 You're welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. We're finally talking about today in history and I'm going back to the year 1951 on this day, the 8th of July. And on this day in history, the city of Paris celebrated its 2000th birthday. Now, this may not seem like a big deal, but there are only a few cities in Europe that can actually boast of such rich history, such long history that can boast that they have the word BC around their name. I mean, this is a city that is known as the city of light. It was most likely founded around 250 BC and the history, like I mentioned, very rich. And this was, it can be traced to the Gallic tribe known as the Parisi. Now, this tribe around this 250 BC settled on an island that runs through present day Paris. It's a very long story about how, you know, Paris then eventually became the capital of France. But it was such a historic moment in time, you know, that they had to celebrate when they clocked their 2000th birthday on the 8th of July, 1951. Right now, Paris is home to about two million residents and an additional 10 million people live in the surrounding areas in Paris. And it's one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. It's renowned for sites like the Eiffel Tower. And this was built in 1998, 1889 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. And that's it for today in history. Totally love it. Love the story. Love, you know, love how much, you know, can be learned in 2000 years in one city. And you can imagine the amount of development and growth and culture and tradition, well, not tradition, well, some tradition, but history basically that lives in that city also reminds me of how much I need to travel and, you know, we need to visit the world. It's it's, you know, something that I believe everybody should, you know, find time resources and do as part of their lives, you know, travel, visit Paris. There's a time that I lived in Paris. That's a lie. Also visit your village people. That's a lie. But yeah, you know, it's really, really interesting. And we hope, you know, that we can also be able to show off, you know, some of the, you know, the history that Nigeria has. Yes, I'm talking about Nigeria. Well, when I, when I read stories about cities like this, and I think about, you know, the comparison to Nigeria, you see how they preserve structures that have been there for decades and decades. But here, if when a man has money, he feels, oh, the mother house is outdated, and they, you know, they demolish it and build a new one. I'm not saying don't build a new one, but there's just an attitude that we have that unless you go to like the remote hinterlands, would you find, you know, buildings or, you know, more structures that have been there? I've been standing for thousands and thousands of years. We need to preserve these things. So I think the problem is really because we don't take our tourism, you know, sector seriously. That's one. And then second, we, we don't value, I don't think in Nigeria, we value our story as much as we should. There are certain monuments, there are certain cities, you know, that have been, you know, they are age long, you know, the, the city of Benin, Ibadon. Languages that are even lost, extinct. There's so much history in, you know, four, five, six different cities, you know, in Nigeria that should make, should make books across the world, you know, people would love to read about. But these things aren't things, I mean, I remember that, you know, we probably heard these things when I was in primary school, you know, maybe junior secondary school, but that's the end of that conversation. And you stop to hear about Ibadon. You stop to hear about Belkota. You stop to hear about, you know, some of those mountainous regions, rocky areas in the in the north, you know, that really had rich, rich, rich history. The city of Benin also, the only time you hear about those things now, when there's arguments about where, what are your, what people came from, those things. But do you know why these things out? Do you know why this is white as today? It still goes back to our past, our history regarding how we communicate and how we preserve our own history. We know that for Africa, we were big on oral tradition, right? We pass our story through word of mouth. The father tells the grandfather or the grandfather tells the father who tells the son, that's how it is. And you know, over time, your memory changes, your memory fades in some way. So you don't exactly get the full grasp of the story. And you sometimes you forget, but you see abroad how they write, they document things. So we need to start documenting our own stories, rather than, you know, it's sad that if I want to find out about My Own City, it's a book written by a white man or something compound by a white person on Wikipedia. You don't have Nigerian authors telling authentic Nigerian stories about our history. I think that's one of the reasons why we have, so we need more writers, need more storytellers, more historians. Yes, you know, and I agree that we should do, you know, not do oral, you know, transfer of knowledge and history. These things should be written. They should be, they should be documented. But that's when we decide that we're going to take these things seriously. For a long time, we have failed to take it seriously. And that has given the space for people to rewrite history and create their own narratives from, from, you know, where we're coming from. These are cities that are thousands of years old. People will tell you where the ebos come from. Even those who want to argue whether the ebos are Jews or not Jews, you know, that's a really weird argument. But they will tell you so much about, you know, how long the ebos have been on the earth. You know, how long the Bini people have been on the earth, how long the Yoruba people and Fulani people have been on the earth. They will tell you all those stories. But we, we in Nigeria don't have those. Take, take, for instance, Egypt. Egypt is one of the oldest civilizations on earth, right? They documented, quite all right, but they use heligraphics, right? It's this system of, you know, writing, communicating through certain inscriptions. And people had to go study how to understand and decipher those languages and codes. There was the Rosetta stone that had all, you know, they packed full of information about what we're coming from. But because it wasn't English, a language that we all generally now have come to understand, you know, that barrier is still there. So it still, it still remains that we need to preserve what we're coming from through, you know, by writing that, by writing stories about it. Nothing wrong with modernization, but you know, shouldn't throw away your own values and your culture and your story. All right. We spoke about football a few minutes ago with Wale Scott. I'm going back to tell you a little bit more about football in history. And we're going back to 2014. In recent history, not very long ago, a couple of months ago, about a year ago, we saw one of the most shocking defeats in football history. And that was Bayern Munich against Barcelona that ended 8-2. But before that, in 2014, on this day, one of the world's most shocking defeats occurred. And that was Germany completely blowing away the Brazilian national team that was at that time seen as favorites to win the World Cup. Germany eventually did win it, and Brazil came out fourth. But on this day in history, Germany beat the hell out of Brazil. Seven goes to Neil. Beats them black and blue and many other colors. Seven won, I beg your pardon. Beat them in numerous colors that were not in any way good. Beat them rainbow. It was also an interesting day because nobody expected it to be that bad. I mean, people maybe had, you know, thought that one team was going to win, but no one thought it was going to be that bad. I think Tony Cruz eventually, you know, also, I think scored three goals in that game and took over as highest goal score at that time from Ronaldo. It was a shocking, embarrassing defeat of the Brazilian national team. And let me share a couple of records that he'd also broke. It marked several record, tournament records. Germany's win marked the largest margin of victory in a FIFA World Cup semi-final. The game saw Germany overtake Brazil as the highest scoring team in the World Cup tournament history and become the first team to reach eight World Cup finals. Miroslav Klosas scored his 16th World Cup career goal and surpassed Brazil's own Ronaldo as the tournament's all-time goals score. And of course, Brazil at that time had a 62 match on beaten record, but, you know, that ended on that day with those goals. Those seven goals. Eventually, of course, Brazil still lost, you know, the third place match and eventually finished fourth while Germany went on to win the World Cup. Wow. This match, like, it buffered a lot of pundits. It buffered lots of sports analysts because the question they could all ask was what went wrong? What went wrong with Brazil? What went wrong with the match? Like I mentioned, it went on to break lots of records as one of the most goals scored in the semi-final, you know, and all of that. Yeah, I guess that's one record that meant four to be broken. Absolutely. Another record I remember is Manchester United against Roma. Seven goes to one, Champions League. They're always going to throw in a Manchester United, you know, just in there, just like to squeeze it in somewhere. No big deal. Anyway, that's the day in history 2014. Seven goes to one, Germany against Brazil, and of course, the city of Paris. Yes, 1951, when they celebrated their 2000th year anniversary. And that's it from us today. Thank you for staying with us all through till 10 a.m. I am Aneta Felix. And I am Osaugi Obama, wish you a very beautiful Thursday ahead.