Very good

"Impossible is nothing"

Nice

Total eradication of mosquitoes is the only effective way to end malaria, other methods like vaccine can't be reliable because the protozoa will evolve a resistance against it faster than it will against direct chemical approach currently used, there by making the current chemical less effective.

NotKnown:
They have come with another one again o

soon they will begin to force people to take 'vaccines' against malaria. Dem don come again o!

Nairalanders be given me joy these days with their funny comments here and there.

olisefom:
Other countries are doing wonders...with groundbreaking results.

Nigeria is stuck between old men, looting away their future.

Worst of it is the youth cheering them.

Yet you won;t pay the fees and taxes needed to make the research facilities do the type of ground breaking research that is needed.

No old man is stopping any Nigerian from doing research. The problem is, good research costs money. The industrial countries can aafford the research because they pay high fees to their universites, pay high taxes so that government can fund their research labs well, and pay high bills for power, roads, water and petrol...so that the ground for industries to flourish and earn billions, part of which can be invested in R and D.

Here in Nigeria, we want to buy something that costs N4000000 at N4.

My own is that nobody should come say the thing has metamophos to sometin pandemic. because i wonder why wuna go manufacture plasmodium to find solution. Wuna no see HIV to work on? Well done anyway

Bigseven:
My own is that nobody should come say the thing has metamophos to sometin pandemic. because i wonder why wuna go manufacture plasmodium to find solution. Wuna no see HIV to work on? Well done anyway

HIV has been worked on and overworked on.

The meds used for HIV patients today were on the drawing board 22 years ago and are far better than the old drugs. Even now, we have an IV drug that can be given once every 3 months for HIV patients....they won't need to take any drugs in the meantime.

Malaria also is a big issue. It is because you people do not work in hopsital...to see the number of under 5 children who suffer badly from the thing.

Reinaldo:
The world is evolving, but APC and their supporters are taking Nigeria 100 years back. They will surely fail.

Amen...all they know is benefit from anything discovered, produced, invented by hardworking people all over the world, from technology to automobile to u name it ..all they gat is their APC card

Kobonaire4:


HIV has been worked on and overworked on.

The meds used for HIV patients today were on the drawing board 22 years ago and are far better than the old drugs. Even now, we have an IV drug that can be given once every 3 months for HIV patients....they won't need to take any drugs in the meantime.

Malaria also is a big issue. It is because you people do not work in hopsital...to see the number of under 5 children who suffer badly from the thing.

i may not have worked in the hospital but i know that 3th national development plan has drawn a conclusion on operation roll back malaria supported by gates foundation though our corruption didnt allow it to see the light of the day. All am saying is that they should be more careful before they will awaken another monster like the zombie virus currently under review. Also as underdevelop country there's need to guard every incoming research. Meanwhile kudos to all doctors without borders

Bigseven:
i may not have worked in the hospital but i know that 3th national development plan has drawn a conclusion on operation roll back malaria supported by gates foundation though our corruption didnt allow it to see the light of the day. All am saying is that they should be more careful before they will awaken another monster like the zombie virus currently under review. Also as underdevelop country there's need to guard every incoming research. Meanwhile kudos to all doctors without borders

Some aspects of the program have been brought in place...eg mosquito nets, educaiton, etc...

The main problem with malaria is basically dealing with the public hygeine of our country...which is something that would cost far more money than we have right now.

HomeTutorsPro:
Long story short:
They can now produce malaria in the laboratory.
This more bad news as it is good news.
Watch as Bill Gates and his gang will "donate" to the production and distribution of the vaccine so they can buy it over and turn it to a lethal weapon of depopulation against Africa.

What the hell are you on about?

FarahAideed:
Take at you own risk? If you believe there can be vaccine against a protozoan then Yiu will soon believe there is a vaccine against tapeworm

Can you explain further. Why do you think there can't be vaccine against protozoa

Kobonaire4:


Some aspects of the program have been brought in place...eg mosquito nets, educaiton, etc...

The main problem with malaria is basically dealing with the public hygeine of our country...which is something that would cost far more money than we have right now.

right. The only sector that gets prompt and pragmatic approach is INEC. Government can go againts all odds to ensure ballot paper hits the hinterlands but cannot use that same energy to handle health sector or even sponsing policies on wellbeing of Nigeria. As it stands now maleria in Africa, Nigeria is Now ENDAMIC

Ssddff:


What the hell are you on about?

