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.

What of all the noise about bitter cola? Is it not working again?

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

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.

DRealGeesam: 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.

That true...

OkekeOnyi: 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.

Few cases in your mother.Kwasia u think Ghana is cursed like mumugeria.