 You're welcome back to the Breakfast on Plus TV Africa, it's now time for Today in History and on this day in history we're going back to when a particular incident occurred in a football field in Mubi that killed tens of people, you know, this happened on the 1st of June 2014, you know, Nigerians in the northern part of Nigeria, not a part of the country had gone, you know, to watch a match, a football game and the match was over, you know, people were just crossing the pitch trying to find their way homes when someone from among the crowd, you know, detonated a suicide vest and we saw that there was an explosion, about 40 people died alongside with that suicide bomber. The perpetrators of the attack were not exactly known but we know that it was at this time that the Bokoram insurgency, you know, had began to really put a strong foot in Nigeria and just a few days before then, about two days before then, there was a Bokoram attack as well, killed about 48, 78 people, attacks weeks before, killed tens and tens of people, so it was on this day in history that this particular situation occurred, this bomb blast in Mubi at Amoa state, but even though people say the death toll was much higher than what was reported, there were about 40 people that were heard in the media, but this was what happened on this day in history. There was, of course, nationwide condemnation of these attacks saying it was barbaric, but of course we know that Bokoram continues to exert a very, you know, very terrible influence in the country, even with the Islamic State of West Africa, like we know it, and all the abductions of school children, the Mushri since being the, about 200 girls in the Islamic school in Nine Justice, so that's what happened basically this day in history. Yeah, it's also, you know, a reminder of, you know, those dark times in Nigeria where we're dealing with bomb blasts, you know, on Sundays, on Fridays, weekends, weekdays, you know, it was, you know, the main terror tactic back then of the Bokoram sect, you know, it has changed, you know, either because the Nigerian government has been able to cut off their access to bombs or the ability to make these suicide bombs, or they just have changed tactics, you know, and decide to take a totally different route. So those times, of course, I pray and I hope that we never go back to those times and we as a country are able to continue to frustrate their efforts and, you know, rid the country of these insurgent groups and these terrorist, we should never, you know, experience the times of, you know, bomb blasts in the north ever again, even if there's a report of something that happened in the river state a couple of days yesterday or the day before. But once again, we as a country should never go back to those times. All right, moving on, let's talk about something now that is maybe, you know, on a lighter note, a happier story. One of the biggest TV networks in the world on this day was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner and Reece Schoenfeld, both of them founded CNN, the first 24-hour television news channel on this day in 1980. Over time, it has been able to develop to have about 3,000 employees and it's worth, I think last year was worth about $5 billion. It was, like I said, the first 24-hour television station and it debuted on this day. It signed on from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia with a lead story about the attempted assassination of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan. It went on over time to change the notion that news could only be reported at fixed times throughout the day. The world was at that time used to reading news at certain times, 4 p.m., 9 p.m., whatever time, you know that they choose, but CNN chained that narrative and became a channel that read the news continuously 24 hours. Initially available in less than 2 million U.S. homes, today CNN is seen in more than 90 million American households and more than 370 million households and hotel rooms internationally. It was the brainchild of Robert Ted Turner, a colorful, outspoken businessman who was dubbed the mouth of the South. After his father died by suicide in 1963, he took to over to business and of course expanded it. In the first year of operation, CNN lost money and was really called as the chicken noodle network. It gained significant traction with its live coverage of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and the network's audience grew along with the increase in popularity of cable television during the 90s and well into the new millennium. It has obviously been a success story and I like seeing these type of things and the amount of investment that of course has gone into CNN to make it what it is today. First of all, of course, being the first 24-hour news channel and then second also because of the investment, the facilities that we're put into it to be able to cover the Persian Gulf War like I mentioned and then also being a television that has continued to be a first here and there. It has also produced some of the most famous TV news anchors in the world, the Christian Amon Paws, the Jonathan Manns, the Oh Lord, Larry King. So when I was younger, I could call 10 to 15 CNN anchors off the top of my head and I can't remember them. What's this guy with glasses now? Anyway, it has produced some of the most famous TV news anchors in the Wolf Blitzer, that's the name I was trying to remember, Richard Quest, some of them who of course, what's his name? Anthony Baldain who passed on a couple of years ago, Suicide and Rosemary Church. Anyway, I'll stop there. I just was saying also Osirogio Bono and the likes. Amen. It was very fast this morning. It was on this day that CNN was founded in 1980 and yes, we celebrate with them I guess. So I think one of the major, major moral lessons because I'm going to, I'm taking moral lessons away from this story with Tetona and his partner, how they started CNN in 1980, is that if you have a dream, no matter how much people criticize you, never give up. I mean, in all the news articles back there in 1980, all the way to 10 years later, people called CNN Chicken Noodle Network and said, you know, the prediction was that CNN would never last past six months because Tetona was really operating on a very tight budget. He had put all his life savings, all his money into CNN. You know, they say what they're going to be, you know, be known by is they going to be giving live breaking news stories, 24 hours. And a CEO of CBS News at that time said, how would people watch a patch news network against ours? I've been on for about 50 years with lots of money with our budget and all of that. But they never gave up. See many, many decades later, CNN is one of the most foremost media organizations in the world. They have franchises or what do you call them branches, so to speak, in different parts of the world in Nigeria and the most remote places. You know, so the moral lesson there is never give up. If you have a dream follow through, people will definitely criticize you insult you, try to beat you down, but ignore that and move on. Also a very, you know, a huge part of Donald Trump's losing the election. That's the power of media. Yes, and happy anniversary to CNN today. We'll be back after the short break, moving into our first major conversation for today. And of course, is back to the Southeast, a continued conversation, but this time with a group called Nkata Ndiom. We'll be back.