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johnjay4u2u:
some Nigerians just hate doctors for no good reason. See the rubbish many wrote up here.


The rubbish politicians on your streets are there, you will be hailing them.
someone fighting for what's his/her right, then you see mumu everywhere insulting.
Do you know how other countries are welcoming Nigerian doctors.

Make una sit there o.
your eyes go clear soon.

This ur doctor pple will still give 1001 reasons why other health Professionals should nt get to the Zenith of there Profession...

Everything is abt them.

Every thing have protocol... They should adhere strictly.

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A professor of pathology is not a consultant
A consultant of pathology is not a Professor...

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A REMINISCENCE INTO FOUR (4) YEARS OF PROF IKONNE’S SUCCESS STORY AS VICE-CHANCELLOR OF ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Ahamefula Israel

The award winning Vice Chancellor of Abia State University, Eminent Professor E. Uche Ikonne was four years into his five years tenure on the 1st of December 2019. He assumed office formally as the 7th substantive Vice Chancellor of the University on the 1st of December 2015.

Unarguably, Abia State University, has had its best days since establishment in the last four years of Prof. Ikonne’s istration. It’s almost or impossible to think of any aspect of the University that has not developed rapidly since he came on board.

Renowned for his charismatic leadership style which involves blowing hot and cold depending on which strategy best suits what he intends to achieve, Ikonne has successfully taken ABSU from analog generation University to a fast rising 21st century institution.

Despite assuming office at a time the nation was going through one of her worst recessions of all times, Professor Ikonne has been phenomenal. He is leaving indelible marks in the areas of infrastructure and development, programmes expansion, security, among others. Gradually, the university is becoming a huge construction site.

It’s on record that no Vice Chancellor in the over 39 years lifespan of the institution has completed or come close to completing more capital projects than Prof. Ikonne. In of curriculum offerings, it’s also the same. He holds the record as the VC who has established more programmes to meet the contemporary labour demands than any other in the history of the University.

Interestingly, the profile of the University, nationally and internationally, is rising radically. ABSU, like the Association of African Universities extolled sometime last year has become not just a national pride but a global brand.
The days when ABSU was dismissed with a wave of hand are over as students and products of the University have taken the National and International community by storm. It wasn’t long ago that students from the University won the champion of the 2019 All Nigerian Universities Debating Championship held at the University of Calabar, Cross River State. Similarly, the University also fielded students that represented Nigeria at the Pan African debating championship in Ghana.

At this juncture, it is imperative to note that ABSU held her first ever alumni convocation after over 36 years under the Ikonne’s istration. Many former Vice Chancellors tried to unite the alumni and got frustrated at some point, but Professor Ikonne, a foresight leader, who sees impossibility as illusion took up the challenge and today, the alumni association of the University has received a formidable from the incumbent istration of the University, which has in return placed the activities of the association on a smooth sail.
Similarly, he initiated the first ever Eminent Persons lectures series of the university, to proffer solutions to the societal problems thereby contributing to the socio-political and economic development of the Nation and the society at large, as well as organized the first Igbo Cultural festival in the university, to give impetus to the promotion of Igbo Culture and Tradition.
No wonder the 5th Substantive Vice-Chancellor of Abia State University, Professor Mkpa Agu Mkpa described the University under the tenure of Professor E. Uche Ikonne as “the golden era of the University”.

Below is an attempt to highlight some of his achievements under different units of the University represented in themes. This is not comprehensive because it’s too difficult to put together all the numerous things he has done in such a short period in this epistle:

EXPANSION OF INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT: CONSTRUCTION, SUPPLIES AND REHABILITATION

•Renovation of the Senate Building of the University to international standard.
•Renovation of the Vice-Chancellors Official Residence (Ebenezer Lodge).
•Completion of renovation work in all students Emergency Hostel, including Sam Mbakwe hostel in Uturu Location.
•Completion and Habitation of Algon Hostel, which was started in 2002 but later abandoned.
•Construction and renovation of hostels and classroom buildings in Umuahia location of the university.

