VC Promises Completion Of Abandoned Projects

The Vice Chancellor, University of Nigeria Nsukka [UNN], Professor Bartholomew N. Okolo, has assured the university community that all the abandoned Nigerian University Games [NUGA] Projects in the institution would be completed by his administration.

Professor Okolo who gave the assurance Monday while addressing newsmen in Enugu in respect of the activities lined up for the university’s 2009 Founders Day celebration noted that the abandoned projects when completed will yield revenue for the university.

According to professor Okolo, who said he had been in the university system since the past 25 years, “It is not an easy thing to run a university. I am giving my people hope that tomorrow will be better. The Lion has started roaring again. We are also pursuing good learning and teaching environment. We are going to raise the standard of our schools in order to make them viable. We have zero tolerance for examination malpractices. Our vision is to ensure that UNN joins the league of leading universities in the world”, he stressed.

He, however, observed that the university has recorded some achievements, adding that hundreds of thousands of alumni spread across the length and breadth of Nigeria, in politics, in business, in the productive sectors of the economy and the service industry, in the professions as well as in diaspora are very glaring for people to see.

His words: “Wherever these alumni are, they are helping transform their immediate communities and helping to realize the vision of the Founding Fathers of our university. But the infrastructure for pursuing this noble destiny is not yet developed. Although a major milestone was achieved by my predecessor, professor Nebo administration with the commissioning of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Library, thought to be the biggest equipped in Sub-Sahara Africa.”

The Vice Chancellor, therefore used the forum to appeal to friends and well wishers of the University of Nigeria, “all our friends in the public and private sectors to assist us in the provision of the basic infrastructural needs without which the University of Nigeria would be in no position to aspire towards its high destiny.  The university therefore needs the assistance of the chieftains of commerce and industry to aspire towards its high destiny.  The university therefore needs the assistance of the chieftains of commerce and industry to open channels of communication with the productive sector and create inter-linkages that would be mutually beneficial to the national economy and to the academy,” he further reasoned.