After a keenly
contested election at various faculties, the Vice-Chancellor approved change of
leadership by appointing new Deans who will superintend over administrative and
academic affairs in the 17 Faculties of the university. Consequently, staff of
Information and Public Relations Unit went round the Faculties to find out the
visions and action plans of the new Deans. Excerpts:
Prof Agwu Ekwe Agwu
Dean Agriculture
I will use the
period of my deanship to lay foundation for a better Faculty of Agriculture.
My Vision for the
Faculty is encapsulated in a three-point agenda namely:
effective faculty
administration; Teaching, learning and research, and fund generation and
Management. The core Values of the
faculty under my watch would be openness, teamwork and accountability. We will prioritize staff and students
welfare. I have already set up a committee to review our staff welfare scheme.
We are going to form a public complainant committee to handle complainants of
victimization involving both staff and students. Under my watch, staff will be promoted on
merit, not on the basis of friendship.
Hold me accountable
for any file that sleeps on my table for 24hours. We are going to revive all
moribund operations in the Faculty. I have challenged our farm operations unit
to go into complete production.
My administration
will initiate the process of having a befitting Faculty building, relying on
goodwill of our alumni and friends to mobilize funds for the project. Under my
watch, the Faculty is going to pursue Institution Based Grants with incentives
to participating staff. To generate
revenue, we will set up strategic partnership and consultancy committee.
At the end of my
tenure we will throw a scorecard and render account of our stewardship. This
has never happened in the Faculty.
I would want to be
remembered as one who laid the foundation for accountability and transparency
in our faculty's administration.
Prof Nnanyelugo Okoro
Dean Arts
Faculty business is
a very serious business, so we are going to adopt business approach to solve
the problems of our Faculty. Re-roofing
our Faculty building is paramount to my administration. We will also make
effort to provide office spaces for our staff and get alternative power source
to eliminate generator music in our environment. To achieve our vision, we are going to
leverage on the goodwill of the university administration and the UNN brand to mobilize our alumni and friends for funds
and sponsorship. We can also access
funds from TETfund with the help of the University administration.
At the end of my
tenure I would like to be remembered as a Dean who met a Faculty lacking in
many things and left the faculty better than he met it.
Nnanyelugo Okoro is
a Professor of Mass Communication. He joined the services of the University as
an Assistant Lecturer in 1994. He rose
through the ladder and was appointed a Professor of the University in 2011.
Prior to his appointment, he had served as a two-time Head, Department of Mass
Communication from 2004-2007 and from 2012-2013
Prof Onyemaechi Valentine Ekechukwu
Dean Faculty of Engineering
My vision as the new
Dean is what I like to call my ''Modest Promises'' and these promises of mine
will place the faculty in an enviable position during and after my tenure: they
are
Building linkages
and collaborations- I will utilize all contact available to me to establish
formal linkages with foreign and local universities with focus on career
development and capacity building of junior academics and students. I hope to
attract high net-worth individuals and agencies to activities of our faculty.
Expansion of PG
programme- I shall pursue the establishment of new BEng programmes in my
faculty. The faculty currently has six existing department and I intend to add
nine other programmes such as Chemical, Petroleum, Automotive, power,
Aerospace, Telecom, Bio-Medical, Mechatronics and computer Engineering to it.
This expansion will place the faculty as a foremost faculty of Engineering in
Nigeria.
Staff promotion-
under my watch as the Dean, staff promotions shall be cardinal in
implementation and transparency. No staff of Faculty of Engineering will suffer
any career advancement injustice as this is a personal fundamental commitment
for me.
After my tenure as
the Dean I will like to be remembered as one who changed the face of the
faculty through innovation and one who built strong capacity in improving the
lives of all the young academics in the faculty.
Onyemaechi Valentine
Ekechukwu is a professor of Mechanical Engineering; he became a professor in
2001 and was a former Director of Research and Innovation, National
Universities Commission. He is currently the Dean faculty of Engineering.
Prof. Felix Nzube Chukwuneke
Dean, Faculty of Dentistry
My vision is to
promote and build a Faculty that will be academically and socially accountable
through exemplary leadership role, team work and collaboration in education, clinical
research and patient care in order to produce well trained doctors,
researchers, and oral health care professionals that meet the world standard.
The core values of
my administration include:
Obligation to Duty:
Good conduct and ethical behavior among students and staff to ensure that
administrative and academic work is done with punctuality, integrity, honesty
and sincerity.
Professional
Responsibility: The students must be taught properly and the needful done while
the administrative arm has to leave up to expectation for the system to work.
Flourishing Human
Relationship: University is a bit like a hive of bees. Each person in the
university system has his or her particular role to play and each role links in
together allowing good academic programmes to function.
