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Lagos ready to fund research on Ebola


… As Fashola challenges Iwu, others 
 Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, said the state government is prepared to provide funds required to carry out research that can lead to finding cure for the deadly Ebola virus disease (EVD).Speaking during the disbursement of grants to 31 beneficiaries whose research proposals had been approved by the Lagos State Research and Development Council, the governor specifically challenged Prof. Maurice Iwu to come up with a lucid proposal on his Bitter Kola theory, saying the state government would be willing to sponsor it.
Fashola also challenged scholars and researchers in the country to move beyond title earning to contributing meaningfully to the development of the country through their researches.
He said professors, Phd holders and other scholars were respected not because of the finery of their titles but because of their intelligence and what they have to offer the society.
Governor Fashola stated that the state had taken a giant stride by disbursing research grants to scientists and researchers, who had proposals on what could move the society forward.
He said: “I was curious about what Prof. Maurice Iwu was doing with election if he was already doing research on how Bitter Kola can help cure some diseases. He should come back and do his work because really, this is his core competence and if he is listening to me, I am challenging him that he will be able to re-open the frontiers of that research and present it to this organisation.
“It is something that I am sure that we would be looking at. For me, our world is moving quickly and we must participate in it. We must be visible and active theatre of thinking and ideas.”
He said it was disappointing that when the country was faced with the problem of Ebola, none of the much-talked-about probable solutions came from Nigeria or Africa as a whole, pointing out that periods such as when there was Ebola scourge, presented opportunities for researchers and scholars to write their names in the good book of history.
Earlier, Chairman of Lagos State Research and Development Council, Prof. Olufemi Bamiro, said the 

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