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wirinet: This is mediocrity of the highest order. A whole president celebrating the making of tissue paper? or is there something they are not telling us? Maybe the tissue is self cleaning and so reusable.

To make ordinary Tissue paper is no rocket science and requires little effort. All you need is enough capital to buy made in china equipments and use imported paper pulp or waste paper that can be turned to pulp as raw materials. Don't forget, they would need a diesel generator to drive all the machines.

So what is so special about making tissue paper.

This only shows that the students are from wealthy parents who can throw away a few millions for the pet project of their children.

wirinet: i have always been against sending children to make money, that should be job of parents and guardians. Children should be children. They should be learning, playing and socializing. They have lots of time to make money when they become adults, especially if they had been adequately trained.

homesteady: it seems you don't even understand the concept of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)!
it you read my post well, you'll see where I said even polish and soap is accepted in this category, so far it is used for business!
For secondary students to be involved in SME's is even an added bonus to them! While Jobless university graduates are staying at home doing nothing, this children can be making tissue paper and making money with it!
BTW haven't you even seen graduates making bags, soaps and co? this is Micro, Small, and Medium
Enterprises (MSMEs)

urhoboman: I like the way nigerians are at alert on this Ebola issue. It cnt spread in nigeria.
I was having fever last two weeks, I cudnt say it out for my family to knw. Coz if u are ill at this Ebo era, u are a suspect. If u are not AGILE, all eyes on U. U nor go bold sick. #QUARANTINE!!!

lovito: It is not a matter of life and death, i know someone that did the same but it was after giving birth to all her children. Since u're still believing God for your own children why not build up your faith and go to MFM Prayer city you will surely have a testimony instead of going for hysterectomy.

Onegai: Dear nora544, you just made me weep and start checking for plane tickets

Oya mods! How about we change the title of this thread to:

AMERICA REPENTS OF GAY LAW, SAYS SALT, NANO-SILVER CURES EBOLA, ALL INFECTED PATIENTS NOW DISCHARGED WITH N1MILLION THANK YOU FEE, DOCTORS NOW DOING DANFO WORK AND ARE MISERABLE, BITTER-KOLA CURES MORTALITY SEF, NIGERIA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY HATERS GO AND DIE, UP GEJ!!

Will you finally move this thread to the front page, so we can hold a protest demanding all our governments do the right thing, before this virus spreads and we begin to sound and act like Liberians (breaking into hospitals to free patients) please?


Abeg.

carefreewannabe: So what if the economy is progressing?

There are still plenty of other countries investors prefer to do business with.

Nigeria has problems with terrorism and its infrastructure is not good enough. And now there is Ebola.

Having oil is OBVIOUSLY not enough to prosper. Nigeria is too risky for investors, especially since BH and Ebola.

VivaLaFrans: Ebola in the year 2000?

phantom: wow@ the bolded. unfortunately,nigerian citizens would rather be caught dead than allow nigerian doctors earn well.

MissMeiya: I've attended church service in Nigeria. Those pastors are extremely uneducated. Some of them call themselves "prophets". The entire "sermon" consists of reading a random, irrelevant passage from the Bible, and twisting it to mean that everyone should pay their tithes. I'm deadly serious. The man was mispronouncing and misunderstanding words in the text. And I've studied religious texts academically. I know what it was supposed to mean. I was shocked.

phantom: what country are you from
you can see the animals that are our parliament members in nigeria.

converting what nigerian senators earn into dollars is approximately $200,000/month. that is about obamas annual salary or the annual salary of an OBGYN consultant(attending physician)in the US.
is that not mad

MissMeiya: It's ironic that evangelical American style churches have taken over Nigeria, but those cult members curse the US at every opportunity.

MissMeiya: I actually have a friend who was arguing with me when I said Nigeria is the only place that practices tithing. He said it's a Catholic doctrine. -_-

Then he said my country is heathen, that's why no one even knows what tithing is here. -_-

Frankenstein: You must be obsessed with pastors. I checked out your posts and topics and it turned out almost all of them are about criticism against Nigerian pastors. I see you're an atheist trying to get some comfort by taking swipes at pastors.

THE PRODUCT

The Eight current products from the research work of pharm/Barrister Benjamin Amodu, manufactured by Halamin herbal products and certified by NAFDAC are:



1. SAAAB HERBAL CAPSULE 300MG

This is made from the proprietory blend of

Sesamum indicatum

Veronica amygdalina

Allium sativum

Amaranthus caudatus

Saccharanum officinarum

Aloe barbadensis

This product is a multi herbal preparation made from the above food materials that has total detoxifying, anti- oxidants effects and restoration of the normal functioning of the organs and body systems.

