Vice- Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikwe University, Prof. Joseph Ahaneku has reiterated the institution’s commitment to harnessing all resources, human and material, from within and outside the university in the pursuit of the actualization of the dream of transforming the institution to world class status. He disclosed this during the matriculation ceremony for new students admitted for the 2015/2016 academic session. According to him, the dream of our administration, which came on board in June, 2014, is to so transform the university “that by the end of our five year tenure, it would have become one of the best five hundred universities in the world, one of the best one hundred universities in Africa and the best university in Nigeria.”
He assured the new students that all the academic programmes of the university are accredited with the National Universities Commission (NUC). The VC advised the students to ensure that they fulfill all their financial obligations, attend at least 75 percent of all lectures and practical, shun exam misconduct, deviant from behaviors such like robbery, rape and cultism which he described an anathema in the university. He congratulated the matriculating students for being among the less than seven 7000 thousand candidates offered admission by the institution out of the more than fifty thousand that had applied. Addressing the students, the Dean of Students Affairs, Prof. Ken Nwogu charged the newly admitted students to shun examination malpractice and avoid associating with any secret cults.