Stories by Stanley Onyekwere
As part of activities in commemoration of the World NTDs Day 2025, students of the University of Abuja were drilled on dangers of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).
The campaign, organised by the FCTA, aimed at improving the awareness about Neglected Tropical Diseases among undergraduate students.
Speaking during the sensitisation programme, Dean Faculty of Science, University of Abuja, Professor Ahmed Dankishiya, appreciated the FCT-Public Health Department for coming to educate the students; adding that his office is actively working on improving the courses to educate students further about NTDs.
He expressed willingness of the Faculty to encourage the students to research more on NTDs and work towards its eradication.
Dankishiya stressed the need for the students to be aware of NTDs, especially as it pertains to the sanitary preventions for NTDs.
On her part, FCT-NTDs Coordinator, Dr. Eunice Ogundipe, revealed that the objective of the sensitisation exercise is to stimulate the interest of the students who have little or no knowledge about the diseases.
Ogundipe decried that students tend to focus their research work on other areas of public health concerns like Malaria, HIV among others.
For a student of Faculty of Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Endurance Otata, who thanked the FCT-Public Health Department for the sensitisation programme; said that he has gained enlightenment on the preventable causes and treatment of some NTDs.
He revealed that before the sensitisation programme, he didn’t realise that some vectors of these NTDs were domiciled stagnant water.
