austushi1:

What if he does it alone? Is it their brain he used to get d findings? Its envy! Let's say it d way it is. Black man no dey like make him fellow black man rise above am! They are probably envious of him dat the U.S government might take him abroad n expand his levels, n then make him popular. U kw hw it is now; how dis common prof wey we sit 2geda discuss say make dem give am prof go come popular worldwide n we go come remain here. Its d black man reasoning! Black man with black sense! They just want to discredit dat mans effort! That's y d whites will ever be better than us. Its so annoying! Ok, y didn't they get 1 HIV patient, pass d vaccine into his/her systen, then see if it works or not! F..king procedure! Procedure my foot! Prof, bone dem make u continue with ya life ojare!

chymystique: I Dunnoo Y Most.Lecturers Are Badbelles.. Dey r Veri Envious Of EacH odas Progress....

agi-tuedor:

We're talking of a prof here, mister! What makes u think he will make such claims without clinical tests? Knowing what it can do to his integrity if he was found wrong... The bottomline is, there's something fishy here....i'm in UNIBEN, I know how they reason.

born2fuck: The entire UNIBEN should be lock in prison, when I have been rejoicing for an end of fear of fucking without Condom, you bring in Yeye Denouncing story.....God go denied all of una for heaven

austushi1:

What if he does it alone? Is it their brain he used to get d findings? Its envy! Let's say it d way it is. Black man no dey like make him fellow black man rise above am! They are probably envious of him dat the U.S government might take him abroad n expand his levels, n then make him popular. U kw hw it is now; how dis common prof wey we sit 2geda discuss say make dem give am prof go come popular worldwide n we go come remain here. Its d black man reasoning! Black man with black sense! They just want to discredit dat mans effort! That's y d whites will ever be better than us. Its so annoying! Ok, y didn't they get 1 HIV patient, pass d vaccine into his/her systen, then see if it works or not! F..king procedure! Procedure my foot! Prof, bone dem make u continue with ya life ojare!

agi-tuedor:
Does he need approval from the College to carry out independent research? So, make he carry dem along so that at the end na we go dey hear different stories. All na politics, abeg!

acidosis™:


Sorry but thats the way it is...right from creation. Prof is a civil servant.. someone pays him! He's a servant working under authority! He has no right whatsoever to carry out such research in isolation.

If he must do it alone.. Fine! He can willingly resign and then, set up a private research laboratory... Remember, even the private labs are under authority.. There are regulations in the pharmaceutical/pharmacological sector (B.P)

Obinnau: its not envy mister. Actually they are right, protocols need to be observed. But they should have made the matter an in-house têtê-a-têtê.

Siga: There is no envy or bad belle here at all....Prof. u suppose follow procedure now....play by the rules of ur employers....and besides....where the trials wey u carry out before announcing this break through.... if this works...u are made whichever way Prof....no need to box all man out...

obyrich:

YOU need to cure yourself of slave mentality. What's wrong with him partnering with a Nigerian Pharmaceutical company in the manufacturing of the drugs? Do you think the US will recognize him if he is not properly registered with NAFDAC and the WHO? The prof's problem is sheer greed! He would prefer to answer Mr-know-it-all at the expense of millions of people living with AIDS who would benefit from the drug if he had carried others along and gotten proper approval

chreld_b:


Some peoples ignorance baffles me. What is bad belle in the statement made by the provost for christ's sake? He said the institution is not in agreement with Professor Ibehs claim FOR NOW!!!!! reason being because the university was not carried along meaning that some protocols have to be observed in order to verify the claims made by the scientist. For some reason some people have misconstrued that statement to mean that Prof Ibeh did not bribe the "University cabal". Some of you on this nairaland are just a big temptation. It's like You want people to insult you for refusing to use your brains. What responsible institution will back a staff member for claims that have no proof? If so research or academic staff of the institution can come out and claim they have discovered how to get to heaven or El dorado and the University should back them up because the individual is a staff member. Common people use ya head!! The provost even took the time to explain that the school would like to take credit for the discovery claim but cannot because laid down protocols have not been followed which include clinical trials, informing the federal ministry of health, NAFDAC, WHO e.t.c. What else do you expect the school to do? And for those saying it is non of the University's business because it is a personal research your ignorance can be pardoned. But however, you must know that any scientific Journal that the findings are published in will have the University of Benin as the academic institution where the research was carried out. Also any funding that has been and will be derived for the research was and will be granted as a result of the knowledge that the University of Benin was and will be serving as a form of guarantor to provide facilities and support where the research will be carried out. I hope my points are well understood.

