Obilade Titilola Titilayo2026-05-252024-07-18Obilade Titilola Titilayo (2024). Health Messaging: Currency For Today, Savings For Tomorrow, Nile University of Nigeria.https://repository.nileuniversity.edu.ng/handle/123456789/777Vice Chancellor Sir, indeed, I am humbly elated and grateful for the opportunity given to be the first inaugural lecturer of this erudite institution and the first female inaugural lecturer. History is being made here today. As I stand here this day, the task before me is herculean because I am the first inaugural speaker and like the first, it would certainly be subjected to very critical analysis. Subsequent speakers will read my lecture as a yard stick. I respectfully stand here and hope my delivery would be exemplary for years to come. Section 1(3) of the sixth edition of the National Policy on Education (NPE, 2014) states that Nigeria’s philosophy of education is based on the following set of beliefs: • Education is an instrument for national development and social change; • Education is vital for the promotion of a progressive and united Nigeria; • Education maximises the creative potentials and skills of the individual for selffulfillment and general development of the society. There are different types of inaugural lectures. Although it was not required by the American constitution, George Washington, the first American president gave the first presidential inaugural address on April 30, 1979. Oxford University existed since the 12th Century and my research has shown evidence of inaugural lectures in that institution as far back as 18th and 19th centuries. Charles Oman an historian gave his inaugural lecture, titled, “Study of History” at Oxford University on the 7th February, 1906 (Oman, 1906). In his lecture, he made references to several Professors from Oxford who had given their inaugural years earlier. One of these Professors was Bishop William Stubbs, a Regius Professor of History who gave his inaugural lecture as far back as 7th February 1867 (Koch, 2010). In Nigeria, the first professorial inaugural lecture on record at the University of Ibadan repository was given by Professor M. O. Oyawoye, a Professor of Geology at the University of Ibadan in 1972 (Oyawoye, 1972). The title of his lecture was Politics and Economics of Mineral Resources in Developing Countries (Oyawoye,1972). Twenty-four years earlier, the University College Ibadan as it was then called had an inaugural lecture on its foundation day, 17th November, 1948 delivered by Professor Christopherson, a Professor of English (Christopherson, 1948). The title of his lecture was Bilingualism. According to Afigbo, (1975) and Ogunye (1981), a professorial inaugural lecture can cover three areas, i. Where the lecturer is also the occupant of the chair to which the headship of the department is attached, the lecture can concentrate on the development of the department. ii. The inaugural lecture can be a discussion of the professor’s own work within the general framework of his discipline: that is an analysis of the ideas which have guided his work, the techniques he has applied, the results he has achieved, his plans for the future, etc – in short, an attempt by the professor to locate where he stands in the mainstream of his profession. iii. Finally, where neither of the above is attempted for whatever reason, the inaugural lecture could be anything under the sun on which the professor considers that he has something fresh and stimulating to tell his audience. Mr. Vice Chancellor Sir, in alignment with the National Policy on Education, this evening my treatise shall take the last two objectives of an inaugural as stated above. The first part shall be an analysis of the theories that have guided my work, the research work done by me and others. The second part shall be the results achieved and the way forward.enOther