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gadogado:
It’s official – a Nigerian scientist, Dr. Louis Obyo Obyo Nelson, has finally found a cure for the dreaded diabetes disease which afflicts over 123 million sufferers all over the world.

The Minister of State for Health, Dr Aliyu Idi Hong, yesterday described as “epoch and historical” the production of Antidiabetic Phytophar-maceutical by Nelson in collaboration with the Nigerian Pharmaceutical Research and Development.



Diabetes is a potentially life- threatening condition in mammals brought about by an inability of the mammals to produce insulin. Insulin, a polypeptide hormone produced in the pancreas of the mammal, controls the amounts of glucose present in the blood by stimulating the uptake of glucose by the muscle and adipose tissue.

THISDAY had exclusively reported on May 23, 2003 that Nelson had been granted a United States patent entitled “Medicament for the Treatment of Diabetes”, a feat that raised hopes for millions of sufferers of the disease worldwide. It also exclusively reported on June 5, 2003 a confirmation from the US Patent Office that indeed a patent had been made out to the Nigerian scientist.

Hong said yesterday at the signing of an agreement between Nelson and GDPAU, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, for the commercialisation of an Antidiabetic Phaytopharmaceutical in Abuja that the drug would contribute to the quality of health care all over the world and boost the economy of the country.

The drug, which was said to have been administered on many diabetic victims, has been found to be very safe and highly effective. It was also said to have corrected erective dysfunctions noticed in those victims.

The minister said the drug would expand the landscape of medicare in the world and encourage more researches into herbal drugs in the country.

“I believe that there are so many of such leaves in the bushes in Nigeria that can cure many of these diseases that are proving difficult in the world. This is an epoch and historical day in the history of this country,” he said.

The minister noted that diabetes has posed a serious health challenge worldwide, and is the sixth largest killer in Nigeria.

“There is hardly a house you go to in Nigeria that one person will not be affected by this killer disease,” he said.

He pledged the support of the Federal Government to the efforts of research institutes, especially those who are into herbal medicine research.

Director-General of Nigeria Institute for Pharmaceutical Research, Dr. Ufot Inyang, described as unfortunate the inability of the Federal Gove-rnment to explore the enormous benefits in the herbal market.

He regretted that although the market had the capacity of generating over $100 billion annually, the country was not taking advantage of it.

He said the ongoing global economic crisis would adversely affect the fortunes of Nigerian pharmaceutical companies and stressed the need to focus on the herbal drugs.

“It is an opportunity we have been missing and I don’t want us to miss it again,” he said.

Representative of GDPAU, Prof. Ramesh Pandey, who described the drug as one of the greatest things that will come out of the continent, said it could go a long way in helping to launder the image of the country. He commended the efforts of Nigerian researchers, describing them as one of the best in the world.

The drug will be funded and marketed by a Nigerian company, TREC International Limited. It is estimated that it will cost the company an initial $10 million to deliver the drug to the market.

Nelson recorded a breakthrough in his research for a drug that could cure diabetes when the US government issued him with a patent (No. 6,531,461) for his medication, which can effectively treat Type I and Type II diabetes.

A documented proof of the discovery showed that Nelson, who then resided at Plot 574 Yakubu Gowon Crescent, Asokoro, Abuja, filed his application for a US patent June 4, 2001.

The 'Medicament for the treatment of Diabetes' patent with application No. 09/873,560 was approved March 11 2003.

An official of the United States Patent had confirmed to THISDAY on telephone June 4, 2003 that Nelson was actually granted a patent for his invention of a possible cure for diabetes.

The official, who simply identified herself as Mrs. Robinson, acknowledged that a United States patent with number US 6,531,461 B1 bearing application number 09/873,560 and dated March 11, 2003 was indeed approved for Nelson.

The enquiries at the US patent office followed the interest the story of May 23, 2003 had generated. E-mail dated May 25, 2003 to the United States Patent and Trademark Office seeking to establish the authenticity of Nelson's claim was replied, but with a directive to call the General Information Services Division (GISD) on telephone.

Unlike insulin which has been used for many decades to manage diabetes, Nelson's "wonder" drug can be administered orally, making it possible for patients to administer it as capsule, tablet or syrup. Insulin can only be injected into the body.

The award to Nelson, a graduate of Chemistry from the University of Ibadan, was made on the strength of his research, which determined the exact chemical structure of the active ingredient. The research was also able to determine the quantity of the drug, which could be tolerated in the human body, and yet be able to stem the patient's condition.

Nelson’s drug had been subjected to two clinical trials the last being at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital (UJTH).

