Opeyemi Adelere
The Federal Government has revealed that researchers in Nigerian universities have commenced local production of ventilators and are working on vaccine and cure for COVID-19.
This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba on Arise Television programme.
The minister said N5bn fund had been generated for research and that coordinated activities had commenced among researchers in the country on finding vaccines that could help in the prevention of the coronavirus disease.
“Nigerian Universities are working very hard to finding a solution, and this is being done in a coordinated manner; some are doing researches at the molecular level, others are looking at the vaccine levels, and so on.
“I spoke to the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, and he told me they were already talking to all the universities to coordinate research effort against COVID-19. The coordination is important because the World Health Organisation (WHO) has stressed on coordinated race. It is not a competitive race.
“The executive secretary of the Nigerian University Commission (NUC) is also coordinating the efforts of everybody so we know who is doing what. They need to know who is researching at the molecular level, vaccine level, and the rest. The universities are providing some sort of guidance to the researchers,” he said.
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He also spoke on the effort of the government to ensure continuous learning while staying at home. The Federal Ministry of Education was said to have organised e-learning for primary and secondary students through the use of radios, televisions, and the internet.
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