President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to further bolster the country’s manufacturing capacity.
This time the focus is the biotech sector and the goal is to make sure that what’s invented in the U.S. is also made there to allow for affordable costs for American consumers.
According to the White House investments into the biotech sector will be expanded and an actual sum will be shared this week.
Pundits meanwhile believe this latest initiative may lead to repercussions for South Korea as the U.S. seeks to ease its external reliance.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with hand on heart, watched his country’s flag rise Wednesday above the recaptured city of Izium, making a rare foray outside the capital that highlights Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week as Kyiv’s soldiers pressed a stunning advance that has reclaimed large swaths of territory in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.
As Zelenskyy looked on and sang the national anthem, the Ukrainian flag was raised in front of the burned-out city hall. After almost six months under Russian occupation, Izium was left largely devastated, with apartment buildings blackened by fire and pockmarked by artillery strikes.
A gaping hole and piles of rubble stood where one building had collapsed.
“The view is very shocking, but it is not shocking for me,” Zelenskyy told journalists, “because we began to see the same pictures from Bucha, from the first de-occupied territories … the same destroyed buildings, killed people.”
Bucha is a small city on Kyiv’s outskirts from which Russian troops withdrew in March. In the aftermath, Ukrainian authorities discovered the bodies of hundreds of civilians dumped in streets, yards and mass graves. Many bore signs of torture.
1752 Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian calendar (no Sept 3 – Sept 13)
1936 1st prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C.
1939 World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut
1949 India’s Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language. Celebrated today as Hindi Day.
1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton
1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
2020 Astronomers report possible sign of life on Venus, after detecting phosphine in planets’s atmosphere by telescope [1]
2021 1 in 500 Americans have died of COVID-19 as the nation’s known death toll reaches 663,913 (Johns Hopkins) [1]
HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY
TODAY IN FILM & TV
1985 “The Golden Girls”, starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC
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1741 George Frideric Handel finishes his “Messiah” oratorio after working on it non-stop for 23 days
TODAY IN SPORT
1987 Cal Ripken Jr.’s record streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is finally broken
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1814 Francis Scott Key pens the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”, later known as “The Star-Spangled Banner” while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore harbor
2015 14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb – Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets
FAMOUS WEDDINGS
1830 Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia
1835 American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1838 Newly escaped slave Frederick Douglass marries free woman Anne Murray in New York
Eleyele is situated in North-west of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria at an altitude of 125 m above sea-level and between7°25’00’ and 7°26’30’N latitudes and 3°51’00’ and 3°52’30’E longitudes (Figure 1).
The lake is manmade and was formed in 1939 by damming of the Ona River (part of a dense network of inland waterways that flow southward into the Lagos Lagoon), and the Otaru, Awba, Yemoja and Alapo streams also empty into the lake.
In 2019, The Oyo State Government said it has begun the rehabilitation of the 77-year- old Eleyele dam, which contributed in no small measure to the alarming flooding of August 26, 2011, that ravaged most parts of the state.
Unlike Ogun and Osun states, Oyo State is not particularly known for its large water areas. Of course, Oyo State has dams and water bodies scattered around but compared to its bordering states that received their names from rivers, one can say the water areas are not as magnified in Oyo.
Nonetheless, somewhere in Oyo State, a portage business has been thriving for years, depending solely on a water body which passes through Eleyele, Ibadan. Situated close to the Eleyele Water Cooperation is a place that could easily pass as a tourism centre. But, for years, it has served only as a means of essential transportation.
A replica of the road transportation business practised across Nigeria, able-to-do individuals purchase canoes and employ “sailors” who do the work of transporting people across the river and to other places of choice.
Every day, they take about 30 trips to communities like Lane 4, Oba Ado, Apete, Alaakuta and Across. They move people, goods and products from one of such places to another. Dwellers in this community, of course, are not so secluded as they have other means of land transportation, but for workers and students who have businesses on the other side of the river, the canoes are a better choice.
One of the sailors, who identified himself as a ‘Jboy’ explained how he and many others were employed by canoe owners and get paid monthly in return for their services.
