let's see what we do after updating it what happens with number three and then let's go back here Okay, so see that untrusted what they've gone now is go provision at the old server a new whitelist value You can't read it even I can't so don't worry. We're doing it there. Absolutely. We'll put them up And if you go really close you can see but we'll give you more information So the untrusted should become trusted and Notice this word called poll instance. We're not rebooting the machine It's just that the whitelist value has been updated So in these actions like you have create snapshot and delete and start and all we have another one called poll like go check Is it's still a trustable and that's essentially what's going to happen, but where I don't see that happening I didn't see him do that click there He did okay. I missed it. I wasn't paying attention Okay, bad student here So that's essentially what you can do, but what's the advantage of having this poll instruction? Somebody wants to come and check for audit logs for compliance. Is this machine still trusted at least at boot time Was it what we expected? Anytime they want they can make that API call and get back the answer true false and it does not upset any Activity on it any applications running because it just checks the PCR values and that's the guarantee of Intel TXT These PCR values are only going to be changed at boot time. So they were what you were at boot time There's another aspect like if you did any kernel change anything else, that's when it'll again like it comes out of sleep Let's say your platform is asleep. It comes back up then it'll remeasure. So you can track any changes on your system that way Okay, so let's go back here and see what our next steps go back to from current slide Okay, so we saw this we've seen enough of that. What are limitations? Of course your bare metal nodes in our open stack cloud are all going to be Linux bare metal clouds I mean images so you can call it a limitation, but hey, that's what we're We're gonna deal with you know next bare metal and our trust to is only limited to Linux bare metal So it's not like your hypervisor and a VM image that can be windows These are all like Linux and our T boot etc all works on Linux Today what we needed to do was we had to inject that client into the image the tenants end-user image So that's what I mentioned about the OS we adoption in the chicken egg problem I Think you know we're talking to Keith and if they see value and all maybe this will happen It'll get integrated into red hat proper as opposed to being in a side repository And as I said Susie had the issue with the C they want a C version of the client and you know There's enough interest we can do that and We had one manual step here that is all those enabled TXT enable VTX VTD and that's where I think we can get help from our OEMs If they see enough adoption we can kind of convince them that hey, please make some scripts because these are very Very specific to is it Dell is it HP is it IBM because it's their BIOS and how to change it It's not something that's Intel specific at that point and What are our next steps? Let's say you have a machine that's Untrusted and you want a trusted machine. This is some this is a moment when you want to alert an admin There are two options here. I mean was it an intended change and definitely during any you know Integrations updates etc. There will be such changes. There will be a moment when you have to update your whitelist So good things are like a BIOS firmware any of those updates that are you know security whatever updates are good Or is it just a missing whitelist entry and you have to update that or is this something really rogue? So you have to determine that piece So with TXT there's logs so you can kind of check what happened when and determine these sort of things to do your forensics there then Let's say you wanted to assign a trusted bare metal to a tenant and you weren't able to like the machine that came up that you Thought would be trusted is really untrusted You can say Shall I retry should I try finding another machine after I quarantine this out and you know alert the admin to See what to do about it But maybe there we might have to do like two tries three tries Whatever something configurable because you do not want this to be another source of insecurity like a denial or service thing where you have Some tenant uploading some random image that is you know invalid and it has no whitelist entry so and just to make us spin our wheels in the cloud there and So we have two blueprints out there. These are like just Placeholders right now. They don't have their spec dot rst file stuff in there for the ironic but The ideas that all came here the kind of things that we were asked to address We got from Robert Collins and they were and then these were the kind of things that they were really concerned about and I Think these are dressing those and so we would look to upstream all this code and we'd of course love your oh I didn't need this one and And I'll add a few more references, but there's a whole lot of stuff on TXT and Intel's website has a bunch of things over there and For even our you know horizon demo and modifications. We started using something from ironic So it was helpful that the horizon PTL said start with this so it made our job easier So that's the status of this work Any questions and These are like Yeah, the hardware that we support is No, no, no The limitation that it is is for Intel. It's the Intel platforms that support Intel TXT And there might be something else in AMD land, but it's not Intel TXT at that point So it had to be something similar with a plug-in type of thing But it works on all our processes for the last four five years or more both client desktop and the servers the thing about it is TXT is a little more complex in the server end because they're multiple cores and there'll be one core that'll be loading the bios The others will be in sleep state So it's just the technology behind it is more complex on the server end, but it's available across our chips The flip side after we've validated that the Bios and the kernel are correct How do we is there anything in the blueprints that will be able to prevent someone from going in and Reflashing the firmware while it's running where I understand it wouldn't be detected until the cert the system got rebooted Some things you can't do totally and escape like if you were to update the bios And there are different ways in Intel TXT like I was reading on like what if that question comes Um, it does get detected because there's something called a secret flag From somebody updating the bios like that Ah We can't control the client once they get that machine. Do we have that control? No, it's just that After they've done their mischief, we at least can be sure that it's uh, you know We can detect that they messed up the machine before we give it to another, you know Unvary client and destroy their system. So that's where this stops but There's other work going on and it's not yet there where you can start doing this at runtime like Hey, someone's messing around with this piece and detect it But that's more in your face kind of thing. It's going to use up your cpu cycles to detect Okay, yeah You can use your server for everything the same server will work. Yeah No, this one is mainly for your communication so that you don't have repeat kind of attacks Like I'll ask you for hey, give me your pcr values and then this is for the generating a nonce type of thing Or if you ask for some more public private keys, then it'll bubble down into this and give you those keys No, no, no, yeah The tpm stuff is all very low bandwidth But one of those consideration and it all comes on some serial lines. So it was basically more secure But just to meet this need Devan under you No, I can't I'm sorry So in interest people say I'll take that as an action item and find out And I'll update the blueprint with that question. Yeah there are some advantages and disadvantages and I think this is more useful for uh They call it like compliance and logging and all you can always query and say hey, give me your values So for like compliance logs audit purposes, this is more useful But you don't have that kind of footprint of what happened with secure boot type of solutions. So that's the advantage here Yeah, it's so little It's all in your cloud Which changes are you talking about? Yes, yes, yes And no, no, but this is not your performance per se when you're trying to give a tenant the machine So you know this You're the data center operator.  