BIOCHEMISTRY

I am delighted to welcome you to the Department of Chemical Sciences, a department dedicated to providing innovative teaching, research, and community service to our students in a welcoming and encouraging environment that includes dedicated, effective and knowledgeable academic staff, well-equipped laboratories, and modern classrooms. The Department’s Mission and Vision is in line with the University Mission and Vision.

Mission: GO University dedicates itself to impart quality education aims at inculcating in the students strong personality that will or promotion of religions, cultural and epistemological dialogue.

Vision: GO University’s vision is to produce graduates who will be outstanding in learning, balanced in character and personality and ready to pursue epistemic unity in all ramifications.

The Chemical Sciences Department programs currently comprised of Biochemistry and Industrial Chemistry Programmes.

The philosophy of GO University is based on the nature of the human person as a social being, as a dialogue-seeking being. From this point of view, the university understands education as a dialogical process of acquisition and dissemination of knowledge. Thus, the philosophy of the Biochemistry programme is born in the GO University philosophy, viz. Education is a dialogical process of acquisition and dissemination of knowledge.

The programme is fashioned towards producing graduates with an adequate/broad understanding of the basic concepts of Biochemistry, complemented with applications-oriented courses that will advance the productive capacity of the graduates. The programme trains personnel to the highest academic standards in the provision of a firm basis for creative work in the fields of chemical sciences and technology, and offering a critical background for several other professional applied science disciplines.

The Biochemistry programme offered in Godfrey Okoye University seeks to produce graduate biochemists who are not only knowledgeable about all elements of the subject, but also understand Nigeria’s and Africa’s specific needs in these areas. Thus, the degree program places a strong emphasis on locally relevant topics such as nutrition and food science; the biochemistry of the soil and locally significant microorganisms, plants, and animals; biochemical aspects of disease; the biochemical basis of chemotherapy, including African traditional medicine; and human biochemical genetics. The addition of a ‘Research Project’ on a biochemical topic as one of the vital courses reveals the emphasis on making the student aware of the biochemical difficulties in their immediate environment.