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Do away with your inferiority complex. No one is comparing colours right now. Science and technological innovations are founded solidly on a foundation of criticism. I work as a full time researcher in Europe, and it's the same way all over the world. The first foot forward in science is doubt. I realize how difficult this is for you, and people who are daily fed with the need to believe what they haven't proven. When we make any discovery here in my group I require the research assistants to repeat the procedure over and over again until we are 99% certain that the results are invariably reproducible and that we understand the data. We don't just rush out to start making claims. Even after putting our house in order with respect to ascertaining the reproducibility of the experiment, we communicate the data to other scientists from other centers and from other countries in conferences and symposia. God knows I have been to many of those to present our findings in different parts of the world. And yes, scientists are specially trained to criticize and scatter your claims and at the end only the logical result will stand. This is the way of science, and drug discovery is a scientific engagement.
This has nothing to do with color or being Nigerian. I have been invited to deliver several talks in Nigerian institutions from different parts of the country, and what I have also noticed is that (some, maybe many) Nigerian scientists doctor data too much. A number of them are dishonest with their claims, and by the time I start critiquing their claims they start getting angry and emotional about it.
There is not where in the world where a professor, who should have known better, would come out and make ridiculous claims like this, and the largely pseudo-educated citizens will believe it is their nationalism duty to support such unproven claims...except Nigeria. And it shows how many of you are suffering from a colour-induced inferiority complex. You are so so eager to believe that a major discovery can come from the chaotic and visionless research environment in Nigeria.
No, it will not come. You can not reap where you have not sowed. No Nigerian laboratory can boast of a single NMR machine, x-ray synchroton or any other decent equipment to do a structural characterization of the smallest molecule. For that, Nigeria lecturers have to spend millions of money from their own meagre resources to come to Europe and US to collect the flimsiest data possible. And the Nigerian government refuses year in year out to fund research and technological development. You guys say nothing about that, but you are foolishly eager to believe that a major discovery of this calibre will come from your agbos and ogogoro-soaked ewedus. Wake up, no one cares about your colours. God knows I have met several Nigerian and black scientists making major discoveries around the world... The most recent discovery of a drug for sickle cell disease was led by a Prof Martin Safo, a Cameroonian but based in the United States. Bring people like this to Nigeria to work and they promptly wither, because the Nigerian research environment only pays lip service to technological advancement. Ask your Buhari, or Jonathan, or Yaradua, or Obasanjo how much exactly they have invested in research... and stop your embarrassing display of mischief seeking to turn everything with a tribal/racist sentiment.

Timijo:
We are our own problem, if it was one oyinbo that said he has found the cure to the virus, everyone will be jubilating whether it is true or not. But because he his a Nigerian, we are rubbishing his claim without giving him benefit of the doubt. Now tell me, how can Nigeria become a better place that we are clamouring for without supporting our own? The rate at which we devalue ourselves and the country on this platform and other social media is disheartening. We want to be respected in other countries but we disrespect ourselves and our country. We do an unnecessary comparison and say disdain things about the country everyday. You all have forgotten that every country has its own challenges, which ranges from corruption, terrorism, unemployment, poverty, poor health facilities, electricity problem, bad internet and many more. You will not know because those countries with such problems don't go online and expose their problems. But they are seeking for solutions instead of degrading themselves and their countries. Until you go to other countries and mingle with other nationals before you can understand this.

You're not even qualified to serve tea breaks where I operate. So, kindly shut the hell up, and crawl back into what ever rock you might have come from. Present facts, or other reasonable arguments if you are capable, instead of turning every thing into a tribal matter.

powerkey:
why do you Yorubas claim to be educated? when it's obvious that you're only educated illiterates.

Government fund research and help with parents of the discovered compound.


You people always exposing your level of stupidity, ignorance, foolishness, and illiteracy.

