New VC Pledges To Make UNIPORT Top Five In Nigeria

The Ebitimi Banigo Hall of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), was agog as the university heralded yet another epoch in the history of the institution with the appointment of its new Vice Chancellor, Prof Owunari Abraham Georgewill.
Georgewill, the 9th Vice Chancellor of the university, was appointed penultimate Friday, and introduced to the university community by the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the institution, Senator Andrew Uchendu, penultimate Wednesday.
Delivering his Inaugural Lecture entitled, “A More Prosperous Uniport”, Georgewill assured his commitment and partnership with the university community, including the governing council, staff and students to make the university rank among the first five in the country, 10 in Africa and 100 in the world.
While noting that teaching and learning were paramount in any institution of learning, Georgewill revealed that his first mandate was to strive to improve on the learning and teaching environment and techniques of the university through policies and motivational attitude that would in turn make the university a destination of choice for scholars, innovators and industries.
Georgewill said, “As a mandate, I will strive to improve on our teaching and learning. This will be achieved through first ensuring a policy to make staff deliver technology-mediated teaching. Thus, there will be training and retraining of staff to meet up the times, especially in this era of Covid”.
Georgewill said his administration would work in synergy with the university community to foster intellectual system, review the curriculum to produce industry-ready graduates, reorganize underperforming units and institutes, scale up external mobilization efforts, including that of the government, development partners and oil companies as well as reorganize the procurement unit for increased transparency, accountability and value delivery of the university’s finances.
The new VC of the Unique UNIPORT, who noted with dismay the internal division and loss of trust among staffers which he said had greatly affected the university, however, stressed the need for collaboration and sense of unity to build strong and prosperous UNIPORT with the slogan ‘Yes, We Can’.

By: Lady Godknows Ogbulu