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Science needs strong advocates in the Nigerian elections

Presidential candidates pay lip service to the role of science and technology in solving Nigeria’s problems — researchers must come together to be heard.
  1. Amina Ahmed El-Imam

    1. Amina Ahmed El-Imam is a senior lecturer in microbiology at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

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Here in Nigeria, there have been interminable queues at fuelling stations nationwide for almost a year. I feel like a victim of robbery every time I buy petrol from the black market at twice the official rate. As a microbiology professor and working mother of four, I cannot navigate the chaos and long queues at the handful of stations that sell petrol at the government-approved price. Seared into my mind is the image of a brilliant engineer and a senior professor of medicine I know — whose time could be better spent doing research to improve people’s lives — queuing for hours outside a petrol station early on a Monday morning.

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Nature 614, 595 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00507-1

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