You people should try to get some information before criticizing informed people.
Each country has properly grounded procedure for discovering new lead compounds (you only call it drug after it has received regulatory approval to be used in the society).
The first stage is benchwork which takes place in laboratories at the universities, research institutes, and pharma and biotech industries.
Once a promising compound is found, derivatives are synthesized and patented to protect the invention.
After this the researcher applies to the regulatory body in the country, FDA in US, MHRA in the UK, and NAFDAC in Nigeria, and informs the body of its desire to commence preclinical testing in animals. A case file is opened for this purpose by the NAFDAC and all data are meant to be filed in so that the regulatory body can monitor and trace both the toxicity (safety) and effectiveness (efficacy) of the compound in question. Once the compound successfully goes through testing in animals, it receives approval for commencement of testing in humans, called clinical trials. This happens in four phases, each phase having subphases sometimes. At the end of Phase III, if the product has performed well it is granted marketing authorization for sale to the society, after which a more extensive phase IV clinical trial (post-market surveillance) takes place.

Government involvement in the process is managed by NAFDAC. If your discovery is worth its onus it is the Big Pharma companies that you need to talk to for sponsorship, and not a broke government like Nigeria that cannot afford the cost of developing a new cure which is estimated to cost about $1.3 billion.
The role of any government, include WHO, is mainly administrative, and to subsidize the final product discovered to make it urgently available to people across the globe. It is very irresponsible for any government to use political fiat to release funds for the purpose of a prospective and highly unlikely invention Prof Iwu thinks he has discovered.

He claims to have made a discovery and yet he could not point to a single scientific article where that discovery has been published. Voodoo scientists everywhere in my beloved country.

obibob2020:
Oga think before you comment.
So you expect them to run straight to WHO without passing through the Federal government.
The Federal government need to experiment the cure to ascertain it's efficiency before calling on WHO to finalize it.

You know what is up bros!
Exactly.
It isn't the job of government to fund a drug discovery venture, it is the big Pharma companies who will be able to spread the discovery through out the world. But Iwu knows he has found nothing, but he still wants to throw some words together to confuse and deceive the President into releasing money to him that will never be accounted for.

I'm happy many Nigerians are seeing through their lies.

JEmma1:
Let me just comment my reserves..

If you are sure you and your team have found the cure to covid-19 like you claimed, you will not even be seeking sponsorship form Nigeria's federal government. you will be negotiating with bigger players like WHO, UNICEF or even China.

Bros, it is another means to siphon money. I can bet anyone on that. This set of people are only interested in profiting from human miseries, just the same way they are reaping in profits from Boko Haram, they are already ganging up again to rake in billions on the occasion of coronavirus.

Neroiam:
Prof. Are you sure? Ehem ..I know why i dey ask o
I hope this isn't another means to syphon money. The later you tell us Coronavirus don chop the money for lab.

Well, let's see

Because this isn't the first time these political professors are embarrassing us. Where is the cure discovered by Abalaka for HIV/AIDs? Or the claim of cure for Ebola... Deal with it, many Nigerian professors are too dense to even know what it means to discover a cure.

For your information, discovering a drug cure for a disease is a very long and extremely risky process that can last as long as 15 years, and will gulp averagely 1.3 billion USD. A drug treatment discovered last year November for sickle cell disease had commenced in the 1980s there about before it became a full fledged drug.

Discovering a drug is not something that happens suddenly, anyhow or just by the wishing. It requires a sound research culture, facility and environment, none of which is in place in Nigeria. Most of our researchers in Nigeria only soak ewedu or efinrin inside water, and pour the extract into an animal... That is the common research that facilities in Nigerian universities can support. I know what I am talking about. I had worked for years as a researcher in Nigeria, Europe and US, and I know that Nigeria lacks the necessary facilities and governmental support to discover anything. Most of the discoveries by Nigerians happened outside of Nigeria for a very good reason.

So, I am not trying to impulsively criticize the man, and I called him Ewure because I recognized that it is all about politics. He wants to use his ridiculous claim to have another bite at the national cake. Period. It is the same old story.

