 Great to have you back on the breakfast here on plus TV Africa just before our first major conversation for today Let's go back in history to share with you certain things that happened on this day Not long ago. We celebrated Nigeria's independence But also a couple of days later on the 7th of October Nigeria joined the United Nations Nigeria was officially endorsed by unanimous votes as a new independent state member And it became the 99th member of the United Nations on this day One of the earliest and most significant contributions to the UN was to provide troops for the peacekeeping operations in Congo And of course, we eventually went further into other countries Liberia. Of course a lot of people will remember that The United Nations has been a catalytic supporter and trusted partner in the development aspirations of Nigeria And of course Nigeria did face multi-faceted challenges which includes humanitarian situations in northeast Nigeria and other internal conflicts and a number of development deficits And of course every now and then there's also sustainable development goals Which are a global call to end poverty protect its environment and climate and some of all the things that of course are Commitments from the United Nations that Nigeria as a member state also has to commit to You know, we can of course, you know by ourselves, you know rate how far we've come with some of these development goals and Some of these commitments Nigeria has as a member state of the United Nations and see how far we've gone or how well we've done but You know, of course a lot of people might rate the country poorly with commitments and with its fulfillment of those commitments But you know most important is you know to be a part of the whole space and have those conversations So on this day on the 7th of October in 1960 Nigeria joined the United Nations And of course became the 99th member of the body That's what we have for you today in history stay with us We're going to be joined by Nikola Zbiko of premium times to share him a little bit Concerning the Pandora papers if you've been following that story It is a combination of about 600 journalists from across the world that have put together Loads and loads of documents 11.9 million documents put together that Somehow some way implicates leaders from across the world businessmen politicians presidents, you know kings queens and the likes of different countries across the world More than 300 of them in Nigeria. There's 10 persons of interest in Nigeria that basically have shown, you know, certain levels of You know, I don't want to call them fraudulent activity Because of course they haven't been found guilty of anything But it shows certain, you know documents that of course exposes the financial dealings seemingly financial dealings of Certain persons of interest here in Nigeria and across the world. Nikola Zbiko, we're talking about that When we come back from the short break stay with us