The faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Enugu State University if Science and Technology (ESUT) will on Thursday March 27, 2025 hold Induction/Oath-taking Ceremony for new graduates.

The 5^th Induction ceremony which will feature 63 graduates will hold at the Barr Dr Peter Ndubuisi Mbah Multi-purpose Auditorium in Agbani Main Campus of the university.  

The Registrar/CEO, Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, (PCN) Pharm Ibrahim Ahmed Babashehu, will administer the Oath on the students commencing from 10am while High Chief Pham J.C. Agwu, General Manager, Tayiek Pharmacy Limited, will deliver the keynote speech.

The Induction ceremony will be chaired by Pharm Jasper Onyeka, MD/CEO Impact Pharmaceuticals Limited, Enugu; the Vice-Chancellor, ESUT, Professor Aloysius Michaels Okolie is the Chief Host whereas the Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharm Prof Chika Mbah will host the guests.

Speaking in an interview, Chairman, Induction/Oath-taking Committee, Pharm Dr Cyril Aninwike, said the induction ceremony marks the official admission of the graduates into the pharmacy profession. He stressed that the ceremony will also give the new graduates the licence to practice the profession having spent five years in the university.

“Induction/Oath-taking ceremony is a professional undertaking because you cannot practice Pharmacy without being inducted. You cannot even say you graduated from a Pharmacy school without being inducted. It is a very critical end-product programme for the training of pharmacists.

“It is coordinated by the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN). They are the body in charge of developing policies, Pharmacy education, registration of Pharmacists and controlling of practice. If they have not inducted you, you are not qualified to practice whether you studied in the country or abroad and you want to practice in Nigeria. They administer the oath. On Thursday, the graduate will be administered into an oath and when that is done, they are now qualified to put “Pharm” as their title before their name,” Pharm Aninweike said.

He explained the importance of the induction to ESUT. “This is the 5^th consecutive induction/oath-taking ceremony in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in ESUT. It is a positive indication that the school is operating at optimum and students are inducted as and when due. Since we started our induction ceremony, we have not lost accreditation nor delayed and this is our 5^th induction ceremony. “

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By Amaechi Agbo

Enugu – The College of Medicine, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, will on Tuesday, October 29, 2024 hold her 14th induction ceremony for medical graduands.

The induction ceremony which will hold at the ESUT College of Medicine (ESUCOM) Parklane, Enugu will commence by 10am at the College Auditorium.

A total of 48 graduands of 2016/2017 academic set will be featured during the ceremony which will be supretended by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN.

Professor Anthony Edeh, former HOD, Surgery Department, will deliver the induction lecture. ESUT Vice-Chancellor, Prof Aloysius-Michaels Okolie is the Chief Host while Provost of the College, Prof Uchenna Ekwochi is the host.

Speaking in an interview with ESUT Monitor, the Chairmn, publicity sub-committee of the ceremony, Dr Obinna Nduagubam, explained the essence of the induction.

“Induction is an event that officially declares fresh medical graduands and initiates them into the world of medicine practice.

“It gives them the privilege to work as medical doctors in the medical professional. The induction is done by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria which is the council that regulates practice of medicine in Nigeria.

“They are the ones that certify that the graduands are medical doctors who have gone through the rigours of medical training and they are fit, qualified in character and learning, to work and practice as medical doctors.

It is a landmark event and this is the 14th batch of medical graduands from the ESUT College of Medicine featuring 2017 set,” he concluded.

ESUT Monitor Newspaper will bring you live streaming of the ceremony in our various channels.

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The Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU) has inducted a total of 129 (One Hundred and Twenty Nine) new Medical Doctors, at the 30th Induction/ Swearing in ceremony of graduating Medical Doctors of the Institution .

Declaring the ceremony open at the University auditorium, the Vice-Chancellor, Distinguished Professor Onyemachi M. Ogbulu, represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor G. I. N. Emezue, stated that the University will continue to maintain excellence in producing quality Medical Doctors and thanked the Governor and Visitor to the University, Dr Alex Otti OFR, for his support, particularly in transforming the ABSUTH and the Medical College of the University, as well as helping to secure full accreditation and increased admission quota for the College.

He congratulated the new doctors for their hard work and perseverance, while thanking the parents/ guardian for their sacrifices.

Also speaking, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Ngozi Okoronkwo, said that the State Government recognized the efforts of the University in producing quality Medical Doctors that are doing well in all parts of the world and commended the Governor and Visitor to the University, Dr Alex Otti OFR for his prompt intervention to ensure full accreditation of the Medical College by both National Universities Commission (NUC) and Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), and promised that the administration of the Governor will continue to do more to transform the Medical College of the University as one of the best in Nigeria.

In her address, the Registrar, MDCN, Dr Fatima Kyari, represented by Dr Victor Gbenro, stressed the need for the new Medical Doctors to adhere to the ethics of the profession as they practice and warned that the Council will not hesitate to sanction any one found wanting.

The Provost, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Professor S. N. Onwere, in his own remarks, urged the new Doctors to always be guided by the motto of Excellence and Service of the University, while thanking all the stakeholders that made the event possible.

Giving his valedictory speech, the best graduating student, Dr Onyemachi Obinna, thanked the University, the lecturers and parents for the solid foundation which they have laid for them to move to the next level of their career and assured they will not disappoint.

In a vote of thanks, the Deputy Provost, Professor Boniface Ekpo, thanked all who graced the occasion and advised the new doctors to always remain good ambassadors of the University.

Highlight of the event was the administration of the Physician Oath on the 129 new doctors and presentation of awards.

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Tragedy struck the Abia State University, (ABSU) Uturu, when three students of Medicine and Surgery Department died in a crash in the Okigwe axis of the Enugu-Umuahia Expressway.

The medical students, it was gathered, were returning to Aba from the school’s induction when the incident occurred. The deceased, two 500-level and one 400-level medical students were heading for their base in Aba when the tragic incident occurred at the Nunya axis of the Enugu Port Harcourt Expressway on Thursday evening, March 21.

Confirming the incident, the Abia State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Fredrick Ogiden, said officers of the corps arrived at the scene shortly after the accident, which he said involved an ash-coloured Toyota Camry.

Some other persons were injured in the crash.

In a video circulating online, officers of the FRSC were seen at the scene of the incident while another video showed two injured persons and the corpse of a female victim in a hospital.

According to The Punch, a source said six medical students were returning from Uturu when the accident happened. “Three students have been confirmed dead, while two others are injured and are battling for their lives now in the hospital while one miraculously survived.”

The Abia state Commissioner for Health, Dr Ngozi Okoronkwo, said the ABSU students were reportedly driving a Toyota Camry when a tyre burst. Okoronkwo added that she was told that the driver probably lost control and hit a tree by the roadside.

The Abia State University inducted a total of 129 (One Hundred and Twenty-Nine) new Medical Doctors, at the 30th Induction/ Swearing in ceremony of graduating Medical Doctors of the Institution.

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