That's all It's not a big deal. It's like no different from you upgrading to your havana twice house In fact, it's much less of a issue. Yes Huh Then you don't need me to inject your client thing and that's kind of there were a few more slides in the back up there So that's what our team did. They use a disk image builder Yes, it's part of OAT that you have to do this white listing and you would be the trusted entity Because you're going to be entering the white list. So we're not going to hand the OAT server information to everybody and You use a disk image builder and I'm thinking along the lines that if A tenant wants trusted bare metal. Actually, we should kind of demand all tenants who want bare metal should go the trusted path That they should have as part of the image that it's trusted. That means they have the old client in them So that's the way I'm thinking about this. Yeah Thank you That's a good idea Yeah, that that would be a great tool so that you make that change means. Hey, let me update the white list type of thing Yeah, and in fact, we should also like Blacklist the old ones that might not have had a security update so they can't get into the system. Yeah Good point Rob. Yeah Absolutely, they have to be 100 percent the same. So this is That's like the caveat. That's the starting point of all this You have the same hardware the same BIOS the measurement is the same and it should be why because BIOS is binary coded Zeros and ones the hash of any binary string I mean as long as you haven't changed the string is the exact same hash value So you're not using anything, you know, like variable in the platform any entropy related stuff It's basically software that you're measuring you can except the signature would be different I was just asking how Can any level of heterogeneity be in the hardware or not? It sounds like you're saying yes, it can be So heterogeneity is possible except that, you know, let's say your gen 9 and gen 7 had a different BIOS Signature would be different. So you would have two white list entries. Yeah No, no clients The old client is on the client machine and it runs. It's the guy that's going to answer the question Like what's your name type of thing? So, so let's look at it this way We want to give this tenant a trusted machine So at that first point if we have the old client working and running and it reports trusted then I'm done I can give you a machine say I've I did my bit.  That's fine It's just that when you hand back the machine We'll detect it before we give it to another tenant Yes, yeah before you we don't want to give it to another tenant without sanitizing and checking So part of you know when you return a machine You'll anyway clear out and you should clear out and there's another talk further Down the week about clearing up any memory etc etc so that you're not leaking information And then when you give this to somebody else, that's when you do this sort of check Yeah Should be yeah So we can't prevent we can at least detect Okay Yes It's no problem. I mean just like you would move your workload from one place to another After you go there, you say I want trusted and they should also have Some kind of attestation service and things like that. So it's perfectly possible Um, normally when you have them across clouds, they'll all have their own services typically the OAT server will be in the same Uh, LAN etc. So it doesn't talk to a remote OAT server at least today. It's not yeah So they wouldn't share you would have to whitelist over there And it makes sense because suppose in your hybrid cloud, let's say in this private cloud You had all your gen 7s and the hybrid cloud out there the public cloud had maybe nines or some other hardware The whitelist values would be different. Anyway, the only thing you want to claim is that it's trusted or not That's all Any other questions? Yes Uh I didn't understand the management workload going up thing, but if you have a custom kernel you would have to tell the The cloud provider that hey, this is my personal kernel. I totally trust it. It has this, you know shot to signature whatever Please make a whitelist for it and that's possible and typically what happens is when you're doing this sort of whitelist measurement You put it in a little isolated box away from any network Then just boot it up whatever readings you have you then push it to the OAT server and say this is my whitelist set You know values. So that's typically how it does. So your custom kernel Would be doable that way But from a self service point of view, you know, we need to somehow create this workflow to whitelist it Yeah, but good question Yes Say that again. That's possible. So, um Good question. We can break this up into two parts. Remember I mentioned they were like 24 odd PCR registers. You could Break this down into I'll call it trusted only if the hardware BIOS and the option ROMs and that part is right Then I call it trusted Customer you can run any kernel be my guest. We can do it that way So the OAT Attestation piece you get to choose which PCRs you want. You want all the 24. Do you want only number 17 and 18? Because you do want to control like the configuration one. So maybe more than like two So there might be like seven or eight instead of all the 24. Yeah, so that's a possibility. Yeah Any other questions? Hey awesome audience. Thank you


Oh, this is a tough place, but we're going to talk about it today. Hi, there. I'm Angela Brown, and this is Ask a House Cleaner. This is a show where you get to ask a house cleaning question and I get to help you find an answer. Now, today's show is brought to us by FunnyCleaningShirts.com. This is a website that has all kinds of gifts and t-shirts and clocks and coasters and collectibles and all kinds of really fun stuff for house cleaners. So check it out at FunnyCleaningShirts.com. Also the holidays are coming up.  FunnyCleaningShirts.com. All right. On to today's show. There is a housekeeper, not a house cleaner, but a housekeeper. She works for a hotel, and she called in and asked this question. So I am Alyssa Irwin, and I work as a housemaid at Comfort Suites. I am faster when I do, but I guess I'm not fast enough, but I'm very, very fast. I know I am because I have put in through so much work.  So I just want to let you know, am I doing something wrong? Am I doing something bad or good or something? So just let me know. All right. Alyssa, I hate that for you because you should not be treated that way while you're at work, right? Here you are giving of your heart and soul, you're doing the very best you can and you're being picked on. All right. So I don't know what the situation is. I don't know if it's jealousy or if you're outsmarting someone at their own job and they're afraid they're going to lose their job. I don't know what it is, but I do know this. It happens a lot. It happens a lot while you are the housekeeper and there are other people working with you. When you put two teams together and they go into a property to clean, it also happens between a house cleaner and a homeowner who is jealous that the house cleaner is better and that her husband or her family is not going to think as much of her because she didn't clean her own house. So there's bullying and there's making fun of and snide remarks and all that kind of stuff in house cleaning. It happens all the time. Now I would love to stand here and give you a series of strategies for you to punch your opponent in the proverbial nose, but I'm not going to do that. There's no value whatsoever in taking someone down in order to rise yourself up. Never happened that way. It's never going to happen that way. So my suggestion to you would be to change yourself and the way that you perceive their bullying. There are lots of bullies out there. There will always be bullies out there. There will always be haters. But my suggestion for you is to change the way and reframe the way that you think about it. So the first thing that you have to realize, it's a concept that I learned from Sean Cannell who is a big time YouTuber and his concept was this.    And so I really loved that concept because it's so true for just about every industry that we work in, right? So as a house cleaner or a housekeeper, you are there cleaning. You're doing your best. You're learning. You're getting faster. You're learning the systems and the methods and all that stuff. It's very possible that you are a risk to them. So you have to realize even if it gets really bad and they fire you, you now have a new series of skills that you'll be able to take to any hotel and you'll be able to get another job because of the skills that you have. There will also be people that secretly admire you that will give you a recommendation. So I'm not worried at all about your level of skill and your future. So that said, why are people being unkind to you? And oftentimes it's a matter of somebody wants to prove to you how smart they are so that you will respect them equally. So what I would suggest to do is switch the tables. A person bullies you, they're trying to get noticed, they're trying to get attention.  