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It's time for today in history, and we're going to be going back I'm going to be going back to the year 1953 and it's an interesting You know sharing this particular event in history because of what we're currently what we just spoke about on the Of the press and that is the southern governors and northern governors, you know that little friction here and there with Agreeing on a particular a dual or dual particular direction It was one of you know a similar, you know currents that happened, you know in 1953 and it was in a couple of years in the build-up to that era 953 that all these things happened it there was a strange relationship that started in 1953 with a motion for self-government in Nigeria in 1956 it was tabled in the House of Representatives by a member of the action group chief Antony and Nahoro But at that time the northern governors did not accept the motion and it created a lot of you know conflict a lot of You know Arguments basically across the country not just in the House of Assembly then but you know amongst people then there was meant to be a Meeting of the you know northern governors that was meant to be held at a particular hotel That they didn't hold you know and then on their way out there was people who Confronted them, you know and then you know through stones Boo them, you know call them names and all of that and that was really the last straw that broke the camel's back back then It eventually led to what we now call the Kano riot of 1953 They broke out of course in the Asian city of Kano located of course in northern Nigeria the nature of the riot really was clashes between northerners who were opposed to Nigeria's independence and The southerners who of course Supported the immediate independence for Nigeria back then it was it was a very very, you know dicey situation But unfortunately, and you know, it's one things that they always you know point out that the the riots You know mostly centered around the Sabongari area of Kano State, which is a an area filled with traders and unfortunately, even if it was meant to be a And to a Anthony and nahoro and of course a kintola, you know Who some who were basically the ones who some of the kintola who shared the you know other side or the other half of the movement? The victims of the riots, you know, we're mostly ebos, you know And this is you know one of the you know points that people would always reach out to say, you know that the civil war, you know and the the crisis really between the ebos and Nigeria Started way before the Nigerian civil war started, you know And that there was there was already that little bit of friction little bit of you know of you know Crisis between both sides if you know as early as 1953 But it was on this day that the Kano riot, you know started and led to the death of 46 people About 200, you know plus we're injured And it was mostly of course the ebo traders and of course some of the novenas who were casualties of the Kano riot Really a surrogate. You have said it all broke down the history of that situation You know as it should the Kano riots just reminds us and all the whole situation In in the 1950s reminds us of what's happening today or what's happening today reminds us of the past Because we know how the south and the northern part of my parts of Nigeria had different ideologies regarding independence How the south wanted independence, you know Anthony and the horror of the action group moved the motion for independence in 1954 Saying that or 1953 saying that Nigeria should should be looking toward attaining self-independence or self-rule by 1956, you know, but the northern leaders were opposed to that, you know We know how Madabello said no instead of 1956 changing attempting to change the bill to as as possible or as Obtain as soon as possible rather than a definite time frame, you know Then like you mentioned when I'm someone like into a lot went from the south to the north to canvas and Campaign for self-rule. We saw what happened how he, you know He mob gathered at the hotel where the meeting was supposed to take place to say, you know Trying to basically change the mind of the north towards self-rule to say let's be self-independent, but the northern as we you know Stuck with they were against it basically, you know calling on the British to help them But he still wanted, you know continue the process of you know colonialism and all of that that cost that riots like you mentioned About 40 something people died 46 over 200 people injured, you know Then that led to what we know as federalism today because after that whole incident, you know The loss of lives how you know some parts of government was saying this was an ethnic clash others are saying no This was essentially between others a southern as regarding the whole issue itself independence, you know They were saying let each states after the whole Kind of right of 1953 let each states become autonomous let them control their own regions and funny enough when you look at the whole Issue of restructure incident. That's basically what they're saying let all regions become autonomous Let them control their own resources. So it's almost like a reenactment of history And still the whole issue not sell divide We know what happened in two on Tuesday and that's about southern governor's taking a stand on a particular thing Northern governors are yet to say something, you know with one voice, but we know me yet. Yalla has reacted So there's just lots of division south and north right from time. Yeah, can we ever? You know just bridge the divide and reach peace To Nicola well they made you know some statements earlier, you know talking about certain things that they also need to be done And you know being being able to accept that Nigeria is a secular, you know state and you know the northern states need to understand You know the you know that perspective and you know, it's that level of acceptance You know that we we have struggled with for a very very long time And until we are able to fully accept each other and accept, you know our differences accept our peculiarities And understand that we are one country that has all these different values here and there and different, you know Inspirations that it's you know, we'll continue to have this, you know bits of crisis here And there you know, there's people who also say well, you know, they don't believe and they don't agree with this whole You know, there's beauty in our diversity, you know, mostly because of how? diverse You know far reaching level of diversity. We're talking about on some parts of the country But we need to do better, you know with the United We need to do better with understanding each other and tolerating each other Yeah, and you know just got thoughts that we've had for I mean since that the 1950s, you know Northerners afraid then that if we You know have self-independence that the south south was going to dominate them And we're having fears now the south thinking, you know, it's just the northern leaders The north wants to dominate us so they want to southern leader So we need to actually dispel these fears. There's inferiority complexes so to speak and just move forward as one United Nigeria. Absolutely. So I'm also today in history May 17th But the year 1954 there was a landmark ruling in the United States that basically set in motion a chain of reaction regarding a civil rights movement and racism and in America So the United States Supreme Court on this day handed A ruling that racial segregation in public schools should definitely end this decision Even though it says there that it brought an end, you know to federal tolerance of racial segregation We see that years and years later That equality wasn't there You can see a picture on your screen here. It's a picture of Linda Brown She's a young American girl who had been denied admission to an elementary school because of her skin color So she lived in a part of town where, you know schools that she wanted to attend a highbrow school Closer to her all the schools that she was allowed to attend because she was black was far from her home And her parents decided this basically this school was too far for a young girl to commute the you know morning and night And there was a school in you know closer to them It was an all-white school But her parents sued and not just her parents. It was a collection of five different cases You know that the supreme court had had collectively under the name Brown Vassos the state, you know, so that In the case the court ruled the judge named his is warren he ruled quote He says to separate them and by then here he means children in grade and high schools To separate them from others of similar age and qualification solely because of the race Generated feeling of inferiority as to their status in community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to ever be done So um judge warren here ruled that segregation in public schools Should end and that school basically just ended a A rule that had been in practice in the u.s for about 60 years It was called the separate but but equal rule saying that basically schools should be different black people should attend black schools White people should attend white schools But when linda brown and her family and four other, you know students put together this case You know this ruling Was the was the results basically brown versus board of education in 1954 Basically ended decades of of racial segregation in public schools in america yep, um Fortunately didn't completely end racism You know and in 2020 we still of course are seeing you know some elements of racial segregation some elements of Of um fairness, you know towards you know race in in the united states even in south african You know many other countries across the world um It's a sad you know aspect of you know of um, you know our lives and you know for our truth is really In in the world today, but anyway 1953 and 1954 those are dates for today in history 17th of may stay with us We're moving into our first major conversation for today which comes up next day. We're going to be talking uh with the national secretary of uh, meaty alakata breeders association mr. Baba usman and it's In reaction to the southern governors and their resolutions or get right into it after the short break