By Amaechi Agbo

Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Right Reverend Matthew Hassan Kukah will arrive the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 to deliver a memorial lecture.

The fiery priest and human rights activist will be the Guest Lecturer during the Memorial Lecture Series in honour of Late Hon. Justice Chima Centus Nweze.

The lecture will be chaired by Hon. Justice Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

The Visitor to the University and Governor of Enugu State, Dr Peter Ndubisi Mbah will be the special guest if the lecture which will hold at Amadeo Event Center, Enugu by 11.00am whereas the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Aloysius-Michaels Okolie, the Chief Host, will deliver the welcome speech.

“I am directed to inform the University Community that the Memorial Lecture Series in honour of Late Hon. Justice Chima Centus Nweze has been scheduled to hold on 25th day of September, 2024 at Amadeo Event Center, Enugu by 11.00am.

“The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev Mathew Hassan Kukah would be the Guest Lecturer while Hon. Justice Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court would Chair the event.

“His Excellency, the Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, who is also the Visitor to our University would be the Special Guest of Honour, while ESUT Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Aloysius-Michaels Okolie would be the Chief Host. The Vice-Chancellor as the Chief Host is already programmed to deliver the Welcome Remarks at the event,” a statement signed by the university registrar, Chief Ambrose Ugwu and made available to ESUT Monitor, says.

The Memorial Lecture is organised by the Faculty of Law, ESUT in memory of late legal luminary, Hon. Justice Chima Centus Nweze.

Late Justice Nweze who hails from Enugu State, was a Supreme Court Justice until his death on July 30, 2023 aged 64.