Nineteen Covid-19 patients have had their recovery confirmed by the herbal drug developed by the Afe Babalola University, confirming the curative effect of the locally produced medicine.
Afe Babalola, the founder and Chancellor of the University, announced that the efficacy of the Covid-19 drug is garnering an increasing number of testimonials, since it was fully approved by the National Agency for Food Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
“I can confirm to you today that our herbal drug produced through extensive research by our team of researchers has healed about 19 patients who contracted the coronavirus disease. They were healed perfectly less than five days of usage, that tells you the level of our research in ABUAD.” Babalola enthused
He highlighted that despite its relatively new status, the University has recorded significant impacts as an institution, and more was yet to come.
“I am happy that I conceived this university twelve years ago and since then, we have been going from strength to strength, making exploits in all our endeavors. Our vision is to make this place a great institution in the university education in the country in teaching, research, and community service.”
Interestingly, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria criticized the National Assembly’s creation of universities in constituencies across the country. According to him, such steps can be interpreted as an arrogation of the power of the National Universities Commission as prescribed by law on the establishment of universities.
“The ministry of education and NUC should exercise their powers to checkmate this in the interest of quality education in the country because what these ambitious members of the national assembly have done amounts to usurpation and abuse of power.”
He labelled the universities as “political universities”, lamenting that the educational sector is bound to suffer the consequences if the NUC and the ministry of education does not step in to act decisively.
“Every attempt must be made by all stakeholders to put a lid on the establishment of political universities that hardly survive those who put them in place after they are out of power otherwise, there will be a crash in the quality of private universities,” he said.
At the event, Babalola called on President Buhari to take a closer look into the school’s achievements and make attempts to reproduce such excellence at a national level. “The president should find a way of replication our universities in the different geo-political zones of the country,” he said.
