Oyewale Tomori, Professor of Virology and pioneer Vice Chancellor of the Redeemer’s University, Ogun State, has made his mark...

A Nigerian professor of Virology, Oyewale Tomori, and eight other scientists have been enlisted in the Global Virome Project (GVP). The GVP, which is aimed to launch in 2018 will help identify the bulk of viral threats and provide timely data for public health interventions against future pandemics.

Federal Government had, last week, through the NCDC activated a preparedness plan by setting up the Ebola Preparedness Working Group (EPWG) in response to the renewed outbreak of Ebola in the DRC.

The challenges are many and all hang on the people, First is our attitude to the “amalgam” we call Nigeria. There is no patriotic zeal in our people; there is no commitment to building a nation we can be proud of.

The same reason electricity is epileptic, why we do not have pipe-borne water in homes and everyone digs a well or borehole to supply water, and our nation has remained underdeveloped, and permanently at the periphery of progress....

The President, Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS), Prof. Oyewale Tomori, has stated that lack of collaboration between Nigerian universities research centres and industries is affecting economic growth in the country.

What did the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) hope to achieve, by holding its Public Lecture in the Niger Delta? Well, the topic was “Petroleum”.

“It’S a very special occasion,” Professor Oyewale Tomori declared. A bus was ferrying us from Warri’s Casa De Pedro Hotel to the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), in Effurun.