TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS AND 20TH CONVOCATION CEREMONY. THE UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT — YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW SATURDAY, 13TH DECEMBER 2003 It is with tremendous pleasure that I welcome you all to Silver Jubilee Anniversary Celebrations and the 20th Convocation Ceremony of the University of Port Harcourt. Between 1975 and 1977, the then Federal […]
VICE-CHANCELLOR’S ADDRESS AT THE 19TH CONVOCATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT ON SATURDAY, 14TH DECEMBER, 2002 The Visitor and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR, Represented here by Ambassador Godfrey Perewari, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education. The Executive Governor of Rivers State His Excellency, Dr Peter […]
ADDRESS BY THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, PROFESSOR NIMI D. BRIGGS AT THE 18TH CONVOCATION CEREMONY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT ON SATURDAY, 17TH MARCH, 2001 The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR, who is also the Visitor to this University, who is represented by Professor Babalola Borishade, […]
A Mother of Peace A TRIBUTE TO MY MOTHER LADY ESTHER VICTOR TELEMA YOUNGMAN HARRY (1924-2009) Timelessness and Eternity: the Present becomes the Past And so as time, that vacuous imagination of man that sequences our universe, akin to the drudgery of the voyage of sand in an hour glass, now labours to stampede and […]
Introduction — I wish to start by expressing my profound gratitude to the Council of our great society, the Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of Nigeria (SOGON), for giving me the opportunity to deliver this Guest Lecture. This is the second occasion in recent times that such a privilege has been extended to me and […]
INTRODUCTION — For the first time ever, on 3 October, 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a World Report on Violence and Health, which was a comprehensive review of the problem of violence on a global scale. The report which was three years in the making had contributions from over 160 experts from around […]
Introduction — To be invited to share this platform with some of the best minds, past and present, in the Nigerian intellectual firmament, selected as they were, from diverse backgrounds and cosmopolitan origins, which had delivered the O.K. Ogan Memorial Lecture, is a great privilege and honour. I thank the Head, all staff and students […]
Former Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Federal University, Lokoja, Nigeria. February 2016.
Member, Court of Governors, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, October 2015 for four years.
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