University of Ilorin To Develop Ebola Vaccine

Date: 2015-07-27

Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali says the school's Ebola Research Committee is working assiduously to develop a vaccine for the Ebola virus.

"What is happening is that the committee is just monitoring events; in terms of the vaccine, it will take a while because there are processes that you have to follow before you develop a vaccine," Ambali disclosed in an interview on Sunday in Abuja.

"For example, you have to isolate the virus; grow the virus; attenuate the virus; bring it out for testing; and then before the final usage.

"So those are the processes that any vaccine candidate will have to pass through before you can now use on victim.

"But right now what they are doing is monitoring events across the borders; and then we have put in place the facilities to be able to advise our staff as well as students that want to visit those places (High risk Ebola countries). According to Ambali, the committee is monitoring developments in neighbouring countries, especially in Liberia where there was a resurgence of Ebola.

He said that people, staff and students, who travelled, would be advised on proper precautionary measures while those returning from high risk areas would be properly screened before entry.

He advised universities in Nigeria to step up the publications of their research findings in order to improve the global rating of the country's universities, describing the recent ranking of African universities in which only one Nigerian university made the top ten as worrisome.

"Every academic should be worried about this ranking and we are doing our best to make sure that we enter that vicinity of the ranking arena.

"We need to increase our visibility; we need to improve on our interaction through the internet and then update our research publications.

"We also need to make sure that we are seen across globe as much as possible so that the world will know what is happening in our institutions," Ambali told the News Agency of Nigeria.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ahmad Belgore     Mogaji Aare     MAI Akande     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Local Government     Azeez Bello     Grillo     Olaosebikan     Benin Republic     Makama Of Ilorin     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Shururat Olatinwo     Arik     Magaji Nda     V.O. Abioye     Peter Amogbonjaye     TESCOM     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Matthew Babaoye     Mohammed Yisa     Okin Biscuit     Kola Ologbondiyan     Malete     Ajeigbe     Federal Polytechnic Offa     CCEPE     Kolawole Akande     Afeyin-Olukuta     UNILORIN Alumni     Olupako Of Share     Awili Pedro     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Aliyu Muhammed     Jalala     Kwara Central     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Buari Edun     FOMWAN     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Kayode Issa     Sarah Jubril     Ogbondoroko     Ali Ahmad     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Ajayi Okasanmi     Yusuf A. Usman     Kwabes     Timothy Akangbe     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Femtech     Boko Haram     Medview Airlines     Valsolar Consortium     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Babaita     National Party Of Nigeria     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Sanusi Abubakar     Olatinwo     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Saliu Alamoyo     Okin Malt     Michael Nzwekwe     Omotoso Musa     Ganiyu Abolarin     NIPOGA     Ajibike Katibi     Dumagi     Musa Alhassan Buge     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Adegoke Bamidele     Shao     Kwara State Sports Commission     Plat Technologies    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ilorin International Airport     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Yemi Sanni     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Kolawole Bashirat     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Mike Omotosho     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Riskat Opakunle     Ndakene     CCT     Muslim Cementary     Kanu Agabi     Kehinde Baale     Raheem Adaramaja     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Solomon Edojah     Baboko     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     African Democratic Congress     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Shaaba Lafiagi     Christopher Odetunde     Hassan Saliu     Ganmo     Ishola Abdullahi     CLAY POT     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Lithium     Ashiru     Police Commissioner     Transition Implementation Committee     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Oloje     Salihu Yahaya     Afeyin-Olukuta     Oyelere Oyinloye     Alapado     Al-Adaby     REO CAKES     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Adaramaja     Wahab Agbaje     Omotoso     Minister     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Kumbi Titilope     ANCOPPS     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Pilgrims Board     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Face Masks     Rachael Obisesan     Maigida     Vasolar Consultoria     Labour Party     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Olushola Saraki     Federal Allocation     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Isau     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Young Progressives Party     Oja-Oba     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Ogbondoroko     Isiaka Danmeromu     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Read With Me     Post-utme