OAU RECEIVES $2M FOR CANCER RESEARCH
source: http://www.eyesoflagos.com/2017/05/oau-receives-2m-for-cancer-research.html

The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has been awarded the sum of two million dollars ($2m) by the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) in the United States, for research into the treatment of the disease.
This was made known by the head of a visiting team of medical researchers from the (CRI), Dr. Peter Kingham, during a courtesy call on the acting Vice-Chancellor, ProfTony Elujoba, to appreciate the university administration for the backing given to cancer researchers at the College of Health Sciences in the quest to find a permanent yet affordable cure for cancer.
A release by the public relations officer of the university, Abiodun Olarewaju, stated that Dr. Kingham, who expressed elation at the growing relationship between CRI and the OAU Medical College, noted that the synergy actually began in 2010 with a ten (10) year plan which surprisingly was attained within a few years.
He further commended the commitment and dexterity of their colleagues at the Obafemi Awolowo University, saying the team is delighted to be collaborating with very passionate and hardworking professionals who are determined to leave no stone unturned in the initiative to find cure to one of the leading causes of death in the world today.
Welcoming the CRI delegation, the Vice-Chancellor, was thankful to the American institute for the philanthropic gesture, assuring them that the donation would be judiciously utilized.
Professor Elujoba challenged the researchers not relent in their efforts to find a permanent cure for cancer, which has hitherto defied cure, adding that the team should work assiduously toward making people seek help early enough instead of resorting to other means that would compound or worsen their conditions.
While speaking the Provost of the College of Health Sciences, Professor Adesegun Fatusi, said the visit of the CRI delegation to the University is to further cement the research-and-training relationship that was established in 2010 with a view to helping mankind live well and long enough.
He seized the opportunity of the visit to again appreciate the donor, CRI (US), for the confidence reposed in Obafemi Awolowo University Medical College researchers, promising that the funds will be prudently spent.
The medical team from CRI (US) led by Dr. Kingham included: Jesse Joshua Smith; Brooke Sylvester; Peter Ntiamoah; Liz Sutton; Cynthia Thornton; and Paula Garcia.
In a related development, the university administration has commended members of the Ife Ooye OAU Alumni of North America, a group of Ife indigenes who graduated from the Obafemi Awolowo University Medical College, for their medical missions to the Ife Township and the campus community in particular.
The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, Dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi, who gave this commendation while speaking at a dinner in honour of the visiting alumni group, asserted that the university is proud that the alumni have kept the flag of the university flying as worthy ambassadors.

My professors don hammer

today is my birthday show me some love guys

Hope they will make judicious use of the money for which is meant for.

I hope it well utilized

Good if it will be utilised like the biblical 5 loaf of bread n 2 fishes not like buhari "assume" returned/recovered loots wey nobody don see where it entered..

Sg

HOPE DEY WONT BUHARI(HIDE) THE MONEY

Oba Awon unifersity

Title research, if get am dede, if no get am dede all your request will be followed..

Lovely!

ok




Make dem use am rightly..

Impressive

Good one for Nigerian Universities

vesselchino:
today is my birthday show me some love guys

Go Take this one jolly

Nkechi is coming with a botu of star "lite"

Let's see the outcome then

Owo oooo. Wetin Man no go hear self

Impressive hun? Maybe. It will never be a surprise to me if the money is mismanaged. These professors will collect the money and then give the research work to the Masters students to do it. Fantastic right? Well yes. But the problem is these students will spend their money and also be spent on the research without any access to the $2m. At the end of the good work, all glory will go to the professors and worse part of the story is by the time the work is to be published, the names of these students will be found wanting.

Naso we dey hear...at d end of d day, they will come up with nothing.

Na so so chop dem go chop am....Nigerians maani no be americans

Money that will be spent on frivolities and carry oloshos

This makes sense

waste, make my word. Na my school, I sabi them wella

Cancer is nothing but a deficiency of Vitamins B17 which is found in abundance in Apricot seeds.

But that won't bring money to Pharma, would it?

This is the kind of initiative anybody who claims to help Africans should engage in. Assist Africa in scientific research and development and we would find the solution to the many problems we face. Only then shall the development they talk about come- development will only come when we begin discovering our problems ourselves, solving our problems by ourselves.

I bet u,professors re going to sit on dat money,