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Bauchi Governor Mandates Use Of Chloroquine To Treat COVID-19oh

Bauchi state Governor, Bala Muhammed has mandated the use of chloroquine and Zithromax to treat coronavirus patients in the state, Premium Times reports.

The Governor, in a briefing on Wednesday, said he accepts responsibility for the consequences that may result from the use of the drugs.

Chloroquine, and a related derivative, hydroxychloroquine, have gained attention for the treatment of the deadly coronavirus, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says there’s no definitive evidence they work.

Governor Muhammed said, from personal experience, he believes the drugs are effective and advised health personnel to ignore warnings from health experts abroad.

Muhammed was Bauchi’s index COVID-19 patient but has fully recovered after treatment.

Emilia Clarke suffered two life-threatening strokes while filming Game Of Thrones

"I asked the medical staff to let me die."

Emilia Clarke suffered two life threatening strokes while filming Game Of Thrones. 

The actor, who plays Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO series, said that she suffered the first of the subarachnoid hemorrhages (SAH) after she finished filming the show's first series.

Penning an emotive piece for The New Yorker, Clarke said she was training in the gym when she felt as if "an elastic band were squeezing my brain."

One third of people die from the specific type of stroke she was experiencing.

"Meanwhile, the pain of shooting, stabbing, constricting pain was getting worse," she wrote. "At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged."

"As I later learned, about a third of SAH patients die immediately or soon thereafter. For the patients who do survive, urgent treatment is required to seal off the aneurysm, as there is a very high risk of a second, often fatal bleed.

"If I was to live and avoid terrible deficits, I would have to have urgent surgery. And, even then, there were no guarantees."

Clarke said that she later remembers signing a release form for brain surgery. After the procedure, she endured an "unbearable" pain that stopped her from recalling her own name.

One month later, she left the hospital to return to work - to film the second series of Game Of Thrones.

The entire time, she was living with the knowledge that another aneurysm on the other side of her brain could "pop at any time."

“I’d never experienced fear like that — a sense of doom closing in," she wrote. "I could see my life ahead, and it wasn’t worth living. I am an actor; I need to remember my lines. Now I couldn’t recall my name.

“In my worst moments, I wanted to pull the plug. I asked the medical staff to let me die. My job—my entire dream of what my life would be—centered on language, on communication. Without that, I was lost.”

Clarke experienced her second life threatening stroke following filming of the show's third season. She said that this time the recovery was far worse and that the pain was far more unbearable.

"I looked as though I had been through a war more gruesome than any that Daenerys experienced," she said.

"I emerged from the operation with a drain coming out of my head.

"Bits of my skull had been replaced by titanium. These days, you can’t see the scar that curves from my scalp to my ear, but I didn’t know at first that it wouldn’t be visible."

Clarke wrote that now, her health is "at one hundred percent." She said that she felt compelled to tell her story because she survived - and because of the gratitude she has for those who helped her.

"There is something gratifying, and beyond lucky, about coming to the end of Thrones," she finished.

"I’m so happy to be here to see the end of this story and the beginning of whatever comes next."

You can read Clarke's piece in full here. 

The plague of unemployment

Unemployment is one of the major issues affecting Nigeria’s economy and its society. The rate of unemployment has increased during the last few years due to the fallout from the economic challenges. Out of a total active labour force of 85.08 million people in Nigeria, about 16 million people were unemployed in the third quarter of 2017. This was contained in a report on Labour Force Statistics in the third quarter of 2017 published on the National Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS) website.

The report said the category of unemployed persons comprised 8.5 million people “who engaged in an economic activity for at least an hour” and 7.5 million people “who did absolutely nothing.” Also, 18.02 million people were underemployed, as they worked for 20 to 39 hours a week, which is less than the 40 hours required to be classified among the workforce. Unemployment is not just a matter of facts and figures. Individual dramas are the result, for this plague strikes people—men, women, and youths of every social class. And, since stable, meaningful work contributes greatly to feelings of personal worth, imagine the devastating effect of unemployment on those who are disabled, unskilled, or older in years.

