COVID-19 pandemic, challenge to Nigeria’s scientists — FG

The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory Coronavirus pandemic, challenge to Nigeria’s scientists 

The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Hajiya Ramattu Tijjani Aliyu, says the fight against the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge to the ingenuity of Nigerian scientists, engineers and all other fields of medicine to support the government to ward off the pandemic from Nigeria.

The minister said this in Abuja yesterday while taking inspection tour of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) facilities.

“Necessity is the mother of invention” said the minister.

She expressed confidence that the devices would help sanitize Nigeria environments when fully deployed.

The equipment and devices were launched last week by the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu.

Aliyu said it would be a thing of pride to deploy technologies and initiatives by Nigerian scientists and Engineers to solve Nigeria problems especially a pandemic like COVID-19 now that it seemed there was no particular nation in the world with the magic wand to assist others.

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She said that the Federal Capital Territory Administration was ready to work with NASENI to deploy NASENI ventilators to manage cases of COVID-19 in all activated hospitals and isolation facilities within the Federal Capital Territory.

“I think this development of NASENI interventions for the fight against COVID-19 is really an achievement that had come with a very great delight. The innovations not only could safely disinfect persons totally even with their own clothes on, but also clear evidence that Nigeria is getting somewhere “, she said.

Source: Daily Trust