The Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy will, on September 12, honour two distinguished Nigerians with Lifetime Achievement Award and Honorary Fellowship, respectively, in a special ceremony which will also feature a lecture by a distinguished scientist.
According to Sir Ifeanyi Atueyi, vice president of the academy, who also serves as the chairman of the Planning Committee, the lecture, which is themed: ‘From Plant to Patient: Driving Research & Innovation for Industry’, will be delivered by a former vice chancellor, Benson Idahosa University, Benin-City, Professor Ernest
Izevbigie.
For his pioneering and entrepreneurial trailblazing efforts in the nation’s pharmaceutical manufacturing sector, Chief Oludolapo Ibukun Akinkugbe, the pioneer General Secretary of the defunct Nigerian Union of Pharmacists and currently the oldest surviving former president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), will receive the Academy’s Lifetime Achievement
Award.
Chief Akinkugbe, who turns 90 on December, will be first pharmacist and third distinguished personality to be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, following former INEC boss, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and former Executive Secretary, Nigeria Universities Commission, Prof Julius
Okojie.
Founder of the T. Y. Danjuma Foundation and Chairman of May & Baker Nigeria Plc., Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd), will receive an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his philanthropic contributions in building a country where all citizens have access to quality health care, education and equal opportunities to realize their
potentials.
He’ll be joining former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, as the only other recipient of the academy’s Honorary
Fellowship.
Prof Izevbigie, who will deliver the academy lecture, is an accomplished researcher and world-renowned authority recognized for his ground breaking focus on the use of bitter leaf in cancer and diabetes management. He is also Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, EdoBotanics, a leading firm in the production of phytoceuticals, nutraceuticals and dietary supplements.
The Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy is a specialized academy that, among others, seeks to promote scientific research and professional development, especially in the health, pharmaceutical and related sectors, in order to help overcome challenges posed by pain and disease, as well as fast-track social and economic development in Nigeria and
beyond.
