Authorities of the newly established Lux Mundi College, Umuahia, Abia state, and the Catholic-owned Godfrey Okoye College (GOUNI), Ugwuomu, Enugu State have formalised a mentorship settlement according to the directives of the Nationwide College Fee (NUC).
That is as Vice President, Kasim Shettima and Abia State Governor Alex Otti will on Friday twenty second November formally unveil the Lux Mundi College.
The NUC which granted an operational license to the Lux Mundi College had directed the GOUNI to function its mentor to make sure its survival according to the catholic background of its founder/proprietor. The mentorship is anticipated to final for 3 years.
Talking shortly after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with authorities of the GOUNI in Enugu, Professional-chancellor of Lux Mundi College, Prof Gabriel Chinedum Okenwa, acknowledged that the NUC will need to have been motivated in directing the brand new college to the GOUNI by its commonplace of operation.
He defined that GOUNI had maintained an distinctive commonplace in its 15 years of existence as a non-public institution.
“So for us, it is a chance to be taught and unlearn from this nice establishment to allow obtain our set targets. We wish to run a College that wil set the tempo in each area. We wish to compete with our friends in all facet of what a college needs to be, being the primary college on the soil of Umuahia, the capital of Abia state,” Okenwa acknowledged
Okenwa, who described the brand new college as a “design and mandate from Almighty God,” defined that it had taken off with two colleges.
Vice Chancellor GOUNI, Prof Christian Anieke mentioned: “The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) we signed is to allow us to offer the brand new college all that it requires to succeed; in order that it will probably develop and increase and turn into mild not only for the southeast however for Nigeria and the entire world.
“It could get to some extent the place we’ll even be studying from them; the younger shall develop and even turn into stronger than the outdated. And that’s what we would like; our prayer in Igboland is that my baby needs to be higher than I. Our prayer is that Lux Mundi needs to be higher than GOUNI in order that others ought to be taught from them.”
He added that by the MoU, each universities would trade lecturers, and concepts and interact in areas of cooperation to realize the best requirements in training.
“A few of their lecturers are coming to this place and we shall be sending lecturers from GOUNI to Lux Mundi. Additionally, our college students shall be going there and their college students shall be coming right here. We’re additionally going to encourage wholesome competitions amongst college students of each establishments and different tutorial issues that may assist college students to develop,” he mentioned.
“We’ve got to collaborate with them in analysis. We’re a member of the African UNET, which is a community of about 100 universities throughout Africa. We’re going to convey them in Austria and in Africa; as a result of I’m a Board member, I’ll convey them in to be a part of it. So we share the concepts and different issues to boost development and enlargement.”
