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Dr. Oluremi Aduke Saliu

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Health Sciences

Environmental Health Science

Senior Lecturer

HoD

osaliu@noun.edu.ng

Career Profile

I am a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Environmental Health Science at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Abuja. I hold a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Lagos, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Ilorin, specializing in Medical Parasitology and Toxicology.

I am a member of professional organizations such as the Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria, Parasitology and Public Health Society of Nigeria (PPSN), the Organization of Women in Malaria (WIM), the Organization of Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), and many others.

My research focuses on sexual and reproductive health, Malaria, Hepatitis, HIV, and non-communicable diseases, particularly among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. I have conducted extensive research on malaria and natural products and has published widely in national and international journals.

In addition to my academic work, I actively participate in community health initiatives, such as cholera sensitization campaigns in Abuja. I am also an advocate for Open and Distance Learning (ODL), earning multiple certifications and contributing to health awareness through radio and television programs.

I am married with four children and I enjoy traveling, reading, and listening to classical music. My career is defined by a commitment to advancing public health through innovative research, education, and impactful community service.

Ph.D. Biochemistry (Medical Parasitology and Toxicology) University of Ilorin | 2019.
M.Sc. Biochemistry (Toxicology), University of Ilorin |199.
B.Sc. Biochemistry, University of Lagos |1988

D.WORK EXPERIENCE WITH DATES:
(a) Texila American University, Guyana 2024
Post held: PhD Advisory Committee (PAC) member.

Responsibilities:
– Ensuring that the research topics selected by the students are approved by the local ethical committee.
– Ensuring that the ethical issues related to Plagiarism, authorship of proposals, papers, and other academic work are not violated.
– Using plagiarism detection software to check for plagiarism in curriculum development and highlight the concern areas.
– Providing recommendations on the proposal of the PhD applicants to the PAC Chairman for approval.

(b) Department of Environmental Health Science, Faculty of Health Sciences
National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja 2017-Till Date
Responsibilities
– Head of the Department (HOD) of Environmental Health Science
– Overseeing and coordinating both Academic and Administrative activities of the Department.
– Developing course materials for the Department.
– Participating in e-examination and pen-on-paper questions setting.
– Collating and supervising examination marking during the Conference Marking Exercises.
– Supervising both undergraduate and postgraduate students’ projects and seminars.
– Engaging students in teaching and practical sessions on key courses in biochemistry such as protein and carbohydrate metabolisms, drug metabolism, phytochemical screening, liver and kidney-function indices, serum electrolytes determination, enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant evaluation, anti-inflammatory studies, etc.

Achievements
– Successfully led the Department to obtain full accreditation status for the degree program in Environmental Health Science in 2022 from the National Universities Commission, the regulatory educational body in Nigeria that ensures quality assurance services in Nigerian universities.

In 2021, I led the Department of Environmental Health Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria, in a social responsibility exercise addressing a cholera outbreak in Gosa-Kpanyi Kpanyi community, Abuja, Nigeria.

(c) Planning Office, National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja 2007-2014
Post Held: Senior Assistant Registrar.

(d) Department of Biochemistry, University of Ado-Ekiti 1991-2000
Post Held: Lecturer II
Responsibilities
-Lectured 300 and 400-level undergraduate Biochemistry students.
-Set and Marked Examination Questions.
-Supervised Student’s projects and seminars.
– Served as Departmental Coordinator
-Served as Staff Adviser

(e) School of Health Technology, Offa 1988-1989
Post Held: Teaching Assistant
Responsibilities
– Taught Environmental toxicology as a National Youth Corp Member to students of the institution.