And it's easy for the parents to lash out and yell and scream and threaten and all these things at the same time because that's how it made them feel. But that should be a trigger. When someone makes me feel that angst and that anger, what I should do is I should stop and realize this is a person that's just trying to get my attention. What is it that they need in this moment? And so oftentimes it just means you're stopping and listening. And if somebody is making fun of you because you're not working as fast, what you might say is, hey, you've been doing this a lot longer than I have. Would you mind showing me what the best methods are because I really respect the way that you do your job? And I would love a few pointers. And they might say, well, yeah, sure, here and then they'll show you how to do it. Because once you have turned the tables and you have let them share with you what they know, it might be that they just wanted to be appreciated and recognized as well. And in house cleaning and housekeeping, it's a pretty thankless job. We give up our heart and soul. And oftentimes there's no one on the other end to go, hey, great job, super that you did so much cleaning and that you were so fast and efficient and all these things. Very rarely do we get that. And so if you were to partner with these people that are bullying you and just say to them, hey, listen, you might have a better way. I would love for you to show me what your way is. How can I do that as well? And it often diffuses the situation. I know when it becomes this situation and you're in a home and you're house cleaning and it's the homeowner that's then having these bullying attacks, oftentimes I will stop and I will ask them, is there something that I specifically did that triggered this behavior or is there something else going on? And oftentimes they'll stop and they'll say, well, no, I guess I'm just feeling inadequate because I don't clean my own house. I'm like, don't feel inadequate. That's why you paid me. You've outsourced this task because you have more important things to do. This is just not your priority. It doesn't make you any less of a house cleaner.  I am pretty important. I have a pretty important job. You're right. That's why I hired a house cleaner. It doesn't make you any less of anything to have hired a house cleaner, right? No shame. And then as soon as you have that conversation and you're able to get it out in the open, oftentimes they will run circles around you to try to help you and to try to encourage you. But you have to lay it on the table and you have to break it down and you have to give it a name. And so my suggestion to you would be to not be afraid of the bullies, but to be in awareness that maybe they need attention and maybe they're feeling unappreciated and maybe they're feeling unloved and maybe by just asking a question or two, like, hey, show me your technique. I'm all ears. Maybe that's all it needs to turn them around. And then once you have those conversations and you've kind of bonded a little bit, as possible, they become your very best friends. Some of the people that I work with right now, we agreed on day one, we don't have to like each other, but we have to respect each other and we have to work together. And it's amazing the hoops that we jump through even on bad days because everybody has bad days from time to time and you're going to get really irritable or PMS or mood swings or whatever. And on those days, you have to remember, all right, we agreed on day one that we might not even like each other, but we're going to try respectfully to get along in the same space. And so this might be one of those scenarios that you can patch up really easy without it going down a road of you losing your job and being threatened and frightened and all these things because that's not a good environment to work in.  All right, I hope that helps a little bit. 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You're welcome back. Well, amid fears that the lingering fuel scarcity and Naira redesigned policy which has led to a scarcity of currency notes and a chaotic situation in banks across the country were being orchestrated to scuttle the forthcoming general election, the federal government yesterday dismissed such insinuations, expressing its commitment to the conduct of the polls. Also, the independent marketer's association of Nigeria, Ipeman, Western Zone, has urged Nigerians to stop panic buying patrol, assuring them that the fuel scarcity would soon ease off. We will be joined later by Kayode Kundayo, a publisher, Energy Times and Zaka Bala, social commentator is already here. But before I welcome Mr. Bala, we also have Bayo Loa Kei. Bayo, good morning and welcome to the program. And good morning viewers. Okay, Mr. Bala Zaka, I'd like to say welcome to you on the show. Mr. Zaka, okay, we can't get the audio of Mr. Zaka right now, but he will be joining us to talk on some of this issue. But first of all, Bayo, I don't know if it is good news or bad news, but the CBN just said that the central bank cannot implement that cashless policy to a hundred percent as the one. Oh, okay, okay. Mr. Zaka, welcome. Okay, we can hear you now, Mr. Zaka. We can hear you now. Good morning and welcome, sir. Thank you. Okay, well, since you're here right now, Bayo and I were just wondering some of the things that we raised as the talking points for today. Some people on the one hand have blamed the scarcity of fuel and Naira on saboteurs, and even called it a political crisis rather than anything else. On the other hand, some people also say that it's a gimmick to mark time for the Dangote refinery, especially for the fuel, so that when it comes on stream and sells at any price, no matter how exorbitant, people wouldn't mind just because the products will be available. What is your insight, you know, what is really what you think is going on? And let's begin with you, Mr. Zaka. Well, I want to repeat myself. Whatever is the dynamic, the dynamic is the negative part. It is not as important as India as the country that the continent of Africa was looking for to be. So we needed to have looked in the world and look at the approach at the country, the world one. But if I must admit, we don't know why all these shady activities were completely, people like you who want to talk to the past and discuss what is right for our country, but I'm not going to discuss what is good. But something may be good for all rights. If you, if there are some people who think that all these are plans so that the China will come up and be selling at any price and I didn't ask you to go for it, I thought buying anything is a function of the possible income. You and I know that I speak right now. The only way to achieve that today is 30,000 million dollars. 30,000 million dollars cannot buy a 50 kg bag of rice, or a 50 litre silicon decision. And any country, regardless of what we are talking about, any country where 60,000 million dollars can buy a 50 kg bag of rice, or 50 litre silicon bag of rice, that something is impossible. It is very difficult. People like you are always being a jade in the revolution, spent by the rest of the country to keep the people. So nobody will try to keep the government, or the government before this one, or even the government before the one and before this one. So of course, say that this revolution will destroy the economy. This revolution is not the best on our sphere. But I'm happy to say that everything is purely natural. The price of aviation fuel has been diluted. And from mass consumption of flights, flight delays, and mass activities are no longer possible. We thought it was expensive. The price of fuel has been diluted. There are investments that they were talking about. The only thing we have been told to is collapse of scientific industrial sector. Collapse is a fascinating scientific sector. Collapse is a massive sector. It is one you go to the bank to do. People before this never designed price, it opens open at a time of full, and it closes around three or four. It's very fair. So people like me are mostly leaders, those who trust the sector. And people like me are designed leaders, these people, ordinary leaders, and those that want to see people elected and handed over to the political, economic, and social destiny for them to manage their national interests. And from what you have seen now, when anyone is saying that we have a current generation of leaders and managing our economic, political, and social destiny very well, the answer is no. Well, you started by answering the question by saying that every country, the citizens of every country are able to buy things with the disposable income, with the income that is available to them and the minimum wage is 30,000. Well, but people are just worried that why is it that there was so much talk about refineries and they didn't come on stream? Why is it that the president is the minister of petroleum and nothing is working? Why is it that the president himself is leading the committee that was set up to make sure that the fuel is available and nothing is working? Why is it that the NNPC is saying that there's enough fuel? They were telling us that there was enough fuel as at the beginning of January to last us for two months. Yet there was still scarcity and no heads are rolling as it were. Nothing is being done. So people are now speculating. There are many conspiracy theories here and there and all that. So we're trying to just understand what is really happening. Why would the product fuel and then we can't find it? Why will the blame game continue for this long and nothing seems to be happening? So what is the true picture? That's the question everybody has been asking everybody that the field should know something about this. But in the audience, yeah, go ahead please. Let me thank you for working on the two people. The correct and the two people is that the NNPC has been using the wrong order. As far as the downpour of the NNPC is concerned. In the look at this, when we started experiencing the shortage of misuse, whenever I read the one book that I was referring to, the science petroleum program, you know they are all in the wrong. At the point it was at the beginning of the session, we got to a point where at the beginning of the corona crisis, then at the point they had to deal strongly. Then we went to some point where you can imagine the truth is we have gone out of it and that is what you see. You don't expect a country of two hundred million citizens. And in that country the last time or the final year or something was like 43 years ago. And it's common generation of people have not been able to go home before the final year.  