University of Lagos is this evening, hosting a large number of the nation’s intelligentsia where Anambra born Professor Veronica Chinyere Ezeaka is delivering her inaugural lecture.

The topic of her lecture is, “Newborn Survival, Tomorrow’s Future : Reaching The Unreached To Breathe At Birth Within The Golden Minute”.

The event which is ongoing at the institution’s main auditorium is well attended by education stakeholders and the university’s governing council, including the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, all the deputy vice chancellors of the institution as well as other notable dignitaries from within and outside the university’s community.

Present also are the representatives of the federal Ministry of Health, the traditional ruler of Achina community, in Anambra state, Igwe Godwin Obiora and his cabinet chiefs.

Wife of Anambra state governor, Dr Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano, represented by the Anambra State Liaison Officer, Mrs Uloma Wise, in a remark noted that Anambra State is solidly behind her.

She described the topic of her lecture as apt as giving the children a name and future that is bright remains one of the driving agenda of the present administration in Anambra state.