 Welcome once again to the breakfast here on Plus TV Africa. Now let's go back in history to a pretty sad event in Nigeria in the year 2018. It was a period of huge rains and flooding that led to the loss of more than a hundred lives here in the country in two different states in the rivers Niger and River Niger sorry and Bainway State which overflowed but it led to the loss of lives in Bainway and the rivers states. Actually in Kogi, Niger, Anambra and Delta States I beg your pardon. The Nema at that time which is an emergency body recorded 51 deaths in Katsina State, two in Kaduna while 30 persons were confirmed missing in Jibia, a border town in Katsina. The Kano State government also confirmed the death of 31 people and destruction of more than 10,000 houses during the flood in the 15 local government areas in the state. It was of course it's not the first time I think a couple of years ago that it extended all the way to Delta State and Anambra where flooding had made the river Niger at that time overflow and wiped off loads of houses and property at that time. So 2018 was once again one experience that Nigeria had. Nema has continued to be the forefront every now and then of some of these disasters and of course rescued people and given assistance to a couple of people who have suffered some of these disasters but it's also a good time to once again mention how much more needs to be done to move people to higher ground and climate change and what really the effects are here in Nigeria. All right so our next up today in history story is taken us back to the year 1983, September the 17th and it's about when a woman by the name Vanessa Williams became the first black American to win Miss America, the Miss America crown. This was a you know what's a shared moment for America because for the first 30 years of this Miss America pageant no black person was allowed to enter and when she eventually entered you know it it really changed the game because people really wondered what a black person was doing for this Miss America beauty crown and in an interview she mentioned that one of the organizers told her that she probably would not even win the contest. So you can imagine the shock when she eventually won this context September the 17th 1983 but the sad thing about the story is that just a few weeks to the end of her reign nude photos of her were leaked and she was forced to basically resign her Miss America title in July 1984 and that's it on today in history for you on the breakfast on Plot Stevie Africa. We'll take a break here and we'll talk more about our next topic and we're talking basically about the IPOB situation in Nigeria and also talking about the issues of the farmers headers clashes.