At the first clinical trial, the initial extract derived from Vernonia amygdalina was orally administered to 26 patients all of whom had been previously diagnosed as suffering from insulin deficiency. For control, a group of five were used, who maintained diet discipline throughout the trial. The initial extract was dosed to the patients three times daily in 100mg aliquots for six months.

The blood glucose levels of all 31 subjects were closely monitored. It was revealed that the 26 patients receiving the initial extract no longer required maintaining diet discipline after the first month and examination showed remission of the disease after three months.

Fifteen patients were said to have continued receiving medication for the remaining three months of the trial.

The document that accompanied Nelson’s patent application showed that all those who volunteered for the experiment appeared to have recovered from the disease and have returned to their normal life prior to the diagnosis of the disease.

Nelson, 61, who holds a doctorate degree in Molecular and Computational Chemistry from the University of Ibadan, hails from Nsit Ubium Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

He served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2001, worked with the Raw Materials Research and Development Council.


http://odili.net/news/source/2009/feb/4/203.html


THIS PUTS NAIJA ON THE WORLD MAP

Africans should abandon foreign Medics and develope our own. It’s has always been a better choice. The mumu time is over. They stole our ideas transform money making venture abroad and we praise them.


We will support you beyond your imagination.

Keep up the good work

naijaking1:
Nice way for Tinubu to rule and maintain law and order in Nigeria?

tell the criminals in the east and obi to use their brain. Yoruba are peaceful people. If you provoke us you will regret your actions. As it is now our patient level has become so thin ready for explosion

He’s uninformed and so unfortunate.

Likely he never commits the crime, we will make efforts to investigate the matter and see how we can help him if he’s not guilty of the offense.

Please @seun close this down

clearcrystal:
His company paid a ransom of 3.5m for his release and he's in the hospital receiving treatment.
Confirmed from multiple sources.

I'm happy for this news.

i don’t believe this update until i see him in video or in person - if it’s true that ransom of 3.5m was paid the entire igbo people shall pay N350million for such embarrassing moment.

Minjim:
Here is the link on X

See what IPOB terrorists are doing to a South Westerner.......

Later we will start shouting BIGOTRY pic.twitter.com/wTkkEwDJ3G

— Senior Pst Okezie James Atañi. (@Onsogbu) August 21, 2023

Confirm it yourself

Yo! It’s up every igbo globally will confirm that they’ve cross the line

The video said it all and we are fully up on the matter.

Not a police case at all

E go soon red in a lil bit

AuschwitzPrefec:
I have warned that after the PEPT throws the case out and the Supreme court upholds Tinubu's victory, these hate filled mob will not go quietly into the night.

The next 4ys will see the most despicable opposition and terrorism acts from the mob.

Already they are attacking oil vessels in the Niger Delta. When you have nothing to leverage against the FG , you begin to attack where it hurts most.

I predicted that they will go down this route but that it will spell their doom as it will only pitch Niger Delta militants and the people of the SS against them.

We should not rule out terrorist attacks in places like Lagos and Abuja in the name of fighting for Biafra and the release of their leader.

If any black person kill another black person, the consequences shall be greater than imagined. We have also determined that if a group of black peoples claimed to be a tribe and they showed hostility toward another group of black people in what is considered a tribal war we shall wipe the group who are the offender out of the surface of the earth.

A decree has been set, all black people on the surface of the earth are 1 one. No black person or group shall show hostility toward the other on the bases of religion, tribe or commerce. We shall work together to achieve greatness in the interest of the generation yet unborn.

Final

So beautiful and elegant

If OBi failed it doesn’t have to turn to propaganda and blackmail. Note that if anyone of you promote any false claim that result to the blackmail of another. The consequences of such offense is huge

IhateYouMan:
Make Nigeria burn and make your situation tens times worse. OLODO.

I am sure you don’t know who you’re talking to. We are now investigating that incident.

If any Igbo person kill a Yoruba person and we get to know or hear about it and confirm it to be truth. We will not leave it for the government to handle. There will be an instant revenge.

This is final

I love law abiding people… Wike do your job if it’s not against the law i support you

Tochi3:
Without the power from the FG...they can do nothing...why wait for the FG to show bravery...."better hold your governors accountable for the shit they put you all into"...that is the poupular quote of emilokans

Na wisdom, count the loss of the east from the the the time of ESN or unknown gunmen

That’s it

Wodu89:
I was about saying the same thing. Why not even open the entire mining sector all at once and ensure restructuring so the nation taps into its vast resources and potentials at once. The fear of the freedom of the Niger deltan region and the hatred for the freedom of a section of the country is what binds the country together. Nothing more. Collective hatred

Politicians will not directly benefit from that, they will not be able to secure jobs for their children to earn as expatriates but with Elon they’ll bring their foreign trained children for him to hire and pay them as expatriates

he was referring to me but i don’t care

You have to be very sensitive about who you are partnering with. You have to closely monitor who you’re partnering. They are very sleek.

