AAU INAUGURAL LECTURES

TITLE OF LECTURE: TWO WORDS THAT DO NOT FIT-STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE: MY VIEWPOINTS, AND THE PARADOX OF ENGINEERING TRAINING AND PRACTICE IN NIGERIA

ENGR. P ROF. E MMANUEL U FUAH, B.Eng., C ivil E ng. ( Ekpoma); M .Eng., S tructures ( Benin); Ph.D, S FE ( Manchester); M NSE, M IFE, M SFPE, R . C OREN

wenty-six (26) years ago, I was shortlisted to undergo the SHELL Intensive T raining P rogramme ( SITP). P rovidence d id n ot m ake t hat happen, instead I decided to accept the offer granted me by the Ambrose Alli U niversity a s G raduate Assistant, p articularly b ecause I w as n ot s o c onfident S HELL would a bsorb m e a fter c ompletion o f the training. In 2006, barely into the second year of my Ph.D programme u nder t he s upervision o f Prof. J oseph O . Afolayan a t t he Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), something very dramatic e nsued. I w as t o b e f ramed u p f or a n u njust d isengagement. On that fateful S aturday, I did not know God was redirecting my Ph.D study f rom F UTAto t he U niversity o f Manchester, U nited K ingdom. An i ndividual h ad o rchestrated a w ay t o i mplicate m e i n t he l eakage of examination q uestions. I w as g iven t he q uestion p apers, s ealed i n an envelope two hours before commencement of the examination. The o bjective, I l ater d iscovered, was to provide a mple time f or me to open t he e nvelope b efore c ommencement o f the e xamination. W hile this machination failed, I was told to my face that I must face the diciplinary committee. sayoungAcademic,Iwastroubledbeyondmeasure.Moreover,the following d ay w as e armarked f or m y d aughter - Mandy's d edication. This spiritual programme was perturbed and nearly marred by this development. I thought the world was mad at me. However, by Monday morning, it was discovered that there was no leakage and I was e xonerated. The e nergy that was d evoted f or s uch purpose by the individual was enormous. For this singular reason, I decided to run away by applying to Universities in the UK and US for my Ph.D pursuit. I w as o ffered m ultiple a dmissions, w hich I d eferred b ecause of financial c onstraints. T hereafter, I t ook l oans f rom ASUU W elfare and Cooperative Society such that my net take-home pay could no longer take me home. That was when God suddenly showed up for me.

FROM CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO STRATEGIC NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION: REPOSITIONING STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FOR NIGERIA'S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

PROFESSOR JULIUS IDIALU IKHAREHON B.Sc. (Hons), MBA (Uniport), M.Phil. (Ife), Ph.D. (Ife), FIMC, MAMN, FBSE, MSM Professor of Strategic Management and Corporate Governance; PROFESSOR JULIUS IDIALU IKHAREHON

I return all glory and thanks to Almighty God for His grace, mercy and faithfulness in my life and academic journey. I stand before this distinguished audience with deep gratitude and humility to deliver the 155th Inaugural Lecture of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. I am especially privileged to be able to deliver this lecture as the 2nd in the Department of Business Administration and the 7th in the Faculty of Management Sciences. An inaugural lecture is not just an occasion to count one's publications or celebrate one's academic career. It enables me to describe in my own words the questions that have shaped my scholarship, the evidence that has informed it, the limits of that evidence, and the contribution I hope to make to knowledge and society. The question, which is the subject of this lecture, has been with me throughout my educational career. I started at the level of business organization, asking how does corporate responsibility relate to organisational performance? I became interested in strategic management and corporate governance later on how organisations set direction, allocate assets, exercise authority, manage competing interests and sustain performance. From there the question naturally widened. Can the determinants of organisational effectiveness shed light on the ways in which nations become capable of sustainable development? I am not saying that a country is only a big business, it obviously is not. The state has constitutional powers and authority, sovereignty and coercive powers, public responsibilities and political institutions that have no direct corporate counterpart. I ask not to simply graft wholesale corporate governance onto government but rather to explore how its underlying principles of strategic direction, accountability, stakeholder coordination, institutional capability, long-term value creation and sustainability can shed light on public governance when thoughtfully adapted to the public realm.

EVERYTHING IS MATHEMATICS:

PROFESSOR CLETUS ENORELENFORH NCE (ABRAKA), B.Sc. Ed. (HONS) (UNILAG). M.Sc. (EKPOMA), Ph.D (BENIN)

PREAMBLE “He (God) raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory...” I Samuel 2:8a My Acting. Vice-Chancellor sir, I am delighted and honoured for the privilege given to me to deliver the 116th lecture in the series of inaugural lectures of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. Who could have imagined that I would one day stand before this distinguished audience to deliver an inaugural lecture as a professor of mathematics, due to my academic background? My parents were not educated, but loved education. It might interest you to know that in my first West African School Certificate Examination (WASC) in 1977, I got an F9 in mathematics. Despite my excellent performance and much fascination with the subject throughout primary school till final year in secondary school, the result of “expo 77” WASC examination may have revealed my weakness(es). However, I was determined not to let this initial failure derail my dreams of going to the university and becoming a mathematician but I took responsibility for my failure and didn't blame any teacher. A few years later, during my teaching practice in 1981, I returned to St. John Bosco Grammar School, Ubiaja, the school where I failed mathematics in my first WASC examination attempt, to teach the very subject I once failed. Also in 1982, I taught mathematics to the first set of students of Ewatto Grammer School, my students in both institutions performed excellently well in their final examination. Some of them are professors today as a testimony of what God could do in the life of a man who gives his/her life to Christ. In, my first seminar presentation during my Ph.D programme in 2000/2001, my supervisor remarked that I may not be able to make significant contribution in my chosen area of research (Numerical Analysis). I did not allow his assertion deter me. After submitting my first manuscript from my Ph.D work for publication, my supervisor (Prof. F.O. Otunta) of blessed memory, called me one night to say, and I quote “Cletus, this is good; your work has been published in a very reputable journal. You are doing very well!”. After my final oral defence, I published 12 different articles from my Ph.D research, in prominent journals, including the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation (Elsevier), which continues to be ranked among the top journals in computational mathematics globally. Today, I stand as the 4th inaugural lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, and 116th in the history of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. My career has been dedicated to teaching and research in mathematics with special reference to Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics. My Acting Vice Chancellor sir, having taught mathematics from primary school through to the university level, this lecture therefore provides a profound opportunity for me, as a professor, to share my teaching, research experiences and new insights with both the university community and the general public. Thus, the choice of my lecture title “Everything is Mathematics: Numerical Tools, My Language.”

AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY EKPOMA, EDO STATE, NIGERIA 145TH INAUGURAL LECTURE SERIES BY PROF. REUBEN AGONYOSORIA EIFEDIYI: TITLE: "THE CHILD IS THE FATHER OF THE MAN"

PROFESSOR REUBEN AGBONYOSORIA (MBBS (NIG), DHSM (ISRAEL), FWACS FMCOG FICS, FCAI, FCHRM, CPM, FCILRM)

THIS LECTURE INTEGRATES TWO INTERRELATED NARRATIVES: MY PERSONAL JOURNEY IN BECOMING AN OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGIST, AND THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY AT IRRUA SPECIALIST TEACHING HOSPITAL (ISTH), IN COLLABORATION WITH THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY, EKPOMA.

144TH INAUGURAL LECTURE: TITLE : REVRSING THE TREND OF DIABETES AND HYPERTENSION THE TWO SIDES OF A METABOLIC COIN: DETERMINANTS OF LONGEVITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN MODERN DAY NIGERIA.

PROFESSOR BLESSING OAIKHENA IDONIJIE MBBS (IBADAN), MSc. (IBADAN) PhD (AAUE), FIIA, NISSGA, FAMedS. PROFESSIOR OF CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY , EKPOMA, EDO STATE NIGERIA.

AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY, EKPOMA, NIGERIA 143RD INAUGURAL LECTURE SERIES: TITLE OF LECTURE: GEOPHYSICS FOR SUSTAINABILITY: UNCOVERING THE UNSEEN THREATS IN NIGERIA'S SUBSURFACE

PROF. SAMSON IDOWU JEGEDE B.Sc., MSc, PhD (EKPOMA) AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY, EKPOMA, NIGERIA 143RD INAUGURAL LECTURE SERIES: TITLE OF LECTURE: GEOPHYSICS FOR SUSTAINABILITY: UNCOVERING THE UNSEEN THREATS IN NIGERIA'S SUBSURFACE

THE CONCEPT OF GEOPHYSICS AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT STEWARDSHIP IN NIGERIA, WE WITNESS THE TANGIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF NEGLECTING THIS SUBTERRANEAN WORLD FROM DEVASTATING BUILDING COLLAPSE IN URBAN AREAS TO THE SILENT POISONING OF OUR WATER SOURCES.

142 INAUGURAL LECTURE: MICROBIAL OXYMORON: THE PRADOX OF WOES AND JOYS DELIVERED BY PROF. AKPE AZUKA ROMANUS

PROF. AZUKA ROMANU B.SC, PhD (EKPOMA), PGDE (NONUN) ND, PGD BIBLE THEOLOGY (NAST, EWU)

MICRO-OGRGANISMS ARE AMONG THE OLDEST FORMS OF LIFE ON EARTH. LONG BEFORE HUMANS, ANIMALS, OR PLANTS EXISTED, THESE TINY ORGANISMS WERE ALREADY SHAPING THE PLANET.

141 INAUGURAL LECTURE: TITLE: EXPLORING PATH LOSS IN TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN SCRIPTURE

ENGR. PROF. VINCENT OPE-OLUWA AFENYE AKPAIDA B. ENGR., ENG. (BENIN) PhD (EKPOMA)

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PATH LOSS IN OUR LIVES AND ITS REFLECTION OF DIVINE PRESENCE

TITLE OF LECTURE INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF MAN: UNRAVELLING THE UNSEEN ENEMY AND MITIGATING AVOIDABLE CATASTROPHE

Prof. PROF. SUNDAY OLOWO SAMUEL

to the Almighty God who had seen today and set it apart for this purpose. I welcome you all who have come from far and near, and I want to immensely thank the Vice-Chancellor for giving me the opportunity to deliver the 98th Inaugural Lecture of this great University. This is the first Inaugural Lecture from the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, also the first in the Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences. To the glory of God, today I arrive my academic destination!!!!

140TH INAUGURAL LECTURE SERIES

Prof. Eunice E. Omonzejie, BA, Ed. (Ife), Grenoble-France), MA (Benin), PhD) (Benin)

AFRICAN MIGRANT MASCULINITIES, MODERNITIES AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES: DECODING CONTEMPORARY REALITIES IN FRANCOPHONE FICTION. IT IS AN INAUGURAL LECTURE DELIVERED BY PROF. ENICE OMONZEJIE. A PROFESOR OF METROPOLITAN FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE LITERATURES AND CULTURES.