Practical Slides For VPT 321- 2007

My Online DVM Class

Subscribe to DVM Online Class: You must be
a current member of my class.
Introduce yourself (name and identity number)
if you intend to subscribe.

YOUR BENEFIT: ONLINE INTERACTION FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF LECTURES.

Email: 





Visit this group

On-going Research

Interdisciplinary Workshop

Interdisciplinary Workshop:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dszc9zj_17cqwrqh

---
You are invited to join us in this workshop on the Sahel goat

Hold Your Peace

When you prepare a tincture

for the eye to see peace
you need not add any pepper.
Why raise the peppery dust
which places no friendly finger
on the face of your eyes.
Your tears are signs of your stir.
You wrote and stirred our thoughts.
With tearing eyes, we saw you as a left-hand writer.
With a tongue like a blade and a fist of punching words
you scattered the congregation with pebbles of words from your dump
The thunderous one with flying tongue and wild mind like a virgin forest,
Hold your peace and look through the tenth door in silence to see clearly.

Arise and shine, pupils of AMS (Abande Memorial School)

Arise and shine, pupils of AMS (Abande Memorial School)

(Speech by Professor Ike Igbokwe on the occasion of the 4^th graduation ceremony of ABANDE MEMORIAL SCHOOL)

________________________________________________________________________

The honourable Chairman of the occasion,

Distinguished invited guest,

The proprietress and Chairperson of the School Board,

Members of the School Board,

The Head teacher and her Team,

Ladies and Gentlemen

I was startled by the invitation to be a guest speaker on this occasion. I wondered whether I was the most appropriate person. As a University teacher with a long-standing experience, I may understand University teaching and administration, but I am not an expert in preprimary and primary education. I tried to stretch my imagination to encompass what my intellectual reasoning would consider an appropriate topic for me to speak on, but failed until my daughters, who are pupils of AMS were rehearsing in the sitting room some days ago. They called my attention for audience as they matched briskly, up and down, singing: “Arise and shine, and give God the glory, children of AMS”. They were talking to me with golden tongues about my topic today, in a most dramatic way. I got up from my seat to match along with them, to enliven the rehearsal and expand the sense of drama. My action was actually a gesture of gratitude for an insight into a question my brain failed to give a ‘pop-up’ answer.

Today, I speak to you on the topic: “Arise and shine, pupils of AMS”. I am going to attempt to address us on some vital issues which add up in the cocktail required to produce AMS pupils who will usually ‘arise and shine’ on occasions like this. The first place to reach out to in this talk is my heart and the heart of other parents and guardians gathered to witness this ceremony. Our hearts are filled with immense and overflowing gratitude to the proprietress of AMS, the School Board, the head teacher and her team of dedicated, competent teachers and auxiliary staff, who have prepared the grounds for this occasion like this.

When my wife and I chose AMS for our children’s education, it was because the school met certain standards in terms of infrastructure, child care and teaching quality. “A good product sells itself” is a germane proverb to illustrate this point. We are encouraged by what we see and hear about this school. As the AMS pupils ‘arise and shine’ today, they give credence to the glorious path that AMS has envisioned for the children for this generation. The school authority is not resting on its oars in improving infrastructure as we can see in the new buildings being added to accommodate more pupils. The School Board has not failed to ensure that competent teachers and auxiliary staff are employed and paid motivating salaries. This was done without jacking up school fees. Certainly, an aspect of the philanthropic posture of ABANDE family and their cohorts is being witnessed today in these developmental projects of the school.

This school has helped our children to enjoy the learning experience, to gain confidence in themselves, as well as to understand and appreciate healthy relationships across ethnic and religious boundaries. We appreciate the teachers’ roles in loco parentis as they attend to the psychological demands of their pupils, an added responsibility to the academic demands. We accommodate your efforts as you reinforce learning experience by your scolding, reprimands, praises, encouragements and mild punishment of the pupils to influence their behavioural traits. I remember a situation, about two years ago; when my daughter elected to refer a matter I was contesting with her to her teacher. Anytime there was a perceived unkindness from us as parents, she referred us to her teachers’ standards which were high in her perception. It was Auntie Rose, Avala, Betty or some other Auntie or Uncle. The school is an extension of the family, in a sense. So, there is need to build the school like we build the family.

Our pupils are ‘shining’ today because they have learnt many new things about books, reading, singing and playing. They have learnt about neatness, promptness, courtesies, attentiveness and hard work, among others. The cordial relationship between parents and teachers make these learning experiences achieve utmost effectiveness. Thanks to all parents and teachers who co-operated to achieve these onerous objectives.

Although I am yet to see the vision and mission statements of AMS, I believe this school is matching ahead and singing with her pupils: ‘Arise and Shine’, after taking stock. Let the vision and mission of the school be articulated to reflect the broad objectives set by the School. Let them be our standards. Let them influence our choice of AMS for our children.

Finally, I wish to congratulate our children for their successes and I urge them to commit to meaningful vision of the future with AMS as their springboards.

