President Buhari challenges universities to develop COVID-19 vaccine

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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari has challenged Nigerian universities to intensify their research to develop a COVID-19 vaccine to tackle the dreaded virus afflicting the country.

He explained that Nigerian Universities were supposed to be centres for scientific and technological discoveries, inventions, values and character formation as well as drivers of societal development, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

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Oponu we are challenging to end insecurity, end inflation, end corruption, end senseless borrowing, end nepotism. You thing say na only you sabi challenge?

So, the President expects universities that are NOT adequately funded by the Federal Government to do research?

Universities they upgraded to universal standard àbí, werey n se gbogbo yin

Na wetin pass our power we want dey do now

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, which university? The one’s you have rendered useless by not paying lecturers or the students your administration lured into fraudulent activities, or students, SARS killed? I want to know the student you are referring to, pls can somebody help me out🤷‍♀️

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Small challenge people will challenge this man for good governance, Operation DSS dance. But here he is, making challenges 😂😂

With what funds?🤔🤔🤔

It will be done...

Develop COVID-19 vaccine with what equipment? You borrow money to sponsor Bandits kidnappers and Herdsman to Boko Haram fighters not Equipment in University Labs. Unless Basterd

.. And what have you been challenged to do sir? 🤔

After taking the one from away, u now want university wey u no d pay to produce abi. Only u still d go abroad go treat urself, the drugs wey naija get no fit cure ur malaria na covid na im e go cure abi. Waka dia

aah 👄 suicide! squidgame

Funny! The universities u don't fund. Clown 🤡🤡

What an irony!. Lecturers are not well paid, universities are not properly funded and Buhari is challenging universities on research & development. He who comes to equity must do so with clean hands

he made a mistake . he means they should make a COWid-19 vaccine .

Fund them first

Well, the students should put in same energy he put into fighting insecurity. Normal normal he should be happy they’re emulating him. Useless president.

Vaccine....lolzz. The schools that are frustrated with strike? Pls go and take agbo that's the available vaccine developed by your country for now and it's effective

To take Buhari serious on this very matter. Please earmarked 200Billion for the research & development on the vaccine & Pay 25Billion you agree to pay ASUU. If M Allah can be given 100B i see no reasons you cannot enmark these amount lf indeed you are a true Nigeria.

Well done Mr President.

I challenge you to end insecurity

Lol Buhari.. Pay them salary 1st

Buhari of all people should know that education & research require serious funding or are the varsities his kids attended in the UK not funded? If I tell him now to go & challenge those his kids to help him develop vaccine, people will start shouting 'ment'. I hate nonsense😚

These people and jokes 🤣

No b foreign own u go take if Nigerian own dey!

some are busy steal from others.. help me find this guy.. he stole from me..

Good reason to dedicate a few universities to RESEARCH. Like that, financing gets less complicated and the products become professionals. The answers are all within and requires bold actions to achieve bold results.

He should challenge himself by resigning. Buhari is a colossal failure. A nightmare that would last for almost a century.

I guess it's time for our medical lab scientist to prove themselves

Or presido this kind challenge na wa ooooo…

Hahahahah

I feel so bad Nigeria has not had a leaders who is well educated and values education.. The education system of this country would've been top noch...

Is this man serious at all? Having grounded the universities? You want to learn how to earn money on Amazon through eBook 😍 Join us as we scale through a three day free basic training on how it's done.

Yet you have not been challenged to fix things

This picture doesn't look Buhari nau, Is Buhari getting older or younger?

Government that can't pay ordinary lecturers salary want to develop vaccine Maybe someone should tell him how much a research could cost, but anyway it's just a statement for the camera as usual.

MBuhari is sick,sometimes he utter words as if his head isn't connected to his body.

2)....vaccine is in the accounts of politicians, heads of government parastatals and agencies. Go get them old Malam!!!

1) From what laboratories and using what apparatus?! The ones that did not exist? Or using the out of date notes, course outlines and teaching techniques of the 1960s and 1970s still being employed by lecturers today? The resources that Nigeria should utilize to develop......

The lecturers and doctors you refused to pay their entitlement. Is it cow vaccine you are talking about ? How much are you budgeting for education every year to enable them produce vaccine?

Wey he never pay asuu finish 😂😂

nemeremm Make him solve ASUU wàhálà with FG fess 😁🤣

are they going to develop it with their teeth? The university you refused to fund. Just giving empty talk all over the place

FG and ASUU neva quarrel finish na to develop vaccine for Covid. Let them start with trypanosomiasis for cows.

Madness

I ASHUWA YOU THAT YOU HAP PAILED THE UNIPERSITY. OH! THE STATEMENT IS FOR AMERICA UNIVERSITY.

mondayomoaigbe 😊😁😂🤣🤣

The same universities you have under-resourced for years? Research and inventions are the final output of well oiled educational institutions.

Very funny Nigeria that not produces a pencil for the past 50years the impostor Buhari demands universities to develop COVID-19 vaccine very laughable indeed

Haq Haq Haq 😂

Which kin egg dem fry for bubu

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Funny man 🤣🤣

What has done as president that he's challenging others rubbish.

Like he cares about developing vaccine by Nigeria Universities.

Once again, how much is allotted for education/health in the 21/22 budget pls?

When they develop one, he should be the first to take the jab. Since he's our Leader

PMB give us constant electric power first b4 challenging universities. Will they use bush lamp in the laboratories?

Wayray re o.... universities wey una no position well

Where is the funding?

Universities challenge Buhari to find his brain 🧠

Universities should challenge the idiot to end insecurities in 🇳🇬

Maybe he is not aware that they developed testing kits and a vaccine that was said to undergo clinical trial by WHO. They should push it with funds and not wait for world powers to approve.

Talk is cheap

Yeye the smell...

I ASHUA YOU ZA BUDGET IS APAILABLE TO DEPELOVE COPID 19 VAKSIN

With what research funds!? Malu

I challenge him to fund them, even common water ain't clean

The same universities he didn’t send his children to

Hope they are not going to test the vaccine 💉 on human being shaa 🤦🏻‍♂️

With what funding ? Do they have the needed laboratory with right equipments for that ?

Says the man who could not pay their salaries let alone funding research.

Lmao 🤣

The same uni wey dey strike cos una no pay or not well paid.

Which kain fake challenge is this? Shebi he has collected billions for factory and he's using mouth to challenge universities here

I challenge him to give us 24 hours electricity

This is achievable with the right support and funding. We are known for starting and abandoning projects midway or with the slightest change in the political structure. We can do better.

Lol... Is he giving them money for the research?! 🤣🤣

The same universities he has refused to fund adequately

Which one did he build?

No be only vaccine na poison rubbish

Is he sure he is ready for what might result from this challenge?

Well done o, our Bubu boss!.. The universities that are well funded right? What's your annual budget for education and research work &measures in place? Boss, you can give what u don't av sir!

Drama queen

And what have Buhari developed for the past 6years in power?

Mr challenger. Oshey

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