  1. Shehu U.Adamu; Blessing E. Edogbo; Oluremi A Saliu; Idowu.O.Ayodeji; Frank Ebhodaghe; Salima. A. Sada; Suwaiba Nasir; Habibu Tijjani; Yisa .G. Abraham; Chukwunonso Eya. Sub-chronic Toxicological Evaluation of Drinking Water from Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria: A case study from Wassa. (Accepted for publication by Sahel Journal of Life Sciences.
  2. Ahmad M. Ado, Fatima A. Mahmoud, Habibu Tijjani, Umar Ibrahim, Sadiq Tijani, Sadiya Alka, Ahmed Olatunde, Aminu U. Kura, Abubakar Mohammed, Oluremi A. Saliu, Oluwafemi A.Idowu and Frank Ebhodaghe. Verbenone and L-Arginine Attenuate Oxidative Stress in Streptozotocin- Nicotinamide Induced Diabetic Mice. Tropical Journal of Natural Product Research. September 2024, 8(9), https://www.tjnpr.org
  3. Aduke Oluremi Saliu, Abraham Gana Visa, Noel Biodun Saliu, Boniface Ekwo Ogbu and Ayodeji Oluwafemi Idowu (2024). Heavy metals and bacteria contamination in drinking water: The Wassa IDP camp case study, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. FUW Trends in Science and Technology Journal, 101- 107, August, 2024.
  4. Abraham Gana Yisa, Ahmed Sekinat Oziamo, Maureen Nkedilim Chukwu, Uduak Irene Aletan, Soonie Joshua Oniye, Oseggbon Adaora, Oluremi Aduke Saliu, Edogbo Blessing, Omada Stephene, Abiodun Emmanuel Adamsa and Idowu Oluwafemi Ayodeji (2024). Health risk assessment of lead and cadmium in roadside roasted corn in selected areas of Bwari local government area, FCT, Nigeria. UMYU Journal of Microbiology Research,9(1), 84-92. Hyyps://doi.org/10.47430/ujmr.2491.009
  5. Aliyu FM, Olatunde A, Kura AU, Gagman HA, Saliu OA, Suwaiba N, Salima AS, Idowu OA, Edogbo BE, Tijjani H (2023). In vitro and in vivo antioxidative and antihyperglycemic potentials of bran and bran oil of faro 60 (Jamila rice), 9th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry (MDPI) session Natural Products and Biopharmaceuticals, 1-30, November, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/ECMC2023-15602
  6. Adams M.D., Muftaudeen T.K. and Saliu O.A. (2023). Polyphenol-rich extract of Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Grain lowers gastrointestinal dysmotility and enhanced colonic peristalsis in rifaximin-induced constipated rats. Nigerian Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology:38(3), 131-138. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njbmb.v38i3.4
  7. Habibu T., Ibrahim U., Tijani S., Alka S., Olatunde A., Kura A.U., Gegman H.A., Saliu O.A., Idowu O.A., and Ebhodaghe F.E. (2023). Verbenone and L-arginine from Daucus carota seeds attenuate oxidative stress in streptozotocin-nicotinamide (STZ-NAD)-induced diabetic mice: Evidence from in vitro and in vivo studies. bioRxiv preprints, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.28.559552
  8. Saliu, O.A., Idowu, O.A., Joseph-Shehu, M.E., Mohammed, H.S. Adamu, S.U. and Alaba, O.A. (2023). Factors associated with non-pharmaceutical interventions compliance during COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons for future infectious diseases pandemic. Nigerian Journal of Parasitology; 44(2)
  9. Alaba, O.A., Chiwire, P., Siya, A., Saliu O.A., Nhakaniso, K., Nzeribe, E., Okova, D. and Lukwa, A.T. (2023). Socio-economic inequalities in the double burden of malnutrition among under-five children: Evidence from 10 selected sub-Saharan African countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20,5489. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph20085489
  10. Saliu, O.A., Akanji, M.A. S and Idowu, O.A. (2023). Pharmacological activities of phytochemical and micro-element constituents of successive extracts of Luffa cylindrica leaf. Research Journal of Medicinal Plants; 17(1):1-8.doi.org/10.17311/rjmp.2023.1.8.
  11. Saliu, O.A., Akanji, M.A. and Idowu, O.A. (2022). Luffa cylindrica (Linn. M. J. Roem) reduce oxidative stress in vivo in Plasmodium berghei infected albino mice. Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; 1-7.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1758033.