Okay, Nigeria went into democracy around 1999. So 1999, you are talking about 22,024 years. You should export to democratic dispensation or to leadership of democracy. But even if it takes 10 years to control the world entirely. But now we should be having two brand new refineries. But from what is happening, you can see that Nigeria has been reduced to a country where you are producing so much deal. But every time you want to do that, you go to somebody that doesn't want to produce or cultivate things. Nigeria has been reduced to a country where you produce so much cassava. And any time you need to do that, you have to go to a cassava store. You have to now go and defend on somebody who doesn't want to produce cassava. The truth is, it was the line that we were getting from so-called technical and government pressure, but the facts are out, but we have been facing the facts. At the point we were told last year that there was so much control and defense control, but the problem was that there were construction activities going on around the country. It is also clear that most of our lives are going to be in this situation going on. Private extravagant are not supposed to be the ones to provide good transportation to people. It is only that we are supposed to provide good transportation. Any private extravagant in this country will not be the ones to defend the people. It is also only the private extravagant who are there to provide something. If everybody is saying that they are going to defend the private extravagant, nobody is asking why they are going to just support them. Well, you think that they are going to support them a little bit, right? They are going to support the government. They are going to support the government, they are going to support the government and they are going to support that from creditors. If they are going to go to support from shareholders with that, if they are not going to pay shareholders that will be there, the only way they can go to support from shareholders that they are going to support is because they will pull out their funds. And if they are going to support the money from creditors, they are going to say what they are going to do for the interest. So they can want the work that people are expecting that the private extravagant is going to be able to save their business. Private extravagant and out-of-the-day office, if you establish a regular senior today, if you are in a hospital or a school, you are not extravagant because you love the citizen's work area. It is because you have time or you have disabilities and the government will remove from the person and in this way. So that should be the goal of every career. It is God's responsibility to show in situations like this where government is advocating for people and responsibility. It is the duty of low-income people like us to tell the government the truth when we will tell the government the truth constructively because we are doing everything we can to ensure. Okay. I'll leave you in the hands of my colleague Bio. Bio, please, over to you. Mr. Balazaka is waiting. Okay. Good morning, Mr. Balazaka, and it's always nice to hear your views on national issues. I assume you have been following the presidential candidates as they've been campaigning. What do you make of their proposals, if any, to solve the energy crisis we have? And when I say energy crisis, I'm referring to a few shortages that are cyclical, that keep happening from time to time, electricity shortage, and other related problems. God bless you for that question. I've been waiting for people who go energy journey to ask me that question. I am telling you to do a step that I am very, very difficult to take to talk of this. Not transparency, to look us up, to look at the situation, and to look at what you just had to do. It's so confusing, but in the course of all these years, we actually have to look me to step on it because it's a very difficult, an energy problem to come back. And I think you very well know you can do what energy. Even when they say we have to use them to solve it, we have to use them to solve it. We can't do that. Check if it's important for them. Just on this day, we're going to try to solve it and to take control of it, we're going to work on it. But if we can't solve it, we can't solve it. We don't have to go anywhere. But it's always better to find more people who have more time to talk about it. So important is to know that if we cannot do it, we have to go to another website to see what's going on. And if we can't do it, we can't stop the situation. That person you see, you will be to a father and you see you are a 13% to a father. They must be trained to protect that person who is the only person that has a thing for the rest of his life. Why do you go to the university to learn? To use that person to protect that person for much time. You need to be able to learn. When you go to the university for the first time, you don't have to go to the university to generate a new law. So why do you think that the difference between you having to provide that person or a medicine for the person to learn? I think the difference is to allow me some hope of the difference of things. So if you go to the university for the first time, you come on into the learning process. It is a concept that works for you well. So if something is wrong working with your quality, that will not impact the university of that concept. What do you need to check? Have you seen a change in your quality that is making the person to go to work? I think it is an example, an elementary example that I speak to you right now. The only reason why we have a serious problem is because there is a need to provide something for the university. So that does not work with that. Some of us also know that it was in the Nigerian country that it came so far. It was in the Bay Area. It was the Eiffel Tower that killed Shekau. So this is because of the government and the Eiffel Tower. So stealing the money is going for air. And of course, then you start the entire military. No. So why do you believe in why you have complicated decisions? What is it about the education? What is the culture? What is the purpose to provide something to the education? So it does not mean waste of time on the program. So the record of stealing money and diverging money to money for equipment and services, if you say the purpose of this education, the reason why you have teaching rights between state government and public health services also means to provide something to the health. So this is because of the direct responsibility of the public health services. So, a diverse program for state and state government, what is the purpose of that in the system? What is the purpose of that in the system? You need to provide something to the energy. So, then you have a certain problem with the fire. A problem with the maroon fire. And a problem with the question. a diverse system of these two ways. And I'm making one new talk, and I'm trying to say this is in the system that you fight. So what I'm here for is to think about that in the same, and we'll remove something. We'll remove something. I'm telling you that it's a small, meaningful way to deal with 80,000 billion dollars. So we know that at the rate of 5,000, and some of them, these things are also in different ways. It's one of the magical ways that people need to have missionaries. This is one of the most credible and creative youth that I've ever met. Thank you very much, Mr. Zaka. Actually, you touched on very interesting points. I like your analogy of using public health institutions, which exist side by side the private health providers. And therefore our fourth citizens, even though our health system is