Former minister of Aviation and chancellor of Athena Centre for Coverage and Management (ACPL) Chief Osita Chidoka, will ship this 12 months’s Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Annual Memorial Lecture on the subject “Harnessing the Energy of Schooling for Nationwide Transformation: Classes from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s Imaginative and prescient.”
Accoryto media adviser to ACPL, Aliyu Jalal, the lecture will happen on Friday 15 November 2024, within the newly renovated ETF Auditorium, Igbariam Campus, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu College.This 12 months’s lecture will carry collectively distinguished company, together with the Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo; Chief sOjukwu’s widow, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu; the Minister of State for Overseas Affairs; particular visitor of honour, former Minister Labaran Maku; and the Appearing Vice-Chancellor of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu College, Prof. Kate Azuka Omenugha, who will function the Chief Host.
The Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Memorial Lecture, inaugurated in 2018, is an educational platform devoted to preserving Ojukwu’s legacy of patriotism, braveness, and visionary management.
Earlier lectures have featured esteemed audio system corresponding to Prof. Anselm Odinkalu and Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, who’ve engaged in vital public discourse on vital nationwide points. This third version guarantees to be particularly important, because it comes at a time of nice nationwide nervousness, financial challenges, and rising insecurity.
Prof. Nnamdi Obikeze, Chairman of the Ojukwu Memorial Lecture Committee, remarked, “This third version guarantees an much more thrilling and academically enriching expertise as Chief Osita Chidoka, OFR, NPOM (Ike Obosi) prepares to gentle up the newly renovated ETF Auditorium of the College with phrases of knowledge in honour and celebration of one of many best sons of Ndi Igbo.”
Chidoka, a former Corps Marshal of the FRSC, is well-regarded for his exemplary public service and his dedication to youth improvement by way of the Mekaria Mentorship Programme – the most important youth mentorship initiative in Nigeria.
This 12 months’s Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Annual Memorial Lecture, by way of Chief Chidoka’s insights, goals to spark significant dialogue on advancing schooling as a instrument for nationwide renewal, drawing from Ojukwu’s legacy of braveness, imaginative and prescient, and dedication to the Nigerian folks.
Reflecting on this honour, Chidoka said, “I’m humbled by the college’s resolution to supply me this chance to face on the shoulders of an amazing Nigerian and celebrated Igbo son, to deal with the urgent challenges inside our instructional sector and encourage a renewed dedication to nationwide transformation by way of the facility of information and resilient management.”