Read in between the lines and you'll understand my assertion.

Supersymetry:
Total eradication of mosquitoes is the only effective way to end malaria, other methods like vaccine can't be reliable because the protozoa will evolve a resistance against it faster than it will against direct chemical approach currently used, there by making the current chemical less effective.

Wrong! All animals including mosquitoes are important to the ecosystem. What you would have said is the eradication of the blood suckers but they also have their use. If you doubt, make your research. Vaccine is the best, especially if it a one time vaccination type.

HomeTutorsPro:

Read in between the lines and you'll understand my assertion.

Malaria is already depopulating Africa. Do you know how many infants die every day from it? Let’s not go into adult.

Do you know malaria is the cause for the genotype matching Wahala we have in Africa?

Supersymetry:
Total eradication of mosquitoes is the only effective way to end malaria, other methods like vaccine can't be reliable because the protozoa will evolve a resistance against it faster than it will against direct chemical approach currently used, there by making the current chemical less effective.

Thank you for this information. See ehn make we shine our eyes and ask the question, what do these people have to gain with a malaria vaccine? I hate to be a conspiracy theorist but my take on this unnecessary vaccine is that this may be a way to curb the African population by making our youngest children infertile. The gbege nor go show up until dem reach adulthood and by then the damage would have been done. Please for those who want to abuse me, go read about what was done to African American soldiers in Tuskegee then come back and present a case for the vaccine.

Kobonaire4:



Yet you won;t pay the fees and taxes needed to make the research facilities do the type of ground breaking research that is needed.

No old man is stopping any Nigerian from doing research. The problem is, good research costs money. The industrial countries can aafford the research because they pay high fees to their universites, pay high taxes so that government can fund their research labs well, and pay high bills for power, roads, water and petrol...so that the ground for industries to flourish and earn billions, part of which can be invested in R and D.

Here in Nigeria, we want to buy something that costs N4000000 at N4.

You’re putting the cart before the horse. Countries which are more developed than Nigeria, have governments that have created an economic climate that allows industries to thrive, which results in jobs being created, which then results in people earning income and paying taxes. You can’t go on a rant about people not paying taxes, when the people have no jobs. Makes zero sense

Kalvan:


You’re putting the cart before the horse. Countries which are more developed than Nigeria, have governments that have created an economic climate that allows industries to thrive, which results in jobs being created, which then results in people earning income and paying taxes. You can’t go on a rant about people not paying taxes, when the people have no jobs. Makes zero sense

Actually, they did that by prosecuting people who did not pay their bills on time, and by making people not to steal, and by heavy duty taxation, the kind of which we won;t tolerate here.

Here we rely on oil revenue which is not enough for all of us.

Kobonaire4:


No, the simple reason why we cannot do advanced research in Nigeria and in Africa is money...and facilities, and electric power. Not religion. I doubt the local Imam, or revenred bothers himself or herself about what they do in our research facilites self.

Once, a university in the UK got a grant of 600m pounds for research into Malaria. Tell me, who would give a university in Nigeria that money? In naira.?

The reason why we cannot do research is because of lack of money. Foreign countries have a lot of money to fund advanced research because they pay the kind of taxes and have the kind of tax to gdp ratio to pay for good universites, plus they pay tons of fees...even going into debt to do so. (at least in Nigeria, no one graduates with millions in debt), and they also pay their electricity and power bills on time, and don't subsidise education.

Here in Nigeria, we pay fees of less than 200 dollars a year, and somehow expect to do research that a university that has fees of up to 20000 dollars a year does? Like how? 40% of us don't pay power bills that are already very low...and yet we expect power 24/7 with what money? You don't pay the type of tax they pay in developed countries...and you expect good facilites and so on? And finally...you rely on something that at best can give you one third of what we actually need in revenue...and you expect to live like the developed nations?

You are here blaming religion. Some will blame athiests, some will blame FESTAC 77 for bringing in demons into the country, and some will blame the West. Yet, we will go and cheer as someone wakes up and says that we should chase away power companies officials from dealing with power defaulters because they are exploiting us. Or we would go and protest when it is time to remove fuel subsides...or we would go and cry oppression, when fees need to be raised, or the tax to gdp ratio needs to be expanded


Yet we want what the whites have at a fraction of the revenue.