No genuine scientists boasts of having discovered a cure from such flimsy empirical observations Iwu might have happened upon. Any expert in drug discovery science here will know exactly what I am talking about.

Iwu is merely trying to be an Ewure so as to have a bite at the national yam.

Period.

friday2011:
Na wa, we are always too quick to jump into conclusions, why not wait and see how things unfold, nigerians in the health industry are good at what they do with an enabling environment, thats why nigerian doctors in the US are highly rated.

How will you feel later if what he and his group has is actually a good cure for virus?

Imagine you calling him "ewure" meaning a goat...

Wetin d man do you? This is a man that you are supposed to be using his achievements as a reference and prayer point.

May God grant all of us wisdom and understanding.

Nigerians, here we go again.
First, it was cure for HIV.
Then Ebola.
And now for Coronavirus.... And when they will produce that cure it will be some Alomo Bitters. I'm sure it is the one below that Ewure is talking about.

It is scary to say the least. But then, the world will survive. There's that thing as the survival of the fittest. For instance, those who have contracted the viral infection and recovered will most likely have developed immunity to it. And they are not likely to have it as such again except they have a situation compromising their immune system. If the infection doesn't die out naturally like most viral infections, then these people who are immune to it are going to be on the right side of evolution very soon.

What continues to scare me is the fate of Africa with our penchant for congregating in large numbers especially in religious houses. Even if the government bans such assemblies, I am sure some human beings will want to show they have faith and flout that.

Let's all be safe.

Baawaa:
From problem to another, world is going to an end

https://infographics.channelnewsasia.com/covid-19/map.html

Click on this link to view the updated real time tracking of corona virus infection and death rates. Over the past 24 hours alone, Italy has recorded a jump of over 50% in infection rates. The global deaths from the viral infection now stands at 3,057 and the global infection rate is now 89,773.

I hate to be a prophet of doom, but the picture is likely to worsen. And as Africans, rather than believe in the existence of some innate immunity against the virus, it makes more sense to explain the generally low infection level in Africa as a consequence of much lower travels connected through Africa. We can notice the same relatively low infection level in South America.

So far the survival rates observed in different countries appears to have a lot to do with the quality of medical services.

Here in Europe, a few people are gradually giving in to panic buying.
As much as possible, in Nigeria in particular, we should reduce congregating in large assemblies until further notice. We should not wait until tills are so bad to do the needful.

I think you're right. It's like the South East doesn't even know what they want. They seem to desire so many conflicting things all at the same time. Now that everyone is jostling for the presidency and we are hearing nothing from their side, is when they should be out speaking up and making alliances. I mean the real South Easterners, not the children on this forum that are also busy abusing other ethnic extractions.

AsomughaChuks05:
They are still busy.

And why do you want to believe he is indeed the doctor?

By the way, saying no more than 2 meters is needed to safely stay away from an airborne infection is defective and misleading since the transfer rate is sensitive to air draft, fans etc. A doctor wouldn't come out and start encouraging the people to do away with the masks so long they are outside of 2 metres from the infected person. Does it mean that Nigerians should start carrying about metre rules to measure the safe distance? How many ordinary Nigerians can safely gauge what 2 m is?

He is no more than someone seeking cheap attention. Use your masks. Forget about the misleading 2 m. If the wind conditions change very slightly, airborne coronavirus will reach much farther distances. And the mask is not just to prevent you from inhaling airborne infectious agents, it is also a practical way to discourage people from putting their hands to the mouth and the nose. Once your hand touches the mask you are likely going to be reminded of the need to wash your hands before taking it to the mouth.

Gnaeusmagnus:
Any proof?

Why should they show the patient in the video? The point of the video was the doctor explaining why he did not wear protective gear when he was outside the quarantine building.

Why do you want to violate the patietnt's privacy??

No single person from the South East. This is indeed very shameful.
I am from the South West and I must say that it sure doesn't feel like a one country. It's only people from the North or the South West being paraded as likely candidates. Where are the South Easterners?

