Inaugural Lectures: Recent submissions
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Is it Well with the Nigerian Child?
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press, Ile-Ife, 2005-01-11)The main determinants of the well-being or otherwise of children are the statuses of the structures, agents, facilities and other resources available to promote, provide or support health for them. this has been well ... -
Teeth for a lifetime: Navigating Tortuous Canals for Preservation of the Human Dentition
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press, Ile-Ife, 2019-11-12)Dental caries and periodontal disease (gum diseases, akokoro) are the commonest chronic diseases globally. Dental caries is ubiquitous in all populations throughout the world and it is the key factor responsible for dental ... -
Immunology, Lectins and Application
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2019-10-22)Many plants and animals contain proteins and glycoproteins, termed Lectins, which 'are capable of binding to the sugar or carbohydrate moieties of glycoproteins, glycopeptides, and to other sugar-containing compounds (Dan ... -
Caring, health and longevity
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2009-05-12)Growth is both quantitative and qualitative characteristic of all living things man inclusive interacting with the environment and socio-cultural changes. The first goal of Healthy people is to increase the span of a healthy ... -
Fish, man and environment: strategy of survival"
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2019-08-20)Fishes are aquatic a nimals. They are a part of the numerous coldblooded craniate vertebrates such as the bony fish like Tilapia, catfish, sturgeons, eels, mackerels and cartilaginous fish (shark, ray, chimaera) whose ... -
Language: mirror, weapon and shield
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2006-02-14)I set out on this journey with an interest in Semantics - the study of meaning - with a special interest in ambiguity and vagueness in English usage in the electoral politics of the ' Nigerian Second Republic, 1979-1983. ... -
The Politics of History
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2019-07-09)Historical studies remain a mirror through which the society views its past such that the important lessons of the past are not lost. History also remains a potent weapon through which dictators are warned, deviants driven ... -
That Nigerian Preschool Children would have a good Headstart
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2019-11-26)This is the early education that may be given to the child (0-5) years to enhance his/her total development. According to the National Policy on Education (FRN, ' 2014), Early Child Care Development/ Education (ECCDE) is ... -
None shall be barren:Reproduction against all odds;The role of assisted reproduction technology
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2017-08-22)Reproductive health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity in all matters relating to the reproductive system and its functions and processes -
New wine in new wineskins: travails in the enhancement of the appraisal of real estate
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2017-06-13)However, a serious methodological and assumption caused consistency problem arises where the estimated construction cost is to be depreciated. Depreciation, according to standards, should accommodate physical deterioration, ... -
Skin exploration: an untapped wealth in clinical practice.
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2017-11-28)The skin is the outermost covering of the whole body and a very important organ. Many medical scientists and researchers are of the opinion that the skin is the largest organ in the body. Others argued that this assertion ... -
That their joy may be full: Adventures in the Surgery of the Newborns and the Young
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2019-10-08)Paediatric Surgeons perform surgeries on the newborns including foetuses where facilities for such avails (Neonatal / Foetal Surgery). He treats children who require specialist expertise for congenital anomalies, tumours, ... -
Care of the well and the sick: Impacting lives, a multitude at a time
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2019-07-23)Mr. Vice Chancellor Sir, Principal Officers of the University, my Distinguished Colleagues from within and outside our University, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. I stand before you today in immense gratitude to God ... -
The surgeon's hands and the human face advancing the science and practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery
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Between too little and too much: unraveling the mystery and misery of endocrine disorders in children
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Realities in shadows and Images- seeing is believing and more reliable than feelings
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, 4/23/2019)Before the advent of radiology, the practice of clinical medicine, was totally dependent on clinical skills in arriving at the diagnoses of ailments before treatment is commenced. Often times, especially where the skill ... -
The Surgeon's hands and the human face advancing the science and practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery
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In search of appropriate psycho-technology for the developing world: The Nigerian experience
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Arise and Walk; Upright in Stance, Forthright in Swing
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Reforms after reforms: do they have feet of clay?
(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, 3/10/2015)