He further stated that for N50 to N100, depending on distance, passengers get to cross the river. However, tourists pay more to explore the river for a longer time. He explained that the water body is quite large, and there are ports at each community where they drop off and pick up passengers every day.
As he noted, Eleyele waterside is one of those ports, and passengers going to different locations can be found sitting and waiting for more passengers to complete the canoe of 15 passengers.
Waterside Businesses Interestingly, petty businesses have found their way to the ‘garage’, sprouting to sell different edibles and render services.
The port secretary, Samuel, who coordinates payment, also chipped in the fact that people of all age groups come to the canoe port for transportation, therefore needing the services.
For them, the canoe was faster than going extra miles around the river to reach their destination on land.
One of the petty businesses which have been depending on the river is the sale of fish caught overnight.
Because the river is surprisingly clean and free of plastic waste and the sort as would have been expected of a river so frequently used by humans, fingerlings and even big fishes have been surviving in the water.
“Fish sellers catch the fish and take it up the roadside for sale. Some other time, they kill it here if there’s anyone interested in buying,” Iya Eko, one of the traders, explained.
The Gombe State Deputy Governor, Dr. Manassah Jatau, has charged the Nigerian Association of Nephrology Nurses with undertaking more research on diseases affecting the kidney, noting that such studies are necessary to curb the spread of the disease.
The Deputy Governor represented the Governor, Muhammadu Yahaya, at the Association’s 15th Annual Scientific Conference organised in collaboration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
Yahaya noted that there is a compelling need for the Association to strengthen and widen its tentacles by massively educating the public on the prevention, causes, symptoms, effects, and treatment of kidney disease while other medical personnel address other vital organs of the body.
He revealed that available records suggest that 20 million Nigerians are living with kidney disease, while about 10,000 of the number are at the End Stage of Kidney Disease annually.
The governor said, “This being the case there is a very urgent and compelling need for your association to strengthen and widen your tentacles by massively educating the population on the prevention, causes, symptoms, effects, and treatment of kidney disease, while other medical personnel address other vital organs of the body.
“Let me observe that there is every need for your members to have a broader understanding of the social world of patients, health, illness, and health care to complement your technical and clinical competencies.
“This is not really a very tall order since one of the sub-themes of this five-day Conference is “Multi-Disciplinary Care of Renal Patient”. Knowing very well also that Leadership is a language I advise that you can achieve very much by choosing your words more wisely in society as you attempt to educate on everything about the kidney.
“This is for comprehension and acceptability of those you approach to get their buy-in and participation.”
Speaking earlier, National Chairman, Nigerian Association of Nephrology Nurses, Mrs. Ajibike Omolola, explained that the conference theme: Modern Trends in Nephrology Nursing was carefully selected following emerging issues.
Omolola said, “The conference is centered on knowledge sharing among practitioners on an improved approach to the delivery of quality health care to patients. Since the beginning of this tenure, we have been constrained to organise a physical conference because of COVID-19 and security challenges in the country.
“During this era, the Association in conjunction with some companies organised virtual conferences to keep members abreast of discoveries in renal care and to give our patients the best care available globally.”
According to her, there are four accredited Nephrology schools in Nigeria; Abuja, Jos, Kano, and Ilorin, adding that the association was currently engaging stakeholders to open more schools in other locations.
The Kano State Government has said that it is planning to establish a board for traditional and alternative medicines.
The state government disclosed this in a statement issued by the Press Secretary to the deputy governor, Hassan Fagge, on Wednesday in Kano.
The statement says that the governor disclosed this while receiving a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Health led by the Director Department of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicine(TCAM), Hajiya Zainab Ujudud -Sharif.
Represented by his deputy Alhaji Nasiru Gawuna, Ganduje said that the state government would also establish a TCAM Department at the Ministry of Health as part of an effort of standardising the traditional medicine practice.
He maintained that the administration was committed to the health of its citizens, noting that the initiatives of the government would help eradicate quacks from practicing traditional medicine.
The governor directed the delegation to bring a document that he would use to forward a memo to the State Executive Council on establishing a board and a department of the TCAM.
