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Coronavirus, Lassa fever: FG offers N36 million to scientists for solution

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February 13, 2020
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Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu

The Federal Government, on Thursday, dangled a whopping sum of N36 million to any Nigerian scientist who develops a vaccine to stem the scourge of Corona Virus disease (COVID-19) currently ravaging some parts of the world.

Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, who announced this in Abuja at the send-forth for a retiring Director of Chemical Technology Department in the ministry, Engineer Akinyemi Oyefeso, further said that the prize sum also goes to whoever develops the vaccine for Lassa fever virus whose cases are reported in some states in the country.

He, therefore, challenged Nigerian inventors, innovators, and scientists to find a cure for various diseases that are proving intractable, saying Nigeria is well-endowed with both human and material resources to surmount them.

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Dr. Onu said Nigerian Scientists are highly rated and expressed optimism that in no distant time, the country would make key contributions in so many areas of science and technology to the delight of the entire world.

The minister then commended the celebrant, Engineer Oyefeso for his various innovations when he held forth as a director in the ministry.

According to him: “We will need your expertise and service in the future because you have so much to offer the nation.”

He advised the entire staff and management of the ministry to rise up to the challenge of a knowledge-based economy being stridently pursued by the present administration.



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