Like I usually tell my children, let the name of the Almighty God be with you always and never fail to call on the only Benefactor of all that live and express life. May the blessings be with us.

Thank you for listening to me.

i.o.igbokwe - Publications List

i.o.igbokwe - Publications List
You can read my publications through this link

Whispers

We met on the corridors of power
chewing mouthful of contemporary issues
We laughed with pursed lips
emitting mouth farts and pebbles
We whispered to those with sharp ears
hoping we said the songless verses we know


By Professor Ike Igbokwe

Copyright: 2000

The mutely dance

Let's count our teeth with our tongue
The child in the storm accepts a drenched overcoat
Where are we now, the mute people of this nation
We are on the dance arena,
Where a step is double its cost
Where a step is not an ovation
But a pain in the striding foot
Just one litre of petrol for my grumbling car belly
Just a step to reach this glittering diamond
On this land littered with the priceless stone
A piece for no fixed price
A market madness with a lever
Driven into the bottom platform
Jacking the system to the heights

We are in the market arena
Chosen as our dancing stage
With hands folded on the chest
With mouth agape with no applause
Mute that we may save our sanity
As gorillas steal our dance
And ask us to clap in silent approval
We cannot be a failed nation
Where grass is found in the lexicon of grace
Let the constipated visit the clinic for
A laxative to move the bulk of filt of inefficiency
And discover a nation with good digestion
Let's forget that she is mute to our cajoles
Let's wage a war against her deafness.


(c) By Professor Ike Igbokwe

The national feast 1

Imagine;
On the day of the feast
No food nor drink on the table
Or a limited supply of the tantalizers
The grumbling mouths stampede to raise the stakes

See;
The kitchens are full of unruffled chefs
With no foodstuff, condiments and spices
The pipelines to our kitchens are broken
From the taps of our dream
And our nation is depleted of energy

Expect;
No cracking of cream eggs
That failed the candle test
In our national kitchen
No more untested chefs
No good meal without a recipe
Let's rusticate chefs that lack taste


By Professor Ike Igbokwe
Website: http://ikeigbokwe.blogspot.com

Reaching the Heights

Reaching the Heights
I am reaching for the heights
With grumbling belly on high gear
I know there is something there for me
Lend me your shoulder, the giant in the sun
That I may climb up to the heights
To find the scarce street petrol
To escape the stationary extorting patrol
To police hope into this place
My milk of humanity is soured
By the yeast of my internal strength
Wasted so far on a waste land
Rich in everything, but no will to stop
The drooling saliva of desperation from
The mouth agape with the surprises of
An oil-rich country with greaseless joints
And wobbling weak-boned limbs
If I take after this country
I will jump with fixed joints
And friable fractured bones
That spill the marrow of a nation
And deny her of a life-giving blood
I weep after each jump
When it seems my failing strength
Sets the height farther towards the heavens
Your fluty whisper tells me
My strength is not in the jumpy limbs
But in the flaying gas of my breath
I have chosen to fly even wingless
Beyond the skyless heavenly destiny
With a nation that has defied anarchy


(c) By Professor Ike Igbokwe

My Biodata

PROFESSOR IKECHUKWU ONYEBUCHI IGBOKWE was born on the 11th October 1958 in Jos, Plateau State to Mr and Mrs Ezekiel Echewendu Igbokwe, who are indegenes of Umuso-Eluama in Isuikwuato LGA, Abia State. After his Primary Education in June 1973, he continued in Isuikwuato High School, Isuikwuato where he obtained his West African School Certificate in Division One with an aggregate score of thirteen. He proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka to graduate in 1983 as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with Distinctions. He joined the Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, in December 1984, rose through the ranks to become a Professor of Pathology (in the subspecialty of Clinical Pathology / Laboratory Medicine) in 1998, served as Head of Department in 2000-2002. He had enjoyed the University of Maiduguri Staff Development Fellowship to obtain a Master of Veterinary Science degree from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, in 1986 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1997 from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He has researched and published extensively on the pathogenesis of trypanosomosis. His innovative researches were in areas of erythropoietic response, oxidative stress, peroxidative injury and intracellular glucose delivery in trypanosomosis. His authoritative reviews on the disease were commissioned and published by the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International, Oxon and one of them is on CD-ROM and online as a component of an Animal Health and Production Compendium ( www.cabicompendium.org/ahpc). He researched and reviewed information on the pathophysiology of water deprivation in ruminants, published by CABI, Oxon. He led a research on bovine tuberculosis in the northeastern Nigeria partly supported by NARP-NVRI programme and maintains interest in this area. His scientific publications are more than sixty. He was nominated for the award of International Man of the Year and International Scientist of the Year for 2003 by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England and Man of the Year for 2005 by American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, USA. He is a published poet and is attracted to an uplifting spiritual life. He is married to Dr (Mrs) Nanacha Afifi Dagwannah Igbokwe.

Article

place on blog