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Biafra: ‘Aburi only solution’ From COLLINS UGHALAA, Owerri
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OLUTIONS to the various challenges that Nigeria current faces, could be found in the agreement Nigeria reached with the
Government of Eastern Nigeria in 1967 in Aburi, Ghana, Chief Mike Ahamba, SAN, a legal luminary and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Imo State, has said. In an interview with The Oracle Today in Owerri on
Friday, Chief Ahamba said that all the discussions about the future of the country centre on the Aburi Accord, which was never implemented. It has been said that it was the failure to implement the terms of that agreement that
inexorably led to the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War. “In the discourse of what to do about this country, let us remember that the Aburi Accord of 1967 is still very relevant because in that Accord we agreed to separate to re-
main together. Like one Professor in Nsukka said, it is getting apart to get close. Let us go back to the Aburi Accord,” the Senior Advocate of Nigeria said. Cont’d on page 2
• Nnamdi Kanu cheered by the crowd on his arrival at the Learning Field Playground, Omagba Phase II Estate, Onitsha, Anambra State, during his recent visit.
Ezeibe takes HIV/AIDS cure research to world stage Anambra 2017: Crisis hits A Andy Uba’s camp
From BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia
S THE federal government continues to dilly dally over Prof. Maduike Ezeibe’s reported invention of cure for HIV/ AIDS, the professor of clinical virology at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), Abia State has been invited to share his research findings
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with the international community through a scientific forum, Pharmacognosy 2017 International Conference billed for Australia later this month. In Febraury this year, Ezeibe stunned the medical world when he announced that the Medicinal Synthetic Aluminum Magnesium Silicate invented by his research team cures HIV/AIDS. He told journalists that the research had reached a
stage where it had become ‘money-guzzling’, noting that there was need for the federal government to partner him to commercialise the medicine and secure international patency for it. The Nigeria authorities were miffed and accused the researcher of dumping due process. Ezeibe, then, invited the federal authorities to investigate his claims. Last May, a panel put to-
gether by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, interviewed Ezeibe and up till now, the panel has yet to make its findings public. But organisers of the 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmacognosy, Photochemistry and Natural Products (Pharmacognosy 2017) have extended an invitiation to Ezeibe to share his research experience with the Cont’d on page 2
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