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), an unemployed person is one who is without work, is prepared to work, and is actively looking for work. But what about a person who does not have a permanent full-time job or one who manages to work just a few hours a week? Part-time work is considered differently from one country to another. In certain nations some who in reality are unemployed are officially counted as employed. Ill-defined situations between employment and unemployment make it difficult to determine who really is unemployed, and for this reason statistics describe only part of the reality. Psychologists find that among today’s unemployed, psychiatric and psychological problems are increasing, as well as emotional instability, frustration, progressive apathy, and loss of self-respect. When a person with children to care for loses a job, it is a terrible personal tragedy. The world has collapsed around them. Security has evaporated. Today, in fact, some experts note the emergence of an “anticipatory anxiety” related to the possibility of losing one’s job. This anxiety can seriously affect family relations and can have even more tragic results, as recent suicides of unemployed persons may indicate. Furthermore, the difficulty of breaking into the labor market is among the probable causes of violence and social alienation of young people.

How does unemployment affect youths? After a survey was conducted by a department of education and science, this observation was made: “One of the main external confirmations that adulthood had been reached was the attainment of full-time employment, which signalled the beginning of ‘real’ adult life, in an adult world and on adult terms, with concomitant financial independence.” So if it is felt that employment signals the beginning of real adult life, unemployment could be devastating to youths.

Mental attitude important
The situation is not necessarily as bad as some news reports indicate. If you are looking for a job, an adjustment in mental attitude toward employment may be what is needed. Of course, it is not wrong to seek the kind of job you find interesting. But when you cannot find such work, your employment situation is not necessarily hopeless. Other work that you can do is usually available; you may need only to adjust your thinking. Do not hesitate to go into another field of work, even though it is considered menial by the standards of some people.

The inclination of many persons has been to look down on a job if a person gets his hands dirty and wears “work clothes.” A youth, pointing out why certain jobs had gone begging, said: “People just don’t want them. Most of them are hard manual jobs.” But when persons get used to the physical work, it can often contribute to improved health.

Of course, false pride may cause some persons to view certain occupations as beneath their dignity. For example, when a good-paying job as a chauffeur was offered an unemployed film director, his wife made him refuse it. But does a person really benefit himself by allowing pride to keep him from offering legitimate services from which others can benefit? Particularly when jobs are scarce it is wise to analyze what we might be able to offer that others need and will pay for. If you are one of the millions who have lost their jobs, make adjustments. For instance, do work for yourself that, when employed, you had others do for you, such as perhaps automobile repairs, repairs around the home, and so forth. Cut down your budget immediately; do not assume that you will be back at regular work soon. Even if you have not been laid off from work, consider: If I were dismissed next week, could I handle my debts? If not, immediately begin to reduce the debts, denying yourself so as to pay off bills while you still have an income.

Finally, reappraise your work habits. Ask yourself: Do I have enthusiasm for my job and do I work at it with diligence? Is my work of good quality? Do I arrive early, and avoid wasting time? By putting forth real effort to be a good worker you may avoid losing your job. But even if you should be laid off, these fine qualities will help you to obtain other employment.

(Majority of this write-up (specifically from the fifth paragraph to the end) was culled from Awake! magazine, published by Jehovah’s Witnesses – with permission requested).
Ighakpe wrote from Lagos.

Source:

https://guardian.ng/opinion/the-plague-of-unemployment/

SPURS STARS WINS GOLD CUP

Son Heung-min: Tottenham star avoids national service following Asian Cup gold

By Euan McKirdy, CNN

South Korea's Son Heung-min, left, duels for the ball against Japan's Teruki Hara during Saturday's match.

Son Heung-min: Tottenham star avoids national service following Asian Cup gold

By Euan McKirdy, CNN

Updated at 1513 GMT (2313 HKT) September 1, 2018

South Korea's Son Heung-min, left, duels for the ball against Japan's Teruki Hara during Saturday's match.

