- “I had treated and cured Many HBV, HCV and HIV patients with the vaccine.” – Abalaka asserted.
- “In the year 2000 or thereabouts, (President) Obasanjo’s administration offered me a “Death Gift” of N10M to go to Atlanta in Georgia, USA, to reveal details of my Vaccine Preparation Procedure for it to be announced as the US Discovery but I refused the Wicked Offer.” – Abalaka revealed.
- “One of the Chiefs of Army Staff during (President) Obasanjo’s administration was a beneficiary of my vaccine when he was a Colonel. Years after he was cured by the vaccine and he had become the COAS, he told me in his office behind closed doors that Obasanjo hated me beyond imagination because of my vaccines.” – Abalaka disclosed.
- “Prof. Jerry Gana is still much alive, he was the Minister of Information during Obasanjo’s Democratic Regime, we entered Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria together in October 1967. We became friends. He’s a genius. He graduated with a first class in Geography. He was also petrified even as a Minister that Obasanjo so hated me over my HIV vaccines claims that he (President Obasanjo) directed that nobody in his administration should promote my vaccines in any way.” – Abalaka recounted.
- “The successive Nigerian Governments since 1999 when I announced my discoveries have pathetically not been focused on this matter. If the administrations at the federal level had been focused a wee bit, they would have known that investing on my discoveries to which no Government Contributed a kobo, was and still is, better than investing in gold mines, far more than our crude oil! The world powers know the economic implications of these discoveries, the reason for their conspiracy and campaign of calumny against the safe and effective vaccines that I developed which are actually preventive and therapeutic in nature.” – Abalaka fumed in anger.
- “Tell the world that early HIV infection is very curable, faster than anybody can imagine. My vaccines prevent and cure early infections with the dreaded Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) within a few weeks.” – Abalaka again claimed.
These and many more revelations unfold in this exclusive and spellbound interview with Dr. Jeremiah Ojonemi Alabi Abalaka on the controversies surrounding his HIV vaccines since 1999. The Nigerian Surgeon who has consistently claimed since almost three decades ago that he single-handedly developed safe and effective vaccines which are preventive and therapeutic against early HBV, HCV & HIV, using only his own family resources, reiterates that his therapeutic vaccines cure, within a few weeks, those that have early HBV, HCV and HIV infections. Interview conducted by DEBO ADEKANMI ADEGBAYE, the Host of matterMATTERS Today @matterMATTERStv and Editor-in-Chief of matterMATTERS on matterMATTERS247.com.
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HOW IT ALL STARTED AND THE CRITICAL EVENTS SINCE THE YEARS OF YORE
Twenty-seven years ago, precisely in 1999, Nigeria became the focal point of international attention when a Nigerian medical doctor, Dr. Jeremiah Ojonemi Alabi Abalaka, claimed to have developed a preventive and therapeutic vaccine against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, which is better known as HIV, one of the most devastating diseases in the modern history and in the world of medicine globally.
His announcement generated remarkable excitement among hopeless patients, anticipating healthcare professionals and the general public. Supporters hailed him as a visionary whose discovery could change medical history of the nation. Critics, however with scepticism, questioned the scientific evidence behind the claims, while government regulators insisted that no medicine or vaccine should be used without undergoing internationally accepted scientific evaluation. What followed was more than two decades of controversy which involved medical experts, regulatory agencies, legal battles, variant public opinions and continuing debate.
However for the entire vicenarians, the Gen Z folks who were born in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the story of Abalaka will definitely sound like an unimaginable fiery tale since the story they were handed about HIV and AIDS has been that of untamable death monster and fatality without remedy. Hence, this interview therefore serves not only as a content for just a broadcast or publication, but also as a historical case study which will definitely start episodes of legendary renaissance and chart course for the way forward on how best Abalaka could be proved wrong or right for the sake of justice, equity, accountability and responsibility on the part of the government. If proved wrong transparently with all attendant due diligence in place, the 78 year old Abalaka will definitely be glad that at last a government paid attention to him and his claimed invention while government would be vindicated of her critics of alleged intentional victimisation of the poor doctor.