It is 100% natural dietary supplements derived from edible plants and food sources consumed for many centuries.

It is non toxic and no chemical additives added

WHY IT IS USED

This product is an immune booster believed to be incorporated with cytokines and chemokines, that leads to wellness and improve health status even in HIV/AIDS. The product is capable of killing virally infected cells with no damaging effect on the uninfected cells. It boosts immune systems to an unimaginable level.

USEFULNESS

· Treatment of malaria

· Management of stress/ sleep disorder

· Stabilization of hormonal imbalance

· cure for stomach ulcer

· Sickle cell disease management

· Improvement of appetite

· Management of diseases of unknown origin

· Maintenance of healthy state and fast recovery from illness

ADVERSE EFFECTS

As a result of the source of this product, there is little or no side effect from the use of this product.

PACKAGING

This is packed in a plastic bottle containing sixty capsules (pink cap and transparent body of hard gelatine shell)

Others Halamin Herbal Products with NAFDAC CERTIFICATIONS include:
DAABS, DAABS2, HAABS, SABMAL, SABFAT5, SABFAT6, SABFAT7.

RECOMMENDED USES OF HALAMIN HERBAL PRODUCT CAPSULES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING BUT NOT LIMITED TO;
- Malaria, Typhoid
- Hepatitis B & C
- HIV/AIDS/IMMUNOSUPPRESSION
- Tuberculosis
- Fibroid & Cancer of all origin
- Insulin Depended DIABETES
- Asthma
- Kidney Diseases
- Hypertension
- Hypotension & Hypoglycemia
- Diseases of Unknown Origin
- Healthy State Maintenance/Improved Health & Fast Recovery from Illness
- Sickle Cell Disease Management
- Pains (All forms of Arthritis)
- Hormonal Imbalance/Menstrual Irregularity/Fertility Improvement
- Anti-Aging
- Prostatis & BPH
- Low Sperm Count/Quality
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Insomnia/Psychosis/Depression/Mood Swing
- Poor Vision/Low Libido/Stress/Improve Vitality
- Stomach Ulcer
- Dengue Fever

donnypool: guinea

[b]Chief, Pharmacist/Barrister Benjamin Amodu[/b]FPSN, MNIM, PNM, FCAI – a Pharmacist of repute who has spent over thirty (30) year in pharmaceutical practice and over twenty nine (29) years in Federal civil service assuming different strategic positions at one time or the other, starting as the head of pharmacy department of the state house clinic.
• He was head of Clinical Pharmacy from 2005-2006.
• Head, Logistic and Drug supply Management from 2007-2008
• Head, National Drug Policy, essential drug list/ logistics 2008
• Deputy Director of Procurement from 2009-2011.
• He was director of Procurement, Ministry of defence
• He was Director of Procurement, Ministry of water resources.
• He is currently the Director of Procurement, Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs.
He combines his ever busy schedules in the office with his private research in the discovery and use of herbal and food supplements for the management and treatment of various illnesses.
Pharmacist/ Barrister Benjamin Amodu is a holder of these prestigious qualifications:
Bachelor of Pharmacy (BSc.pharm);
Bachelor of law (LLB);
Masters of Business Administration (MBA);
Fellow of the 85years old Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria;
Fellow of the Institute of Taxation;
Fellow of the Institute of Microfinance;
Chartered Membership of Alternative Dispute Resolution and
Member Nigeria Bar Association
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Revolutionized pharmaceutical services in the state house clinic resulting in the concept of pharmaceutical care.
