The task before Ike Nwachukwu in UNN

The appointment of General Ike Nwachukwu as the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka , has rekindled hope that the first truly indigenous autonomous university in Nigeria would soon regain its lost glory.

Owing to the high demand for UNN in the education market after the war, the university expanded to the Enugu Campus in 1970. The main campus in Nsukka hosts faculties of Agriculture, Arts, Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, Physical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine. The main campus also accommodates the School of Postgraduate Studies, as well as some institutes and research centres.

In 1971, the university produced a vaccine for the deadly cholera disease and the World Health Organisation approved it the same year. Nigeria eventually deployed the vaccine produced in UNN to stop the 1972 outbreak of cholera disease in Kano State. In spite of the setback of the war, the university became a centre of excellence in various fields of study, including medicine, engineering, computer science, education and the arts.

The return of civilians to power in the late 1990s did not change anything. Rather, the crisis in the university system escalated. The period from1999 till date, has witnessed the longest strikes by the university unions, especially the Academic Staff Union of Universities . Besides struggling for better welfare for its members, ASUU is fighting for the revitalisation of Nigerian universities to return them to the glorious days when they attracted foreign academic staff and students.

Emeritus Professor Nimi Briggs defined the role of the Council and its nomenclature in a paper he presented at a retreat organised by the National Universities Commission for the then newly inaugurated Governing Councils of Federal Universities in Nigeria on July 9, 2013.

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