With the recent inauguration of the Board of its Business School, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike(MOUAU) has effectively joined the league of Nigerian Universities that own Business School.
The General Manager of the Abia State Debt Management Office(DMO), Dr Kingsley Nwigburu was inaugurated along with others into the Board of MOUAU Business School with a charge to transform Nigeria’s business landscape with expanded opportunities.
The Vice-Chancellor of MOUAU, Professor Maduebibisi Ofo Iwe inaugurated the Board on Thursday February 26, at the new Public Lecture Theatre, barely 36 hours to the end of his five-year tenure as the sixth chief executive of the institution.
He said that in setting up the Business School, he envisioned it to become the hub for leadership development, executive education, entrepreneurship and policy engagement.
Iwe stated tnat the centre represents a deliberate shift towards interdisciplinary thinking and practical impacts.
According to him, the present climate of economic uncertainty, technological disruptions, climate challenges and evolving governance systems have made it imperative for Nigerian Universities to come up with survival and self-sustenance strategies.
The GM of Abia DMO, Dr Nwigburu welcomed his appointment into the Board of the MOUAU Business School Board, saying that it was a call to service.
“I am pleased to offer my experience and insights to support the school in strengthening its academic standards, expanding its reach and reinforcing its role as a hub for leadership and enterprise development,” he said.
School well.
Describing MOUAU as a great institution with great ideas, Nwigburu promised to contribute his expertise and ideas to ensure the accelerated growth of the Business School, enhancing its global status and academic standards.
He further pledged to assist the School in attracting partnerships, grants and industry collaboration that would create opportunities thereby making the MOUAU Business School fulfill its mandate.
To make the Business School to realise its set goals, Dr Nwigburu stressed the need for all the Board members to collaborate and work together with unity of purpose.
He praised the administration of Governor Alex Otti for its efforts in achieving a drastic reduction of Abia State inherited debt burden to about N60 billion.
