With eleven weeks already spent since the commencement of the 2023/2024 academic session on March 15 in ESUT, ESUT Monitor can authoritatively report that the 2nd semester examinations will commence in July.

Investigations by our reporters across departments and faculties show that both students and lecturers are anxious about the exam dates. Some lectures already, are rounding off their lectures and students writing quiz and assignments being given to them.

Speaking with our correspondents in his office on Wednesday, the Registrar, ESUT, Mr Ambrose Ugwu said that the 2nd semester examinations will commence on July 22 through August 8, 2024.

He noted that the examinations are for all continue students without exception adding that the university will embark on two-month break thereafter.

“The second semester examinations will start on July 22 and end on August 8, 2024. This is for all levels, from year one to those in the final year.

“Then we will have a break from Monday, August 12, 2024, to September 27, 2024,” he said.

The second semester examinations will last for 17 days.

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More commendations have continued to pour in following the relaunch of the ESUT Monitor Newspaper with the Honourable Commissioner for Water Resources, Enugu State, Dr. Felix Nnamani promising that he would continue to identify with the paper.

Hon. Nnamani who described the paper as a “quality production” said the “sky will be your stepping stone” in his appraisal of the paper when the editorial team paid him a visit in his office, recently. He charged the department to sustain the paper.

 “You guys are in the pipeline, with the kind of quality production you’ve done in the campus. If you have the backup and resources that is required, the sky will be your stepping stone.

“All I can say is for you to keep it up, I’m impressed with this (holding the newspaper). I’ll continue to identify with this. Mass Communication is one of the pioneer departments in ESUT. The University was structured after Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US. It was going to be totally University of Technology. Mass Communication was one of the social sciences that got a space afterwards. That’s why you have quality journalists both in the print and broadcast media. Congratulations to you and to the Mass Communication Department of our University,” he said.

He commended the great works put into the department by various individuals who had previously management the department.

“Your current HoD is doing a great work reviving the paper. I will also not forget great men in your department like Professors Chris Ngwu, Ifeanyi Didiugwu, Ike Ndolo, Sunny Udeze and so many others that are very active and sound.”

Since the return of the paper in the newsstands nearly two months ago, it has continued to receive encomiums from both the Enugu State Government, ESUT Management, Professors as well as individuals who have expressed delight for the revival. 

The ESUT Registrar, Mr Ambrose Ugwu described the newspaper as “the watchdog of the university”

The Newspaper which served the university community previously but went out of circulation in 2015 was relaunched on November 16, 2023 following the appointment of Dr Chidiebere Ezinwa as the new Head of Mass Communication Department, ESUT in September.

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The office of the Registrar, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT was a beehive of activities on Thursday, December 21 as members of the staff “invaded” the office to collect their bags of rice, courtesy of the University scribe, Mr Ambrose Ugwu.

A visitor would have mistaken the Registrar’s office for a warehouse or palliative storage facility as bags of rice littered the office and staff trooping in and out dragging bags of rice along with them as they made their way out of the office in joyous mood.

Seated placidly on his desk is the Registrar, Mr Ambrose Ugwu seemingly oblivious of the activities going on inside his office.

Interestingly, the news of the Christmas gift fettered into the other departments and staff came in their numbers to also collect their own gifts from “our daddy” as they referred to the Registrar.

Mr Ugwu in an interview with ESUT monitor shortly after the distribution of the bags of rice to the staff, explained why he embarked on such humanitarian gesture.

“I have a way of thanking God because He has been very supportive to our administration and to me in particular. So I said those staff working under me, let them receive the dividends of their efforts. It is a happy Christmas gift, no matter how little. I can’t reach everybody but at least those who sustained the work till today, the 21^st of December, that is why I don’t want any person that is not here to receive it. If you are not here, you are not part of it. And those who are here today that we have to close for the year, I have to appreciate them. 

“It is a Christmas gift to them. Formerly we used to send Christmas cards but those things are no longer in vogue, we now commit it to cash or materials. That is why I made provisions for small gifts. I have bags of rice, bedsheet. Some may still get tokens in terms of cash,” he said.

