 You're welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa and it's now time for Today in History, the segment on the breakfast where we share with you major events that shape that world. And I'm going back to the year 2020, May 26th 2020. Now on this day in history, the social media platform Twitter, you know, slapped a warning label to Donald Trump's false tweets for the first time. Now Donald Trump had been notorious for tweeting things that were fact-checked and proven to be false, but Twitter, you know, didn't really take action on it, you know, but it was the first time on this day in history that Twitter put a warning label say, this tweet contains misinformation, basically alerting people on Twitter to say, you know, you need to be informed that there is misinformation, falsehood on these tweets, you know, but Twitter did not take the tweet away. They said, we'll still leave the tweet so it can be accessible. But basically in the tweets, Donald Trump was voicing his opinion about mail in ballot. He's saying, you know, when there are mail-in ballots, it leads to a rig election. And we know why because, you know, majorly because of the coronavirus pandemic and the fact that the US election must go on. So they said we're going to use mail-in ballots, but Donald Trump said, this is going to lead to corruption. You can see the tweet there. He says, there is no way that mail-in ballots will be used for the elections without an aether of corruption coming in. You know, he basically alleged that the election was been stolen from him, you know, that the votes cannot be counted after the polls. You know, so, you know, we know about Donald Trump and his very controversial views about things regarding the election, especially even when the election results were out and he showed that, you know, Joe Biden was leading, Trump still insisted that the votes should be counted in states. So in many states, the election results or, you know, the polls were counted, the votes were counted many times because Donald Trump insisted that there was no way he must have lost out, you know, on those states. So Trump really caused a lot of a lot of stare during his presidency. So Twitter just had to put a lead on it to say, hey, guys, there's falsehood on the streets and this day in history. Well, some people miss Donald Trump and the chaos. Do you miss Donald Trump? Well, I think, I don't think I do. I think I, you know, I was, I'm already used to the, you know, there's certain, you know, expectations of, you know, a person who holds the seat of the United States president, you know, and he moved too far away from that. So, you know, it was exciting for some people, you know, people, so, you know, you're going against the norms, you know, you're, you know, you're breaking the glass ceiling, you know, whatever all those terms that he used for it. But for me, it was just too much, you know, and there was a lot of things, you know, that he also did that, you know, for, if it was a, you know, another president, if, you know, they would have been dragged, you know, down completely. But he had fans, he had strong fund base. And he was, those things were ignored, you know, he continued to tell lies, continue to exaggerate, continue to, you know, make false statements here and there. It was just a lot of things that were very, very unpresidential that, you know, could not just be ignored, but ignore them for him. So no, I don't miss I mean, I remember back to when, you know, Donald Trump was still president of the US and you have stations, you know, international stations who just do features, really analyzes tweets and say in tweets that Donald Trump has put out from January to March, just three months, Donald Trump lied 100 times and begins to put out all the misinformation, all the falsehood, all the fake news. And funny enough, Donald Trump basically popularized the word fake news because whatever story has been put out, that doesn't suit him. Fake news. It's all fake news on social media. That's very terrible. Terrible, Impressional trouble. His time there also gave rise to, you know, like you said, they are fans, you know, but there's, you know, those who took advantage of it, you know, the white supremacists, you know, the, there's a word that was his name now. Some guy listened to, you know, always calls them vanilla ice. You know, there's, you know, he gave rise to a lot of those, you know, white supremacists to feel like it was time for them to take back their country and, you know, and, you know, commit some of all those crimes. Racism, you know, was, you know, was on levels that it probably hadn't been in a very, very long time. And so no, no, I don't. No, you don't miss it. No, I don't. Anyway, still in the US, for those who remember in 1995, there was something called the Oklahoma City bombing. I remember this very well because I think it was sometime in, you know, late 90s or early 2000s, early 2000s, you know, I had old enough. I had gone through, you know, I was on YouTube, playing around YouTube, and I saw something called the, a guy called Timothee McVeigh. I think it was on TV, the story of Timothee McVeigh, you know, carried out the Oklahoma City bombing. It was a bombing that took place on the 19th of April in 1995 and claimed the lives of 168 people. You know, he was a US veteran who, of course, was angry with the United States because of an incident that happened a couple of years earlier and decided that the way that he wanted to send a message was to retaliate by bombing, you know, that building. And of course, in working also in, you know, with some guy called Terry Eileen Nichols, who of course is the focus of our conversation this morning. I mean, it was on this day that Terry Eileen Nichols was found guilty of the 161 murder charges for helping out carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. You know, like I said, he led to the loss of 168 lives. About 16 blocks, you know, buildings were damaged. Half of the building, it was, wasn't the mother building, I can remember what it was. