 Welcome back and let's move straight into today in history, the 23rd of April many years ago. I'm actually just going back to two years ago in 2019 and sharing with you one of the breakthroughs or attempts rather to reduce the number of deaths caused by malaria here in Africa. Figures have showed that about 400,000 on the average die every year from malaria. It was on this day that a malaria vaccine pilot was launched in Malawi. The World Health Organization welcomed the government of Malawi's launch of its first malaria vaccine. The country at that time was first of three in Africa in which the vaccine known as RTSS was made available to children up to two years of age. It of course like I said remains one of the world's leading killers claiming the life of one child every two minutes. Most of these deaths are in Africa where more than 250,000 children die from the disease every year and worldwide it kills about 400,000 plus people every year most of them of course are children. The WHO coordinated pilot program was a collaborative effort with ministries of health in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi and a range of in-country and international partners including PATH which is a non-profit organization. It of course aims to reach about 360,000 children per year across these countries. So besides Malawi it also still did launch in Kenya and in Ghana and was according to the trial results back then was able to solve malaria cases in four out of 10 cases. This was just in 2019 I believe that there's still going to be more developments to this vaccine and you know we'll be able to increase from four to maybe eight or 10 cases out of 10 that the vaccine can help solve. So it's definitely good news. Yes yes yes and we really need this vaccine we really need this I mean I just I remember treating malaria still suffering from the effects of that all the injections and I even realized that injections could hurt you know your back side so bad like causing the swelling and a lot of that really yeah I didn't realize that until I called my doctor and I'm like what's happening is like this has happened so there's so much you know when it comes to malaria it's it kills a lot of people in Nigeria in Africa we need a vaccine and we need a fast. I wonder why I wonder see I was I was you know just thinking the other day you know coronavirus just just happened recently and we have a vaccine now and malaria we've been suffering from malaria for many years but really when you look at it it's not up to the western nations to provide the vaccine for you we need to invest in research you know we're talking about Glasgow Smith Klein and all this other you know multinationals and you know these big pharma companies we need to invest in research how can we solve African problems by Africans you know you should not wait for them to solve it for you because they don't have malaria over there so you need to solve your problem and we need a fast. Well there's also a lot of factors that have made it difficult to handle and that is also with the infrastructure across Africa you know malaria and mosquitoes rather thrive in you know our climate a lot better we have a lot of stagnant water around here also and then so some of all those factors have made it difficult for us to actually deal with malaria. But these are things that we can actually address. Yeah absolutely but you know we need to get to that level of development for us. You find mosquito nets that should be free you go to the market to see them they write not for sale but they're telling you it's too key. Yeah well you know so. I and it's for a lot of people it is shocking when they see these figures of what malaria does to the world every year 400,000 250,000 children every year in Africa when we grew up we saw I grew up you know with the mentality that malaria was just one of those things you have once a year or two every two years and it just comes in goals you know it was when I started to you know of course get all this I realized I don't know yes and I know people who have died from taking fake malaria medication it's it's that bad anyway let's go to some light-hearted news now 2005 this day in history April 23rd that was when the first ever video was published on youtube it was published by the co-founder of youtube his name is Jawed Karim he posted the video at around 8 31 p.m and it was a video of him at the zoo so he just titled it me at the zoo uploaded a video on youtube and of course people would say the quality of the video was poor and all of that but this was the first ever video remember published on youtube and right now youtube has gone on to become the second most popular search engine in the world I mean many people use youtube you know people use youtube for for advertisements lots of businesses use youtube you know 37 percent of all mobile internet traffic belongs to youtube and we know that in 2006 just a year later uh google actually acquired youtube for the sum of 1.665 billion dollars the total revenue of youtube came up to 151.1 billion dollars for the full year of 2019 lots of money lots of money is made on youtube lots of money you know they have youtube as youtube influencers and it as much as 3800 almost 4 000 you know dollars per video the highest earner on the youtube platform in 2019 is a youtuber called Ryan Kaji he raked in 26 million dollars from youtube if you're an influencer if you if you have about 500 to 5000 subscribers you can charge you know for product advertisements you know and all of that lots of people discover new products on youtube I you know for one I watch lots of youtube content you know travel vlog lifestyle entertainment news politics and all of that so youtube really is is very big but in countries like Germany a large percentage of the most popular videos on youtube can't you know be viewed in those in that country I have no idea why and one of the most disliked videos on youtube funny enough is Justin Bieber's song baby has about 11 million dislikes and counting and one of the most highest viewed videos is a song of I think PDD and I can't remember the name of the song now Despacito yeah at some point it was PSY's Gangnam Style yeah no no no when it comes to Gangnam Style actually broke youtube's content border no no no that video made way there was nothing really about the video I think it was just the funny dance you know yeah because I really do even enjoy the dance or the song but you know it just broke all the records you know with regards to viewership the colorful video the colorful costume colorful videos and colorful costumes stop being a hater that video I mean you know this this really just tells you know the success of digital market and digital advertising you know and you know some three guys in 2005 decided to create what we you know today have is youtube and you know from there you know it became a billion dollar company and so it's a great story to tell but facebook funny enough remains the biggest when it comes to you know video sharing you know youtube comes next but most of the money to be made when it comes to digital content is on youtube absolutely all right that's what we have for you today in history um and we hope that you enjoyed our little bits of information we'll take a short break when we come back we're moving into Kaduna state there have been two abductions in the last 48 hours it's still conversations on security across the country and we're going to be speaking this morning with the commissioner for internal security samal out of one is joining us from kaduna state to share live updates on what's going on over there and you know what other bits that we need to know stay with us