The New Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Professor Benard Odoh has said that his administration would invest N70B billion on various projects within his five years tenure.
Odoh dropped the investment plan during a ceremony to mark his assumption of office in Awka. According to him, N10 billion would be raised through Public – Private Partnership for the funding of critical infrastructure and corporate social responsibility projects.
At the ceremony, the Vice Chancellor also announced that he would convert the university kitchen as the official residence of the Vice Chancellor, pending the completion of the permanent Vice Chancellor’s residence so as to monitor what is going on there.
Odoh said he cannot be a Vice Chancellor of a university and live off campus, noting that doing so would make him ignorant of what is happenings on campus.
He also said that he will bring disruptive changes that would take the university to greater heights and stressed his desire to strengthen academic activities in the university, as the situation is poor at the moment.
Outlining some of his programmes, Odoh added: “The university can longer be depending on international and national grants. The university will also begin to reward hard work and punish disloyalty.
“We shall construct a 150 -room hotel with events and meeting rooms to provide comfort and security to visitors to the university and its environs through accommodation and conference services.
“We are embarking on the implementation of Coordinated Renewable Energy Solutions /Institution of N100 million qusi- endowment fund to support research in Renewable Energy.