Service to Humanity:
Compassion is the hallmark of dental and medical practice. While individual
doctors have their own personal beliefs and values, there are certain
professional values on which all doctors are expected to base their practice.
Felix Nzube
Chukwuneke is a Bioethicist and a Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial
Surgery. At present he is the Chairman College of Medicine Research Ethics
Committee (COMREC) and was recently appointed Chair, UNESCO Bioethics unit at
the College of Medicine. Prof. Chukwuneke is the first Alumnus Professor/Dean
of Faculty of Dentistry.
Prof Ugwoke Ngwoke
Dean Faculty of Education
The problem of
office space for a good number of staff and academic leadership are primary to
my administration. I intend to solve the problem of academic leadership by
strengthening the PG programme of our Faculty.
I believe that our PG programmes should be enforced for all academic
staff in every department. We can also
strengthen academic leadership through
building strong mentorship system and by getting new staff to fall in line in
terms of academic development.
My Mission statement
is to create programmes that will meet current world best practices, to get the
academic programme leadership in tandem with best practices across the globe
and to get the accommodation problem solved as much as possible.
At the end of my
tenure, I want to be remembered for providing office accommodation for the
staff and for strengthening the programmes on ground, creating more programmes
and of course staff welfare as regards promotion.
Prof Ugwoke Ngwoke
started his services with the University as a Lecturer II in the Department of
Educational Foundations in 1992. He rose through the ladder to become a
Professor of the university. Prior to
his appointment as the Dean, Prof. Ngwoke had served as the Associate Dean of
the Faculty of Education (2006-2008); Acting Head of the Department of
Educational Foundations (2012-2013) and reappointed Acting Head of Department
(2013-2014).
Prof. Sabinus Oscar Eze
Dean Faculty of Biological Science
My vision is to
eradicate the challenge of light by providing a sound proof generator that will
serve the faculty, tackle the poor supply of WIFI to enable me boost the
quality of research publication of our staff and also give the faculty an
environmental face lift which will make it the cleanest faculty on campus.
It is my desire to
design a faculty website for the faculty journal that has been in existence for
over 15 years for better indexing and accessibility of the journal. I will
ensure the faculty of Biological Sciences upgrades their service delivery as
the Faculty renders academic services to seven other faculties.
At the end of my
tenure, I want to be remembered as one who effected positive change in the
Faculty.
Professor Sabinus
Eze is the incumbent Dean Faculty of Biological Sciences. He was the former
Associate Dean of the Faculty and a Fellow of the Matsume International
Foundation of Japan. He is a professor at the Department of Biochemistry of the
University of Nigeria and a visiting Professor at Godfrey Okoye University
Enugu. He became a professor in 2014 and obtained all his degrees from the
University of Nigeria. He obtained his Post-doctorial training from the
Department of Parasitology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine,
Maebashi, Japan.
Professor Oliver C. Ojinnaka, Dean,
Faculty of Environmental Studies
Prof Oliver
Chinagoro Ojinnaka joined the services of the University of Nigeria as lecturer-1 in 1987. He rose through the
ranks to become a Professor in 2008. He
has served as consultant in hydrographic surveying, hydraulics and engineering
survey to many companies and institutions. He has also served as Acting of Head
of Department, Associate Dean Student Affairs and in many University, National
and international committees.
Professor Sebastian Okwuchukwu Ekenze,
Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Prof. Anthony Amaechi Attama
Dean Pharmaceutical Sciences
The lingering
problem in my Faculty is the pending accreditation from Pharmacy Council of
Nigeria, this is a priority for my
administration.
My Mission is to achieve
academic excellence in the Faculty. I
intend to increase quality of our international collaborations. I have
arrangements in place to bring in a Professor from a South African University
by October to sign MOU with the Faculty in order to develop collaborative
researches. I also intend to use my contacts in UK, Australia and South Africa
to strengthen collaborations between our Faculty and the external world.
I would like to be
remembered for entrenching research culture in the faculty such that there will
be a research focus and direction. I also want to be remembered for exposing
young academics in our faculty to international recognition. My desire is to have tangible drugs produced
in the faculty before the end of my tenure. I will make sure our pilot
production unit is empowered to translate our researches into product; this
will enhance industrial collaborations.
Prof. Anthony
Amaechi Attama joined the services of the University in February 1995 as a
graduate assistant in the Department of Pharmaceutics, since then he has moved
through the ranks and became a Professor in 2009. Prior to his appointment as Dean, Prof.
Attama had served as the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical
Sciences (2008-2010); Head of the Department of Pharmaceutics (2010-2013), and
the Director, Education and innovation unit.