•Construction of Medical Students Hostel.
•Construction of Pathology laboratory for the departments of Microbiology, Chemical Pathology, Hematology, Pharmacology and so on.
•Procurement and installation of a brand new 65KVA generating set for students hostel in Aba location of the university.
•Construction of ultramodern 300 capacity hostel (New Hostel) in Uturu location.
•Renovation of Biochemistry department laboratory.
•Renovation of Microbiology department laboratory.
• Relocation of the faculty of Law to a more conducive environment at the state capital, Umuahia.
• Construction of Public health department laboratory.
•Establishment of an ing Laboratory in the Department of ancy.
•Connection of the university to national electricity power. (National Grid)
• Supply of library books to faculties.
• Supply of 2000 lecture theatre seats with swivel writing pads.
• Supply of (500) 8-spring double bunk beds and (3000) 8-spring mattresses.
•Procurement of (1) 40-seater bus (2) Toyota Hilux and (1) Hiace bus.
•Construction and equipping of Faculty of Engineering Laboratory/Workshop.
•Construction of e-library for the faculty of Law.
• Construction of ultra-modern laboratories for the college of Medicine, Aba.
• Refurbishing and completion of abandoned building for department of Fine Arts and Mass Communication.
• Attraction of the New Students Union Government Secretariat Complex built and donated by the Governor, Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, PhD.
•Attraction of ninie (9) brand new vehicles from the Governor of Abia State for the Provost, & Deans of Faculty.
•Attraction of the ongoing 40bedroom ABSU ALUMNI Guest House at Uturu location of the University, etc.

SECURITY

• Improved Security on Campus by prioritizing the training and retraining of personnel.
• The issue of acute shortage of security personnel is being addressed with the recruitment of competent personnel.
• Provision of serviceable patrol vehicles mounted with relevant security accessories/equipments.
• Launching of new security outfit.
• Re-enforcement of internal security with the introduction of t patrol security team.
• Securing approval for the establishment of a military security post at the up-gate side of the university to checkmate violent crimes on campus and its environs.
• Unprecedented promotion of security staff.
• Special promotion of security staff who exhibited extra-ordinary gallantry in the execution of their duty.

ALUMNI RELATIONS

Professor Ikonne has established a robust relationship with the University Alumni Association that led to the:
• Inauguration of the United Kingdom and United State branches of the university by the Vice-Chancellor.
• Donation of 94 (Ninety-Four) sets of modern all-in-one computers.
• Renovation and furnishing of over 4 departmental libraries and conference rooms, donation of books, hospital and laboratory equipment, endowment of awards and prices for best graduating student in various discipline by the alumni.
• Construction of Frank Akpuaka Students Center.
• Ongoing construction of a 20-bedroom ABSU-ALUMNI Guest House and the construction of ultra 40 bedroom Postgraduate Hostel.

CURRICULUM OFFERINGS/ACADEMIC VISIBILITY

• Expansion of the academic curricula by the introduction of new and marketable programmes like Pharmacy, Public Health, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Surveying and Geo-informatics, Anatomy, Physiology, Information Communication and Technology.
•Revived the Center for Igbo Studies with the hosting of the first ABSU Cultural Day and Hosting of a National Conference of the Igbos since 1970.
• Increased the number of faculties from 10-14.
• Increased the quota for ission given by JAMB.
• A hundred percent accreditation of programmes by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
• Establishment of a ranking and visibility committee.
• Establishment of the Directorate of Law and Justice.
• Establishment of the university Book House, where printed materials for students receive approval by the Book Review Committee. Each Material, when printed is sold at the Book House at an agreed cost, with the author receiving his/her royalty. This, among other benefits help to preserve and enhance the prestige of the teaching staff.
•Setting up a Quality Assurance & Ethics Committee which acts as the "Ombudsman" of the University to ensure quality teaching and highly improved service delivery by all categories of staff.
Improved Academic discipline, prompt online registration of courses and release of student examination results.
•Re-Organized the university outreach programmes (Institute for Distance Education (IDEA) and (Sandwich) for greater efficiency and setting up the Institute for Continuing Education (ICE).

SUSTENANCE OF EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH

• Sustained increase in the tempo of academic activities like Faculty conferences, public lectures, departmental lectures.
•Established a robust research-oriented istration with professors leading several research teams.
•Introduction of functional website for the university, e-senate, and the establishment of online transcript unit.
•Provision of functional work station in all Faculties and Departments.
• Rekindled the moribund inaugural lecture series of the university, by having 35 Inaugural lectures and one special lecture, as against nineteen (19) Lectures in 35 years of the existence of the University in less than 5 years (1981-2020)
• Attracted the Sponsorship of 38 research topics by TETFund at the inception of his istration in 2016 and 43 topics in 2019, which has made the university a beehive of research activities.
STAFF AND STUDENTS WELFARE
• Prompt payment of staff salaries and pensions.
• Regular promotion of staff.
• Uninterrupted peace and stability on campus attributed to proactive interaction with students.
• Unprecedented swift response to issues affecting students.
• Enthusiastic about set targets for addressing complaints.
• Adding value to the hostels through, tiling, re-piping, re-wiring, constant supply of cleaning materials, evacuation of sewage, de- silting of soak-away ,delivery of over 3000 mattresses and other municipal services.
• Easing of obtaining accommodation in the hostels through an electronic platform that is linked to the payment portal.

DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF ABSU PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AND CONSUMER SERVICES

• Re-introduction of ABSU table water and the commencement of ABSU Loaf.
• Re-structuring of ABSU Microfinance Bank to provide enhanced community services across its environs and the state at large.
• Upgrading and optimizing of ABSU Bookshop.

COLLABORATION AND LINKAGES BETWEEN 2016 TO DATE

•State University of New York for staff and student exchange progremmes, collaborative research in optometry and vision science.
•University of Mexico on t research activity for staff and students of both institutions.
•Oxford University, United Kingdom, for a collaborative relationship in academic exchange programme between Oxford University and Abia State University.

•Clarion Call Incorporated, U.S.A based company for establishment of a Health and fitness center and exposure to Research Sponsoring International Organizations.

•National Mathematical Center, Abuja, for exchange programme in the enhancement of teaching and learning of Mathematical Science, with the ultimate intention of establishing Abia State University as a Zonal Center for the training of Mathematics teachers within the South-East and South-South Zones.

•National Office of Technology and Promotions (NOTAP) under the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology and Promotions for workshops on writing of Award-winning Research Proposals with ultimate aim of opening an office here called Intellectual and Technology Transfer Office (ITTO)
•ETMP, a Malaysian based company for the establishment of Entrepreneurial Skills Acquisition Training Programme for our regular students and long term training for the public, with industrial attachment in home country industry, in line with State Government programme on Education for Employment, etc.

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Construction of ultra-modern office complex for senior teaching staff.
• Construction of Department of Anatomy Complex at the Uturu location of the university
• Construction of Faculty of Engineering Complex at Osisioma, Aba.
• Construction of Department of Pharmacy Complex at the Uturu location of the university
• Construction of Department of Physiology Complex at the Uturu location of the university.
• Construction of Department of Optometry Complex at the Uturu location of the university
• Construction of 40 bedroom Post graduate hostel.

Like earlier stated, this list is not absolutely comprehensive as it’s herculean task to capture Prof. Ikonne’s landmark achivments as Vice Chancellor. Many projects may have been missed out in this but howbeit, ABSU has risen in the last four years more than any other Nigerian University and this is enough to celebrate.
There’s no doubt that he will do more because his ion to turn things around in the University is as strong as the first step he took upon assumption of office.

Ahamefula Israel, a Bureaucrat, sent in this piece from Umuahia, Abia State. Email- [email protected]

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lasticlala, mynd44

majamajic:
product of one person sending and replying himself

U know whatsup

Lol

1.Emphasizing on emergent approaches to learning
2. The case of a perfectly streamlined online tutorial
3. Checking out means of extending educational technology to students in Congo
4. Assimilating educative perspectives in the new era
5. Making the educating system facile, mobile and convenient
6. Analyzing the educational psychology of rural women in India
7. Carving an effective instructional design for proper propagation of education
8. Impact of social media on the enhancement of e-learning programs
9. Hybridizing different programs for holistic development of students
10. Sentient ways of teaching toddlers with video learning
11. Economic perspective on the high-rising demands of instruments for acceptance of educational technology
12. Conducting a perfect Methodology for rationalizing educational technology
13. Speeding the learning process by computerizing the modes of education
14. Spreading awareness about technology tools and online learning among commoners
15. The convenience of management; communication and expeditiousness; three facilities of educational technology

Wonderful write up

Okala Oluchi a graduate of the faculty of law, Abia state university has in her legal intellectuality bagged first class honours in both her Program in ABSU and her call to BAR.

The young intellect from the God's own state university shares her story in her Facebook page.

See photos below

https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/5401375/medical-laboratory-scientists-cry-out#81964489

ceaser:
It's the lab scientists that you still see referring to 'emselves as "lab doctors" abi? That is even nothing. They have their own problems too within their rank; scientists vs technicians and it is a big thing, soon to get uglier than scientists against doctors.

And well, other "budding" disciplines too use to stethoscope as a means of identification and are gradually adopting the "dr" prefix such that very soon, every personnel in the hospital environment, from the ant down to the orderly will need to be called a doctor.

Funny enough, regardless of the fact that they are the ones expected to, I don't see doctors crazy about this fad of sticking stethoscopes to their dashboards or rear view mirrors but other hospital non-doctor employees have adopted this style. Now does that not mean some complex issues?

I think with this upsurge of kidnapping for ransom, no doctor would even wanna risk advertising himself as a potential prey so as many as possible can decide to carry the stethoscopes around. Even the engineers, lawyers, hospital staff are free to if they so desire. It's really not about what you display, is it? It's basically about the skills that gives you away as the real doctor.