Islie:
https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2023-presidency-the-mind-game-begins/


lalasticlala

Did you see an Italian in the video?

The burden of proof is on the video. It is amazing how people believe anything.

Gnaeusmagnus:
Any proof of your assertion?? Were you there??

Believe this at your peril.
He is not the doctor treating the Italian. He is just a bored man looking for attention.

freelansa:
Doctor treating Italian man with coronavirus reveals why he doesn't wear face mask


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez_f8gJ-Z0Q

Big trouble indeed

arinze198:
Source: https://pmexpressng.com/girl-20-beats-woman-47-to-death-during-public-fight/

Oyedepo, you call them yesterday and now dem don come.

By the way, stop calling them insurgents and bandits. Call them by their true names, Killer Fulani Herdsmen (KFH), and Boko Haram Sisiters (BHS). By calling them bandits the government is attempting a cover up to prevent the people from knowing that our president's people are infiltrating the South.

Nigerian teachers and their readiness to vent their frustration on students.

Flogging does not increase learning and ability to comprehend. You can quote me.

If na be the parent of a child that a teacher flogged, i go change am for am patapata. The teacher and the school go no say there is a court of law in the country. Where exactly is it written in our laws that schools are permitted to beat and brutalize children they are not taking care of?

Evil creatures parading as teachers.

Me ayam not understanding, what miracle exactly did she got?

ahimedua:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2020/03/02/adeboye-at-78-day-my-old-girlfriend-came-to-me-for-prayers-shocked/amp/

And some guys are the ones kissing such women.

People yaff suffer!

okrote4real:
https://www.independent.ng/how-women-get-high-with-used-sanitary-pads-ndlea/

NORTH Korea has brutally executed a coronavirus patient for going out in public, reports claim.

Kim Jong-un's dictatorship is dealing with the virus with an iron fist after the man was put to his death for dodging quarantine to go to a public bath.
The patient was arrested by officers and immediately shot as the country takes sickening measures to avoid the killer outbreak spreading.
South Korean Dong-a Ilbo newspaper reported that the man - a government official - had been placed in isolation after travelling to China.
Kim Jong-un imposed military law to enforce a lockdown to combat the virus despite not experiencing any confirmed cases.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10958147/north-korea-executes-coronavirus-patient/

Whenever, I hear Boko Haram leader has been killed, resurrection comes to my mind.

Later we will still find out that Idirisa has resurrected.

I have now lost count many times we have killed Boko Haram leader now and he has kept coming back to life.

prof2007:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thecable.ng/crisis-breaks-out-in-boko-haram-camp-founders-son-killed/amp

Painment. Mr Loaf-and-Fanta.
At least my kids will inherit something concrete, tangible and useful. I am afraid yours will inherit senselessness and idiocy. But hey, we are in Nigeria, even mad people get to juicy offices. So your descendants will still be in play. So, keep calm knowing that their inheritance might still benefit them.

AbuTwins:
Go and hug the statue. You may sleep beside it if you wish! And after your death your kids can inherit it and start worshiping it.

You are truly uncouth and ill-bred! Of cos a sane mind won't mention that!

You cancelled Friday prayers because of Corona... Hmmm. Should we now make it official that your prayers don't work, and that y'all have been wasting everybody's time pretending that they do?

Ordinary Corona, your prayer no fit cure, and you'll be there murdering people in the name of the ghost that is supposed to answer those prayers.

AnonPoet:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/coronavirus-iran-vice-president-masoumeh-ebtekar-test-positive-outbreak-latest-a9363181.html

Gbam!
Tell them o. I wonder.

72Morale:
You have no right to confront a woman who had consensual sexual activity with your father,because your father is old enough to know what's good for him and his family.

You a responsible family man?? You must be high on something. I don't smoke or I would have asked you for a stick.
'Uncouth and ill-bred'? You mean when you're on the wrong side of a brickbat, right?

