 Welcome once again to the breakfast here on plus TV Africa now Let's go back in history to the 26th of July in 1948 It was on this day that President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order executive order 9981 ending discrimination in the military It was of course after a long spell, which where? African-American military officers in the United States were basically pushed to do menial jobs You know, they weren't allowed to hold big positions or strong high-ranking positions in the US military They basically were recruited and left to do the menial embarrassing, you know Jobs in the army at that time. So on this day in 1948 President Truman signed that executive order He'd ended a long-standing practice of segregation of black soldiers African-Americans had been seven in the United States military since the Revolutionary War But were deployed in the largest numbers during World War two and there is also some historical books and Stories that tell this, you know, the the influence of black American African-American soldiers in The you know fights in farm in America's wars if you remember the movie the Tuskegee Airman I believe it's one of those movies that tells of the influence of black Americans in America's wars, you know But at the same time even when they were able to contribute that much they still were reduced to, you know, the Menial jobs in the in the army. It was a crucial event in post-war war two civil rights movement and a major achievement of Truman's presidency The order also established a committee to investigate and make recommendations To the civilian leadership of the military to implement the policy the pressure from these groups push President Truman to establish a commission on Human rights and so once again 1948 president Truman ended discrimination in the United States Military now, let's move over to a place called Ahmedabad Where in on this day in 2008 there was a bomb blast that led to the loss of 56 people and more than 200 were injured on this day July 26 in 2008 Over time in you know history We've gotten to hear about bombings in different parts of the world and even to date you might still hear of a bomb blast in Pakistan Afghanistan and some of all those places It used to be the strongest tactic of Terrorist groups across the world from ISIS to al-Qaeda and of course Dave and down here in Nigeria the Boko Haram Over time, you know, we've gotten to hear less and less of these events. There's new tactics that terrorists have been using these days Maybe because of you know security agencies being able to Reduce their you know ability to carry out bomb attacks or maybe just because they feel there's you know more They can profit more from a different tactic with regards terrorism But on this day in 2008 a bomb blast went off in Ahmedabad and led to the loss of 56 people Within a span of seven or 70 minutes 56 people were killed and over 200 people were injured it is the cultural commercial capital city of Gujarat state a large part of Western India the blast were considered to be of low intensity and were similar to the Bangalore blast Which are called a day earlier the Gujarat police arrested a suspected mastermind the Mufti Abu Bashir along with nine others in connection To the bombings the bombings the bombings also called a day after yet the Bangalore blast in in the Indian state Several news agencies reported receiving a 14-page email five minutes before the explosion with the subject line I wait five minutes for the revenge of Gujarat of Karnataka Pretty difficult pronouncing these names, but that's what happened on this day In 2008 in India and we hope that of course as time passes We can finally get to a place in our in our lives and in history where there's a complete end to bomb blast and You know that attack by terrorist groups across the world That's all for today in history 2008 the bomb blasts in India and of course in 1948 President Harry S. Truman ended discrimination in the US military Stay with us our first major conversation for today We are talking Lagos state elections on Saturday. I had spoken with Deji Doherty on Saturday during our news late-night news news now and he had made certain statements with regards Regan and The electoral practices in the Lagos state elections that took place on Saturday So we've invited him once again this morning to have another conversation about that And of course share a little bit more with us What truly happened from his perspective on Saturday in Lagos? We'll be back after the short break