Prof Uchechukwu Chris Okoro
Dean Faculty of Physical Science
My vision can be
better explained as a five point agenda.
I want to enhance
the teaching and learning process of the faculty.
Upgrade the quality
of research publication by tackling the challenge of power outage and wifi
which would help curb the loss of man power.
Render community service through consultancy
and offer marketable product from the faculty to the University community and
beyond.
I will also
Implement key performance indicator that will assess staff output and guarantee
job satisfaction through the provision of necessary work equipment and office
space.
Besides my five
point agenda, I am passionate about fostering and instilling peace amongst my
staff which I believe will enhance their work productivity. At the end of my
tenure, I will like posterity to remember me as a man who advocated for peace.
Professor Uchechukwu
Chris Okoro obtained his BSC (Hons) and PhD in chemistry from the University of
Lagos and University of Nigeria respectively. He joined the University of
Nigeria in 1983 and became a professor in 2010. He was a onetime Commissioner
of Education of Enugu state, a former Head of Department of Chemistry and the
current Dean Faculty of Physical Sciences.
Prof. Leonard
Ifeanyi Ugwu
Dean Faculty of the Social Sciences
My vision for the
Faculty of the Social Sciences is to organize Faculty Lecture series where some
well meaning Nigerians will be invited to share their views with our staff and
also help us solve some of our problems.
Due to the Impact
Factor policy, some of my staff are stagnant, I will invite some people to give
public lectures on how to go about it.
I will ensure
regular production of Faculty Journals where people can publish their articles.
My target is to make sure the journals are indexed.
We will also make
efforts to renovate our Faculty Hall to improve the ambience of our environment
and create office spaces for our staff.
After my tenure, I
will like to be remembered for my open door policy, promotion of welfare of my
staff and putting structure that will outlive my administration and my
generation.
Professor Ugwu
joined the services of the University of Nigeria as a Senior Lecturer in 30th
of November 2008. Prior to his appointment as Dean, he had served as the Head,
Department of Psychology, 2009-2011 and as the Associate Dean, Faculty of the
Social Science, 2016-2018.
Professor John Anaelom
Nwanta
Dean, Faculty
of Veterinary Medicine
My mission is to
develop alternative ways of improving our teaching and research facilities in
our laboratories and farm. Also, I will give attention to ways of sourcing for
fund to develop the Faculty. To achieve this feat, I intend to organise a
homecoming in the Faculty where some eminent alumni and Professors, both from
the faculty and outside the faculty will be honoured. I want to activate some
linkages for effective collaboration in order to encourage exchange programmes
between our faculty and other faculties in UNN and similar faculties in other
universities. This will help our staff and students secure
training opportunities and conferences both nationally and internationally.
“I will develop the
Veterinary Research Farm in order to liaise with National Animal Production
Research Institute, Zaira, where I can procure upgraded livestock for our
poultry farm to ensure maximum productivity and research output".
At the end of my
tenure "I will like to be remembered as one who made the Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine a robust one through sound research and teaching which will
bring the faculty to an international standard.
Prior to his
appointment as Dean, Professor J. A. Nwanta had worked for The University of
Nigeria Nsukka since 2005 and had served as Head of Department of Veterinary
Public Health and Preventive Medicine for eight years..
Prof Emmanuel Osinem
Dean Vocational and Technical Education
My vision is to move
the Faculty to an enviable height in TVET Educator Programme delivery, research
and extension services and be ranked among top three faculties in UNN and
maintain number one position among faculties of its nature in Nigeria and
Sub-Saharan Africa.
To achieve our
vision, we will embark on strategic Research and innovative projects that will
enhance the visibility of the faculty and thus generate goodwill, interventions
from within and outside Nigeria, more international linkages and
collaborations.
We are going to
explore resources and opportunities of national and international agencies.
Already, the Faculty has 11 international projects coordinated by our staff. We
have set up a secretariat for International Project Coordination to expand our
contacts. We have also set up Business Development Centre Committee to revive our
business centers.
At the end of my
tenure, I will like to be remembered for the impact my programmes and projects
created in enhancing teaching, learning and research. I will like to be
remembered for the impact I would make in building a crop of vibrant academic.
Emmanuel Osinem is a
Professor of Agric Education; he joined the services of the University of
Nigeria as Lecturer II in 1997 and was appointed a Professor in 2009. Prof
Osinem had served as the Coordinator of Agric Education Unit under the Faculty
of Education. He was the pioneer HOD, Agric Education in the New Faculty of
VTE. Until his appointment as the Dean of VTE, Prof Osinem was the Director of
CETVETAR.
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