• Successfully initiated the concept of drug revolving scheme and unit dose dispensing system that resulted in the prevention of wastages in the clinic
• In addition to the other Halamin herbal products, he discovered a Poly herbal formulation named SAABMAL; this was recognized by ANDI-an organ of WHO after the abstract was submitted to it. Thereby resulting in his sponsorship to the 2011 ANDI conference at Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia where the scientific presentation was made.
• Efforts in developing his people was recognized by the Chairman, kogi State of Nigeria Traditional Council of Chiefs which ultimately resulted in the conferment of a chieftaincy title ‘AMANA ATTAH IGALA’ on him by His Royal Highness, the ATTAH of IGALA Land.
AWARDS AND EVENTS
As a result of the products discovery from the work of Pharm/Barr. Ben Amodu, the company has participated in several events/ exhibitions (showcasing the products) including the ones where awards were given to him.
Some of which are:
1. The 4th African Network for Drugs and Diagnostic Innovation (ANDI, an agent of WHO) where he presented a paper on one of his products titled ‘standardization of SAABMALR; an ethnomedicinalpolyherbal formulation for the treatment of malaria infection’at the united Nations Conference Center, Addis- Ababa, Ethiopia during the 4th ANDI stakeholders meeting and Donor conference that held between 24-27th October, 2012.
Other products from the company were exhibited during the conference with a lot of commendations from participants
1. Ben Amodu has appeared on several radio and TV stations to speak about his research works and the importance of natural (phytomedicine) products in the management/treatment of sever al ailments. Among the stations are channels T.V Lagos, NTA news panorama, Love FM (Brekete family), NTA 2 Lagos, wazobia FM Abuja etc.
2. c. The company exhibited her products during the International Congress LABIOFAM 2012+ 2nd Symposium of natural products in therapy against cancer in Havana, Cuba, after the ministry of health encouraged the company to participate from 24-28th September, 2012. The exhibition of the company’s products was so attractive and that resulted in the signing of an MOU and Confidentiality Agreement with LABIOFAM Enterprise group, Cuba
3. Participated in the 7th Abuja International Trade Fair organized by Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mines and Agriculture(ABUCCIMA) and was awarded the best exhibitor in phytomedicines
4. The company participated in the 19th International AIDS Conference that was held in July 22-27th 2012, Washington DC, USA where her products were exhibited.
5. Participated in the first international AIDS Conference,Lagos Hub where the company’s products were exhibited and this led to the invitation of Pharm/Barr. Ben Amodu to appear on NTA 2 Lagos programmed towards zero point on HIV/AIDS
6. Members of Rotary Club, FESTAC District, Lagos, after benefitting from the use of the company products gave Pharm/ Ben Amodu an awards as an Ambassador of the Club during their 2010 presidential induction
7. African leadership magazine gave Pharm/Barr. Ben Amodu LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT MAGAZINE AWARD 2011 as a result of the products manufactured by the company from his research work
8. National waves magazine awarded Pharm/Barr. Ben Amodu for his outstanding breakthrough in phytomedicines during her 5th year anniversary which was held on Tuesday, 25th September, 2012 where he also delivered lecture title ‘the importance of phytomedine.

