 Welcome back to the breakfast on Plot TV Africa. Let's now go back in time to 2012 on Distant History and the 20th of September. What happened today really was something that most women were very unpleased with and that's because they were traveling to Saudi Arabia for that pilgrimage and they were stopped because they were unaccompanied by a man. So the result of that was that Nigeria effectively suspended flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women traveled without a mail escort and there were mostly women between the age of 25 and 35 and they were stopped at the airport in Jeddah and Medina and so this story really here was that and the main problem was that their surnames did not correspond with those of their husbands or the male guardian on visa documentation so they're basically saying that they had to be turned back some women turned back in tears you know some carried babies and all of that so it really was something that you know people opposed to say that they wish that they could have you know made that holy holy pilgrimage you know most Muslims you know look forward to that pilgrimage you know at least once and each Muslim country concerned at at most 1000 pilgrims per million citizens so when this issue happened at that time when women had to be turned back because they were unaccompanied by a man or the name their surname did not match the documentation of you know the guy that they were going with they had to be turned back and Nigeria had to suspend flights to Saudi Arabia on the senior street yeah I'm trying to figure out why the names didn't match you know this was there something that you know we're not sure happened or is there some fraud you know that was going on there I'm really not sure you know I probably also need to figure out more about what the rules are with women going you know to Saudi Arabia for for I'm not sure exactly what it is you know but the good thing is you know that was 2012 you know and over time I think Saudi Arabia has also begun to relax some of its you know laws that were a little you know stringent with regards females I think they've also been you know created one open up laws for women to be able to drive and to work and do some of the things that were almost impossible you know a decade ago which you know I believe is something that a lot of other countries should be able to also you know a lot of Muslim countries should also be able to look at and you know maybe also follow suit some of those the tightening of laws is very very sad seeing what's going on in Afghanistan today girls can't go to school women aren't allowed to come outside you can't even interview women that's all a post a few days ago of a that women aren't allowed to you know be interviewed on the radio or are not allowed to listen to radio or to contribute to radio programs and some of all of that so their voices are essentially being caught off yeah you know and it's really it's really really sad and I hope you know that Afghanistan is able to get itself out of that place in little no time so this was 2012 it might have been proper a problem with documentation may have been you know them also trying to figure out ways to leave Nigeria I really have no idea how that happened but you know it was eventually handled by the Nigerian government on the Saudi Arabian government so it's just a little bit of history for us this morning we'll take a short break when we come back what is going on with the Nigerian immigration service why aren't Nigerians been able to get passport booklets as quickly as they normally should an investigative journalist David Hounday has put out a report a few days ago that detailed a lot that he will be sharing with us this morning and that comes up right after the short break good morning