“Kano is endowed with arable land which makes it easier to cultivate almost everything medicinal such as ginger, cloves, onions, garlic, and lots more.
herbal materials
“Agricultural products exported from Kano as herbal are the best and have more quality compared to others supplied from other countries he said, “.
He assured of continued partnership to achieve the set objective of promoting and regulating traditional and alternative medicine.
Earlier, Ujudud -Sharif said the purpose of the visit was to encourage Kano State Government to enact a law for the establishment of a board and a department at the ministry of health for TCAM due to its importance to human life.
“Having a TCAM board will ensure that traditional and alternative medicine conforms to rules and ethical standards,” she said”.
She commended the state government for its effort in providing quality healthcare services to its citizens.
Persons exposed to air pollution are more at risk of all sorts of diseases including hypertension, lung cancer, and renal failure, an Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist, Dr. Oyeleye Bello, has said.
Bello, who works at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, said air pollution is dangerous to health and could affect almost every system in the body.
Speaking in an interview monitored by LN247, the ENT specialist, said air pollution could affect the respiratory system, cardiovascular system, neurological system, skin, and reproductive system.
She explained, “It can affect the respiratory system, it can affect the cardiovascular system, it can affect the eyes, it can affect the skin, it can affect the neurological system. Air pollution suppresses the immune system and predisposes the individual to a lot of health conditions that the body should have been able to fight.
“Under the respiratory system, air pollution is one of the predisposing factors to asthma, it causes chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. It can also cause emphysema.
“It could predispose to lung cancer. Then you could now have a cough as a minor symptom and then these major symptoms can occur.
“On the cardiovascular system, it can lead to heart diseases. It affects the beating of the heart and predisposes to high blood pressure.
“Under the neurological system, there are certain diseases that air pollution is a predisposing factor for, such as Parkinson’s, cognitive decline.”
According to the Journal of the American Heart Foundation, the effects of air pollution are consistent for all cardiovascular events including cardiovascular mortality, acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and stroke.
Air Pollution
The foundation affirmed that long‐term exposure to ambient air pollutants was a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases.
“Ambient air pollution needs to be considered as a public health issue, and measures to control the level of air pollution are required to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease,” it noted.
Bello further observed that air pollution also has negative effects on children, adding that it had been found that air pollution causes low birth weight in babies.
“It affects foetal growth if the mother is exposed severely during pregnancy.
“There are some studies that have linked air pollution to increasing cases of autism. There is a substance that we call lead, it is one of those things that cause air pollution. It is dangerous. Once it accumulates in the brain, it can cause mental retardation.
“When lead accumulates in the renal system, it causes renal failure and can affect the liver. On the eyes, it can cause dry eyes and retinopathy. It causes cancer,” the ENT specialist said.
Bello called for awareness creation to let people know about the dangers of air pollution and its impact on health.
She urged the government to legislate and control activities that result in air pollution.
The ENT specialist also enjoined Nigerians to ensure proper waste disposal, adding that Nigerians should stop burning waste.
“We need to find a new source of clean household energy. We need stable electricity and adequate housing and ventilation,” she said.
The World Health Organisation says the air that people breathe is growing dangerously polluted, revealing that nine out of 10 people now breathe polluted air, which it says kills 7 million people every year.
According to the global health body, the health effects of air pollution are serious, stressing that one-third of deaths from stroke, lung cancer, and heart disease are due to air pollution.
“This is having an equivalent effect to that of smoking tobacco, and much higher than, say, the effects of eating too much salt,” it added.
In a document it released in 2018, the WHO noted, “Every day around 93 per cent of the world’s children under the age of 15 years (1.8 billion children) breathe air that is so polluted. It puts their health and development at serious risk. Tragically, many of them die.”
Nigeria has begun the production of Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) to fight malnutrition, particularly in children.
Director, Family Health at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Salma Anas-Kolo, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja where she noted that not too long ago; Nigeria was importing RUTF through UNICEF.
She added that Nigeria now exports Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Foods.
She was addressing a ministerial bi-weekly news conference on COVID-19 response and other developments in the health sector.