also facing challenges, but at least the availability of the public health institutions and the private health facilities give citizens options to either go to the public one or to go to the private one. So if my deduction from that is if we just leave the petroleum sector, for example, entirely to the private sector, that may not be reasonable. So my next question has to do with view directly now. I don't know if you can recall that some years ago you could actually drive into a petrol station in Nigeria and opt to either buy what was called a one-star petrol, two-star petrol, three-star petrol, four-star or five-star petrol. I don't know if you recall this. There was a time in Nigeria when you would actually do that. And the prices were different. So if you could afford one or two star, that was what you bought. And if you could afford the five-star, that was what you bought. But suddenly we woke up one day and the only thing that was available was just one brand of petrol and at a very high price. In your view, do you think there should be options as we had before? Well, this is where I went. I didn't plan to take the phone away. I wasn't supposed to let people put here to listen to people. The reason why you are here, you can see so many shutters. Please. Please. The situation of first aid, first aid response, first aid response. People still where always. If you want to help yourself, first of all, go to Baiku. People are great people and they are where you can go to Baiku and help them connect. Then you use your phone to carry out activities. So far, activities that will make you to the red body will make sure that you're fine. In the context of life, we are left empty consciousness. We don't have to make these decisions. You are living for about two or three years. And the strategic goals are there. We don't have to make these decisions. One day, two days, three days. What do you do? You lie on the table. And what do you say? A lot of people are listening. A lot of people are listening. These kinds of things, they are not the cause. It's the cause of death. It's the cause. To do that, I can tell you. I can tell you that we can. So we can. We can do it for one. But if I say, I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. So what do you do? If you are not here, you don't say what for? Who means what for? You say somebody who is 25 meters from the ground, but with my life, everybody always gets the chance to go around the tables. If they are listening, they are going to go out at the same time. And what do you do? You say, you are not here to lie with me. Nigeria is a place of perfect, Now, we were talking with Mr. Bala Zakade, and he was giving us insight on what he thinks that might be the issue on some solutions, even though I think the last question by didn't get it very well, but so far some of the things he said were very, very enlightening, as it is. But let's take this break, and when we return, we hope to be joined by another guest. Otherwise, it's just Bayo and I that will be trying to express some of these issues that were raised by Bala and some of the talking points that we have for today. Stay with us. You're welcome back. It's still the run-up, and we're looking at the fuel scarcity. We're also looking at the Naira scarcity, and so many other things. We are being joined by Kayode Kundayo, who is an energy expert, well, a correspondent or a writer for Energy Times, and we will be looking at these issues that are biting us right now, as it were. Kayode, first of all, let me welcome you to the program this morning. You've been in this energy sector writing about it and following the events, and we were talking with someone earlier on, and he was trying to give us his insight into what is really happening. But right now, we're just concerned. Is this a sneak peek of what subsidy removal might look like? Will this be the kind of prizes we are likely to see? We've heard that the product has been sold at some places as high as 800 to 1,000 Naira in parts of Nigeria, so tell us, Mr. Kundayo. When we talk about fuel subsidy removal as at June, so will we start seeing this kind of situation or even worse when it gets into the month of July? Or are there marked advantages that we will have if this fuel subsidy is actually removed 100 percent? When we are discussing this scarcity, what is implied to people who have a bit of knowledge or who have knowledge about the industry? What is indicating is that NNPC is trying to tell laws that the sector has been deregulated. And no matter what the situation is or likely to be in the next two weeks, we can never get the price. At the level we were getting it earlier on, like what we were getting before the NNPC, and that is not likely to happen because the price NNPC is sending to the marketer is not the same price is giving to them in the last three, four months. Definitely the price is not going to be the same and there may be some place of way, there may be some place of way in the country where we are not likely to have the same price as we are getting it all over the country. Already the independent marketer is sending almost four Naira per liter in some places in Lagos for instance. They are sending up to Fagore in Badden and some other areas in South West. They won't have that in South West. They are sending up both the official price, which is N185, which was just agreed upon about two weeks ago. But I can tell you that we are not likely to get that at that price going forward. And what is implied is that the sector has been deregulated, but it's not announced to anybody. NNPC will have the sole supplier and the importer of that foyer is telling us that because your finance challenges is facing, you won't be able to import. To some of us, we don't believe that. You know government that is insisting that you want to deregulate. And government that is saying that it's only June that we subsidize this foyer. And if we are subsidizing foyer, it's June. Definitely it's not going to happen in June. Something has to happen immediately at least to tell us that this is a gradual withdrawal of federal government from South CD. So and that is what we are seeing. And this is what the government and even the NNPC will have told the children that yes, we have started deregulating. We have started doing this thing at gradual process. And that is why we are doing this thing. But they are telling us that because there is no finance, because there is a general Ukraine, Korea crisis, that is not led to the crisis we have today, which is not the truth they are telling us. And even if they pump and you know government you can hear what NNPC was saying about this ago, that they have up to 6 billion litres of foyer. If we have 6 billion litres of foyer in stock, what has led to this crisis that's just crippling the economy for the last three months? Why is it that this foyer are not pumping to the market? So you could see that this food is not being told. And we continue to freeze this crisis until after the election. Okay, before my colleague comes in now, some people have advocated a complete privatisation of the petroleum sector. Do you think this will be part of a solution or the entire solution for this crisis that we have been talking about? There is nothing to privatise again. There is nothing to privatise again. The complete, what we have said, let me possibly, sorry, is that complete deregulation of the project sector and the sector has been deregulated. The only product that is not deregulated in the sector is foyer, which touches everybody's life. This will not touch anybody's life. And it's not going to be this way. Gas, and it's not going to be this gas. But foyer, petrol that is what touches everybody's life. And that is the only product that is being handled by the federal government. And if you are talking about privatisation, you only talk about the asset that is in the sector, which is just every which are just the refineries. So it's not about privatisation now that is leading to this crisis. It's not. It's about the government planning to withdraw or as withdrawn from subsidising the product. And from what we see now, there is no subsidy being attached to it. But again, we see now that before the middle of next year, this year, there is possibility that the federal government is still paying and this is succeeding. Because it's still the soul imported of this product. And unfortunately, it's not sending at high price. Though it has increased its asset support price, but it's not sending at that, a significant price that led to sending the retail markets that we are seeing today. And getting the price down, we are not likely to see that price coming down to the official rate. Definitely, we are not likely to see it in the next month or two. And in fact, it's the end of the year. Okay, my colleague is standing by to also ask some questions. Bye, please. Thank you very much, Khalid. I don't know if you can hear me. He can hear you. Hello, I can hear you, sir. Okay, Khalid, I have a couple of questions