 you're welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa it's now time for today in history and on this day in history July the 1st 2003 it wasn't a very good day for Kobe Bryant because there was a misconduct charge against him so a female employee at a Colorado resort basically went to the police to file a sexual misconduct charge against the basketball star Kobe Bryant on July 1st and a few days later an arrest warrant was issued for Bryant and the ensuing case generated lots and lots of media frenzy. This particular incident really affected Kobe Bryant because he faced intense scrutiny he lost many of his endorsement deals as a result of the rape case because he went on to actually admit it that he went on to admit that they had you know something together but he maintained that the accuser all rather than he was consensual with the accuser and this particular female employee had said you know Kobe Bryant assorted her but he insisted that it did happen but that it was consensual. The accuser her name and her identity was mistakenly made public as a result of the court's clerical errors and this you know thrust her into the limelight and she began to receive many personal life and death threats but in early March 2005 Bryant and the accuser settled their civil lawsuit for an undisclosed sum and that's what happened today in history. Sadly he is no longer and the year 2020 took Kobe Bryant basically but you know I think we've said it before that you know no matter how beautiful your career is just one tiny mistake can ruin a 10 15 20 year career where you've put in all the work and sacrifice and worked entirely hard to build just one mistake. Same thing you know with someone of course that didn't make the news this morning which is Bill Cosby if you've been following the news also you must have heard that he has been released but of course he made his own mistakes that ruin his career you know and even if he hasn't set free from you know from jail he's been released from jail you know it's never going to be completely wiped away that he's been accused of multiple sexual assault crimes basically and same thing with Kobe Bryant. But we forget Crip quite easily here in Nigeria I mean look at the Babaay just a case with all the alleged sexual misconduct and you have lots of people rallying around him supporting him I wouldn't be surprised if he's shooting blockbuster movies in the next few days and Nigerians rushing to the cinemas to watch despite all the allegations so I guess it's just different different approaches to the council culture Nigeria and over there. Yeah you know so I think it's also because we we we're really hypocritical you know a lot of times and we also need to do better with taking a stance against certain things shameful you know when I saw the tampon tampon sorry group and their message to those actresses really really shameful I was ashamed of you know and you know all those people there really really ashamed and really just for me just meant that a lot of them maybe had skeletons in their closet and they had to you know stand for each other you know so that if they are called out in the future they will be able to you know find somebody to defend them it's really really shameful how the whole thing played out but what he's granted will I believe that he's gonna go back to court and I I hope you know that you know we continue with the court case I don't want to say more than I should. Alright on this day in history in 2007 if you lived in England then you must have heard that England banned smoking on this day but not smoking it wasn't a complete ban on smoking it was a ban on smoking in enclosed areas it of course came with it with its own controversy it was it made it illegal to smoke in enclosed workplaces in England and it came into force on this day in 2007 as a consequence of the Health Act of 2006 the ban of course before the ban of course a lot of people who are not businesses who in who voluntarily introduced ban on smoking mainly as result of public feedback but there was a legal blunder with this ban because there was no actual punishment for flouting the rule until the 16th of July in 2007 while the ban affects almost all indoor workplaces smoking is permitted in private residences also and of course although it is not used in areas such as a shared workplace in flats with communal entrances or shared corridors these must all be smoke-free eventually I think late in the year then it was also enforced in public transportation and other places that had to do with the public so on this day basically the ban on smoking in England came into play and came to force I think later I'm sure Legos also has a or somewhere I think Nigeria also adopted a you know similar ban on smoking during the last administration good like Jonathan's administration there was a similar ban on smoking that also was placed you know was thought about here in Nigeria okay but anyway this happened in the year 2007 fantastic and after about 10 years after that you know in the UK they began to have reports surveys as to what impacts this ban on smoking in public places have had and some reports show that people were now trying to actively quit smoking because there was a ban on smoking in certain places so it did improve their health in those ways and researchers also conducted a found that after that ban on smoking in public places air pollution in the UK bars reduced as much as 93% so it seems to have have had a great effect on the health and of course air yeah and then there's also places that you go to in Nigeria the you know clubs that have a lot of patronage that you go to and you can't smoke inside because I think they understand yes yeah so you can smoke outside they I don't if they have smoke rooms but I know that you have some have places where you know this is just for smoking and they have played you know they have a way they divide it where you can't smoke here yeah yes so so I think it's because they understand that not everybody wants to be in an environment and you know I well girls always complain that you know they have their old you know hair and clothes melon smoke and it causes headache for people like me oh it does yes okay yes so anyway the point is you know from 2007 it now became a popular thing to ban you know smoking in enclosed places across the world I'm not sure how much they enforce it here in Nigeria but I think what happens here is you know people just voluntarily decide to place that ban in their you know business places and their lounges and the likes alright 2007's what we shared with you and of course we're also wearing back to the year 2003 could be brined and that's sexual assault charge and let's take a break here and we'll return shortly