She said RUTF was critical in the treatment of children with severe and acute malnutrition.
Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Foods
Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Foods is a life-saving essential supply item that treats severe malnutrition in Under-five children.
It is a paste made of powdered milk, peanut butter, vegetable oil, sugar, and a mix of vitamins and minerals.
“We are currently implementing an accelerated reduction of malnutrition in Nigeria, particularly in 12 states that have the highest burden of malnutrition in Nigeria,’’ Anas-Kolo said.
She added that nutritional disorders were common in Nigeria, a country that bears about 50 per cent of the burden in Africa.
She noted also that 50 per cent of deaths in Under-five children resulted from malnutrition.
“Nutrition and a balanced diet are very important for children. Mothers are encouraged to observe exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months in the lives of their babies.
“Thereafter, they can introduce complementary feeding using locally-available foods.
“For protein, they can use crayfish, dried fish, and other readily available sources,’’ she said.
Anas-Kolo also said that giving children a balanced diet contributes to physical development and brain development.
She added that to produce healthy, intelligent children that would make a meaningful contribution to the future of Nigeria, proper feeding must begin as soon as they are born.
She said also that the ministry was working with NAFDAC to ensure that fortified fats are avoided.
Fortified fats are hydrogenated to solidify them; they are harmful and can cause heart problems.
They are unhealthy fats mostly related to high cholesterol.
“Most business marketers, especially those in foods use trans-fat in bread baking, in cakes, and several other snacks.
“We encourage Nigerians to avoid trans-fat. The common one is margarine which is so common; it is trans-fat and we should avoid it as much as we can,’’ Anas-Kolo said.
She also warned against smoking, particularly the smoking of shisha which is more dangerous than the tobacco in cigarettes.
“There are higher incidents of lung cancer as a result of smoking shisha. We are using this opportunity to inform Nigerians to avoid the use of shisha,’’ she stressed.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said Ondo, Edo and Bauchi recorded 70 per cent of the 909 confirmed cases and 170 deaths from Lassa fever cases.
The Assistant Director and Head of Response Division of the NCDC, Dr. Aderinola Olaolu, disclosed this at the Ministerial Press Briefing on COVID-19 response and Development in the Health Sector held in Abuja.
He said response activities continue in all areas, particularly in areas of state advocacy, IPC support, and laboratory diagnostics.
Olaolu said that the NCDC reported Lassa fever cases from 25 states and 101 LGAs.
On measles, he said impacts of COVID-19 continue to be felt across several other areas including the increase in the risk of measles and a probable increase in yellow fever outbreaks due to delayed planned vaccination campaigns.
”We recorded 18,577 confirmed cases, and 190 deaths as of week 35 in 36 states and the FCT and there are 40 LGAs with the active outbreak.
”We will continue to support state responses to measles outbreaks,” he said.
“Unfortunately, SARS-CoV-II is still exerting impacts globally, however, the effects of vaccinations, diagnostics, and therapeutics are evident in our ability to continue with regular life.
“In Nigeria, we have had 5,547,250 samples tested, 264,802 confirmed cases, 257,880 discharged cases, and unfortunately 3,155 deaths.
“The virus is still circulating and we must continue to adhere to all measures to prevent transmission while strengthening our capacity to respond across states”.
He, however, admonished Nigerians to continue to take responsibility to prevent COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
“Take advantage of the increasing knowledge and resources we have to get tested early if you have symptoms or are exposed, and get vaccinated to prevent severe disease.
“As we have seen with COVID-19 and the outbreak of monkeypox in countries globally, diseases will continue to emerge, so we must learn to live safely and continue to protect our lives and livelihoods,” he said.
Also speaking, the Director, Hospital Service Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Adebimpe Adebiyi, said that was no surge in oxygen demand in Isolation wards across the country.
“Oxygen availability at the isolation wards is ramped up because of the already completed few Federal Government driven PSA oxygen plants,” she said.
Speaking on case management strengthening activities, Adebiyi said the minister through the Case Management Pillar and in collaboration with NACA were holding coordination meeting with partners in the oxygen ecosystem implementation strategies.