and I'm also conscious of time. Okay, sir. So I will appreciate if you can just give your professional and candid response. You'll make it short. The first is this. NNPC says, from what you said, has a storage and I agree with you. Actually, I was waiting to hear somebody say that not too long ago, they told us they had 6 billion, I think, liters of fuel. Yes, it's billion. Yes, now. Now, the question I have for you is, do we have the capacity to store 6 billion liters of fuel? Yes, we have the capacity. We have the capacity. Yes, and the reason why we have the capacity is that we have famous deposits now that are private deposits that can store these products. That is what the company is saying. It's not that they don't have that deposit. No. Okay, good. Second question is, and I was just discussing with Yamgu when we were off air during the commercial break. Some years ago, you could drive into a petrol station in Nigeria and opt to buy either one-star fuel, PMS, one-star or two-star or three-star or four-star or five-star. If you were, say, for instance, driving the BMW, you would naturally buy a five-star petrol, a five-star petrol. If you're a bus driver, you'll buy one-star or two-star. I don't know if you remember in Nigeria when you could actually do that. The question is, why are we suddenly been given only one option of petrol to buy? Why not me going in and buying low methane for two-star, for which I pay how much, or I can buy four-star? Whatever it is that I choose to buy. Why do you think this is no longer possible? Sorry, I couldn't hear you better. What did I tell you earlier about driving to a petrol station to buy? I don't know. Can you hear me better? Can you hear me better? There's a noise on the ground in your place. Can you hear me better? Yes, I can hear you. Okay, he said there was a time you could drive into a filling station and decide to buy either one-star or two-star or even three-star, four-star or five-star depending on the car that you're driving. Why is that not obtainable anymore now? Five-star. Are you talking about oil or what? Petrol. Petrol. You could drive into a petrol station in Nigeria and choose to buy either one-star petrol or two-star petrol. The one-star is very low quality. Two-star quality is likely higher. Three-star is up to get to five-star. It was possible in Nigeria at the time. So my question to you is why is it that we have only one option and that option is at a high price? Okay, thank you sir. That is what the government we are. You see, we've been saying that leadership quality will lack it in this country and that is the problem we have. Honestly, what we are talking about is happening in Ghana. It's still happening in Ghana. It's happening in some other West African that are not even could go to a producing state in the West African country. Unfortunately, in Nigeria, that is what our leadership has caused us and we keep on saying that we need to have a leader that understands the system that I understand the economy. But Nigeria is very, very unfortunate. We keep on having old men that doesn't even understand what the economy is. We keep on having the same set of people that doesn't even want the growth for the youth.  And if we see, if we see what we face, it's independent. It's the same thing we face and that's why we remain the same. We remain on the same spot. Until when we have a youthful leadership that understands the economy that can better the economy, that is when the Nigerian system can grow.  What we are talking about is being operational in other West African countries except in Nigeria. In Nigeria. Okay, thank you. My last question for you, Caldee. I don't know if you have been, I suspect you have been to the Tanghote refinery. Yes, several times. Okay. Now you will notice that the Tanghote refinery is facing the Atlantic Ocean and actually has its own jetty as well. Okay. Now, some people have suggested that those of us waiting for Tanghote refinery might be in for a shock. And why? Because Tanghote is in business to make profits. And he is most likely going to be exporting because he's going to buy food from NNPC. He's going to pay NNPC to get food oil. And then he refines in his refinery. And he will export. And if you notice over the years, many West African leaders repeatedly visited Tanghote refinery. The president of Togo has been there. This is usually not announced. These presidents come, they pay a visit because they are also waiting for Tanghote refinery to be ready. And so when that refinery becomes ready, those who have this view are saying that if we in Nigeria think that the moment that refinery is commissioned, we just have access to petrol or to whatever. We may be in for a shock because the guy is going to look for the market that is willing to pay him and if he has to export it will do that. What's your reaction to that? Okay sir, thank you so much. I have two layers of answers to those questions. One, Tanghote refinery has been sourcing for buyers, I mean, the consumers for a very long time since the establishment. It's not me now. And the second answer is that that is the reason why NNPC is sourcing in Tanghote refinery. And what that means is that Tanghote refinery is going to be supply, I mean NNPC is going to supply Kudoi to Tanghote refinery. The 20% NNPC has in Tanghote refinery is meant to supply Kudoi. And that is what that is meant for. So by the time the market comes we are not likely to have that stock as many buyers are seeing. It's going to say the normal market and Nigeria is going to make a lot of, I mean there will be a lot of subsidized in terms of getting the product available. For instance, when you import from anywhere in the world to pay for a number of things, like NPA, cargo, delivery, long distance, all those things, you pay for all those things. When it is Tanghote, you can easily use truck from Tanghote refinery to distribute within Lagos. You can use it to distribute with Nigeria. So those costs is no longer there and that will have an impact on the price that we are going to be sold to NNPC or sold to the consumer or sold at the retail station. And it's not that it will be any stock. If it is sent at international price, yes, Nigeria is going to derive maximum benefit from it. Thank you very much. Our time is really off. If you can do in 30 seconds please. Bio asked this question earlier. Are you comfortable with what you have been hearing the presidential candidates all talking about reformation in the power or energy sector? You've listened to them. What are your takeaways from what they have been talking about issues of power, issues of energy, issues concerning fuel that we are talking now? Yes, yes. Briefly please. Okay, you want, okay, yes, a lot of them have been talking about restoring or have stability in power supply. It's not for them to talk about it. We have seen it before. It's not new to us. Yes. It is when they get there that we now face with the re-tasked. Before the president government was there, we will understand, we told us, they told us many things about what they are going to do. But when they get there, they find something else again. I can tell you when a person got before he became the president, he said many things. But when eventually he became the president, he changed. He brought up, he brought Bolaji, Bolaji was there. We eat 4,000 megawatts on the one particular day. The thing went down in the evening of that day. And since then, we've been with Maronis fighting to get 4,000 since 2020,000. I mean the other is 2,000. We'll be fighting to get that 4,000 megawatt. We don't need for that particular year till now. We have no move beyond it. Except maybe once in a while, when we have it and we go back to 3,000. That has been the state. Now, the magic, all the contributors, for far, they don't know yet until when they come in. Already, you know, we have the president government have a partnership with Sime. They have started doing something. So, whoever come will do that. And I really don't know the strategy they are bringing to ensure stability. Because we have the power supply in this company. We have the power plant. They have the capacity of about 11,000 megawatt. What is the problem is with what we don't know. And the analysts have been, our experts have been telling us that the problem we have is the transmission. What if on the distribution network, the transmission and truly, at times, we get 5,000 megawatt. We think we're just wrong. So it has been the issue. The magic that you bring to stabilizing this power is what we don't know yet until when they come in. So we can really not say that this is what they are likely to do. This is not likely to do. Because it's not we. You will be telling that. It is the activities and what their responsibility to the system that will tell us that yes, these people are doing well. These people are not doing well. Let them come in. Then we see what they are going to do. At least in the next six months, when they get to power. Okay, okay, Coyote. Thank you so much. So