Mr Ugwu noted further that he distributed 200 5kg bags of rice to all the staff members who are working under the Registry Office.

 “I made provisions for 200 5kg bags of rice and I have exhausted them. My staff members are many because the departments and units under the Registry Office include the Central Registry, Establishment, Students Affairs, Records, Exams, Council Unit, General Administration and Senate Unit. All these departments fall under the purvey of the Registry. But I extended it to other units within the Administrative Block. Except the Bursary, I will think about that because I didn’t make provisions for them.”

ESUT formally closed for Christmas and New Year festivities on Thursday December 21 and will resume on January 8^th, 2024

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The management of Nigeria’s first University of Technology, ESUT, has expressed gratitude to the staff, students and the host communities for standing by them during the outgoing year 2023.

The Registrar, Mr Ambrose Ugwu in an exclusive interview with ESUT Monitor in his office on Friday shortly before the university shut down for Christmas and New Year festivities, said the outgoing year was a mixed fortune for the university.

“This year has been very challenging but still fruitful,” he said while answering question on the activities in the university in the year under review.

I thank God and my prayer is that we all will go home peacefully and return peacefully to continue from where we stopped.

“God has been very faithful to the University. Even though we lost some staff, which is natural, He has been protecting us. It is not easy travelling to Agbani from Enugu on daily basis but God protected us throughout the year.

“The staff members were outstanding despite one two issues, the students also did their best. The host communities remained partners in progress.  

“I am very happy because within the space of two years we have been here, ESUT had no strike, everything has been going seamlessly. I thank the labour unions for being with the management always because we have not had any challenge with the labour unions in the past two years we came on board. The relationship has been very cordial.

“I equally thank the Vice Chancellor because he is a visionary leader and a father who listens to cries of the people under his care,” he said,

He however reminded the staff that more works ahead f the quest of achieving the management’s dream of making the university a beckon of academic excellent must be achieved.

“I thank God and my prayer is that we all will go home peacefully and return peacefully to continue from where we stopped.”

As the school officially vacates for yuletide celebrations, it is hoped that both staff and students would continue to imbibe the good morals inculcated in them and remain good ambassadors of the university.

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Determined to ensure effective knowledge impartation on the students at the highest level, the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT has gotten six new academic juggernauts following the promotions of three lecturers to the rank of professors as well as the elevation of three others to the position of Readers.

Their promotion effected on December 21, 2023 came as a great news to the affected staff.

The newly promoted lecturers to the rank of professorship include; Professor Chukwuemeka Celestine from department of Agriculture Economics and Extension; Professor Chukwuemeka Mbah of Marketing Department and Professor George Duhu Ishiwu from Economics.

The three lectures elevated to the rank of Readers are; Dr Ikechukwu Christian Ezugwu from Accountancy Department; Dr Everist Onyehuluchukwu from Business Administration and Dr Lawrence Adizue Isiofia from Architecture Department. 

Speaking with ESUT Monitor in his office on Friday, the University Registrar, Mr Ambrose Ugwu expressed delight over the development and promised that every promotion letter on the Establishment desk would be cleared on Friday for their owners to pick them up

“As we are closing today, ESUT has produced three more Professors and three more Readers. Their approvals came this afternoon, 21^st December, 2023 and they are going home with their Promotion Letters already signed by the Registrar, Secretary to the Council.

“All other promoted staff whose papers are there in the Establishment, they are going home with their promotions.

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The management of Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT has announced a three-week break for Christmas and New Year celebrations.

In a memo released on Friday, December 15^th and signed by the Registrar, Mr Ambrose Ugwu and made available to ESUT Monitor, it explained that the short holiday would commence on December 21^st 2023 and last till January 8, 2024. The holiday will last for a period of 18 days.

While adding that lectures will begin on the resumption date, the Registrar noted that those on essential duties as well as staff at the College of Medicine, were not affected by the break.

“This is to inform all staff and students of the University that the University will vacate for Christmas holidays after the close of work on Thursday, 21st December, 2023 and resume on Monday, 8th January, 2024, excluding the College of Medicine.

“Lectures will commence that same Monday, 8th January, 2024.

