The Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria has advised the Doctor of Pharmacy graduates of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, to prioritise the ethics of the profession.
The Registrar of the Council, Ibrahim Babashehu, who inducted the 115 newly qualified pharmacy professionals, charged them to strive for excellence in their professional career to advance sustainable healthcare.
He spoke in Ado Ekiti on Thursday during the induction and oath-taking ceremony of the 2025/2026 Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) graduands of the College of Pharmacy, ABUAD. Thirty-five of the graduates bagged First Class honours.
Babashehu urged the inductees “to uphold the highest ethical standards and exemplary leadership principles established by PCN in the unwavering pursuit of excellence in pharmaceutical services for the advancement of sustainable healthcare delivery.”
The Director-General of the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency, Prof. Martins Emeje, in his lecture, urged the newly inducted pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to look beyond conventional approaches to disease management by exploring the medicinal resources available within their immediate environments.
Emeje, who spoke on the theme of the celebration, “Advancing Pharmacy Practice in the 21st Century: Integrating Digital Innovation, One Health and Indigenous Knowledge Towards Global Medicine Security,” urged greater investment in natural, traditional and indigenous medicine as part of efforts to strengthen Nigeria’s healthcare system.
He called on healthcare professionals to embrace traditional methods of fighting diseases, while ensuring that such practices were properly studied and integrated with modern scientific knowledge.
The DG said, “The major contribution you have for the world is to ensure that there is local drug production from the local environment in our society.