Make sure they are only doing what’s in the agreement, there shall be no change order, there shall be no GMOs, they must adhere to global best practice in minning, workers must be insured and paid reasonable prevailing wages and workers compensations must be properly implemented.

All workers must be safety trained, OSHA 10 must be translated to Hausa Language and everyone that must work at the farm or mine must have been certified by OSHA or any other safety equivalent

If you don’t have all these things in your agreement you must go back and make changes to the partnership agreement.

Workers protection comes first

Round them up and kill them - i don’t give credence to nonsense.

They are criminals

phemmyfour:
Kwara has lost its identity. Kogi is not a Yoruba state

We will help them recover their lost minds

EyeCumInPiss:
Except they repent, all these Isese people are going to Hell fire.

including your father,

Lovely, It must be the same day including Kwara

We should advertise it and let foreigner come in to see how we celebrate our culture.

Writers should start writing, document everything accurately and make the most of it suitable to the ears.

Importantly: keep the rituals in the shrine or do it in a very neat attractive way in the public - allow people to celebrate dance and pray peacefully.

Unlimitk:
Nairalanders pls I'm not hating the Igbo tribe
I've been on this platform and I shared when I had an accident and I lost part of my body
I continued to work hard
Later last week
Where I'm doing security job
They needed a new person for the job to join me so that I can be having off and resting
Now I'm not hating Igbo people
I tried my best to choose someone not from my tribe
I'm Yoruba
But an Igbo guy first applied,he was referred to me by his sister, probably a fake account created by him
Now he came and said he wanted a job I gave him
Now see what he did to me,I typed it below

Pls everybody should be careful of giving job to anyone online
I posted a 60k job online and the person came and said he was interested
After meeting me at Chevron lekki,he started the work which is security work
He then went outside to buy me food after he bought for bought of us
After eating,I didn't know he drugged my food
My Samsung note 10 plus of 250k and all my money with my documents and all my sim was stolen
The bastard drugged me
The guy is an Igbo guy from Enugu
He is still around lekki
He called himself Nicholas
His sister chatted me up with Juliet uti account on fb
U will see the account on fb
Anybody giving out jobs should be careful
I've said my own oo


Now imagine I was tribalistic and chose a person ,who is Yoruba like me
My phone ATMs documents
The phone I've not paid the money I borrowed to buy the phone
Now I'm having a debt of almost 100k
And the phone I borrowed money from has been stone
U people can check out the account on fb
It's Juliet uti

Now ,Im not here to hate on igbos
But now I'm in debt my phone stolen
I'm still doing the security work now
Looking for how to find money
I'm in Chevron lekki here,if anyone wants to confirm if im lying or not
All my four sims stolen especially my mtn with my bvn and bank account and my email accounts
Now people on nairaland and igbos on nairaland
Will I be considered a tribalistic person in the future if I said I hate Igbo people because of this thing that happened to me
The drug the guy put in my food is still affecting me a little bit
I don't have money to go to the hospital to check my mental health
Pls people on nairaland
If I'm to become a hater of Igbo people because of this issue
Am in in the wrong
All my life savings
I'm now almost in 400 thousand naira debt
And I'm just a security guard
Pls people,did I do bad by trying to help people
Where do I go from here

Stop sounding diplomatic you have to hate who you have to hate and like who you have to like.

if igbo have cause you enough pains for you to hate them. Hate them and stay connected those that won’t hurt you. What do you mean by you’re not here to hate.

I love this

Vivian

I wonder when they will unveil plans to invest in the young citizen population instead of investing in offshore banks

it’s gone, Africans has finally decided

Ask him how many gunmen follows him about.

You’re one of the rubbish politicians, manipulator and criminal - You dare say that in front of buhari - he will lock you up forever

SenatePresdo:
Yorubas and chest beating.

Try rubbish make Fulanis Chase all of una enter Benin Republic.

Sharia law must be spread across Yorubaland inshallah.

Baba e is chest beating. I am not the generation of chest beaters. The people around me know very well that an and straight and bad towards idiots. Ma pa ra e. mo gbon mo de bad

Maximeo:
WHY DO YOU BRING CHRISTIANITY INTO THIS MATTER WHICH IS BETWEEN ISLAM AND ISEE WORSHIPPERS?

MUMU ODE

Ode ni Daddy e

It takes time to build