Gov Uba Sani, Others To Grace Wali Lecture In Kaduna

Governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani will attend the 9th Series of Dahiru Suleiman Wali’s Lecture in the state.

Members of the D.S. Wali Book Project Committee, who disclosed this in a statement signed by the secretary, Aliyu Jibrin, said the lecture is slated for Monday, July 24, 2023.

The 2023 edition titled: “Evolution of Pharmacy Practice Across the Globe: The Product to the Patient,” will be delivered by the provost of the College of Pharmacy, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Prof Mbang Femi-Oyewo, in the 1,000-seater-capacity lecture theatre, Kaduna State University (KASU), Kaduna.

The lecture will be chaired by a professor of pharmacognosy and drug development, Ezzeldin Mukhtar Abdurrahman while Governor Sani will be the special guest of honour and the VC of Kaduna State University (KASU), Prof. Abdullahi Musa, as the special guest.

The late Wali (1935-2000) pioneered a patient-oriented community pharmacy, the Tsamiya Pharmaceutical Company Ltd from 1975 to 2003 in Kaduna and at various locations.

Wali as he was popularly called was a one-time chairman of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Kaduna State branch, in the early 80s.

The Wali Book Project Committee comprises Prof. Ahmed Tijjani Mora (K’ ayayen Sarkin Musulmi) as chairman and Aliyu Jibrin, as the secretary. Other members are Prof Ibrahim Adamu Yakasai of Bayero University Kano, Prof Umar Usman Pateh of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and Ahmed Gana Mohammed of the Pharmacy Department, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano.

To commemorate the 80th birthday anniversary of Mallam D. S. Wali on 23rd July, 2015 , members organised the first in the series of the public lecture which took place in the Dialogue Training Institute, Kaduna and Prof U.U. Pateh, then Dean of Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences delivered the lecture with title: “Pharmaceutical Care in Community Pharmacy Practice:-The Way Forward.”

Since that first lecture in 2015, the Committee had consistently organised lectures on 23rd of July of each year, the exact birthday of the late Mallam, except when the day happened to be a weekend like this year’s when it would hold on 24th July.

Other past speakers at the lecture include former VC, Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State (2016), Prof Haruna Kaita; the former VC of Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State (2017), Prof Magaji Garba; former VC, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Prof Muktar Abdurahman and former VC, Bauchi State University (BASU), Gadau, Bauchi State (2018); Others are Prof Ibrahim Yakasai of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bayero University Kano (2019); the Secretary of the Committee (2020), Pharm. Aliyu Jibrin, FPSN; member of the Committee (2021) Pharm. Ahmed Gana Mohammed, and the Chairman of the Committee (2022), Prof Ahmed Mora.