By Oluyemi Israel
The world is being warned to take urgent action against antimicrobial resistance, a growing threat where common infections no longer respond to medicines.
This warning came on Thursday during the University of Ilorin’s 288th Inaugural Lecture.
The reason is clear: resistant germs make infections harder to treat, leading to more sickness, more deaths, and rising healthcare costs, and if nothing changes, they could become the leading cause of death by 2050.
The call was made by Professor Ali Akanbi, a medical microbiologist at the University of Ilorin in Ilorin, Nigeria.
He stressed that beating this threat will require a true global effort: using antibiotics properly, preventing infections more effectively, developing new drugs and diagnostic tests, and getting every country to adopt the same rules and plans.