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was, three-quarter of the building was completely damaged. And he was caught funny enough about 90 minutes after the bombing occurred for driving with a broken tail light, I believe, and then illegal possession of weapons. You know, it was just a random arrest for Timothy McVeigh. It wasn't actually because, you know, the bombing was investigated and he was found out. It was a random arrest by police officer who noticed that his tail light was broken and he was driving with a weapon. And, you know, from there, you know, investigations continued. They traced some of the forensics to the person who was arrested just 90 minutes after the bombing. And that's how he was arrested. In 2001, Timothy McVeigh was executed by lethal injection. And the other guy, Nico's now, was sentenced to 161 live sentences for being an accomplice to the Oklahoma City bombing. Yeah, that's it. You know, 161 life sentences, you'll never get out of jail. Oh, my God. Several infants were killed during this. And the story of a nurse, she was rushing to help someone and then the debris fell on her and she died, you know. So, reading about this story, and I found that the FBI, just so they can have enough evidence to prosecute the ones that had facts, not to bits, confession out of you, they had 28,000 interviews. Yeah. Do you know what it means to have 28,000 interviews? It means having the resources and actually making use of the resources that are provided. 28,000 interviews as the federal bureau of investigation. And they compiled 7,000 pound of evidence. So, you can't wrangle out of that. There's no going out of it. They have you by the head, they have you by every way. Absolutely. And once again, it tells of a system that works and the system that is properly funded and a system that is, I wouldn't say completely corrupt free, but at least, leaves up to expectations. If they are going to investigate, imagine we had the FBI or something close to the FBI that truly lived up to the expectations and the funding that was provided for it here in Nigeria. We will not be talking about unknown men today. We wouldn't be having this conversation because those guys would have been caught a long time ago. We cannot in Nigeria say in our honesty that we do not have the slightest idea. The DSS, the police, the SS, all of them, the agency called the other investigation agents, NIE and the rest of them do not have the slightest idea. What are the people committing these crimes in the southeast and across Nigeria? It is not in any way possible. We have heard reports about sometimes collaboration between these unknown men. So that exists. And we would say, okay, those are just conspiracy theories until we have had proof. But it makes no sense to anywhere in the world that after months we still do not have any idea where these people are, who they are, who's funding them, who's giving them weapons, and not just the unknown men now. I'm talking about the unknown men. I'll call them unknown men because they are known. Like they are known. So they are the unknown men. We cannot say that we do not have any idea who these people are for this long. It's not possible. State governors, I'm sure, have a clue. State commissioners and police, of course, have a clue. Every time we always brag and say, well, when the Nigerian police wants to walk, they will walk. When you have a robbery and they really want to investigate, they want to investigate, give them a week or two weeks and they will find the suspect. Nigerians brag about things like that every now and then. How come when it's time for us to choose exactly how, when you want to make Nigeria say. Exactly. When do you pick it? Why do you pick and choose when you want to make Nigerians proud of your services? How is it possible that these crimes have been committed for so long and it includes once again the banditry. It includes the kidnapping. It includes the, you know, Boko Ram and all of that. How is that in a decade? Analyzing these issues over and over again without, you know, any headway. The FBI can be criticized. The United States security agencies and criminal justice system, you know, every now and then have some criticism, including 9-11. There's people who said, you know, it was an inside job. There's so much of all of that. But they, at every time when it was necessary, have been able to use the resources that have been made available to them, the funding that is made available to them, they're properly funded, I believe, to solve crimes. And that's how Timothy McVeigh was involved. You don't mention that funding issue because even though we can see it on paper, I told you I have been at seminars where heads of security agencies wear and they tell you how most of them, they buy fuel for the police van from their own pockets. So don't, let's not even go there. Aren't they aware that billions are released every year for the police? That's what we're saying. Where is the money going to? Has any of them complained? Don't we also hear of people say that, well, sadly, don't we also hear, you know, when people say that, you know, the checkpoints across the country are all just, you know, raising money to give to whoever it is that is DPO, DPO also makes some contribution to assistance, you know, whoever Commissioner gathers his own and gives to Commissioner. They have a percentage, you must run it every day. Yeah. So not my fault, you know, because they all know that there's a corrupt system. They all know, you know, that they all suffer the same corrupt system. That's why when you go report a crime, they'll ask you to bring money for fuel for a charge card for investigation, for Byru, for statement, for this, for that. I remember Shiong Kuti, who spends a lot of time on this. I remember Shiong Kuti, you know, in one of the videos during the Ansar's protest when, you know, someone was suggesting that we should donate money for the police. And he said, and he said, he made a statement saying, I don't know how to speak Yoruba, but I remember it very well because he said, I hope that's not an insult though. I don't know what it is. What he cracked me also about it was, it was like, if they don't like the job, they should quit. Anyway, Timothee McVeigh was killed by lethal injection, executed rather in 2001. Terry Nichols was given 161 life sentences, and it all took place on this day in 2004, when he was found guilty of being an accomplice to the Oklahoma City bombing. And I told you about how Twitter slammed a warning label on tweets by Donald Trump on this day in history in 2020. That's it for you. And that's it from us on today in history. We'll take a break to return with our conversation yesterday. Lots of accusation against Ned O'Walko, Prince Ned O'Walko, that here's when, you know, stealing people's land, arresting them and using law enforcement agencies to perpetrate those. But we heard from his spokesman yesterday saying, these are all lies. Let's pick up where we stopped yesterday. Do stay with us.