ghettodreamz: Oga ooooooo..

Nigerians are we moving forward or backward?

Hatred and enviousness will never take us anywhere.

I'm damm sure, that man must have actually discovered the cure to the pandemic disease but who cares? In a country where hatred, enviousness, bitterness and individual researchers are not attuned to making decisions or discoveries on their own,the pace of scientific inventions, medical research discoveries integration and development/improvement of human's health system would be slowed down if not completely defeated.

I cry for NIGERIA

Laitesmart: What if the remedy to AIDS and Cancer is actually in an individual that has never learnt to read and write?

A-ZeD:

Dude please!!!!!

When people realise there are rules and regulations to be followed.

Got threatened by who?

I'm pretty sure that lecturer is a dull headed fellow

IBB is no longer in power how come Dr Abalaka has not gone back to work?

Foolishness will never takes us anywhere. Did prof do any clinical trials? What are the side effects of the drug?

Whobedatte: Now, If the UNIBEN have supported his claims outrightly as some people suggest, wouldn't they have gotten their fingers burnt and embarrassed as an academic institution? Thinks the Prof is 'greedy' here, (1st) for not followiing the protocol & besides making claims of a cure for the dreaded disease .

talktimi: the man isn't interested in research anymore, refused an interview with vanguard newspapers some yrs back that's whr I found out he's into ice block sales now. And I repeat the professor should have revealed his research findings properly and not like a road side pharmacist.

smartg :
Weda u like it or not, there's cure for HIV/AIDS, and this man had just found one, but nobody believed him

kandiikane: Maybe, just maybe he actually found the cure, heck maybe many found the cure but got threatened. O_o

Chino_anyi: some 1 some were just pulled dis prof down i swear, dis guy found d cure may b, but some body up dier does nt want him to chop

talktimi: the man isn't interested in research anymore, refused an interview with vanguard newspapers some yrs back that's whr I found out he's into ice block sales now. And I repeat the professor should have revealed his research findings properly and not like a road side pharmacist.

Excel23:
he was commanded to stay away from hiv/aids research

Excel23:
he was commanded to stay away from hiv/aids research

ypzilanti:

Believe this and you'll believe anything. If you have a discovery, you patent it, then send it to a reputable journal for publication, and to be reviewed by your peers. That is the process by which discoveries are made. Are you aware that there are many so-called cures that never make it to human use because of deadly side effects? These are all the things that are addressed by the peer review and clinical trials. Abeg make we hear word. The prof knows all this...he is just looking for cheap popularity. I hope they sanction him as example to others.

kingofhiphop101: THE ONLY TIME A CURE FOR HIV AIDS WILL BE ENDORSED BY OUR SO CALLD UNIVERSITIES IS WHEN IT COMES FROM EUROPE.
AS LONG AS "THE CURE" IS THE PRODUCT OF AFRICA OR A BLACK MAN BASED IN AFRICA, OUR PROFFESSORS, AKADEMITIANS AND OTHER BRAINWASHED AFRICANS WILL LABEL "THE CURE" AND ITS PRODUCER AS FAKE, ILLITERATE, HUNGRY MAN, ROADSIDE PHARMACIST, 419, etc

kingofhiphop101: SORRY, ypzilanti BUT ARE YU AWARE THAT MOST OF THE DRUGS THAT MAKE IT TO HUMAN USE, HAVE THEIR DEADLY SIDE EFFECTS TOO??

ypzilanti:

Believe this and you'll believe anything. If you have a discovery, you patent it, then send it to a reputable journal for publication, and to be reviewed by your peers. That is the process by which discoveries are made. Are you aware that there are many so-called cures that never make it to human use because of deadly side effects? These are all the things that are addressed by the peer review and clinical trials. Abeg make we hear word. The prof knows all this...he is just looking for cheap popularity. I hope they sanction him as example to others.

ypzilanti:

Make we hear word. Our indigenous professors send works for publishing in major journals of the world all the time. Many are invited to present their studies in symposiums abroad. Many are invited as guest lecturers. The truth is that those that are very good eventually get job offers from abroad. The dollar rules, and you cannot blame foreign institutions for paying good professors what they are worth. For instance, if this professor had passed through the right channels to publish his work and it was looking promising, I assure you that before the end of the year many of the top 10 Universities in the world would have made offers to him. That is the way the system works: if you are shining the big boys want to work with you.

talktimi: This reminds me of Dr Abalaka in the 90s who was frustrated by the IBB regime over his alleged cure for HIV/AIDS, dude had to run to Zimbabwe whr he was sponsored by the Zimbabwean govt to work on his cure, IBB just placed a nice threatening call and our nice Dr was deported to Nigeria and his travelling documents seized. Right now I hear he's into ice block business in abuja.
Moral of the story is - the cure for hiv/aids will only come out when the powerful west wants it to come out.
Next time prof should do things in the proper way sha

sure way: A lecturer once explained to me "there is cure for HIV but it will create set back for many HIV/AIDS Awareness organisation"
perhab he found the cure..but you shud knw dis is naija.
dr ibeh at this moment of ur life l think you need security agents.

Excel23:
what if d university is not ready to get involved in anything concerning hiv/aids research, because they know the position they are meant to always occupy & also are aware of d consequency of disobedience?. I have dis strong conviction that dis african brother was made to eat back his claim forcefully/threatened by all mighty government, controlled and played like PS by oyingbo. I fear o. This "no good thing can ever come out of africa" view has to stop, but i don't see it happening with dis african leaders that take instructions from oyingbo, our RULERS that cannot protect their own, against intimidations. Oyingbo rules africa from their (oyingbo's) seat of power. I pity africa. Modern day colonization and slavery allowed by our RULERS

A-ZeD:
If funny how so many think you can just wake up and produce a drug. No wonder so many fake medicine in Nigeria...

For the uninformed... Medical research usually follows the following procedures when a "new cure" is found.
1) It is first tested on animals.(there is a thread here on Nairaland about blind mice regaining there sight. There researchers have not claimed to have found a cure for blindness)
2)After you test on animals, you report your findings
3)Conduct more research
4)Apply to relevant authorities to perform clinical trials. At this stage, you get human volunteers who are willing to test the new drugs.
Stage 4 is very important because this is where you get to decide the efficacy of the new drug. You check for side effects and other sorts of things like whether the new drug gives total cure or just suppresses the illness.
Clinical trial can take years to finish.

There is no point in releasing a drug that cures aids while giving the patient cancer. The uniben prof did not do clinical trials so how does he know the drug works?