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Imagine if we could have saved 81% of those who ultimately died from the virus by treating them early with a cheap, safe drug, along with other cheap therapeutic cocktails. Well, for one, more people would be alive today. But more important to the powers at be, there would have been no excuse to fear the virus and sow panic and tyranny. Also, there would have been no market for expensive therapeutics and vaccines that are much more experimental and unproven. Which is likely why the WHO is refusing to recommend ivermectin for early COVID treatment, even as its own data prove it should be champ...

How Elephantiasis ruined three generations of a family When Asiru Bukola was a young girl, she dreamt of becoming a nurse and her rich businesswoman mother was willing to see this come through. But Asiru caught a troubling disease that would ruin both mother and child and severely affect a third generation of the family. When Asiru Bukola (not real name) was 15, she loved swimming in a body of water close to her home in Ibadan. Until one day, she experienced a strange itching sensation on her leg. She didn’t know this at the time but it was the start of something that would change her life.

Williams Babalola  Nigeria Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has welcomed efforts by a team of indigenous professors and scientists investigating the effectiveness of, and roles that Ivermectin drug can play in the treatment of the COVID-19. The team which is composed of Nigerian intellectuals at home and abroad has also submitted their report on the potency of the drug to the World Health Organisation which has already appointed a Peer Review expert from the United Kingdom, Voice of Nigeria reveals. The Vice President was briefed by a team of scientists led by Prof. Femi Babalola, the Principal...

Share A team of Nigerian professors and scientists has proposed the adoption of a drug, Ivermectin, as part of the uniform treatment guidelines of COVID-19 in the country and as prophylaxis, pending the rollout of vaccination programmes or alongside them. The proposal is contained in the report of a research carried out by the team of scientists led by an Ophthalmologist and Surgeon, Professor Femi Babalola and the Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Professor Chris Bode. In the report presented to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, the team of research...