What u wish for, does not and will never exist.

I am sure your are not informed!!!!.

dokyOloye:

Why comment on what you don't fully understand?
Let me give you an example, a lab scientist is trained to run test,with a little background scientific knowledge of the basis of diseases.
A pathologist is a doctor who specializes in laboratory tests with a deep knowledge of clinical basis, signs and symptoms, etc of diseases.
B/w d a tests done by a scientist and a pathologist, which will you consider more reliable?
Do you know sometimes, a patient goes in for surgery, loses blood, then does a test to check d blood level and it comes out higher than d one b4 the surgery and the scientists pushes it out like that to d doctor.Meanwhile all d clinical info is on d request form.Now this error might not be a human error but due to spoilt reagent,equipment etc.
Now a pathologist will likely dismiss d result,collect another sample and repeat d test.
With a knowledge of d foregoing, who should be heading d lab?
Who was d first lab scientist?
Who was d first pharmacist?
All are doctors.

@Ningi2020


Don't mind @dokyOloye and this his fake illustration.



Medical Laboratory scientists quality control results!!



Giving instance with Hb Level that a Student Medical Laboratory Scientist can actually tell factors that can give rise to increase or decrease Hb level.

Try again!

Coordination started 26 June... Result released 26 July

This is okay.

... This is wonderful

Space booked!

Godwinnairaland:
Who do we blame? The teacher or the student?

The teacher is the Student.

The composition is too serious to be real.

So its not funny at all.

More pics..

More pics

More pics..

■▪BRAVO:

Meet The Winner/Newly Crowned Mr Macho Absu 2019 - THOMPSON JUNIOR CEEPHER.

♡• NICKNAME: Junior Panda

♡• DEPARTMENT: Biochemistry

♡• LEVEL: 300L

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We all at Absu Mata Congratulate You!

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Dominique
Mynd44

czarina:
Op op You stole the images and possibly copied the text word for word from Bellanaija but you still watermarked it.


What are you

Sense every where...

He is A a sincere blogger... Lol

Lol.. Nice one tho..

camobri:

Which stupid med lab?

You can still make your point without disrespecting any profession.

arinzos:

Which other profession if I may ask?
MLS is a great profession.we are proud of the profession.carrying it on our heads is the least we could do.

ed!

KINGJAJA888:
Hmm, am Actually a RaDiography stud. At Unizik. I've actually been told several times to pull out of the course and switch to med lab, But with this ur advice, guess I might just further on with it ND graduate.

I'll also love to have you as my mentor being that you're already established in my career path And enlighten me further ..

And someone is telling me... Medical Laboratory Science is not Lucrative....

franchasng:
Not as lucrative as the ones I put on bold.

Nursing, Medicine, Radiography are good courses to study in Nigeria and stand a chance of at least securing a job after graduation.

Not that they will make you rich, no, they will at least give u a job to start life with while other of your mates are still job hunting around.

But if you want to be rich via career in Nigeria, forget medicine, radiography or nursing, unless u are ready to travel outside Nigeria to US, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, etc and be ready to work your ass off with overtime hours to make it big and maybe end up rich and be ready to further beyond your first degree too

Bro this is your opinion .... Medical Laboratory Science is as Lucrative as......!!!!!


Medical Laboratory Science share same Characteristics with ur points... To the extent of creating employment for urself.

franchasng:
The bolded is very true.

And the others nko?

Irenemmeso:
hmmmm...I'm now confused.

You should be.. Since you choose to.

Irenemmeso:
you are on your own ooo

Lol..
With ur dispensing work abi?

arinzos:
All Medical Course Should be there

@Irenemmeso don't know that one.. After seeing her Pharmacy there, she can no longer think straight.

Irenemmeso:
is it because you are studying Medical Laboratory Science

Seriously, If you know about the Profession, you wont be asking me this!

Smile4mee01:
I am hoping to be married this year 2019.

What medical test am I to take to avoid stories that touch?

NB: I know blood group is compulsory, I think I am AS. What else?

Blood & rhesus grouping

Hb genotype

HIV


you can add
Vdrl and more.....



Note:
Blood group can be A, B, AB or O

Rhesus can be either Rh 'D' positive or negative

Hb genotype can be AA, AS, SS etc.


However , Rhesus is very essential to avoid complications during pregnancy, Where Rhesus negative mothers are been properly taken care of to avoid such complications.


And
Hb genotype is to avoid getting sickle cell child.
As u said, u r AS... YOU can only go for AA to avoid having SS child.



Vdrl, HIV... To avoid having the risk of getting syphilis and Hiv infections respectively.


Meet a Doctor or a Medical Laboratory Scientist for more clarifications.