Stop deceiving yourself, you're still a boy. If at your age you don't understand the importance of cultural heritage and identity; if at your age you have to reduce everything to its food value. You are still a boy... But it is rather interesting that as a boy you have already sired a boy. God help us.

Return to your mum's breast now, even if you have to compete with your boy.

AbuTwins:
This are the uncouth and ill-bred youths we have in this country!
I am a responsible family man and i still do have parents so you know i'm not a boy!

So what is the use of graven images and statues?

Yes, I do. And he did a good job training me that there's more to life than a loaf of bread and bottle of fanta.

Unfortunately you either didn't have a dad growing up, or you didn't listen to good training, or... Let's stop there.

By the way, how old are you? I hate to be exchanging words with a boy that hasn't been weaned from momma's breasts. That probably explains why you failed to see or understand the significance of cultural heritage.

Now, go suckle some more. Peace out.

AbuTwins:
Do you have a dad? One you respect?

Ask your dad.

AbuTwins:
What do we need statues and graven images for?

A typical myopic Nigerian.
If something doesn't immediately provide a loaf of bread with a bottle of fanta for their stomach, they find no use for it.
Shior.

AbuTwins:
What do we need all these for?

Are you using your mouth to perform carbon dating experiment to determine its true date, or you will allow experts who have conclusively done the dating to have their say?

OfoIgbo:
Clearly looks Yoruba.

But there is something fishy about this..
I am not aware of any 6th century collection of Ife art works. It is much more likely to be a 16th century stuff that a sixth century work.

Also bronze work came much later. Around the 6th century, it would have been brass sculpture

Hello Doc.,
I read one of your entries in the Diaries section; unfortunately commenting directly there isn't allowed. I enjoy the way you write and I have a writing idea to share with you. I am Pius, and I am going to send you an email request to you.

Kind regards.
PS: I hope you do not mind posting this here.

And with respect to the topic, I think it's not limited to Nollywood. Most movie industries prefer to present what they believe is the ideal state of man. For instance, growing up I used to think Indians were so beautiful and sexy, because it's only the perfect samples of their humanity that get shown on the screen. But from my experience and travels I have seen different shapes and variations of Indians that many are more inclined to describe as super-ugly. But I personally don't believe in the word ugly... And in fact, nature being the way it is, it is the ugly, the queer, the common, the pimpled-face and so on that make everything all beautiful. This pimpled part of nature and our humanity is indeed the beautiful aspect of our creation. It is the common. It is the aspect of our existence that we can readily with. The ones on the screen are mostly virtual, artificial and in essence fake and not existent...

Interesting topic.

funmisticqueen2:
I have just noticed, that no matter which Nollywood movie you watch, whether it's a low budget production, or A class movie,


NONE OF THE CHARACTERS HAS PIMPLES. No actor or actress, from the main character to the maid or gateman.


But we know that a lot of Adults have pimples.


pls does anyone know why this is so?

Is there discrimination against people with pimples in the movie industry?

I am talking about the kind of pimples that are excessive and there 24/7, not the kind that comes around your period and dissapears after.

Why can't people with faces like these be selected for acting roles?

No insults pls.


No bashing

Just sincerely want to know

If I was your neighbour and your unwanted pets get to my side of the yard, i would not even poison then, they will simply be disappearing one by one.
If you must keep pet in a shared compound, make sure your pets don't constitute nuisance to your neighbours.

That common sense should be common enough.

Makavelli25:
Yea thats it. I rear local dogs and I have a lot of them. I had a dog that gave birth to 5 pups and after 2 weeks they all died. I suspected poisoning but as a young wise man I moved on.

Not long after the mother dog died too. I was mad like wtf they killed it too. But no lele na local dog cheap. I got another one and like a miracle it gave me 7 pups. These new pups are dying again, left with 4 and they are not old yet I would have sold them.

My neighbors are killing my dogs and I don't know what to do. They even Sympathised with me sef (oju aye) but I know baba GOD DEY WATCH