 Welcome back to The Breakfast here on Plus TV Africa. Let's now share with you things that happened today in history the 28th of April. I'm starting with a really sad story that took place in 2012, somewhere on the expressway in Edo state. It was on this day that an auto crash happened. The, of course, Nigerian Union of Journalists were thrown into mourning on this day. It was the shocking death of three journalists who were involved in a gas limoto accident involving the convoy of Governor Adams Oshomole along the Ochi road, Isako Westlake government area of the state. The accident occurred sometime around 12.45 p.m. when the convoy was coming from an action Congress of Nigeria meeting. At that time, of course, Governor Oshomole drove himself and escaped death by the Whiskers when a TIPA lorry was said to have rammed into his convoy. The governor was at the hospital with the victims, which also included his security details as, of course, he tried to press on the doctors to do what was necessary to save their lives. Eventually, of course, the three of those persons, journalists who were part of that convoy and members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, all passed on that day. And so it was a really, really sad incident. A lot of them were taken to have been in central hospital at the end of the day when, of course, the case became critical. It was on this day, once again, there's not too much in the story to share that those three journalists died in that car accident. So sad. Yes, really, really sad. I remember also, I can't remember his name now, that also passed in the car accident. I think it was, oh, I don't want to make any mistakes, similar story. But in this same history as well, April 28th, back in the year, we're talking about 2018, the government of India announced that electricity has reached every village in India. So the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced that this was achieved when a remote village in the northeastern state of Manipur became the last to be connected to the grid. And nearly 600,000 villages in India had been given electricity connection. We know that India is the largest, the third largest consumer of power, and also the third largest producer of power. But even though there were lots of political opposition to that, opposition parties called this achievement a ruse, that this was ahead of the elections in the country. But like I mentioned, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that it would be remembered as a historic day in the development of India. And he had promised some years back in his independence speech in 2015 that every Indian village would be electrified in the next 1,000 days. But we know that media reports, investigations after that showed that this great stride of village electrification in India still leaves 90% of people in India without electricity. Yet they had been connected to the grid, but the power distribution was an issue. I think we still have places in Nigeria not connected to the grid. But they all have been connected to the grid, but the issue remains, getting the power distributed down to their homes, their businesses, and where they actually need them most. But they're one step ahead. I think the EKEDC needs to move offices to India and see what they can do to assist. Right. What they can do to assist? See how they can, you know, I see. I mean, so it's a good thing, I mean, that every community in India now has been connected to the grid. The next stage obviously would be to power, you know, all these communities. I don't know how much electricity India currently generates. But, you know, we always share these stories and bring it back home, you know, and of course, talk about our own situation. We're still hovering around 4,000 megawatts for a country of 200 million people. There's places that are not connected to the grid. There's places who have been connected to the grid but have not had power in three years. I remember when I was on radio, then people used to call the EEDC and say, you know, our community in Abakaliki or our community in Benway or, you know, here and there have not had power in two years or had power in three years. Everybody uses generators. Yeah, you know, and that's life that they've been used to for the last couple of years. So let's, you know, as much as, you know, we would celebrate the fact that India is taking that step, it is also a good thing, you know, the population is entirely insane. So I know it must be also difficult to ensure that every single person in India has electricity. But it's also the same thing that we will do here in Nigeria and make sure that everybody's connected to the grid and everybody gets their prepaid meters and everybody gets, you know, constant electricity. The electricity situation in Nigeria is too poor, you know, to even shame India. I don't really know how true this is, but this is what I heard in my neighborhood, you know, about how, you know, the government was, you know, distributing free prepaid meters. And because of that, the, the, you know, EKDC people were very angry and they stopped giving people lights. I don't know how that true is, but that's what I heard. Well, we have our, we have our peculiar knowledge. But you should be happy that, I mean, that's your job to prevent itself. From generation to transmission to distribution. And of course, bill payments also, Nigerians also have bill payments. But do you know how much people paid for this prepaid meters? Yeah, well, you know, some people paid as much as 100K. Yeah. Well, what I'm trying to point out, you know, there's, there's always a, you know, some way or the other where, you know, there's corruption in the system, where it's, you know, it's flawed. You know, but I'm saying that Nigerians themselves have their own issues, you know, with payment, we were paying bills. There's people who steal electricity. There's people who tap electricity and, you know, bypass their meters. There's so much, you know, my neighbor's discovered that his neighbor had been stealing his power for like 18 months. Yeah, those things happen. Like you're paying, you're paying power bills for two families. Absolutely. All right. We're going to go on a short break. When we come back, we're moving into our first major conversation for today, the Chandler Government Index ranking of Nigeria. Like I said earlier, we're only better than Zimbabwe and Venezuela. And Nigeria ranks 102 out of 104. And of course, the third worst country to live in, the worst governed country, by the way, in the world. So we'll talk about that next when we come back from this break. Stay with us.