VC charges stakeholders on UNN growth

VICE Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Prof Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba has called for collaborative efforts of stakeholders to enable the institution realize the dreams of her founding fathers.

He stated that though the institution has in the last 54 years contributed in the development of the country through research, development as well as producing some best brains, it must do more to

ensure that certain challenges confronting the country were overcome.

Presenting his first Founders Day celebration address in Enugu yesterday, Ozumba, who was recently appointed the 14th Vice Chancellor of the school, said that staff and student welfare, environment and campus aesthetics, academic leadership and research, academic discipline and ethics remained his priority.

“My agenda is to provide the university of Nigeria the leadership needed to become an academic giant and pace-setter in the quality of its successful research, the level of its innovative teaching and the robustness of its community service among universities in the developing countries”, he said.

He stated that the Founder’s Day celebration was to call to mind the dreams of the founders of the university, stressing that it would offer his administration the opportunity to review the progress so far made and areas of improvement.

Ozumba, said his administration was abreast with challenges facing the university and has constituted a committee to address them.

He said that the committee tagged ‘welfare committee’ would tackle grievances that had affected the process of development of the institution.

He announced at the briefing that water had been restored at the Enugu campus of the institution more than 15years after it was disrupted.

On student’s welfare, he promised the provision of better wifi services to enable them access to internet, provision of laptops at subsidized rate as well as work with the Students Union Government (SUG) to achieve set goals.

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