 You're welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. I'm excited to share today in history, July 14, 2014, because it was on this day in history that a long age tradition of having just male bishops in the church was broken. Now on this day in history, the Church of England voted in favor of allowing women to become bishops. And the Church's National Assembly, known as the General Synod, approved this historic measure at a meeting by a vote of 351 in favor, 72 opposed and 10 abstained. Now this cannot be exaggerated because, like I mentioned, when people even begin to quote scriptures to say women should not be the head, men should be the head of the home, the head of the church. So this is a bill that it's been delegated over for a while, even two years and before then in 2012 it was rejected. But the great thing was on this day in history, this issue over which the church had been deeply divided was resolved and women could now become bishops in the Church of England. So that basically is our story for you today. Are today in history? I think a couple of years earlier, I'm not sure. I think 2002 I believe they had also lifted the ban on women becoming priests before this one eventually happened in 2014. And I would also share that there were legal obstacles to this, there was also some of those who rejected the bill because of their belief in God and what the Bible taught them on some of all of that. The moves to dismantle the legal obstacles that we share began in 2005, but in 2012 the change was blocked by a small margin of representatives in the general synod. Women serve as archbishops or rather bishops in neighboring community and churches in several countries including the United States, Australia and Canada, but some Anglican churches in developing countries do not even ordain women as priests. So yeah, there is that. Of course, I think that includes Nigeria. There's no female bishops or priests here yet, are they? Hi, I think I know there's a, is it Bishop or Reverend Margaret de Hossa? I can't remember all the titles, but I think she's... That's not an Anglican church, is it? I know that she has a title that is foremost. I don't remember exactly what it is, but I think she's big in that regard. But I think today was her story. That's a penitentiary. Yes, it is a penitentiary. You said there were no bishops, so I didn't know you were trying to divide. In the Anglican church, you know, that's what I mean because this conversation now is in England and it's in the Anglican church, which has, of course, a majority of the Christians in England, basically. So here in Nigeria, in the Anglican community in Nigeria, I don't think there's any female bishop or female priest. We're still getting there, but we know that they achieved that historic moment for the church and equality. So it's only a matter of time before the rest of the world adjusts. Absolutely. All right, let's move to Afghanistan. This happened in 2012. It's not a very happy story, but on this day, a suicide bomber blew himself up, detonated in a wedding in Afghanistan just when Flavor was singing a da da. That's a joke. 17 people eventually lost their lives. It was a lone suicide bomber that detonated a vest filled with explosives at a wedding in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 17 guests, including a top politician. Police say 22 people died and about 40 were injured, wounded rather than the attack. The attackers blast tore through the wedding hall in Aibak, the capital of Samangan province. The attacks seemed to target him, of course, the militia leader at that time, as he welcomed guests into the entrance of the hall. He was elected to parliament during the Trouble 2010 poll. A number of security top officials were also assassinated in northern Afghanistan in the buildup in the 18 months before that explosion eventually took place. It's not a story that is very, very shocking, and this is why for a long time, this is a various side point I'm gonna make, for a long time we've heard of similar things like this in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Iraq. We hear of suicide bombers and the likes blowing themselves up in churches and marketplaces, them on all of that. And when you see it in the news, when you see it on CNN, you almost just say, okay, another day in the market or another regular Tuesday. But sadly, we have gotten there in Nigeria where we hear of kidnapping as, oh, okay, well, another Thursday evening, business as usual for these kidnappers. That's where we are in Nigeria. So when you have a bomb blast in some of these Middle Eastern countries, you don't even, yeah. It doesn't stay in motion anymore. Okay, yeah, 14 people died in a bomb blast, okay. But when we hear these days, oh, 12 people were kidnapped in Kadena state, okay. That's the sad part of failure to address some of all these things. It becomes normal, you know, and the value of life, like a Ambrosebo pair that had mentioned, the value of the Nigerian life has been reduced to absolutely almost nothing. And that's why these stories and these, you know, figures don't shock anybody anymore. 222 people killed in three months in Kadena state. Exactly. And they say, oh, don't worry, it's only 10. Really? Exactly. It's only 10? And guess what? We don't know the names of these 222 people. We don't have the identities because they're really in Nigeria just figures. They're numbers. I saw a picture yesterday, you know, parents whose children had been kidnapped, you know, they gathered the footwear of these children and they were just mourning. Just see the heap of those slippers and sandals that these kids once wore. And the parents, you know, having no clue where the children were. We have been so disconnected from, you know, being a human almost. We've been so disconnected. We've basically now have a shield around us, you know, that makes us almost walk around stories of death and kidnapping in America before it was grew some way. Yeah, here in Nigeria. It doesn't mean anything to us anymore. Sadly, you know, the same way, you know, in Afghanistan if you have a bomb blast now, it barely makes, you know, any of the international news media. It might just pop up here and there. That's the same way. In 2012, you know, a couple of years earlier when the Chibok and the Chibok that happened, Chibok happened. It was news all over the world. Couple of weeks ago, days ago, 121 were kidnapped in Kadunai. It didn't make news stories anywhere. It barely even showed up in Nigeria newspapers. That's how common and how regular the kidnapping has become in Nigeria. And it's a great thing because our next conversation really is going to be on the viability of the Nigerian state. And so it's important that we get into that conversation and see where we truly are going as a country. How much longer is Nigeria going to survive and continue, you know, at this pace? How much longer are we going to, you know, see ourselves as people and as human beings and love ourselves as brothers and sisters? And not to think of ourselves as lucky or fortunate to be united. To be united. So great conversation we're moving into next after the short break. Thank you so much for enjoying our little history lessons this morning. And we'll be back. Stay with us.