 Welcome once again to the breakfast here on Plus TV Africa. Let's now move way back to the year 2012. It was on this day in history that Nigeria woke up to one of the really really sad stories of another plane crash. This time it was a Dana Air crash that occurred on this day. It was Dana Air Flight 992 that was carrying 153 people on board and crashed in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, killing everyone on board and 10 people on ground. It was a shadow domestic commercial flight from Abuja to Lagos. On the 3rd of June, the plane, an MD-83 aircraft, serving the route, crashed into buildings in Lagos while attempting an emergency landing, killing all 153 on board. It departed Abuja at 258 local time and was cleared to flight level 260. At this point, the flight was still normal. 17 minutes after taking off from Abuja, the crew noticed an abnormality in the left engine and started to discuss the problem. The captain stated that the first officer and he could figure out the cause of the problem by themselves and declared the engineer's help was not needed. But about 331 local time, the crew finally declared that there was no throttle response that was happening from the engine. The MD-83 crashed in the Ijuishaga neighborhood near the airport with its tail section, first of all, striking an uncompleted building. Two trees and three other ground structures were also struck. The plane then exploded, consumed by its own 8,000 lb of fuel. It was, of course, a very chaotic crash scene. Sadly, of course, none other people on board survived. Water trucks commandeered from a nearby construction project had difficulties also reaching the site due to narrow roads. The federal government, of course, in response to this, seized the license and banned the MD-83 aircraft used by Dana Air, rather after the crash. It was a really, really sad day for Nigeria and it was a reminder of other incidents that we've also had in the past, the Sosuliso and the likes. A good thing is that in the last couple of years, besides, of course, the Army aircraft and the fighter jets that have, one of them still missing, that have crashed. Sadly, also, the Chief of Army staff also died in a crash, but we've not had a passenger plane crash in Nigeria in a while. So for what it's worth, I think we should also give kudos to the Ministry of Aviation and the Ministry of Aviation for being able to ensure that we maintain certain standards to prevent air disasters in Nigeria. And we hope that it lasts forever. I don't want to say for a long time because I don't want it to ever happen again in Nigeria. It's a really sad story that very Sunday people leaving Abuja to Lagos and this happened. I can imagine if families of those affected have been able to get over this incident. Just such a sad and shocking situation. 153 people. Well, 163, if you add the 10 people on ground, who woke up that morning to go about their daily lives, and by three o'clock there was a crisis. Well, once again, it's really, really sad, but once again kudos to the Nigerian Aviation Ministry for being able to ensure that we continue to maintain safety standards that prevent any type of passenger air disaster. We sadly, of course, we mentioned, you know, like I also already have said, the military airplanes who, you know, that have also crashed in the last, you know, a long while, including the chief of army staff who died in an air crash and 10 other officers. So our hearts go out to them. But that was what happened on this day in history in the year 2012. Yes. And on the third of June 2015, there was an even bigger casualty figure in Ghana. What happened on this day in history was an explosion at a fueling station. So it was a rainy day. There was flood and people had packed their cars at this fueling station. Lots of pedestrians had just gone to the fueling station to take shelter from the rain, waiting for the rain to, you know, stop and so they can go about their business. And the lights went off in the fueling station. The lights came back on and there was an explosion. Over 200 people, about 200 people, over 200 people died. And because the fueling station was built on a waterway and it was raining, there was flood, some of the fuel spilled, you know, into the water. And because of that, the explosion spread, burnt neighboring buildings, just cost lots of destruction, burnt cars. 200 people died and more. You know, the President, John Mohammed, at the time, visited the site. He called for, you know, three days of mourning over the losses that occurred on that day, you know, in June 2015. He also authorized about 60 million Ghana CDs or equivalent to $14.5 million for a recovery fund and they began to push a legislation to prevent building on waterways so that such accidents would not happen again. It was in distant history that an explosion at a gas station in a crowd of Ghana queued over 200 people. Yeah. Bringing it down here to Nigeria, we, of course, have had our own petrol fire disasters. If you remember, I think the biggest one has to be the JSA one in 1998, that more than a thousand people died. But, you know, there's a difference here. You know, the Ghana one was a power, you know, era, electricity or something that caused that explosion. Ours, of course, was, you know, because Nigerians, you know, seen a bus pipeline went to start scooping petrol, which of course led to the explosion and more than a thousand people died on that day, 1998. There's also been the Jaconde one where cars, you know, were burnt. This was, I think, was sometime last year. Jaconde Bridge, that's what it's called, yes, where, you know, of course, cars were burnt. So, we, of course, need to continue to do well, do better to improve on the response to fire disasters in Nigeria. Yes, you're speaking about Ghana, but we should also continue to learn from some of these things that we share. That's why I gave kudos to the Nigerian Aviation Ministry, but it's a constant reminder to continue to improve and continue to learn and do better with regard to our response to disasters. Nema, Nigerian Fire Service, generally in every state, the building structures, market structures, all of that needs to continue to be improved. In every market, there should be proper pathways and driveways for emergency situations. If there's a fire in the market, how many trucks can drive into Ladikpur or go drive into any big market in Lagos now and get to the deepest part of the market? That are usually very crowded. I get to the deepest part of the market to ensure that they get their time to save property and to save lives. How many of these markets across Nigeria, not just in Lagos, across Nigeria, a lot of them are choked. A lot of them don't have any actual proper driveways. And it's really, really sad. How much better have we done with regards to proper fire response equipment in the markets? How many stores are fire extinguishers? How many people can use fire extinguishers? So there's a lot of these angles that we should look at. But this happened in 2015. Yes, 2015. All right. That's all we have for you today in history, 2012 and 2015 in Nigeria and in Ghana. We're moving into our first major conversation for today. What's happening with our courts, a juice on strike, still on, lawyers frustrated. Of course, suspects and those who have been charged to court still also having to wait a lot longer before they can get justice through our legal system. We'll talk about that right after the short break.