Stop blaming religion. There are scientists who are religious and do extensive research. Just as there have been atheists who misapply research. But the thing is, all of us...the religious and the atheistis, and the traditionalists in this country.....have to work towards making our country's less dependent on oil and more dependent on industries, and also pay our power bills, and stop pretending that N400 can buy something that costs 4million, and maybe, just maybe...we may be able to develop the ultimate cure for malaria.


So, stop looking for bogeymen.

I vehemently disagree with you. Religion plays a huge role in our technological and scientific backwardness. First of all modern Islam and Christianity is against acquisition of knowledge. According to the doctrine of the religions, the Bible or the Koran is the only knowledge they would ever need. Remember "Boko is Haram ". Secondly, they make adherents waste most of their time, energy and resources in worshipping and religious activities, thereby allocating very little for acquisition of knowledge or research. Go to our universities, Students spend more time in religious activities than research. You will think all Nigerian universities have become convents, where prayers, fellowships, evangelisms, etc are carried out almost everyday.

Finally, religions make it impossible for people to work together or achieve a common goal, even in research and everything else. A Muslim would not collaborate with a Christian, much less an atheist. Even members of the same religions but different sects would refuse to collaborate on a research project.

I want you to see this 17 year old boy, Robert Samsone, who is about to revolutionise the electric motor. He does not have the millions for research just the passion for acquisition of knowledge and hardwork. He won the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair price worth $75,000 last year.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-17-year-old-designed-a-motor-that-could-potentially-transform-the-electric-car-industry-180980550/

wirinet:

I vehemently disagree with you. Religion plays a huge role in our technological and scientific backwardness. First of all modern Islam and Christianity is against acquisition of knowledge. According to the doctrine of the religions, the Bible or the Koran is the only knowledge they would ever need. Remember "Boko is Haram ". Secondly, they make adherents waste most of their time, energy and resources in worshipping and religious activities, thereby allocating very little for acquisition of knowledge or research. Go to our universities, Students spend more time in religious activities than research. You will think all Nigerian universities have become convents, where prayers, fellowships, evangelisms, etc are carried out almost everyday.

Finally, religions make it impossible for people to work together or achieve a common goal, even in research and everything else. A Muslim would not collaborate with a Christian, much less an atheist. Even members of the same religions but different sects would refuse to collaborate on a research project.

I want you to see this 17 year old boy, Robert Samsone, who is about to revolutionise the electric motor. He does not have the millions for research just the passion for acquisition of knowledge and hardwork. He won the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair price worth $75,000 last year.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-17-year-old-designed-a-motor-that-could-potentially-transform-the-electric-car-industry-180980550/

I disagree with you.

Religion has nothing to do with our lack of scientific development.

We are a country that relies on oil as a main source of revenue ....which cannot sustain all 200 million of us. We have chronically underfunded universites which are not allowed to raise fees, and that affects the quality of scientific development. And we have issues with power supply because people don't pay their bills on time, and this affects science growth.

It has nothing to do with religon. Many of the western countries had a lot of scientific growth when they were even more religous than we are.


The problem is, do you expect UNN to produce ground breaking research on a budget of 25 billion naira, when it needs ten times that...nay 100 times that?

Religon has nothing to do with our underdevelopment....the issue is simple. We got to stop relying on oil, improve our tax to gdp ratio and stop wrecking our power and petrol sector with subsides galore.....and maybe we will get somewhere...inspiteof the religous fanatics oppsoed to science.

Great news

Kobonaire4:



I disagree with you.

Religion has nothing to do with our lack of scientific development.

We are a country that relies on oil as a main source of revenue ....which cannot sustain all 200 million of us. We have chronically underfunded universites which are not allowed to raise fees, and that affects the quality of scientific development. And we have issues with power supply because people don't pay their bills on time, and this affects science growth.

It has nothing to do with religon. Many of the western countries had a lot of scientific growth when they were even more religous than we are.


The problem is, do you expect UNN to produce ground breaking research on a budget of 25 billion naira, when it needs ten times that...nay 100 times that?

Religon has nothing to do with our underdevelopment....the issue is simple. We got to stop relying on oil, improve our tax to gdp ratio and stop wrecking our power and petrol sector with subsides galore.....and maybe we will get somewhere...inspiteof the religous fanatics oppsoed to science.

