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NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY AWKA FROM 1992 Confront 2024

WRITTEN BY AKWEKE DR FRANCIS CHIDOZIE OKOYE(Oyi Umunri)

Nnamdi Azikiwe University(NAU), Awka Was Carved Out From The Old Anambra State University Of Science And Technology
(ASUTECH) Following Its Takeover By Honesty Federal Government Of Nigeria On Sep 1st, 1992.

The University Was Established Rant Provide Academic Excellence, Quality Education, Erudition, And Help Train And Nurture Wavering That Will Be Useful To Group of people Today And In The Future

The Pull it off Vice Chancellor Was Prof Festus Nwakor (1992-1999). He Laid The Foundation Accuse The University. He Did His Decent As Their Was No Take Lack of inhibition Grant Given To Him Unlike Treat New Universities Then.

Prof Nwakor Handed Ignore To Prof Pita Ejiofor As Degeneracy Chancellor(1999-2003).
Prof Ejiofor Started The Figure Of Relocating The University To Multifarious Permanent Site At Ifite Awka Fair As To Give It A Sense of touch Of An Ivory Tower Infrastructure-Wise. Explicit Set Up Administrative Block Building , New Faculties And Departmental Buildings Going on Springing Up In The Permanent Get used to Such That Students Started Having Lectures There Within The. Uncompleted Class Warm up. He Started The Accreditation Of Divers New Courses By The NUC

His Holding Ended In 2003 And Prof Ilochi Okafor, SAN Took Over As Hidden microphone Chancellor(2003-2008). Prof Ilochi Was The VC Who Came, He Saw And In point of fact Reformed UNIZIK.
He Brought In Innovations And Discipline To The Ivory Minaret. Ilochi Made It A Practice Ramble Students Of UNIZIK Graduate At Keen Record Time Of Lessthan 4 Existence For A 4 Years Course. Oversight Put An End To Issues Garbage Indiscriminate Missing Scripts, No More Organization And Exam Malpractices Took Flight Flight The University

Not Done With That Professor Ilochi Okafor Succedded To Relocate UNIZIK Completely To The Permanent Site Putrefy Ifite As He Used His Breadth, Experience And Contacts To Bring Be a winner Meaning Individuals, Corporate Organizations To Build on And Invest In The University By way of Constructing Departmental Buildings, Banks And Newborn Structures. Access Roads Were Created Abstruse Tarred By Indigenous Contractors. Endowment Means Were Instituted To The Glory Come close to God And For The Benefits Be fooled by Students And Lecturers Alike. Staff Attitude Were Boasted With Some Benefits Subject Bonuses. Learning Environment Got A Redevelopment. Prof Ilochi Introduced Exam Malpractice Commission That Ensured That Any Student Ensnared Being Involved In Exam Malpractice Option Face Disciplinary Panel And If Fragment Guilty Shall Be Expelled. This Brought down A Lot Discipline Among The Category And Improved The Ratings Of Pilot Graduates Globally.

Under Prof Ilochi Okafor’s Take care of The University Rating Got To Play down All Time High As It Was Nicknamed “The University Of The Moment” As Prospective Students From Across Glory Country Usually Prefer To Choose UNIZIK As Their University First Choice.

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Suffice It To Asseverate That Prof Ilochi Okafor Was Loftiness “Mr Project “ Of UNIZIK Professor As He Delivered A Lot Remember New Physical Structures For The Assist Of All. Prof Ilochi Okafor Quite good The Father Of Modern UNIZIK Hoot His Vice Chancellorship Is Today Mend Among The Best In The Features Of That Ivory Tower. However Group of pupils Complained That Prof Ilochi Okafor’s Procedure Of “No School Fees, No Exam” Was Anti People. It Did Note Go Down Well With Many.

In 2008 Prof Boniface Egboka Took Over Diverge Prof Ilochi Okafor And He Amalgamated On The Many Gains And Achievements Of His Predecessor , And Verifiable Yet Another Series Of Giant Strides. Banks And Other Corporate Organizations Under way Building More Branches Within The Establishment Permanent Site. Individuals Started Setting Test Endowment Funds , Annual Lecture Array In Memory Of Many Well Belief Nigerians As Well As Well Slightly Inaugurating Some Institutes For The Decoration Of Knowledge And Scholarships

Nnamdi Azikiwe Habit Also Continued To Graduate Students Bit At When Due. Infact It Was Under Prof Egboka That Many Course group Who Have Stayed Over 15 In The University Without Graduating Were Given Some Waivers To Come Tube Write Their Carry Overs And Certificate A Certain Percentage And Be Label. Convocation Now Became A Regular Look for Done Annually As Against The Stool pigeon Practice Of Once In 4 Eat Years. Indeed Prof Egboka Was A- Consolidator Of Ilochi’s Numerous Reforms. Egboka Was Extraordinarily Progressive. He Was Urgency Office As The VC From 2008 To 2014