“All staff on essential duties are not affected by this notice,” the memo read.

The University management wishes all staff and students a “Merry Christmas”

The 2023/2024 Academic session began on October 23 and is expected to end in July next year

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Management of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, has described the ESUT Monitor Newspaper as the “Watchdog of the university.”

The Registrar, Mr Ambrose Ugwu stated this in a chat with the editorial team of the newspaper in his office. The University scribe who expressed delight over the rebirth of the newspaper said he was happy when he first saw the newspaper before the 19^th Convocation ceremony held last month.

“I am very happy that this ESUT Monitor is back. The only way you can disseminate information is putting them down in writing. When I saw this paper earlier (during the Alumni Symposium), I was thinking that it’s somebody from Government House who used to come and share papers anytime we have function. I had to touch the Bursar and say ‘are you sure these people have not come to disrupt our event? Later on, I went through it, I saw pages, convocation messages, felicitations and then the activities of this current management. I said wow! This is complementing the ESUT Courier, and it’s very encouraging and very good.”

He however made an appeal for the cost of the paper to be reviewed considering that majority of the people to buy the paper is the students. He further advised that the management of the Newspaper should create stands at strategic places in the university and within the neighbouring communities where people can pick up the paper to get information about ESUT.

“The only thing I have to say is that I have seen the cover price, 500 Naira. It’s not that it’s not affordable, but you know the greater percentage of the people that will need this newspaper are the students. If there’s any way the price can be reduced so that many of them can buy it, that will be fine.

“Then you need to have a stand, where people can go and look at the latest information happening in the University. Again, you’ll have an interface with the PR Unit so that if there’s an event, some of your students who are on IT or who are not supposed to be in class, can go and cover it. I am very happy that this thing is back and I pray that it doesn’t go into extinction again.”

He expressed the management’s readiness to support the newspaper when called upon and charged the paper to criticize the management where it is failing

“If there’s any way that the management can assist, feel free to approach the management let us have a dialogue, and whenever we want to pay courtesy visit to any organisation, we can pick some copies. You people are now our watchdog, it is not the one the University is producing, which is actually the University management news. “Create columns where students will say things as it is, so that we can now feel the pulse of those we are leading. There are so many students who cannot vocally express themselves to say we’re being harassed or extorted. Create a forum where these things will be said, let it be anonymous. We’ll go through some of these things and synthesize it. That is why this administration is succeeding.”

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The management, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, has warned the staff of the university that staff members who failed to be regularised are not under the employ of the institution.

The Registrar, Mr Ambrose Ugwu issued the warning in an exclusive interview with ESUT Monitor in his office on Friday. 

Mr Ugwu who is the graduate in the institution to hold the position, explained the importance of regularisation and why the management is taking the exercise seriously.

“It is very important for you to understand what regularization is; if you’re a staff of the University and you are not regularised, if anything happens to you, you are not known (in the system), that is the essence of it. Regularisation is where you bring your documents after staying for a year or two, because anything you have is temporal appointment. Until you are regularised and confirmed, you can only have the rights and privileges of a staff when you’re regularised, that is the essence of regularisation.

“If you retire today, and you go to the ministry for payment of your gratuity, they will ask you, ‘are you a regularised staff?’ If you are not regularised, they don’t have any obligation where you are. So, it is very important and many of us do not understand what it means. I thank God for the type of Vice-Chancellor the University have within this period, because he’s a man that knows the rules. He knows what it means to be regularised, that is why when he came on board he said staff must be regularised.”

He recalled that the process of the regularisation, it was observed that many Professors, Doctors, Engineers, senior staff have not been regularised. He added that the new management didn’t introduce the exercise stressing that regularisation is part of the rules operating in the civil service system.

“You will be surprised to notice that so many Professors, Associate Professors, Engineers, Doctors, are not regularised. Regularisation is where you present your papers; you claim you’re this, let us see it. After two years then you’re confirmed a staff. So you have to be regularised before being confirmed. It has been in our laws, the only thing is that we didn’t care about it. It was like a battle, ‘how are you telling us to bring our documents after twenty years, thirty years?’ but along the line, so many people started seeing the need,” he concluded.

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