The United States Mission to Nigeria has praised Dr. Onyema Ogbuagu, for his role in the development of a vaccine meant to cure COVID-19.
Ogbuagu, who was a 2003 graduate of the University of Calabar, migrated to the US and rose to become Associate Professor of Medicine and Infectious Disease Specialist at Yale University.
The Associate Professor was part of the team that helped the pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, to develop the vaccine.
On Monday, the US Mission wrote in a Facebook post, “Nigerians contribute to the world in so many ways. Our hats off to Dr Onyema Ogbuagu at Yale who helped develop a COVID-19 vaccine.”
Ogbuagu is the son of the former Vice-Chancellor of Abia State University, Prof. Stella Ogbuagu. He also has a twin brother, who is an engineer.
The need for a vaccine has become more urgent globally and nationally with Nigeria recording over 60,000 COVID-19 infections and over 1,000 associated fatalities, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
