 Great to have you back on the breakfast here on Plus TV Africa. Now let's go back a little bit in history, the second of September, I'm going back to the year 1968. The incident I'm sharing with you today lasted between September 2nd 1968 to the 15th of October also in 1968. It was called the OAU invasion and it eventually led to the loss of about 25,000 lives on both sides, the Nigerian military side and of course the Biafran side. It was 12 days basically of house to house fire when the Nigerian military tried to invade what is today called South Eastern Nigeria and take charge of certain cities. It was 12 days, like I said, of continued bombardment and Biafran soldiers eventually surrendered on the 14th of September after this started today. It was of course carried out by the Nigerian 3rd Marine Commando Division and that was against the Biafran 12th Division, the Biafran soldiers were able to retain control of Omwahia and eventually take back Oweri and Abba in all of this that happened. But eventually then lost the city and surrendered a few months later. In the months after today's events, they also tried every now and then to attack the Nigerian army and the Nigerian military side to try and get back some of these cities but sometimes weren't successful because they were greatly outnumbered. There was also of course the parts where there was already the food blockade to part of the Biafran side and so it made it difficult to also carry out a war and win the war. But this day was the day that the Operation OAU began during the Nigerian Civil War, September 2nd 1968. And 15th January 1970, the war officially ended after 30 months of fighting. Over a million people died during that Nigerian Civil War. A very green time in our history but thank God that's behind us now. 2013, understanding history, September 2nd, history was made. A woman known as Diane Nyad, she was 64 years old. She made a record breaking swim from Cuba to Florida. She had tried four times and people had been trying to swim and break that record from Cuba to Florida since the end 1950. She had tried four times, she failed and she said she obviously went into retirement but came back later to say I wouldn't try again. So for the fifth time she stood overlooking those Cuban waters and she decided to dare. She walked to a team of experts, scientists and for the first time she went without a shark tank because the water from Cuba to Florida was filled with sharks and jellyfishes that actually bit her so bad she had to abandon the swimming expedition one of the times in the past. But in this day in history she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage for protection. It was a 110 mile swim and it happened in approximately 53 hours. Imagine swimming for 53 hours and she said all the time, what helped her through? Was she just saying she could do it, she could do it, she could do it telling herself that she could do it and humming her favorite songs in her head. Wearing a bodysuit, gloves, wearing booties, wearing a special mask to protect her from jellyfish she braved the seas and broke that record at the age of 64. It is a mind-blowing record mostly because of her age and another thing it really tells is that once you put your mind to something there's absolutely nothing that a human being cannot achieve or cannot do. Once you're able to create that personality in your head and you're able to put your mind to it, you will be able to do it. But something else that is interesting about this is one of the things that I've always pointed out and this is also from the Olympics when you see certain people who have won gold medals or won medals at the Olympics even from Tokyo is the thing that makes people want to emigrate to certain places to the United States is because the society gives you a place where you can achieve being a professor and at the same time be an Olympian. You can be a teacher in a school and at the same time be a gymnast and win records in the Olympics. That's what the society gives you. But here in Nigeria there's a lot of great swimmers in the Niger Delta that would not dare things like that. They don't even remember that there's a possibility of breaking records swimming through the creeks in the Niger Delta. That's the difference in both societies. Yes, information is power. So once you're exposed to possibilities, knowing that people there are people who have done these things and they can see that it's possible then definitely making it possible. And also living in an environment that gives you the space to be who you want to be and live the life to your fullest. That's really what it is. We don't have a lot of that here. We're just trying to get food and get paid at the end of the month and feed our families. Well, Daya Nanyad broke that record in this day in history 2013. Absolutely.