Unizik Alumni To Build A Resource Center , Says Prof Ahaneku

               Out gone and new Vice Chancellors of Unizik, Egboka and Ahaneku during hand over

The management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka plans to build a befitting Alumni resource center for effective networking and mobilization of both human and material resources of its past students in other to re-position the institution.

The vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Joseph Ahaneku disclosed this in Awka while receiving a delegation of the university's Alumni Association, Awka branch, who paid him a courtesy visit.

Prof Ahaneku who described the university as one of the  legacies of the hero of Nigerian Independence struggle, and the late  Owelle of Onitsha, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe; and called on people and governments of South East zone to come to the need of the institution, the way Zik of Africa rescued Nigeria from the clutches of colonial rule.  

The vice Chancellor also urged the Alumni Association to be more visible in the activities of the institution,as management was set to partner with its former students who are genuinely interested in working for the progress of the University.

In a remark, the branch chairman of the alumni Association, Mr Bona Oraekwe stated that university education system would greatly improve if university authorities could develop strategic plans of incorporating Alumni associations into the management of the institutions.

Mr Oraekwe expressed regrets that most universities in the country concentrate efforts in building international linkages with institutions and individuals abroad neglecting their own products who have excelled in various fields of endeavour. He therefore charged university authorities to engage in proper networking and mobilization of resources from their past students for the development of the parent institution, expressing hope that such persons would be more committed to the development of their alma-mata.

Also speaking, an alumnus of the institution, Prof Emeka Ezeonu eulogized the new vice chancellor of the university for organizing one of the most successful Post UTME screening exercise devoid of any form of malpractice.

According to Prof Ezeonu," the screening exercise was the first major assignment which the V.C discharged very creditably" and urged the present administration to sustain the effort towards transforming the institution to enable it take its place of pride in the nation's education system.