UNIZIK solving societal challenges through community, public services – Prof Esimone
By Chukwudi Ndubeze
The Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka has said the institution’s community and public services, often tagged town and gown series, is proving its impacts in solving challenges affecting mankind in the society.
The UNIZIK VC said this while addressing journalists during the March 2022 Congress of the Anambra State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists led by Comrade Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, PhD, held at Godwin Ezeemo International Press Centre on Thursday.
He said the University’s system of partnership with the public (town) had solidified relationship ties that had culminated in series of interventions and building facilities that aided human living and contribute to problem solving in the society.
He recalled that among the many examples of such partnership was the construction of ultra-modern surge centre within the University Medical Center for the treatment of COVID-19, Lassa fever and other infections diseases through the intervention of the Anambra Progressive Union convened by Senator Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah.
He also noted that the enormous positive agenda of the university had caught the interests of some investors who, he said, invested in the completion of key other projects in the institution.
He emphasized that the institution, through its hard work, had attracted TETFund grant for the establishment of a Kidney and
Urological Centre at the College of Health Sciences, Nnewi, having procured the installation of a COVID-19 testing centre in the
University, through philanthropy.
Recall that Pof Esimone, at the inception of his tenure, had outlined strategies he tagged “Project 200” which was streamlined to ensure that the institution earn the rank of best University in Nigeria, among first ten in Africa and among first two hundred in the globe.