it's an act of faith for Nigerians to pray hard that when they get there, whatever promises they have made, they will keep. Thank you so much, Coyote, for being a part of our program today. Thank you. Okay, that was Coyote Kundayo, a publisher of Energy Times newspaper. And he's been also giving us insights to what he feels that the problem is in the sector, in the energy sector, as it were, and so many other things. We'll take a short break for the news. When we return, Bayo and I will be looking at some of these issues and others that we've had in the course of the day. Stay with us. You're welcome back. Today, we have been looking at the scarcity of almost everything essentially in Nigeria, scarcity of fuels, scarcity of narrow nodes, and all that. But I'm interested. Okay, well, my name is Nyam Ghulagaji and Bayo Aloua, who is still here. What has interested me in all this is how swift our justice system suddenly has become. Was it not yesterday or the day before that political parties, up to 14 or 18 of them, went to court and had an injunction saying that the central bank and the federal government must never go back on the narrowly designed policy. They made sure that they got that judgment that prevented the central bank from going back and saying that they are going to extend the time for validity of the old nodes. This morning, we've heard that the Supreme Court swiftly has also given a ruling that that policy cannot be implemented. I'm just wishing that the justice system is swift all the time to administer justice, to do what the needful is at all times, because I've seen cases that have been in the courts for more than 10 years. Some of them we just forget about them and that's the end of it. And I'm just wondering why the swiftness, why so much efficiency and effectiveness in this issue of the Naira, did it not cross your mind why everything is moving so fast at this time? What do you think could have been the cause? Well, it crossed my mind, but also once there's a dispute between the components of the federation, the constitution, I don't know which particular section, I'm not a lawyer, but I know that there's this amendment to the constitution, especially due to electoral issues that took so long to resolve and all that and all that, so electoral laws are amended, things are amended, but also disputes between the component units of the federation, whether the federal government and the states or the local governments and the states or the local governments and the federal government, the legal education process was shortened. So I think the case will have to, it has to have some sort of appeal or something like that, but then you can go straight to the Supreme Court and say some sort of a constitutional issue. In this case, I'm suspecting that because the central bank is autonomous and therefore cannot be, I mean, it has autonomy, so to speak, and therefore it cannot be one arm of government that can give an instruction to the CDN. I think it's because of this that they went to Supreme Court. Having said that, I mean, I stand to be correct there, but that's my opinion of the situation. But having said that, I think as well that it was fast. I agree with you that it was fast. This could be because the appellants, you know, sufficiently convinced the justices that it was a matter of urgent national importance, especially given the fact that the deadline that was issued for everyone to have exchanged their own notes would have just come up in two or three days from when they filed a suit. Still, having said that, I think it was very fast because the Supreme Court could have said, okay, we issue an injunction, let the proceedings, let the status quo remain until this case has been heard, but in which case the February 10th deadline will still not have that. It will be by extension people who still continue exchanging money until the Supreme Court case was heard. But they didn't do that. They issued the judgment. Now, having issued the judgment, because now they've issued the judgment, so we can comment about it, is when the case is in court that we are not allowed to comment on it. So now, having given judgment, I'm just wondering, because you see the executive implements, the executive executes court judgments, unless it's in a private matter, okay? So still you are going to need the executive to implement this. The agents that can implement that judgment will be the CBN, which is part of the executive, even though it is autonomous, okay? So, and then if you have to enforce anything that you need, maybe the EFCC, or you need the fraud section, or whatever it is, the fraud section of the Nigeria Police, or ICPC, or whatever.  Let's see how this implementation would be, especially given the fact that the initial deadline that was given is just so close, just two days to go. Okay, well, I just wish, I just wish and I hope that the administration of justice will be, will always be as swift as this. Let it not be this one that people are speculating that okay, they were supposed to, governors were supposed to meet the president and make a case for the students. They didn't go. The lecturers were on strike for over eight months. They didn't go to the president to appeal to him. People were suffering in one way or the other. They didn't go to the president until it became Naira and close to the election and everybody started talking. So I just hope that whatever or whoever was saying is because it's affecting them directly, that's why they're doing this, will be proven wrong by the justice system sitting up and doing their work and administering justice very fast. But the next two... Sorry, just one quick thing. Just one quick thing. I'm also trying to understand the basis of the court case because in what we have seen in the media and from some of the guests we have had on this program, the complaint has always been that there are not enough new Naira notes. The complaint wasn't that they still had old Naira notes to exchange. Correct me if I'm wrong. That's it, that they don't have the new Naira notes. But the complaint is that there are no new Naira notes. So if Kogi and the other two states that went to court are saying that there should be an extension of the deadline, not that central bank should be compelled to print more new notes. I'm finding this very interesting because I haven't seen people saying we still have old Naira notes we've not been able to exchange that. Unless maybe the governors who went to court or the governors of those states said that their old states have the old Naira notes and have not been able to exchange that. That's an interesting angle, yeah. I was expecting that the court case would be to say that the CBN should be compelled to disclose how much in value of new notes it printed and whether that was sufficient to go around and if not, one order of the Supreme Court compelling the CBN to print as much Naira notes, new Naira notes as would erase this scarcity. Because extending the validity for me will not solve any problem, unless those governors are the ones who have good Naira notes. Yeah, really nobody has ever come out plain to say that their old notes that are somewhere that people are not able to exchange is the ability to get money, new notes and all that. Exactly, we don't have the new notes, we also print so that should be the case. But they have won now. Okay, let's just take these two things together now. I wanted us to take one after the other, but that time is going. In a Nigerian village, I don't know if you know, a king has created a currency to drive economic empowerment in the rural community. The traditional ruler called Ademola Adjibola introduced what they called the TLK voucher in August 2021 as a means of exchange within Ijarai located in the same local government area of Kwara south central district. Ijarai has a hilly terrain and like many rural communities in Nigeria its economy is based on the incomes of civil servants, healthcare workers, subsistence, crop farmers and so on. He created the voucher system upon his return to Nigeria in August 2021. Earlier, the monarch had converted a part of the Moribond Nigerian Postal Service office in the community into a microfinance bank called Ijaraisen Development Fund Center. The microfinance bank now issues the vouchers. Because this microfinance bank does not have the license to operate as a microfinance bank, it uses the license of a microfinance bank owned by the king himself. The IDFC as they call it, the assistant manager in that IDFC, Yomi or Duma, they revealed that after Ajibola became king in 2021 he was handing out money to his subjects in the hope that when they spend it in the community it will have a multiplier effect that will expand the community's income. However, the king discovered that instead of spending it on the local economy as he had hoped, many prefer to either save it in their bank accounts or even spend it on goods sold outside the community. So to address that, he now introduced a voucher and that voucher is legal tender in