Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has named Justice Mary Odili (JSC) (rtd) as the university’s pro-chancellor and chairman.
He gave the three State-wide postsecondary educational institutions’ Governing Councils their inaugural session.
He said that the action was consistent with his pledge to realign the school system to produce skilled labor in order to accelerate sustainable growth and build a society that is influential and progressive.
In addition, Dr. Robinson Ewoh will chair Ignatius Ajuru University of Education and Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, while Chief Adokiye Amiesimaka will serve as pro-chancellor and chairman.
The Governor stated that he has given the Councils instructions to make sure that the urgency of providing school-age children with the necessary information and abilities to become competitive, inventive, and self-reliant drives their actions.
“I reminded the Councils that there is a lot of noise everywhere: people asking what we are doing; that we are not focused, and that we don’t have direction,” he wrote on X.
“But I also made it clear that we are focused and aware that we cannot grow if our energies are not channelled to education. Not just education, but purposeful education.
“I promised to leave a legacy of an education system that is creative. Education that gives our children some level of independence…
“I charged them to actualise our purpose for education, which is to bring back our academic programmes to where, at the end of your studies, you don’t need a job but you create jobs, and employ others. That is what I want the Councils to see as their task.
“I further approved and directed the immediate recommencement of the recruitment exercise that was cancelled last year at IAUOE, with emphasis on engaging qualified candidates to bridge existing gap in the academic staff portfolio; just as I assured of Government’s readiness to invest in transforming the infrastructure landscape of the three institutions.”
