 Welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's now time for Today in History, and I'm going back to the year 1987. On this day May 12, Babangidari Jim renamed the University of Ife as the Obathemi of Awa Llawan University, and that's in honour of the Premier of the West African Western region. The Obathemi Awa Llawan University was founded in the year 1961, and classes commenced a year later in October 1962. This was asked the University of Ife, then by the original government of western Nigeria, led by the Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola. It was later renamed in 1987 on the 12th of May to, you know, in honour of the late Chief Obathemi Awa Llawan. And we know that the university is situated in Osham State, southwest Nigeria. The school opened to about 244 students who were the first students in the school, and in 1975 a new military government, you know, affected decrees making University of Ife a federal university. Currently, Obathemi Awa Llawan University has 13 faculties. It has two colleges, off the postgraduate college, and the College of Health Sciences, which is administered in more than 60 departments. So that's the history of the great OAU, regardless of one of the best universities in Nigeria. Lot of proud alumni from the school, and it was in distinct history in 1987 that it became known as OAU. And one of the names that you mentioned, Ladoke Akintola also, in 1990 the OAU was also renamed Ladoke Akintola University. In the last couple of years has been, you know, into different levels of crisis. It's currently shut down and has a very, very sad story with regards to education in Nigeria and the value of education in Nigeria, especially in OAU state. But yeah, that's for the Obathemi Awa Llawan University. Let's move out of Nigeria and out of Cuba. In 2019, on this day, one of the things that we heard a lot about in Donald Trump's presidency was the reverse in Obama policies. One of the policies that was reversed at this time was the laws and the sanctions that were, you know, at first taken away by Barack Obama. Donald Trump, you know, is bid to reverse some of these policies, placed more and more sanctions on Cuba. And on this day, Cuba announced that it was rationing products such as rice and beans and very, very, you know, food items, all the food items, due to a US trade embargo that was placed on Cuba. It announced it's rationing other staple foods and hygiene products due to shortages which it partly blamed on the tightening of a trade embargo imposed by the United States and also because of the crisis in Venezuela and the failure of Cuba to be able to import from Venezuela. The Cuban governor said it will control chickens, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other essential items in 2019. It is home to nearly 11 million people and imports roughly to thirds of its food at an annual cost of more than $2 billion and brief shortages of individual products have been common for years. Many shoppers at that time found themselves standing in line when the products ran out. There was also situations where people rushed to the supermarkets and bottom of all these products in bulk and started selling to other citizens to make some extra profits. But it was, of course, you know, the results of the trade embargo that was placed on Cuba and of course the financial crisis that Venezuela was suffering. People would argue, you know, that, you know, why don't you just make your own food instead of continuing to import? But the country had gone through years and years and years of turmoil and other embagos. I think in 1960 there was already, as early as 1960, there was already sanctions and embagos placed on Cuba and so over time, you know, it lost some of the ability to be able to be self-sufficient. And of course 2019 was another example of when that happened. And it's events like this that remind nations, you know, that even though definitely bilateral relations is important, you can't produce everything but it just places value on the importance of being self-sufficient to an extent. Remember when, you know, even here in Nigeria, there was that, you know, embargo on food items from the northern part of Nigeria to the south and how it really affected us because of that, you know, the fact of the matter, which was that we don't exactly produce everything that we need. So it's really, really important for countries to, you know, begin to think in that direction because when you don't dance to the tune, they can pull out stunts like that, you know, economic sanctions and the rest. Absolutely. That's what we have for you today in history. We'll be back after this short break and we're moving into our first major conversation for today. And it is justice for Inyobongu Maureen. More, of course, into that story and further revelations. And like I said earlier, a can of worms that was opened by an investigative journalist, David Oondain, that comes up right after this break.