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FG Names Prof.Maurice Iwu To Committee To Research Ebola virus Cure by Nobody: 7:41pm On Aug 04, 2014 |
President Jonathan Names Former INEC Chairman, Maurice Iwu To Committee To Research Ebola Virus Cure President Goodluck Jonathan has just named Maurice Iwu, the notorious former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as a member of a committee charged with shaping Nigeria’s response to the widening scare of the deadly Ebola virus that has so far claimed more than 700 lives since its latest outbreak. The virus had claimed its largest tolls in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, with a few cases in Ghana and one confirmed death in Nigeria. Mr. Iwu’s appointment to the committee comes shortly after the controversial former electoral umpire claimed that he had made a breakthrough in the treatment of the virus, using an extract found in kola nuts. The claims by Mr. Iwu, an erstwhile professor of pharmacognosy—a branch of pharmacology that deals with medicinal substances in plants—have found no collaboration in the scientific community.
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Re: FG Names Prof.Maurice Iwu To Committee To Research Ebola virus Cure by Dreal1247: 7:46pm On Aug 04, 2014 |
What of all the noise about bitter cola? Is it not working again? |
Re: FG Names Prof.Maurice Iwu To Committee To Research Ebola virus Cure by Nobody: 7:46pm On Aug 04, 2014 |
In fact, Mr. Iwu first stated in the 1990s that he had collaborated with other scientists to discover a cure for the Ebola virus that then ravaged the Congo. Despite garnering more than $2 million in research funds, Mr. Iwu and his research team were not able to develop any drug to fight the debilitating and incurable disease. A few days ago, SaharaReporters published a detailed expose of Mr. Iwu’s discredited claims as well as a series of financial shenanigans that compelled US banks to take him to court. Other members of the Ebola committee appointed by President Jonathan are S.K. Gamaliel, a professor and director-general of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development, and Innocent Uja, a professor and director-general of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research. Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said the committee was expected to carry out research into the treatment of the Ebola virus; receive and verify claims relating to the treatment of the disease; collate and analyze related research findings, and advise the government on policy for combating the dreadful disease. “The group does not have a limit to its work,” Mr. Chukwu said. “The members will continue to work until there is [a] result.” On rumors in some quarters that bitter kola has the potency to cure Ebola, the minister said, “There is no proof of any such fruit known to cure Ebola. There is no scientific evidence that if you eat bitter kola, it will prevent Ebola. “However, in vitro research showed that some extracts from bitter kola tend to have some activity against the virus. The research was not concluded. I want to restate that taking bitter kola does not stop Ebola Virus Disease.” The Ebola committee’s broad mandate means that Mr. Iwu would be part of a group that may be vetting his own uncompleted research work and unverified claims. SOURCE: SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK |
Re: FG Names Prof.Maurice Iwu To Committee To Research Ebola virus Cure by DRealGeesam(m): 7:48pm On Aug 04, 2014 |
Good move. I believe in this man's research. Let us stop depending on the west( USA and other developed countries), they dont care about us and i dont blame them. Honestly it is time for us to believe in ourselves and show the world we dont need their pity. We got brains! Let us use it! Let us support our own, I hate that ignorant nigerians were criticizing this man, yet those same di*ckheads will believe the same research if it was from a white man. All hands must be on deck, Ebola is curable, USA knows it, the developed nations know it, there are only waiting for it to really infect millions then they can make profits from the cure. Gej, you have done well this time around. |
Re: FG Names Prof.Maurice Iwu To Committee To Research Ebola virus Cure by Nobody: 8:09pm On Aug 04, 2014 |
DRealGeesam: Good move.That true... |
Re: FG Names Prof.Maurice Iwu To Committee To Research Ebola virus Cure by OXYGEN01: 8:15pm On Aug 04, 2014 |
OkekeOnyi: President Jonathan Names Former INEC Chairman,Few cases in your mother.Kwasia u think Ghana is cursed like mumugeria. |
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