A Professor of Ethno – Pharmacology and Medical Biochemistry, Professor Stanley Okereke, Abia State University Uturu (ABSU), has made it clear that ageing can be delayed through going back to the consumption of local foods.
Delivering the 75th inaugural lecture of Abia State University Uturu on the topic “Delaying Ageing: the role of Biochemistry ” held at the University Auditorium, Professor Okereke called for an aggressive nutritional paradigm shift to encourage people to eat healthy foods.
He warned against abuse of unregulated herbal medicine which is responsible for liver and kidney damages and recommended day to day exercise to keep the body fit and healthy.
Declaring the 75th Inaugural lecture open, the Chairman on the Occasion and Vice Chancellor Abia State University, Distinguished Professor Onyemachi Ogbulu, commended Professor Okereke for coming to identify those things that delay ageing, adding that the University will continue to produce Professors of international repute in spite of obvious challenges.
The Vice- Chancellor represented by the Deputy Vice- Chancellor Academic, Professor Godwin Emezue, revealed that seven (7) graduates of ABSU made first class in the last Nigerian Law school examination results while the University also recorded a hundred percent success in the last National Universities Commission (NUC) accreditation and thanked the Governor, Abia State and Visitor to the University, Dr Alex Otti, for his support to the Institution.
In a vote of thanks, the Deputy Vice Chancellor Administration/Chairman ceremonials committee Professor Ogbonna Onuoha, noted that ABSU has remained the second best State University in Nigeria and thanked Professor Okereke for delivering a brilliant lecture.
Highpoints of the inaugural lecture were the appreciation of the inaugural lecturer Professor Stanley Okereke by the Vice Chancellor’s representative Professor Emezue, in company of the immediate past University Librarian Professor Udo Nwokocha and the presentation of gift items to the inaugural lecturer by various groups.
