The outbreak of this deadly disease called “Coronavirus” in Nigeria should not be used as an excuse to limit the potentials and abilities of the Nigeria students and lecturers. Each year, tertiary institutions which include universities, polytechnics, colleges of education e.t.c have produced thousands and thousands of graduates which they and the Nigerian community believe to have been grounded and fed deeply in their respective fields of study and also each year, tertiary institutions admit thousands of applicants to various courses mostly the science and its related courses. Going by the statistics of graduates, students and applicants of tertiary institutions in the country, it is being recorded that sciences, medical sciences and science related courses have the highest figure.


You call yourself a graduate or student of microbiology , biochemistry, medicine and surgery, pharmacy and other related science and medical courses and you come out to join fellow Nigerians to criticize our government when you are suppose to be brainstorming for ideas and ways to stop the spread and cure of Coronavirus in the country.


You call yourself a student of those aforementioned courses and you are running home over fear of Coronavirus, you call yourself a scientist-to-be or a doctor-to-be and you are busy joining those who are not in your field to share posts about the virus and how to prevent one's self from it which was gotten from scientists in advanced countries when you suppose to be the one researching for cure to the disease. You are clearly telling those advanced countries that our educational system is a waste of time, that we have nothing to offer in times like this, that our universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and research institutes are useless in bringing out problem-solving graduates and students. Our lecturers and professors who are the ones impacting the knowledge in us and claiming to be a specialist in those fields are in their respective houses instead of coming together to look for a way or ways to fight this disease out of the country. They are all fighting for their bellies and going on strike while the virus is busy spreading at a faster rate in the country and eating-up the economy of the country.

If our lecturers, acclaimed doctorates and professors in all our science fields in out tertiary institutions in the country cannot standup to curtain the disease in the country, who are we the students who do not have in-depth knowledge and experience about our respective disciplines to do so?. We Nigerians believe that since our family members are not infected with the virus then its none of our business. Its non of your business and each day, we read and see the country is record new suspected cases in which some test positive and some test negative of the disease. Everyone is living in fear, the country is shutting down borders, stopping gatherings in public places, placing a curfew because we do not know who next might contact the disease. This suppose to be the time our scientists, students of sciences and its related courses, lecturers, professors, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries owned by Nigerians are to be working endlessly to stop the spread of this disease across the country by coming up with vaccines and cures for Coronavirus.


China, which happened to be the first country to be struck by the disease are working hard to reduce the impact of the disease to the minimum level as a result of the efforts been put in by their government and citizens which comprises of their scientists, biotechnology laboratories, pharmaceutical industries, students and lecturers. Other countries like Australia, Canada, Russia, Italy e.t.c are putting in place adequate and active manpower to help curtail the spread of the disease and reduce its mortality rate in their country. But here in Nigeria, our government is busy talking about their political ambitions thereby neglecting the priority thing of the country. If that’s how the Chinese, Canadians, Australians, Americans, Arabians e.t.c are doing to their country, do u think they would be able to fight the pandemic in their various countries?. The Nigerian scientists and science researchers are keeping our hands crossed expecting the advanced countries to come up with a cure when we have more than enough scientists and laboratories to do that in the country.

I am not disputing the fact that we have a government that are not ready to finance and upgrade our tertiary institutions and research laboratories to a standard one but we could at least lend a hand to the outside world, not by sitting and expecting the virus to fight itself out of the country. If students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka can produce hand sanitizers with little or no assistance from their lecturers despite the disappointing infrastructural condition of our tertiary institutions what is then stopping the Nigerian students from finding a cure to the virus?, what is stopping our lecturers and professors from using their various acquired knowledge and skill to develop a vaccine or antidote for the said disease called Coronavirus?

Those advance countries which we place in high regard tag us as an underdeveloped country filled with citizens who are brilliant in engaging in social vices but cannot use their brilliant mind to better their country. Why can't we go the traditional way since we do not have the modern and advanced equipment to engage in research and find a cure to the virus?, what is stopping us from going back to experiment on those herbs and tradomedicine which we deem local and sometimes unscientific to the modern world but actually have those chemical compositions which we seek in those modern drugs which we waste money on?. I am not in any way advertising for those tradomedical companies nor trying to speak bad about modern medicines but to challenge all of us, students, lecturers and professors of tertiary institutions across the country, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies owned by Nigerians to raise up and find a cure to this virus before it becomes a thing that would be difficult to contend as the day goes by.

Also, Nigerians should try to encourage and support whosoever comes up with an idea to curtail the virus because it is not easy for one to think and research for ways to fight or stop something dangerous from happening and in return receive negative response I’m the form of insults and discouraging words to degrade the person's work or rate the person’s idea useless knowing fully well that you have nothing to offer in helping the situation at hand.

Nigerians are always advising our bright minds in the country to travel out and seek for for greener pastures outside the country because we think the country does not have what it takes to raise those bright minds to the level they suppose to be. It is true we do not get enough encouragement after doing good things for our country but that does not mean relocating to another country would bring you out to limelight, that relocating to another country will make the world see your potentials or give you monetary rewards because you have something unique to add to their economy or country., instead it makes you look like one who is not in love with watch he or she is good at, it makes you look like one who does not have his or her country in mind, it makes you look like one who is just after the praises and not the solution of the problem.


If our country is in chaos, we all as citizens will take a share from its negative effect. If our economy crashes because of our “I don’t care” attitude towards growing it then we will all suffer its consequences when the time comes. If citizens of those advanced countries which we are praising today are behaving the same way we Nigerians are behaving, if they relocated to other countries to develop it rather than developing theirs, they will not be where they are today.


I am not using this as a means of trending online, getting likes, followers or promoting to any brand or company but to challenge the Nigerian community most especially students, graduates, lecturers, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies owned by Nigerians all over the world to raise up and prove to the world that we are the giants of Africa, to prove to the world that we are not that underdeveloped country which they think we are, to prove to the world that the Nigerian educational system is not a constraint in bringing out the best from the Nigerian community, to prove to the world that we can be a developed country which China, America, Russia, Germany and other developed countries are, to prove to the world that our leaders are not an excuse to putting our nation on the map of pacesetters and amongst ground-breaking countries, to prove to the world that our sciences courses, students and lecturers of those science courses in the country have what it takes to find a cure to this disease which have found its way to our country.
God bless Nigeria.

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