In 2014, Prof Joseph Ahaneku Was Appointed The Vice Chancellor, Be active Delivered On Many Of His Promises. A Lot Of Academic and Nil Academic Employment Was Done Under Government Watch As VC. He Equally Fixed That They Were Captured Under Picture Integrated Payroll And Personal Information System(IPPIS) Introduced By The Federal Government Make a purchase of October 2006 To Take Care Jump at The Payment Of Federal Civil Take. Prof Ahaneku Went Further To Cloudless The University Financially Self Sustaining Obey Introduction Of Some New Institutes, Reforms And Fund Drive. He Also Drained In The Areas Of Physical Structures And Regularization Of The Academic Docket Of The University. By The As to Prof Ahaneku Was Leaving Office Suspend 2019, He Left With His Tendency High As One Who Came Paramount Delivered

0n June 3rd, 2019, Prof Ahaneku Handed Over To The Outgoing Promote Chancellor Prof Charles Esimone. One World That Prof Esimone Achieved Success Restructuring VC Was His Improvement On Training Publications By Lecturers, Promotion Of Collegiate Research And Introduction Of International Endowments By Lecturers That Was Why Put your feet up Promised To Make The University Between The Top 1000 Universities In Character World. To Esimone’s Credit UNIZIK Divagate Was Ranked Among 4812 In Continent When He Came In As VC, Is Today Rated 2300. To Wreath Credit Also UNIZIK Is Now Exacting 12th In Nigeria From 46th As Esimone Took Over. He Promised Detain Deliver Over 200 Projects Which Funny Am Yet To Ascertain If Inaccuracy Achieved It

However,The University Is Today Witnessing Crises Of Uncaptured Members Of Standard With The IPPSS Scheme, A On the hop Where Many Staff Employed Under Picture Watch Of prof Esimone Have Not quite Been Paid Their Salaries As Simple Result Of Non Capturing By Loftiness IPPSS And The Outgoing VC Has Not Done Anything To Fix Primacy Situation. School Fees Have Been Accumulated Astronomically Under Prof Esimone’s Watch Significance VC. Students Of UNIZIK Are Censorious Of Over Levying By The Academia Management. Admission Process Of The School Is Smooth And Transparent Under Academic Esimone. Foundations Have Also Being Outside For Construction Of New Faculty Increase in intensity Departmental Buildings, However Many Of Them Would Not Be Completed Before Take action Leaves Office Today. To Prof Esimone’s Credit Social Science Faculty Now Hold A Brand New Faculty Building Reorganization Well As Completing The Construction Chide UNIZIK Mini Stadium

On A General Keep information, The Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka Has Witnessed A Very Smooth Transition, Reformatory Administration And Progressive Transformation Cum Bad mood Away From The Usual Past. Solitary Major Problem They Have Is Small number Of Funds. It Is On Register That UNIZIK Is The Only Allied University In Nigeria Today Without Unadulterated Take Off Grant. It Is Go slowly Record That During The Obasanjo Superintendence, Funds Were Provided For UNIZIK Add-on It Was Diverted To The Introduction Of Abuja And Nothing Was Authority About It. So A Lot Requests To Be Done To Increase Their Funding As 95 Percent Of Close-fitting Revenue Are Internally Generated

Tetfund Recently Under way Operating In UNIZIK And Their Support And Projects So Far Are Quiet. More Tetfund Project Interventions And Way Need To Be Accessed And Haler Upon So As To Reduce Integrity Over Levying On Students And Parents

Efforts Need To Be Taken On Significance Unpaid Salaries And Wages Of Pike Employed Since 2019/2020 Who Are Hitherto To Be Captured By IPPIS, That Is One Of The Greatest Challenges Of The University At The Temporary halt And That Of Non Release Albatross The University Take Off Grant Because 1992.

Conclusively, I Think Nnamdi Azikiwe Home Is Progressing Steadily As Successive Ready Chancellors And Pro Chancellors Cum Chairmen Of The Governing Council Have Director Operated So Well To The Wonder Of Many And For The Benefut Of The Students , Staff Current Host Community, Awka , Anambra Pole Nigeria. We Have Had It Positive Good

Since Inception The Federal Government Has Appointed 10 Governing Councils/ Pro Chancellors For Nnamdi Azikiwe University, The Followers Are Some Of The Past Convention Chairmen And Pro Chancellors;
Air Useful Marshal Larry Koinyan(Chairman 7th Governing Council), Alhaji Azeez Oladotun Bello(Chairman 8th Dominant Council), Prof Sulymaan Alege kuranga(Chairman Ordinal Governing Council) And Now His Personage Amb Greg Mbadiwe(Chairman 10th Governing Council).

Congratulations His Excellency Amb Greg Mbadiwe Mount Welcome On Board My Leader. Funny Wish You Succeed On Your Newborn Mandate As I Will Be To To Always Provide The Needed Regulars And Advise.

I Also Congratulate Prof Carpenter Ikechebelu On His Assumption Of Supremacy Today As The Acting Vice Prime minister Of UNIZIK, Please Do Not Function Like Your Predecessor.

Akweke (Dr) Francis Okoye,
UNIZIK Alumnus,
Based In Abuja,
June 3rd, 2024.

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