 Great to have you back here on the breakfast and plus TV Africa. Now let's go back in history, of course, to share with you things that happened on this day many years ago and went back to the year 2014. Many times, of course, we've shared about where we're coming from security-wise and the peak of bomb blast as a tactic by the Boko Haram sect and it was on this day in the year 2014 that a suicide bomber blew himself up alongside seven others. Of course, a while, about 20 others sustained life-threatening injuries at the premises of the Kano School of Health technology. Scores, of course, were feared dead at the premises of the school along the Gida Murtala Road. The high caliber explosive device went off around 2 p.m. at the time the school was in session. It appeared to come from a parking lot next to the provost office of the School of Hygiene and, of course, victims of the blast when new intakes of the school still under going screening. The Kano State Commissioner of Police back then, Adé Lénery Chinaba, revealed that eight vehicles packed within the premises of the institution were damaged and the commissioner disclosed that a suspect was apprehended at the scene and rolled out a car bombing in its latest attack by the insurgents. Of course, at that time, triggered pandemonium across Kano State and places around the explosion at that time and, of course, once again, it was one of those times when bombings were used as a tactic by the Bacoram sect, either suicide bombers or bombs in vehicles, in parked vehicles and the likes. I've also repeated as I said here that, you know, luckily we've moved away from that era where people used to be scared to go to church or to the mosque or to the supermarket to, you know, to anywhere, you know, where there was a gathering of more than 10 people because you can never just tell what will happen, you know, on that day. So, back in history on this day it happened and I remember a conversation with someone who used to work in one of the big supermarkets back then in Kano. Sometimes a couple years later when we, you know, we met again, he was sharing stories with me back then of how these bombs used to go off, you know, every week. Not very many of them were reported by the news and it was almost a weekly occurrence for him to be at work here, you know, bomb explode and then see government agencies come, you know, to pack dead bodies and to clean up, you know, the mess and all of that. And it seemed like a daily occurrence. You know, you might be in the office and you hear a large explosion somewhere down the road to tell you that another bomb has, you know, exploded. So, the Nigerian government either has been able to defeat the Bukoram on that, you know, on that level where they can no longer make these IEDs. They can no longer, you know, pull together, you know, suicide bombers. They can no longer use that tactic to, you know, affect Nigerians. Either that or they simply have just changed strategy completely and have now, you know, turned into, you know, bandits and the lights. Just unfortunately what occurred on this day in history, you know, seven people dead, about 20 others sustained injuries and these were people who had just resumed school. They were just undergoing screening, you know. It's terrible that we still have security challenges even though in different dimensions. Yeah, absolutely. The next story takes us to Thailand, 2018, June the 23rd and it all began with a birthday. So, 12 students or 12 young boys and their assistant coach. These boys were aged from 11 to about, you know, a 16. Their coach was a 25-year-old, you know, man. So, these 12 boys and their assistant coach, 13 of them, you know, they wanted to explore their city, right. They, it was the birthday of one of the boys and usually they would, you know, take a stroll, explore the forest, explore that mountain area. It wasn't anything new, you know. So, on that birthday, they decided to do just that. So, they explored, they went too far in and then there was flash floods, they wanted to take shelter, so they ran into a cave. But the second is it's been raining for days. So, there was this cave in, you know, it caved in and they were basically trapped inside just so they can get shelter. They crawled further deep into the cave and they were not found until two weeks later. It was a very, very, you know, shocking situation. It drew worldwide attention because lots of people were deployed to find them. They were Navy SEALs, they were divers, policemen, sniffer dogs, vigilante groups, village officials, the police. It was just a lot, trying to save these men. The good thing was, their 25-year-old coach, you know, understood the meditation techniques he had been among. So, he was able to teach them how to, you know, breathe with limited air, how to just remain calm. They had carried some water with them. So, for two weeks, they were there without food. It was just a very, very sad situation. It drew worldwide attention, like I mentioned. People were praying for them. You know, all the deployments, you know, globally, just to make sure that those boys were found home and eventually they were rescued. Two weeks later, they were taken to the hospital, they received treatment, you know, they got food and water and were reunited with their families. So, they had sent amoteco and they were found in the shelter. Oh my God. But sadly, they couldn't, that's about the thing you need to have amoteco, you know, in some of all these places, you know, but it, you know, besides the, you know, funny part, I think it also, you know, tells the importance of having great disaster management tactics. And to see how much value was put on the lives of those boys. Yeah. Yeah. Not to say, let's bombard the place. There'll be collateral damage, but we'll get some relief. Well, those are totally different scenarios. You know, I'm just, you know, expressing, first of all, the value of human life, even if it's one person or two people. Yes. The fact that the government will shut down entirely and ensure that all resources, no resources are spared to ensure that those lives are saved. And also, you know, being able to have the facilities to ensure that, you know, they are also rescued. I hope that we can get there, you know, as a country and be able to value every single injury in life, regardless of where they go, what they are, or what tribe they are from, and ensure that every life is saved. And that's, you know, a message to them, actually. All right. Stay with us. We're, of course, going into our first major conversation for today. We're going to be speaking about the sentencing of Faruk Lawan, who has been found guilty of bribery of $500,000 in the year 2012, nine years after, has been sentenced to seven years in prison. And we're getting into that conversation right after the short break.