Optometry Mails

STUDENT CORNER S h a i b u   I s ra e l   U f e d o Bayero University Kano Sometimes we don’t get to learn new  things entirely but we learn better  about what we already know, that  makes learning an ever spinning  wheel. But to every knowledge successfully added, you stand a stance to  become better. In this light it's proper  to state that learning is not always  Formal, learning is a core to life and  can't be halted as there is life.  As much as this could be a core to life,  being a student could be much more.  The student life is the most important  and golden period of development in  character and learning. Studentship  goes a long way to affect every  sphere of one's life; you come across  the good and the bad, the sweet days  of winning and the pain of underperforming, achievements banged and  the ones deprived and much more. In  student life, we do not just lear...

   A NEW MALIGNANCY: DELAY IN INDUCTION By Sunkanmi Arogbokun OD. Optometry programme in Nigeria is as old as the Nigerian Civil war, with the first optometric professional program in Nigeria, kicks off in the University of Benin in 1972. The program was established in the faculty of Science by Dr. Paul Olekanna Ogbuehi. Optometry has now transverse its historical locale and has gone far to being offered in two prestigious tertiary institutions in the northern part of the country.  The Optometrist and Dispensing Optician Board (ODORBN) act was established in 1989 and has since been saddled with the responsibility of regulating the profession, inducting and also provide high standard of education in accordance with existing laws for optometrists and dispensing optician in Nigeria.  ODORBN over the years have tried to build an enabling environment for the profession and also ensure that optometrists are people of personal integrity with global competitive competencies....