  12. Idowu, O.A., Saliu, O.A., Fakorede, C.N., Itakorode, B.O. and Arise, R.O. (2022). Toxicological effects on some selected tissues of rats fed glycoalkaloids-rich and light-exposed Solanum tuberosum. Journal of Nutrition and Food Security; 7(4):512-524.doi:10.18502/jnfs.v7i4.11062.
  13. Saliu, O.A., Akanji, M.A. Saliu, N.B. and Idowu, O.A. (2022). In vivo investigation provides new insights into the antiplasmodial activities of Luffa cylindrica leaf extracts in Plasmodium berghei infected mice; East African Medical Journal; 99(4):4686-4700.
  14. Saliu, O.A; Idowu, O.A; Adamu, S.U. and alaba, O.A. and (2022). COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lockdown measures and a chronological epidemiological review during the first wave. Texila International Journal of Public Health, 10(1):1-22. doi: 10.21522/TIJPH.2013.10.01.Art018
  15. Saliu, O.A. and Akanji, M.A. (2021). In vitro antiplasmodial activity of extracts and fractions of Luffa cylindrica NOUN Journal of Physical and Life Sciences; 4:1-10.
  16. Idowu, O.A., Saliu, O.A., Fakorede, C.N. and Arise, R.O. (2021). Anti-ulcerogenic efficacy of leaf fractions of Argemone mexicana against indomethacin-induced ulceration in rats. Asian Journal of Emerging Research, 3(2):129-136. doi.org/10.3923/ajerpk.2021.129.13
  17. Saliu, O.A., Akanji, M.A. and Idowu, O.A. (2020). Enzymes activities and histopathological studies in selected tissues of albino mice treated with methanolic leaves extract of Luffa cylindrica (an antimalarial herb). Journal of malaria research and phytomedicine, 1(4):7-19.
  18. Saliu, O.A; Akanji, M.A; Idowu, O.A. and Saliu, N.B. (2020). Free radical and reactive oxygen species scavenging potentials of Luffa cylindrica leaf extracts. Journal of Cell Biology and Biochemistry Research, 5(2):27-30.
  19. Saliu, O.A; Akanji, M.A; Idowu, O.A. and Saliu, N.B. (2019). Pharmacological evidence favouring the ethnomedicinal use of Luffa cylindrica leaf in the relief of pain and fever. Direct Research Journal of Health and Pharmacology, 7(4):38-46. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3374000
  20. Idowu, O.A; Saliu, A.O; Adams, M.D.; Eze, E.D. (2019). Anti-diabetic and safety properties of aqueous extract of stem barks of Vitelleria paradoxa on streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. IOSR Journal of Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 5(4):37-46. doi: 10.9790/264X-0504013746.
  21. Akanji, M. A; Olagoke, O. A. and Oloyede, H.O.B (1993). Effect of chronic consumption of metabisulphite on the integrity of rat kidney cellular system”. Toxicology. 81:173-179. doi: 10.1016/0300-483x(93)90010-p

Phytomedicine, Natural Product Bio fractionation and Biotechnology.

1. Orchid:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4526-6131
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1. Grant Award under the 2017-2022 (Merged) Tetfund Institution based Research (IBR) Project.
Title: “Clinical Evaluation of Novel Anti-COVID-19, Anti-hypertensive and Anti- diabetic Functional Tea from Celosia Argentea and Spices”. 2024
Team Leader: Dr. Aderonke Otunola.
Co-Researchers: Dr. Oluremi A Saliu; Adaora N. Osegbo.

2. Grant Award under the 2017-2022 (Merged) Tetfund Institution based Research (IBR) Project.
Title: “Enhancing the Biological Activities of Verbenone through Interlinking with Cyclodextrin, Eudragit E100 and Lysine”.2024
Team Leader: Dr Oluremi A Saliu.
Co-Researcher: Dr. Blessing E. Edogbo.

3. Award of Research Grant by the Directorate of Research Administration, National Open University of Nigeria.
Title: To Investigate the “Physical, Chemical and Microbial properties of water in Abuja and waterborne Disease: Prevalence and Piloted Mitigating Strategies”. 2022.
Team Leader: Prof. Shehu Adamu (Dean Faculty of Health Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN)
Role: Co-investigator.

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