Shockwaves are reverberating across Yorùbáland and the global Yorùbá diaspora following the sudden death of the Baba Ọba (King’s Father) of the famed Oyotunji African Village in South Carolina, USA. The late Baba Ọba, Lukman Arohunfale, a revered socialite and traditionalist, passed away under circumstances already sparking fierce controversy. His death comes just days after he publicly accused the newly installed Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty Oba Akeem Adéyẹmọ Owoade, of allegedly ordering his courtiers to beat him mercilessly during a recent courtesy visit to the Oyo palace in Nigeria. In a widely circulated voice recording, the deceased recounted how what was meant to be a simple homage turned violent. Although the Baba Ọba had reportedly battled ill health in the past year, growing insinuations suggest that the alleged physical assault may have aggravated his condition, ultimately leading to his untimely death. The palace in Oyo recently denied that s...
A new piece of bone grown in a lab was successfully implanted into a man’s broken shin, Israeli doctors have announced, in what they said was the first operation of its kind.
The 44-year-old patient, who had broken his shin bone in a bicycle accident, had initially undergone an
operation to repair the damage by having a nail inserted into the bone, but the hole still remained, doctor
Nimrod Rozen said at the Haemek hospital in northern Israel.
The bone tissue was cultured using the patient’s own stem cells, taken from fat tissue, said Shai Meretzki, the
head of Bonus Biogroup which carried out the process.
It took only two weeks to grow the new bone tissue, which
was then inserted into the man’s shin.
Meretzki said surgeons wrapped muscle fibres around the new bone tissue segment to help stabilise it.
He said within two months it had developed into normal bone and bonded to the surrounding shin bone,
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