 Welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. Now let's go back to a little bit of history. I'm going back to the year 2000 to tell you one of the greatest tennis players in history. The elder sister to of course Serena Williams her name is Venice Williams. On this day she became the first black I believe or rather on this day she won Wimbledon for the very first time. Her victory was over the defending champion at that time Lynse Davenport. She made Williams the first black Wimbledon champion since Arthur Gibson won back-to-back titles in 1957 and 1958. Yes I was right first black. Overcoming a very tough childhood in California she became a champion women's tennis player with seven Grand Slam titles, 16 Grand Slam doubles titles and four Olympic gold medals. She and her sister Serena are considered two of the greatest tennis players of all time. She also won the French Open women's doubles tournament with her sister. When she of course won it in 2000 she stated it had been a very very very rewarding trophy because of how hard she had worked all her life. The same year she went on to win the US Open two gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney and of course signed a very very massive deal with Reebok. She of course later on revealed that she was battling a chronic incurable immune system disorder. Just to quickly also share this is a story that started from when they were little kids as young as eight to ten years old. They started training to play tennis and then in 1995 they moved from a training academy that they had initially been attending and stayed at home to be trained by their father in 1995 and of course also she played overtime against her sister Serena 31 times, won 12 of those games and Serena won 19 of them. But it's a very very interesting story of her time as world tennis number one, female number one tennis player in the world. She lasted about 16 weeks as number one. I'm pleased about our topic today in history because we're basically celebrating women who are first in the future to talk about Venus Williams. The first female to win the first especially the black, exactly to win that Womborden and I'm going back to the year 1947 the 9th of July to tell you about the first female army officer to be appointed her name is Florence Abbey Blantfield. She was a nurse in the United States. She was superintendent of that army nursing corps from 1943 to 1947 and then she was a member of that you know since 1917. She secured that commission when she passed the army following the passage of the Army Navy Nurse Act of 1947 by Congress. She was instrumental in securing that passage of that act which was advocated by some reps and in 1947 Blanchfield became the first woman to receive a military commission in the regular army. By 1951 she received the Florence 19 Gill Award from the International Red Cross and Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Fort Camp in Kentucky was named for her in 1982. Interesting fact about Blanchfield she comes from a family of nurses and doctors you know they all you know were in the medical line in her family and she was the only one of them who was able to combine a nursing career with a successful military career you know she she broke records shattered a glass ceilings and became the first female army officer. I mean look at right now I have so many women doing great things serving the motherland both in the US and here in Nigeria and thanks to women like Florence Blanchfield who paved the way and blazed the trail for others to follow. Yeah this you know would would easily flow into the conversation about you know how much women can actually achieve if they truly you know desire and desire it you know and you know and stop those you know feelings that oh the world is you know you know it's unfair to women and it doesn't let them thrive and it doesn't let them achieve. Which is true to some point. Yeah yeah I get I agree you know but at the same time you know there are certain things that if you will work hard for it you will get it. Someone put out it's a very very long conversation but someone put out you know something yesterday a couple of days ago talking about how in Nigeria today there's many many salons where you go and you see male hairdressers hairstylists you know make up artists on some of all of that and that happened very easily without anybody you know forcing them or beating them into it you know they found themselves in that place it wasn't you know the place where they were most skilled but they trained themselves and they got in there but you know if it was a different case I'm just trying to be I'm trying to look for trouble this morning because you know the tables were turned you know a lot of women say oh why isn't there enough women in this space why don't we have enough women in this space go ahead and do it I'm sure that you know she herself you know just worked hard and got into that position and today we're celebrating her controversial anyway our first major conversation today is moving to emo state where there were gunshots fired yesterday after the suspension of some members of the state house of assembly including the chief whip and we're going to be speaking this morning with one of those suspended members to share with us you know what exactly is going on in emo state house of assembly that comes up after this short break