On the other hand, if proved right, that will not only become Abalaka’s victory but also a eureka turn around for Nigeria as a country with unprecedented paradigm shift of status from the all-time best negatives in virtually all spheres of life, to a best positive, perhaps for the first time ever, which of course shall become a timeless legacy for such a national administration under whose such unprecedented global feat is achieved, especially from one of the countries of African continent which is full of vilified third world nations as being ever tagged.
We revisit the events from the beginning, examine the scientific, legal and regulatory issues involved, and allow Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka himself to respond to questions that have remained subjects of public interest for over two decades. As earlier inferred, this is a start of fresh episodes of Abalaka’s vaccine saga until the mission set out on this special media campaign project is accomplished. Our objective is neither to endorse nor dismiss any claim, but to present the facts, examine the evidence and ultimately call the attention of the government to this more-than-gold mine investment, peradventure it turns out to be valid as claimed, even at this critical time in the nation when government is scouting for investors all over the world. Perhaps, this could be a realistic play of a sovereign nation over the years.
Regarding concerns about whether the vaccine would meet WHO and other external regulatory bodies’ approval criteria or not, it is also worth recalling the case of Madagascar’s COVID-Organics – CVO and CVO+, which were promoted and unveiled by the country’s President himself, Andry Rajoelina in April, 2020 despite WHO’s reservations about the products, claiming there was no sufficient scientific evidence demonstrating its safety and efficacy. However, it was internally launched and approved for use within the country and as many countries as craved cover from the dreaded Covid-19 at the time went for the products.
Very recent of such scenario was the 1st of April, 2026 Russia’s announcement with pomp and pageantry when it claimed to have administered its first personalised mRNA therapeutic cancer vaccine to a patient with melanoma. The vaccine which was named Neooncovac was neither endorsed by WHO nor approved by any other external regulator as at the date it was first administered to a patient; yet, drums were rolled out to celebrate their success on the discovery and the maiden administration of the vaccine.
Hence, a clarion call on all powers that be in this regard, especially the Nigerian presidency through the Ministry of Health, to arrange a critical re-investigation in no time into Abalaka’s reportedly discovered HIV vaccines after almost three decades of redundancy as we delve into the matter in stages and episodes until the agenda is intentionally looked into by government while this old inventor is still much alive.
Today on the programme, I am excited to announce to you that I have with me the horse and so we can hear directly from the horse’s mouth. Dr Jeremiah Ojonemi Alabi Abalaka you are welcome on the programme – matterMATTERS Today.
Thank you for having me.
Dr., one of your names sounds Yoruba – Alabi, and that raises a question of where exactly you hailed from. I mean your hometown, the local government, your constituency and senatorial district. Or is the name a mere coincidence? Also, would you mind telling us exactly your date of birth?
Alabi is actually my father’s name and as I grew up, I realised that many other tribes bore it, especially the Yorubas who far outnumber the Igalas. The Yoruba population as far as I understand maybe 50 times the Igala population. But I also come to know that the Ebiras also bear that name. Many people, many tribes in Edo state also bear that name but to us it’s an Igala name. In fact in my little community there were two different Alabis there. I was born into a rural community called Ajiyolo in a district called Biraidu or Aboko-oche district. The local government area is Dekina local government area with the headquarters at Dekina, that’s in the Kogi East senatorial district of Kogi state. Having said that, the journey of the Kogi senatorial district has been a tortuous journey. We were in Benue state before Kogi state was created in 1991 that we moved and joined the former Kaba province. The present Kogi state was a former Kaba province under the provincial system before we joined the rest of the divisions. I was born 13 days to Christmas in 1948. I’m crowding 78.
Now doctor I would like you to tell us how you started your educational career from primary school to secondary.