http://halamin.org/?page_id=62

Herbal Medicine Can Transform Nigeria’s Economy – Amodu
Posted by Orient Daily on April 26, 2013 in News | Comments Off

Jibrin Lumba
Abuja

A leading researcher in plant extracts and natural medicine, Pharmacist Ben Amodu has commended the Federal Government for encouraging the development of about 75 billion herbal products stressing that success in the field could transform the country’s economy and remove it from reliance on petroleum products alone for revenue.
He also spoke approvingly on the support given to the development of herbal medicine by the World Health Organisation, (WHO), the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Nigerian Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development, (NIPRD).
Amodu said time has come for the nation to fully embrace phytomedicine and to revolutionise the nation’s health system by incorporating natural medicine practice into orthodox medicine to enable the people harness its wonderful effects this can have on human health.
Pharmacist Ben Amodu who is a member of the committee inaugurated recently by the Director General of NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii to look into claims by people who alleged that their herbs can cure different ailments including the dreaded Human Immune Deficiency Syndrome [HIV/AIDS], attested to the curative potency of some products and said genuine herbalists cannot deceive the public.
“There is nothing like a coordinated effort to deceive the public and we have been speaking to the press about our research findings. Our drugs are registered for the management of diseases.
The World Health Organisation, (WHO) has accepted our drugs for the management and treatment of HIV/AIDS and other related diseases and that has shown us the direction about where the nation can be heading in the future,” he stated.
Continuing, the researcher said even the NAFDAC has shown serious interest in curative qualities of herbs.
Still on HIV/AIDS cure, he said, “There should be nothing to worry about and no problem when anybody claims he cures anything. Whatever anybody claims, we encourage them to bring forth the preparation, the pharmacopeia standard in terms of the monograph; we use them to compare and try to find out where such falls; and also go further to do some direct application on the materials to see to what extent their claims can be substantiated.”
He said, “We have done far reaching research in that area and that is what this committee was setup to unveil before making any claim to the world. It is a good step in the right direction, because I think that from the herbal medicine point of view, HIV can be cured. If other people have also found a cure, they don’t have ten heads. A research is a research anywhere in the world. And whatever claims you are making here, the same claim has been replicated somewhere else in the world. So, the NAFDAC is taking the right step in the right direction on behalf of the government.”
He also remarked that Nigeria has taken the right step by participating in several herbal researches throughout the world observing that the experience and knowledge gained will help the nation transform her economy instead of relying on petroleum as the major source of revenue.
Pharmacist Ben Amodu also advised Nigerians to focus more on agriculture, saying that the cultivation of herbal plants is also a bi-product of agriculture, since the plants come from the farms
On the insistence of the NAFDAC Director General Dr. Paul Orhii that any false claimant will be jailed, Ben Amodu said, “I support the director general. I share the WHO standard that says you should do the required tests before registration.”
And I also went further to say that we shouldn’t be a dumping ground. We should also look out for the efficacy of the material. We should also go further to moderate WHO requirements and add efficacy which NAFDAC has now come up with. So, I support NAFDAC in this direction 100%, and by the time finished products come from our country, the products will be respected all over the world because of its efficacy.”
He added that good quality products are respected all over the world. “As you can see, the world is receptive of highly potent herbal medicine from the background of the fact that out of 119 medicines that come from plants in the world, 74% of them were traced to herbs. Herbs were used in several ancient civilizations and have been traced to various communities before the advent of modern medicines.”
“Initially, medicines come from plants. It was the need to mass-produce them that we found the short cut of using chemicals to mass-production. But because of their massive side effect, especially for the treatment of HIV/AIDS and cancer, there is need for alternatives. Our tests at the Nigerian Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development, (NIPRD) have shown that our herbs can suppress cancer. So, why not use them for preventive purposes since they don’t have side effects.
On the need for collaboration with stakeholders in the development of herbs,
Amodu said, “It is a welcome idea. I am a researcher who was invited in the meeting as a testifier. I have had over 30 products going through NIPRD and nobody stole my products. So, I came here to give confidence to others that there is nothing wrong in going through tests and certification of your products. And if you go through these, your products will be accepted throughout the whole world. So what do you lose? Your products will not be stolen, and it will get a stamp which the whole world will respect.”
“NAFDAC is doing a good work by encouraging the development of herbal medicine because many diseases are communicable and non-communicable diseases. Non-communicable diseases account for about 60% of the total deaths in the world.
“In 2005 alone, about 35 million people died as a result of hypertension, diabetes, cancer and chronic kidney diseases among others. Though HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and hypertension are non-communicable ones, they also have very high death rate.
Cancer as a non-communicable disease is equally a silent killer but our tests at the Nigerian Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development, (NIPRD) have shown that herbs can suppress cancer. So, it is being developed for general use,” he concluded.

http://orientnewspaper.com/herbal-medicine-can-transform-nigerias-economy-amodu/

Nigerian Pharmacist Discovers Cures for Dengue Fever, Hepatitis, Cancer, Tuberculosis and Diabetes

Dr. Benjamin Amodu.


Dr. Benjamin Amodu is a trained pharmacist with a doctorate degree in the field, and he is a lawyer with strong knack for herbal medicines. The civil servant with the Ministry of Defence has been in the news in recent times because of his recent breakthrough discoveries on ‘cures’ for hepatitis B and C, cancer, tuberculosis and Type 2 diabetes. Amodu in this interview with The Guardian’s CHUKWUMA MUANYA narrated how he came about SAAAB and HAABS dietary supplement for hepatitis B and C, SAABFAT 7 for cancer, TABSAABS for tuberculosis, and DAABS-2 for type two diabetes, among other issues. Excerpts:


WHAT prompted your interest in herbal medicine?

THE need to solve societal problem and in particular as that time in the 80’s there was an outbreak of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), when I studied as a pharmacist in Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna State we were told not to use anything that has more adverse effects than the useful effect.
So when I graduated and HIV/AIDS broke out, there was this AZT, which is the first chemical that was used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. It has more side effect than its useful effects, and I was not disposed to using it. That forced me to do research and I discovered county capsules from China, which have strong immune boosting properties. Thereafter I read a German scientific work, which says that out of salad that is cocktails of vegetables, one can naturally produce a drug that can cure HIV/AIDS. That enabled me start my research work and since then I have not looked back again.

You are now being celebrated for bitter leaf-based herbal supplement that ‘cures’ hepatitis, TB among other diseases, how did you come about the discovery? Tell us more about the products?