You are oversimplifying issues.

The problem is more complex than just our reliance on oil. It has more to do with our reliance on foreign made finished goods, including food items. The problem started from the economic model bequeathed to us by the british. They made us produce primary produce for their industries, while we in turn became a ready marker for their finished goods. They made us grow cocoa, groundnuts, palm oil, rubber, that we don't eat, they in turn give us chocolate, Cornflakes, butter, milk, bread, etc, that we eat. That was the model at play even with crude oil. We give them crude, they in turn give us petrol, diesel, fertiliser, etc.

Why do we need to sell oil? - To earn dollars to buy petrol, diesel, fertiliser, milk, chicken, fish, etc.

In terms of education, the education they encouraged was to read and write English and to be good administrators to further their own colonial and post colonial interest. They never encouraged Science and technology education, which can lead to self reliance and development.

Religion was a major tool to keep us aspiring for science and technological advancement. We have more churches and mosques than schools, research institutes and libraries added together. You don't think that was deliberate?

As I said lack of research in our universities goes beyond funding, even if you give each university a billion dollars each for research, nothing will change. The money will simply be mismanaged and embezzled and our Engineering students will still be spending more waking hours praying than researching.

FarahAideed:
Take at you own risk? If you believe there can be vaccine against a protozoan then Yiu will soon believe there is a vaccine against tapeworm

Impossible is Nothing.

wirinet:

I vehemently disagree with you. Religion plays a huge role in our technological and scientific backwardness. First of all modern Islam and Christianity is against acquisition of knowledge. According to the doctrine of the religions, the Bible or the Koran is the only knowledge they would ever need. Remember "Boko is Haram ". Secondly, they make adherents waste most of their time, energy and resources in worshipping and religious activities, thereby allocating very little for acquisition of knowledge or research. Go to our universities, Students spend more time in religious activities than research. You will think all Nigerian universities have become convents, where prayers, fellowships, evangelisms, etc are carried out almost everyday.

Finally, religions make it impossible for people to work together or achieve a common goal, even in research and everything else. A Muslim would not collaborate with a Christian, much less an atheist. Even members of the same religions but different sects would refuse to collaborate on a research project.

I want you to see this 17 year old boy, Robert Samsone, who is about to revolutionise the electric motor. He does not have the millions for research just the passion for acquisition of knowledge and hardwork. He won the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair price worth $75,000 last year.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-17-year-old-designed-a-motor-that-could-potentially-transform-the-electric-car-industry-180980550/

I also vehemently disagree with you. Religion does not prevent or stops anyone from getting knowledge, ignorance does. The current minister of Information and digital economy is an Islamic scholar and preacher but also a professor. If religion stops people from attaining certain heights in academia, how did he get his professorship?

Yusman316:

I also vehemently disagree with you. Religion does not prevent or stops anyone from getting knowledge, ignorance does. The current minister of Information and digital economy is an Islamic scholar and preacher but also a professor. If religion stops people from attaining certain heights in academia, how did he get his professorship?

Professor of what? What did or does he profess? Where are his academic and research papers? What contributions has he made to the knowledge pool?

genkins:
Good one.our youths here in Africa are busy attending Sunday school,casting and binding as all thier uncle's and aunties have become pastors...

Since you don't go to Sunday school, hope you have been able to at least do something meaningful, at least they kept themselves busy by praying and increasing their knowledge, you have all the time as a result of not wasting your time praying, what theory have you propounded or is innovations and inventions for the whites alone. Una go just open una unintelligent mouth waa to talk rubbish.

I love science.

everythinggirly:
I love science.

Don't just love science, promote science by learning and teaching others. Not just theoretical science but how to apply science to everyday problems.

MissyLuv:
Thank God for science




Nigerians are truly suffering, I pray that God touches a kind hearted person here to help your plight dear. So sad

when will u stop this sh*t @faith..u better be careful abt what u wish for ..nonsense

I am truly concerned about this news.. I understand the gains but then I am also worried that it can be used as a biological weapon of mass destruction.


What stops the pharmaceutical teams from engineering the sporozoites to be more lethal or resistant to known anti-malarial drugs just to study its limits?

COVID -19 has taught us all a lot. Let's not make the same damn mistake.