In my days I started primary school under the native authority (during the colonial era) under Britain then, so we operated native authority primary and senior primary schools. I attended different schools, junior primary school from 1956 to 1958, then we took entrance exam to senior primary school which I did in 1959 to 1960. From there I took entrance examination. I didn’t complete my senior primary school because I was to do primary seven but I passed to secondary school from primary six so in 1961 I went to secondary school where I was in the second set. I spent four years in the school because I was given double promotion from form one to form three so I finished in 1964 with the West African school certificate and Cambridge, which it was called that time.
Thank you for that. Could you briefly walk us through your university days, medical trainings, area of specialisation and past career engagements?
In my time we would not go to the university from secondary school, we go for what we call higher school certificate course, a two-year course for A’ levels that I did in that year 1965 and 1966. Then we have to wait for the university to open in October. All universities in Nigeria would start lectures on 2nd October and end later 30th of June of the following year. So after I successfully finished my higher school certificate I applied to the universities. At my time which was end of 1966, only two universities offered a course in Medicine in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and University of Lagos. I applied to both but they didn’t give the admission, the list wasn’t out.When the northern Nigerian government arranged its interview for its students around March/April 1967, at the interview they asked all of us who wanted to do Medicine to produce our admission letters, we had none. They immediately directed us to the registrar of Ahmadu Bello University who was there, we didn’t know they were going to start a faculty of Medicine. They saw through our results there and gave us admission letters on the spot. They said well, we’ll give you scholarship to ABU (since) you have no admission to Ibadan, that’s how I ended up in Ahmadu Bello University in October 1967 for a five-year course in which I completed in June 1972. After completion I had to do the formalities (of Medicine), do housemanship and then do senior housemanship. Let me add that there was no NYSC when I graduated, it was at our convocation in 1972 that Gowon (who was the) then head of state announced that he was going to start National Youth Service Corp. So, my set was not affected. So, that was how I came in as a doctor.
Where I was trained in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, they operated a lot of training and clinical sections that encompassed Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital in Zaria, Amadu Bello University Teaching Hospital in Kaduna and a rural hospital in Malumfashi, now in Katsina State, we had to undergo training through these hospitals. After graduation I took up employment with the Institute of Health. In the course of my employment there I spent an eventful two years in Pathology going through the four main sections of Pathology, namely: Morbid Anatomy, Haematology, Microbiology and Chemical Pathology. It’s during that time that I met one Professor Edington in Morbid Anatomy and he took interest in training me in the field of immunology. He sent me to University of Ibadan for a certificate course in Immunology. He had asked me to make sure I pass that course with distinction because I was the most junior person they had ever admitted to that course which was meant for senior lecturers and above, I was just a registrar in Pathology.
I enjoyed the course and I finished it and I came out of it with distinction. As soon as I finished the course he arranged for me to go for an Immunopathological conference in Geneva, sponsored by World Health Organisation. I attended that course which laid down my foundation in Immunology. The two weeks immunopathological conference we had in Geneva changed my life and my outlook in Immunology. In particular I recall a South Korean Professor who was old enough to be my dad. He was a grandparent. He took interest in me and educated me that when new diseases come out, to develop vaccines against them, you must get what we call your immunogen. The thing you are going to use to stimulate the new response, and you must get it correctly. I owe him a lot of thanks. Then after all those two years’ experience, I switched over to surgery where I finished the postgraduate programme that ended up in my getting a fellowship of the Medical College of Surgeons and I wrote to the rank of Chief Consultant Surgeon.
To be continued…
We will continue from here to look into how Dr. Abalaka transitioned from medicine and surgery to the field of immunology which led to his research on HIV vaccines and onward to deeper revelations on his subsequent travails and his encounter with the then federal government administration. You can watch the video of the interview here. Follow us on all our social media platforms so that you don’t miss out on any of these interesting episodes – @mattermatterstv on X, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram. Same handle across board. You can send your comments, Ad booking notice and any other information via: mattermatters247@gmail.com.
