UNIZIK Gets New Chancellor

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UNIZIK Gets New Chancellor

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The Gbong Gwom Jos and Chairman, Plateau Council of Chiefs; Jacob Gyang Buba has been installed as the 3rd Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka. The investiture was performed by President Muhammadu Buhari as part of activities commemorating the 10th convocation of the institution. President Buhari was represented by Prof. Julius Okojie the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC). He endorsed the UNIZIK`s new chancellor and expressed confidence in his ability to discharge his duties creditably; adding that his government would continue to address the challenges facing educational development in the country. President Buhari added; “Through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), more than 11,000 academics had benefitted from research funds, attendance of conferences and opportunity for staff sabbaticals. The president’s spokesman declared that though there were inherent infrastructural deficits in the universities, the federal government already had plans to set up staff and students audit on infrastructural development to ensure judicious utilisation of.He, however, challenged universities in Nigeria to be at the vanguard of research, teaching and community service to enhance the nation`s development in all fields of human endeavours. The Gbong Gwom Jos promised to leverage on the goodwill of the various stakeholders in diverse fields of knowledge to move the university forward. He added; “Nigerians must never forget this giant of Nigeria`s independence struggle, along with other contemporaries who are known as the founding fathers of independent Nigeria.” Prof. Joseph Ahaneku, the Vice-Chancellor of the university said the chancellor would be an invaluable asset to the institution. 

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