(CNN) — England Premier League star Son Heung-min won't have to do national service and instead can see out his contract with Tottenham Hotspur uninterrupted after South Korea won gold in the Asian Games final against Japan.

The 26-year-old Spurs forward and his South Korea teammates secured their exemptions with the 2-1 win in extra time over regional rivals Japan at Indonesia's Pakan Sari Stadium outside Jakarta Saturday night local time (Saturday morning ET).

Any South Korean athletes who win Olympic medals or Asian Games titles are exempt from the usual military conscription, and Son set up both Korean goals to help capture his and his teammates' dispensations Saturday.

Son Heung-min: Tottenham star avoids national service following Asian Cup gold

By Euan McKirdy, CNN

Updated at 1513 GMT (2313 HKT) September 1, 2018

South Korea's Son Heung-min, left, duels for the ball against Japan's Teruki Hara during Saturday's match.

(CNN) — England Premier League star Son Heung-min won't have to do national service and instead can see out his contract with Tottenham Hotspur uninterrupted after South Korea won gold in the Asian Games final against Japan.

The 26-year-old Spurs forward and his South Korea teammates secured their exemptions with the 2-1 win in extra time over regional rivals Japan at Indonesia's Pakan Sari Stadium outside Jakarta Saturday night local time (Saturday morning ET).

Any South Korean athletes who win Olympic medals or Asian Games titles are exempt from the usual military conscription, and Son set up both Korean goals to help capture his and his teammates' dispensations Saturday.

After the first 90 minutes ended 0-0, South Korea opened the scoring three minutes into extra time. Son dribbled in the penalty area and knocked the ball to avoid a defender, allowing teammate Lee Seungwoo to run onto it and drill it into the net.

In the 101st minute, Hawang Hee Chan headed home Son's corner to make it 2-0.

Japan's Ayase Ueda scored later from a header, but the Koreans held on, with a grinning Son embracing his teammates at the final whistle.

The victory for Son and his teammates added to the Korean medal tally, bringing it to 49 golds at the games, the third highest total for this edition of the tournament, after Japan and table-topping China.

Under the country's law, all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 35 are required to perform at least 21 months of military service. The Defense Ministry has pledged to reduce the term to 18 months by 2020.

Source. CNN 

Salah⚡ 100% Fit✅ Start👍 for Egypt

Mohamed Salah is in line to start Egypt’s opening game of World Cup 2018 against Uruguay, with Hector Cuper “100 per cent” confident the Liverpool forward is over a shoulder injury.

With Egypt resting much of their ambition on the shoulders of a talismanic presence who fired them to a first finals in 28 years, they are understandably keen for him to be involved as much as possible.

National team coach Cuper told reporters on the progress being made by his star turn: “Salah is doing very well indeed, he's recovered very quickly. We'll see how it goes today. I can almost assure you 100 per cent he'll play. We’re trying to make him feel confident. The doctors are giving him the option to play or not. I know him very well, and I’m sure he’s not afraid. A risk of playing a match is something we can’t hide. In terms of him on the pitch, he’ll have full guarantees. If we do see at the last minute there’s an issue, we’ll see if it can be resolved.”

*Pickford: 🔈"I'm Better Than DDG⭐ Was At This Stage"

Everton and England star Jordan Pickford considers himself to be a better goalkeeper than David de Gea was at the same stage of his career.

Two men readying themselves for World Cup duty with their respective countries are now established members of the Premier League elite.

“This is only my second season in the Premier League. It took De Gea a while and I don’t think it has taken me that long to get to this level.

He added: “[Manue] Neuer is one I really admire because he plays the role in his own way. You have got to play it your own way but he takes it to the next level the way he plays.

“But when I was younger, it was always [Joe] Hart I looked up to. They’re the ones who have got experience but I am always learning and always wanting to improve