mumumugu: Nigerians are in a rush. May be he just tested the mixtture on a rabit and it workd . Then he grabed the mic and made anouncement. He should have followd due proces

A-ZeD:

1)He used their equipments, he works for them and he used office hours to develop it.
2)You my friend are an ignorant fellow. How do you claim you can cure hiv when you've not done clinical trials? What are the side effects of the drug?
It's people like you who have no idea how things should work that are pulling this country back.

dreu2fine: Stupid naija,na so dem do abalaka

Umm Rumy: Some comments on nairaland sef. If he had carried them along his findings would hav nt sn d light of day. Most of u r nt in d naija university system so u dt know how they kill dreams there.

obyrich:

YOU need to cure yourself of slave mentality. What's wrong with him partnering with a Nigerian Pharmaceutical company in the manufacturing of the drugs? Do you think the US will recognize him if he is not properly registered with NAFDAC and the WHO? The prof's problem is sheer greed! He would prefer to answer Mr-know-it-all at the expense of millions of people living with AIDS who would benefit from the drug if he had carried others along and gotten proper approval

Minister, NACA DG, others call for caution, as don claims ‘cure’ for HIV

FOLLOWING the announcement by Prof. Isaiah Ibeh of the University of Benin of a ‘cure’ for HIV/AIDS, which he yesterday laid claim to, experts in the science and health sector are calling for caution, as the announcement of a vaccine breakthrough is a more serious business.

Minister of State for Health, Muhammad Pate, Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Prof. John Idoko and former Vice President of Canada-based World Federation of Science Journalists, Diran Onifade all queried the scientific protocol followed in arriving in the ‘cure’.

Prof Ibeh of the University of Benin, had on Tuesday announced the development of a new drug which he claimed could cure HIV and AIDS.

Ibeh, dean of the School of Basic Medical Sciences of the university, claimed in at a news conference in Benin that the herbal drug had undergone ‘a series of successful tests’’.

He was quoted as saying, “we are at the threshold of making history, in the sense that we seem to have with us something that will permanently take care of what over time seems to have defied all solutions. We are talking about the latest discovery of an oral drug made from plants extraction in Nigeria for the possible cure for the pandemic, HIV and AIDS virus.”

He said the research on the project was started in 2010 and culminated in the development of “Deconcotion X (DX)–Liquid or Bioclean 11 for the cure of HIV and AIDS”.

“The existing retroviral drugs are intervention drugs for the management of AIDS but our new discovery is a possible cure. We have tried to look at the product first; its toxicological analysis and discovered that it has a large safety margin.

“This means that if animals or human beings are exposed to it, they will not suffer any serious harm at all from the exposure. It also helped us to know the quantity we can conveniently give to animals and will feel secure that nothing untoward will happen.

“We have also done the bacteriological analysis on it, after which we looked at its effect on the virus and the result was quite revealing and refreshing.’’

Ibeh also said that the drug had been exposed to series of medical examination both in Nigeria and in the U.S.A. He added that the drug had performed well on patients with the HIV virus and had shown evidence of total restoration of damaged tissues.”

Pate told The Guardian, “I also saw this latest claim of cure for HIV in the media. As you know there are well established standards required of evidence to support claims in orthodox medicine regarding new technologies, treatments or processes. I am not aware of the evidence behind this latest claim.

“If the scientist making this claim wishes to take this further constructively there are established fora and avenues for doing so, the FMOH’s NIPRID, NIMR and NAFDAC are each ready to appropriately support indigenous Nigerian scientists, who have something to offer.

Obinnau: its not envy mister. Actually they are right, protocols need to be observed. But they should have made the matter an in-house têtê-a-têtê.