that village. You take the voucher, when he gives you the voucher, he doesn't give money now, he gives the voucher. When you take the voucher to any store, any salesperson within the community, it is accepted. So now whatever money he gives out to the people, it circulates within that community. So I'm sure in that community now they wouldn't be thinking about new narrow nodes. I'm sure in that community, they won't be all this fight and all that because they have a voucher that serves as money alongside the Nigerian currency. Well, since it works for that community, I think that was innovative, that was very creative and right now they won't have this problem. And secondly, like I said, I'm joining them together, we have heard that banks in Medugri have started dispensing the new narrow nodes at various ATM points and even over the counter, after Governor Zulum threatened to revoke land CFO of any bank hoarding new narrow nodes. Now if this is true, I am happy and sad at the same time because it shows that most times the only language we understand in this country is force. For something we should have come naturally without force or inducement. If this be true, kudos to Governor Zulum. I hope other state governors will learn from this action and know that being Chief Security Officer of the state does not have to be the control of police and army and I hope they won't be complaining all the time that is because power is not in our hands, it is in the center and all that. Those are my observations and I think I like these two things. Just a few comments from you before. The last one, Governor Zulum for me is the best government in Nigeria personally. He's the best government in Nigeria, I won't say more than that.  He's there for the people. He's visited areas liberated from Boko Haram many times. Sometimes during those visits, he came on that fire. He's all public in the public space. He's my best governor. Coming to the traditional route, I respect what he's done. I think he's quite innovative and good. The only thing is, I wonder if it's not in the gray area between what is legal and what may not be legal. I think Israel Highness would need to check the CDN to make sure that what he's doing is in line with the monetary rules and regulations. But I think he's very innovative and I don't see how the CDN will not support that. He's not printing money. So he's not contravening laws but he's doing something quite innovative that we can give vouchers to within cash and so on. And I think it's something really good. They should be commended. Okay, well, that's the much we can take today. Whoever is doing something good, we commend you. Whoever is doing something bad, please desist from it. This is our Nigeria violence is not allowed. So whether you get cash from ATM or not, whatever it is, be peaceful. Thank you, Bayo, for being a part of the program today. Always a pleasure. Thanks for having me. Until tomorrow, on behalf of the entire team, my name is Nyam Gul Akgaji Singh. Thanks for being there.


Yesterday, I was reading through the comment section of our other channel, SuccessSecretTV, when I saw a particular comment. The commenter wrote something like, I'm now 40 years old and I just started reading books. So far, books have been changing my life. When I read this comment, I paused and tried to swallow that, 40 years and just started reading books about life and money. What kind of society trains such people? How can a 40 year old man just start learning about life or money? Here, this man is lucky to have discovered the precious gifts the books offer, even at age 40, because most people in the world would not even discover that all their lives. However, when I think about my life starting to read at around age 17, I could feel it that 40 is a long year to read books about life or money. In today's video, I will share with you 5 books I've read about money, which made a great impact in my life. If you are between the ages of 15 and 40, we specially created this channel for you. So, don't forget to subscribe. The Purple Cow by Seth Godin I once told a friend that nobody should ever start a business until they have read the Purple Cow.  The fundamentals are about being different.  An ash collar in the cow is normal. What is not normal is the purple cow. So when people see the purple cow, they wait and pay attention. And as I have explained on success secrets TV several times, your number one asset as an entrepreneur is the attention, because if you don't get the attention, you don't get sales.  Positioning The Battle for Your Mind by Ile Rees and Jack Trout Most entrepreneurs think businesses that succeed are those who create great products. But it is not true. Ile Rees and Jack Trout in this wonderful book prove that businesses that succeed are those who can create a good position in the public's mind before anyone else. Think about Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Several blind tests have shown that more people prefer the taste of Pepsi, yet when these people open their eyes, they buy Coca-Cola. There was a man whom in 1985, 1986, when Coca-Cola chained their formula, he wanted to fight with everyone who did that. And this man preferred Pepsi's taste in a blind taste test. That's how irrational human nature is, and you have to understand this. Ile Rees and Jack Trout said it's better to be first than to be better, because being first in a particular market category allows you to enter people's minds first. While you might lose that golden opportunity if you're careless, it's easier to maintain your first position than to fight for it after three other people occupy the ladder. You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen I bought this book in the year 2008. I borrowed a friend who didn't return it, and I had to buy it again. I didn't read this book, I ate it, because it's probably one of the best five books I've read in my entire life. Every human negotiates every day. But if you want to be an entrepreneur, that puts you ten times in the position of negotiation than other people. Take for instance, in the last one month, my company had been going through a lot of things. Buying different stuff for our studio, hiring different people, and personally, I have had to convince my teammate that something they think is not possible is very possible. Even this morning, I have negotiated, even though I'm writing the script about 9am. It's that crazy.  And everybody. Negotiation is your number one job, and you can't afford to know how to do it. So, I advise you, read You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen. The E-Myth, we're visited by Michael Gerber.  They are underpaid, or working too much. With this anger, they say to themselves, I can do everything my employer is doing to make money. Why don't I just start doing his business and make the money he makes? The problem, however, starts becoming obvious when these people start their own business and start working every day of their lives, several hours each day, because they are now doing many things that business requires. What most people don't realize is that they do not build businesses with technical knowledge. You don't build an engineering company because you're an engineer, or a web designing company because you're a web designer. Inside every true entrepreneur lies different skills, human relationship, managerial, technical, leadership, etc. And you have to understand this. Another important point in this book is that true entrepreneurs don't work in their businesses. They work on their businesses. The meaning of this is very simple. Your goal as an entrepreneur is to get your business running without your impute. This, of course, will not happen when you're starting out. But if you cannot focus on how to make it happen, you'll end up being a slave to your business, which is not what you want to do. Idea Virus by Seth Gordon. I know it's not fear to mention two books from a single author in a list of five books. But I have to be honest with you. Idea Virus is a better book than most books I've read. So I advise you to read it. I wrote a book in the year 2013 and I started selling it on my blog. I was making some money selling this book. And I thought it was fun until I read the Idea Virus. When I read the Idea Virus around 2015 or so, I discovered that I shouldn't be selling that book but giving it out for free. I started giving this book out for free. And as a result, I'm making ten times more money from giving this book out for free than when I was selling it. This is counterintuitive, but it works because you need trust before you can get people to pay you money. What is the better way to get people to trust you than to give them something of value for free? Not that you should start giving all your products out for free. I'm only telling you what I did after reading the Idea Virus. The lesson you'll get from this book might differ from mine. So, read it. I hope this list makes sense to you. If it does, watch other videos from our channel. We love you.