A former senator representing Rivers South, Magnus Ngei Abe, has advised newly inducted pharmacists of the University of Port Harcourt to always maintain their professional ethics in the course of duty.
Abe, who was chairman on the 9th induction ceremony of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the university, called on graduands to create better value for the country’s health sector.
He expressed high expectations that the pharmacists would make Nigeria proud by using local herbs and materials for inventions in the health sector and medical sciences to tackle diseases.
Abe said: “Our expectation is that, in this 21st century, if the white man can make capsules out of our own bitter leaf and sell it all over the world, our professionals and intellectuals can look into the herbs and forests of Nigeria to search for and make medicines for our use.”
Earlier in his keynote address, Ugochukwu Agodi Okoroafor, noted that the pharmacists remained one of the most equipped to reach the brave new world of the future.
Okoroafor, who is the Managing Director of Younity Synergy Limited, urged the graduands to work hard, adding that: “Nigeria has come to a point where there should be a revolution of the mind. In your midst today, there are great minds who will in future invent healing drugs that will tackle the diseases that challenge our world.”
In his speech on the occasion, the Vice Chancellor of University of Port Harcourt, Professor Ndowa Lale, congratulated the graduands and urged them to continue to uphold the integrity of the institution at all times.