I have just told you now that what forced me into the research are those white people who are doing the research, I think is the same brain that we have, that they have. So when I entered the research, as I told you, concoctions infused from cocktails of fruits, vegetables, barks, roots, nuts etc. It is from there that I have my lead drug. And don’t forget that I’m a pharmacist and I majored in Industrial Pharmacy, and that means I can own a manufacturing outfit and I’m glad today that I own one. So I don’t think it is difficult to know. As for bitter leaf, from my research, there is a concept that bitters are better foods for life, is that singular phrase that bitters are good for life that made me centered my work on bitter leaf.
I am happy that we have been able to use it to achieve remarkable breakthrough in areas of care for hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis, diabetes and cancer.
In addition, bitter leaf contains most of the major component of bioactive medical plant, for example tannins, saponins, flavonoids etc. So it should not be surprising that today in Nigeria we have gotten something out of bitter leaf and we have been peer reviewed by different learned international journalist.
To treat dengue fever, which’s an extreme form of fever, and as we speak, President of Hundoros recently declared a state of emergency because of the effect of dengue fever central to it devastating effects. So the world should know that we have solution for most of these neglected tropical diseases and these should come to the control to seek for solution. Even Cuba, we have sent them an email since we have our recent breakthrough in the treatment of dengue fever. We will give them the sample, let them analyse it in their Lab, if they are okay by it, we can now go into mass production to save humanity.
I have saabfsat 5,6,7, they’re all from African product for the treatment/management of most debilitating illnesses from our animal experiment (Phase1) and clinical trial carried out at the Nigerian Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), it has been proved that with one product, cancer can be nipped in the bud, as those products are both prophylactic and curative.

You also claim you have cure for HIV/AIDS, how true is this?

As it is, it will not be proper to project the message that we have cure for HIV/AIDS. We don’t want to send any info to the outside world for anybody to think that we want to jump the gun. What we have can be subjected to further study, and we are uniting with the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to do that.
So at this point, I don’t want to lay claim that I have cure for that. But, what the whole world recognized today is functional cure, and we can beat our chest that we have that cure. Functional cure as described by New York Times. What is functional cure? It is a state whereby an HIV/AIDS client has an increase immune system, decrease or no opportunistic infections and has loss no man-hour (can do his work without help from another). This is exactly that our herbal supplements do; our supplements are at par with the conventional Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART).
To that extent, we can say we have a functional cure. So, by and large we are not saying we have a total cure until we have finished all the required processes stipulated by law.
Our drugs have a repairing effect on the liver and kidney because they are purely sourced from natural fruits and vegetables. As a matter of fact, there are some kidney dialysis patients that use our products that got their rate of dialysis reduced drastically in addition to normalising their haematological indices.
You are a member of a special committee set up by NAFDAC to probe herbal cure claim. What do you think about the committee and NAFDAC’ plans for natural medicine?
That is a welcome development and I doff my cap to the director general of NAFDAC because, as soon as he does that, he would be laying the basis of herbal medicine transformation for President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in the herbal sector through health because our drugs work in the non-communicable and communicable diseases which are the major diseases burden in the whole world. If we are able to deal with the number one killer disease in the whole world, which today is made up of cardiovascular diseases, exemplified by heart diseases, angina, myocardial infarction, hypertension, strokes, cancer, diabetes, and we have solutions to these ones in Nigeria.

By 2008, WHO reported that cardiovascular diseases as the number one killer disease in the world which accounts for about 69 per cent of the death worldwide. So if NAFDAC does and prove it to the world, it will be a remarkable achievement more so that the African Heads of State are on the way to setting up African Centre for Disease Control (CDC) for the management of the disease.
So if the NAFDAC boss does this, he will be adding another feather to his cap just as his name has been written in gold in the arena of stamping fake drugs from Nigeria, as evidence by his invitation by the United States Government.


Another big issue in traditional and herbal medicine is that of sustainability and availability of raw materials especially the plants. How are you ensuring this in your practice?

I own a farm entirely. So with that farm, is to increase capacity there, with effective partnership, we can increase our acreages. In one of my interviews, I said most of these raw material products in the market have the same yield with what we get from the farm, so we can try from the open market, the major thing is to test for pesticide, and heavy metals once this is done, we can effectively utilise those foods that are wasting.
These products are working and it should interest all that WHO has approved herbal medicine, even HIV, which we are donor limited, is now open to the herbal world. So why should there be any form of barrier anywhere again. We alone here cannot change the programme. The programme is that herbal medicine has become standard nobody can change that. We alone here cannot change the programme. The programme is that herbal medicine has come to stay and nobody can change that. So let us change our mindset about herbal drugs. Let us also join other nations of the world in making money from herbal drugs, in development and manufacture of herbal drugs and the trade in herbal drugs, which is about $175 million.

http://www.nigeriansreport.com/2013/08/nigerian-pharmacist-discovers-cures-for.html

Report from 2013