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.
2016 Baltic Sea Cruise
Eleven-day boat cruise on board the Regal Princess Hamilton of the Baltic sea visiting 7 countries: Denmark ( Copenhagen), Norway (Oslo), Germany (Berlin, Rostok), Estonia (Tallin), Russia (St Petersburg) and Sweden (Stockholm) before returning to Copenhagen from where we disembarked and took a Scandinavian Airline flight (SAS) to London for our two days. Click To […]
Hospital Named in Honour of Professor Nimi Briggs
In recognition of the contributions of Professor Nimi Briggs to the development and advancement of good health, and towards the Rivers State, the state government, under the leadership of Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi named an hospital after him. The hospital, sited in the Rivers State University of Science and Technology was renamed PROFESSOR NIMI DIMKPA BRIGGS […]
Ibina, Ibina, A Tribute to Late Professor Emeritus Tekena Nitonye Tamuno
Ibina, Ibina, A Tribute to Late Professor Emeritus Tekena Nitonye Tamuno (28th January 1932 – 11 April 2015) Please CLICK HERE to read or to download.
Address of His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, at the Inauguration of the OOPL-CHS Special Committee on Health
Thank you for honoring my invitation to be part of a think-tank to undertake a critical analysis of the health care delivery system in Nigeria and on the bases of such empirical analysis, offer farsighted and practicable suggestions for remedying the generally-perceived poor state of the sector. By way of brief background, it was my […]
A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF MY KIDNAP, DEC 13- 23, 2007
December 13, 2007, was a very busy one for me. I spent the day having an extensive interactive session at the Civic Centre in Port harcourt, with stakeholders in the local government electoral process in the Port Harcourt Local Government Area (PHALGA) of Rivers State. The idea was to encourage grassroots participation in the electoral […]
The Motherhood in Medicine
Giving a talk around a meal time is not infrequently associated with some minor hitches. If the talk is before the meal, people are hungry; they want to eat and so they do not listen. If it is after the meal, then some have had their fill; they want to doze and even snore and […]