By Ikechukwu Odu

A non-governmental organisation under the auspices of Sound Education Ambassadors, SEA, Nigeria, weekend, presented an award of excellence to the Vice Chancellor of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Professor Aloysius-Michaels Okolie for his visionary leadership and promotion of academic excellence in the University.

The organization said that the Vice Chancellor and his Management team have repositioned ESUT to a greater height since the inception of the present administration.

While speaking during the award presentation at the ESUT permanent site ,Agbani, Enugu State, the National President of the organization, Hon. Tony Nwachukwu, said the Board of Trustees, and the National Executive Council, NEC, of the SEA, found Professor Okolie worthy of the award following his impressive leadership antecedents both at ESUT, and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN.

In her remarks, the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the organization, Elizabeth Onyeabor, stated that the Management of the University has transformed ESUT through dedication and hardwork.

Onyeabor, who has dual citizenship of the USA, and Nigeria, enjoined the University Management to continue striving in its efforts to place ESUT as one of the globally competitive citadel of learning.

While expressing his gratitude to the organization for the award, the Vice Chancellor of ESUT, Professor Okolie, stated that the University Management had signed a good number of MoU with reputable organizations to train and certify ESUT students on employability skills.

Professor Okolie, further stated that the University would organize a business fair to expose some of its products and inventions to captains of industries and firms as part of the activities marking its forthcoming convocation ceremony scheduled for November 23, 2024.

He also said that the University Management has turned its attention to the agriculture faculty of the university in order to embark on commercial agriculture which would help to shore-up its revenue generation.

The Registrar of the University, Ambrose Ugwu, equally stated that ESUT graduates collect their certificates immediately after graduation, adding that the present administration had eliminated all the hitches hitherto experienced by graduates during certificate collection.