“FHi360, CHAI, and UNICEF are expected to present stewardship so especially about roles and responsibilities as it relates to C19RM funds.
“On oxygen support systems, the five-Year National Policy and Guidelines on oxygen use (2017-2022) has just undergone the second phase of collaborative review in collaboration with partners (CHAI, UNICEF) and private sector involvement,” Adebiyi said.
According to her, One important target is to increase oxygen demand through expanded capacity building and knowledge sharing across all levels of care.
She said the ministry has advised NACA to officially communicate with the ministry through the minister on the distribution of oxygen commodities to eligible health facilities in the country.
Princess Anne’s naval officer husband, Timothy Laurence, has been steadfastly by her side as she followed her mother Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin into St Giles’ cathedral in Edinburgh today.
The highest ranking military in the royal family, he is the rock upon whom Princess Anne, often dubbed the hardest-working royal, has built her life since her second marriage, to Timothy, in 1992.
His support has been admirable and earnest throughout the Royal Family’s mourning period and is expected to continue ahead of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday, September 19.
But who is Timothy Laurence? When did he marry Anne? And why do so many admire the couple’s long-standing relationship?
Who Is Mark Phillips, Princess Anne’s First Husband?
Princess Anne, the Queen’s second child and only daughter, met Mark Phillips, a military officer and fellow champion equestrian, at a party for horse lovers in Mexico City.
They wed in 1973 at Westminster Abbey, with the Princess Royal the first of the Queen’s four children to get married. Two thousand guests were present, 500 million watched on TV, and the day was celebrated as a national holiday.
Over a twenty-year marriage, they survived an armed kidnapping attempt and had two children, businessman Peter Phillips, 42, and Olympic equestrian Zara Tindall, 41 (wife of Rugby World Cup winner Mike Tindall). Long before Megxit, they opted not to give their children royal titles.
Mark and Anne’s marriage broke apart amid tabloid rumours of infidelity.
Who Is Timothy Laurence, Princess Anne’s Second Husband?
Timothy, a Navy man through and through, made a name for himself when he commanded the patrol boat HMS Cygnet, apprehending IRA gun-runners off Northern Ireland.
He was then a second Navigating Officer of the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia before serving as the Queen’s equerry (Her Majesty’s military adviser and right-hand man) between 1986 and 1989.
That’s when he met Princess Anne — while she was still married to Phillips.
Their relationship became known in April 1989 when letters from the Commander were stolen from Anne’s briefcase and given to newspapers.
Four months later Anne announced her separation from Mark Phillips.
Timothy was born in Camberwell, and attended the New Beacon Preparatory School, Sevenoaks School, Kent, before going to University College, University of Durham, on a naval scholarship to study geography.
When Did Princess Anne And Timothy Laurence Get Married?
Anne and Timothy married in a private service in front of just 30 guests at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral on 12 December 1992.
They chose to marry in Scotland because at that time, the Church of England did not allow divorced people to remarry in its churches while their former spouse was still alive (a problem that Charles and Camilla would also have to navigate).
Anne, dressed in a simple white suit with white blossoms in her hair, and Timothy, in a Royal Navy uniform, emerged from the church to cheers from about 500 well wishers. Among the guests were the Queen, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Peter, then 15, and Zara, then 11. It was a high point in a turbulent year for the Royal Family, with Charles announcing his separation from Diana in the same week.
Are Princess Anne And Timothy Laurence Still Married?
The Royal Family’s ‘invisible man’ has been a quiet strength and stay to ‘the best Queen we’ll never have’.
They previously lived in a flat they leased in Dolphin Square in London, but now live between an apartment at St James’s Palace and the 700-acre Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire (five main bedrooms, four secondary bedrooms, four reception rooms, a library, a billiard room, and a conservatory, since you ask).
They Have The Longest Marriage Of All The Living British Royals
Commander Timothy — now a retired vice-admiral and a knight — enjoys tennis, golf, sailing and field sports, and both are ardent Scotland rugby fans (the Princess Royal is patron of the Scottish rugby team).
She is a discreet, dependable and desirable patron for the more than 300 charities, military organisations and associations that she supports.
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