 Welcome back to the breakfast here on Plus TV Africa and now time for today in history. I'm going back to the year 2015 to the day that the 8th National Assembly was inaugurated It you know did happen with some controversy That of course made a lot of headlines across the country then but the 8th National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Was a bi-macro by camera. Sorry Legislature inaugurated on the 9th of June in 2015 and it's ran its course until June 9th in 2019 The elections were conducted at the National Assembly complex in Abuja Of course the Federal Capital Territory and the assembly was inaugurated on this day at around 10 a.m. following the reading of the Proclamation letter of President Mama Dabari who of course ordered the inauguration of the assembly out of 59 senators elect Only 57 were in attendance in line with the Senate rule that stipulated that only two-thirds of the total senators needed to be present To form a quorum Senator Bukala Saraki was nominated as candidate for the office of the Senate president and eventually did you know take that position His nomination of course was given by Senator Sunny Yerima and Senator Dino Melae Representing Kogi West the election of the leadership of the House of Representatives was also conducted by the clerk National Assembly comprises 469 members of course 9 jurors 6 across 9 year 6 geopolitical zones So it was on this day that you know that 8th National National Assembly was inaugurated the controversial part of all of this was the So how the display so I mean there was word that the elections were in carried out by the full Members of National Assembly that there were you know There was a meeting that notice of a meeting to be held in some place in Abuja and some senators of course went for that meeting But none to them there was nominations going on elections going on in National Assembly So by the time they were able to rush out a way back through drive through Abuja traffic The elections had been done and Bukala Saraki had been nominated as a president of the Senate at that time So it was pretty interesting but of course a lot of people have also said that the 8th National Assembly has been also one of the most interesting ones because of their Stance it was a PDP Head of the national of you know the National Assembly in you know a country where the APC was you know in Power and so it was it seemed like the National Assembly was fully expressing itself as an opposition or to counter or to Checkmate the excessiveness of the executive at that time. And so that's one of the things that we're known for Eventually when Bukala Saraki was living National Assembly along with a couple of other people Shea Husani, Dino Malay and others There's also those who said oh the 9th National Assembly will Be for Nigeria and you know walking hand-in-hand with the current administration and we'll be able to do better than the 8th National Assembly I don't know if you know what I agree that they have done better than the 8th National Assembly Indeed interest is through there about that particular day and another interesting day in history. It was 1977 on this day in history and we had the Silver Jubilee of the Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom This day was celebrated Actually throughout the whole year, you know So millions of people actually gathered on this date June the 9th to celebrate to throw parties, you know have bonfires Fireworks just celebrates the silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II which marked her 25th anniversary Of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms so all the celebrations culminated in June with the official Jubilee days which held to coincide with the Queen's birthday and She made a royal progress trip that was on the 9th of June this day in history via boats up the river teams from Greenwich to Lambeth and This already enacted the famous progress is taken by Queen Elizabeth I On this very trip She also officially opened, you know, several places in the UK were named after these Jubilee days And they include the silver Jubilee walkway the South Bank Jubilee Gardens and It was just a great period of celebration You know, you could just remember people saying oh, I was I was 10 years old, you know during this day I want a ticket to go watch the Queen during the festivities people saying oh I wonder if all of these carriages are all, you know, they're gold-plated to say I wonder if they're real gold people just relieve the experience of that day June 7th 1977 about when the Queen you know celebrated her silver Jubilee and Today, you know, we know that last week the Royal Palace said it's a real outplanned for her you know, the new Her celebration for this year. It's a be have platinum Jubilee. So Queen Elizabeth the second Would be the longest serving monarch in Britain's history and the platinum Jubilee was celebrated with royal Festivities royal engagement that will be celebrated throughout this year. So it's it's a beautiful lineup of events They would extend the bank holiday to the weekend, you know It's just amazing a music concert to take place in Buckingham Palace and this is after, you know, many many Celebrations were scaled down because of the COVID-19 pandemic and all the lockdowns, you know So it's just a beautiful day of celebration. What day is that going to be? June 9th today. Oh, okay. No, I mean the Next celebrations the one you're talking about the platinum Jubilee. Yeah, um, it started last week on the second Yeah, so it's not too late for me to go cover it for plus TV Africa You're you're a benign man. You can carry your broom. You just can be there right after I can't be you guys Correspondent over there For the next couple of days. So sadly she became a widow when her husband Prince Philip died at the age of 99 yeah All right, must be nice being a queen, you know and having absolutely no job, you know, but just be a queen That's a job. That's not a job. That's a job. She's dedicated her life to service basically. That's a full job Don't you dare say that? All right, you know, you don't worry the shoe. So you don't know where it hurts. Yeah, right Because you have money doesn't mean you have no problems. Oh, yeah, right Yeah Okay, that's it. Yeah, that's all we have for you today in history 1977 and the year 2015 short break. We're gonna take a you know break now when we come back We're moving into our first conversation and that is with regards once again the Twitter ban The House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Information. I'm Mohammed and of course a little bit of Drama that occurred yesterday would get into it with our guest this morning. Stay with us. We'll be back