 Welcome back to the breakfast here on PLOS TV Africa. We're moving now to today in history, sharing with you what happened a couple of years ago on the 29th of April. I'm going back to 2006 where, of course, it was an era where there still was a high rate of bombings in Nigeria, but not in Northern Nigeria now. It was in the Niger Delta. The destruction of government facilities, mostly pipelines, and the movement for the emancipation of the Niger Delta, and all of that was very popular in our news back then. On this day, there was a massive car bombing that, of course, according to reports, they didn't mention any actual casualties besides destruction of the cars and property in its space at that time. The movement for the emancipation of Niger Delta militants rather claimed responsibility for this car bombing in 2006. They, at that time, were demanding more local control over the Southern Delta's oil wealth and said it used a mobile phone to detonate 30 kilograms of dynamite in the bombing. The attack was a warning to all people working in the oil industry in Nigeria at that time and also made specific threats against China, which had just signed a major oil deal with Africa's top oil producer, Nigeria. Over time, there's also been a reduction in men's activities. The presidency of Mara Musayaradwa came in and, of course, there was discussions on Amnesty for Niger Delta militants. They surrendered a lot of their weapons. I don't know if it's all of them, but at least they dropped some of those weapons and Amnesty was granted. There's also been the controversy over who really benefited from the Amnesty if it was the militant leaders or it was the Niger Delta people themselves and all of that. But at least we got to a place where militancy had reduced. We got to a place where abominings and attack on oil facilities and government facilities had also reduced after the Amnesty period. Lately and, of course, in the last couple of years, every now and then you might still hear of threats by the Niger Delta militants to once again go back to their agitations and their demands and to hostilities. But luckily, we've not been able, we've not got into that place again. If you remember also, there's a couple of names who also we've heard from that era. Asari Dokubo was one of them and then Tom Polo also was one of them. There, I remember there was criticism over contracts that were given to protect Niger Delta pipelines and oil facilities during Good Lockability, Jonathan's administration. Billions of Naira were voted for these contracts that, of course, were seen as some type of settlement for these people. But that once again today in history was the era where there was still agitations and hostilities by Niger Delta militants. And just last night, I watched a video, a recent video about Niger Delta militants. He was clad in military uniform. He had a white veil over his face and he was reading the statements threatening to begin to destroy infrastructure assets in Lagos, Abuja and other key cities because of the failure of government, so to speak. It's so sad that these insecurity threats is not seeming to go away. The government does have a lot on its hands. Yes, it does. So does NEDC. So also with the Niger Delta and the South-South governors and of course, every other person who is a governor in any South-state, they also, everybody should share the blame because with better governance, with basic infrastructure, with healthcare, with education, with roads, with cleaning up of the Niger Delta, we very likely would not have some of all these things in existence. I would also say, anyway, I don't want to, let's not go into that. All right. That's my take. So moving on to something light, let's go to the year 2011 and it was the day on April 29th, 2011, that Prince William and Catherine Middleton got married. This wedding took place at Westminster Abbey in London, United Kingdom and it was a significant location because this is the exact venue where Prince William's father, Prince Charles, had been married to his mother, Princess Diana, about 30 years before then. It was an interesting event that day. That day was actually declared a public holiday. There was so much ceremony that day, about 5,000 street parties in the UK because of this royal wedding. We know that Prince William, the second in line of succession, of the British throne and his bride, Catherine Middleton, had been in his girlfriend since 2003. It was a highly televised wedding, viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including about 72 million live streams on YouTube. The bridal dress was designed by a London-based designer, Sarah Button at Alexander McQueen. She had this beautiful tiara, they did their wedding vows. It was a beautiful wedding. One interesting thing to me about the whole ceremony is how she did her own makeup. Bring it down here to Nigeria. You know how much makeup artists would milk you when they find out you're doing your wedding, but she actually took some makeup classes, did her own wedding. They walk on about three kids now and yes, this was the day that got married in 2011. I remember video clips and pictures from that wedding. Everybody who was everybody in the world was there. I remember David and Victoria Beckham being one of the best dressed couple at the wedding then. It felt like the also it's a particular show that people dress up to. It felt like the Oscars, not the Oscars, there's some other ones. There's the Golden Globes, there's the Grammys. There's one of the ones that they wear costumes to. I don't remember that one. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. So that's what it felt like with the amount of celebrities around the whole world who were invited and who showed up to that wedding. I was invited. I just turned it down. Yeah, I know. I was so busy with work. So I remember very, very well the wedding and the pictures and all of that from that wedding. Over time, they've had three kids, George, Louis and Charlotte since they got married. Did you give them their names? The painful part for me is after their wedding and how much it was celebrated and spoken about and now the support that they've gotten. She's now currently in Duchess of Cambridge. Prince Harry, his brother eventually still got married a couple of years later to Meghan Markle. And it's not been the same reaction that the world and the British people have had towards his own marriage. And for me, that's really, really, really awful. If the whole world stood up for Prince William and then turned their backs entirely on Harry, very, very unfair. It tells you one thing. There is inequality everywhere. Absolutely. And I hope that at some point, because every time and for years and years and years, we've spoken about racism and how the world needs to do better and how we need to be better people and all of that. But it hurts realizing there are certain things that would just never go away. There are certain things and certain aspects of life that would just always be there. What we as human beings need to do is find a way to minimize their effects and reduce how much they affect humanity. But extremism, religious extremism, for example, racism, those things sadly would just always exist in our world today. All right. But anyway, happy wedding anniversary to Kate Middleton and Prince William. All right. Stay with us. We'll be back after the short break. And of course, we're being joined by our guests to have our first major conversation for today on the breakfast.