Pro Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO, Dr. Emmanuel Enemuo, yesterday commended the outgoing Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Cyril Chigozie Asiabaka, for placing the institution on an enviable academic excellence during his tenure.

Enemuo gave the commendation at a valedictory colloquium in honour of Professor Asiabaka whose tenure expires this month as the 6th substantive Vice Chancellor of the institution. Asiabaka, who hails from Awo-Idemili, in the Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State took over the mantle of leadership of the university from the late Professor Celestine Onwuliri in 2011 and is expected to hand over to the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Professor Francis Chukwuemeka Eze as his successor.

According to Enemuo, the institution which is the nation’s premier university of technology established in 1980 by the Shehu Shagari administration now ranked 8th best in the ranking of universities in the country by the National Universities Commission, NUC, as against its former 48th position.

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“Professor Asiabaka has brought about monumental physical development and infrastructure into FUTO and the university is now being governed with strict sense of discipline, there are no more examination malpractices, selling of handouts, sexual harassment and cultism is now a thing of the past in FUTO.” Enemuo, however, attributed the modest achievement of the outgoing Vice Chancellor to the unflinching support and cooperation of the members of the University Governing Council and enjoined them to extend same to his successor.

Responding, Professor Asiabaka expressed gratitude to the Federal Ministry of Education, National Universities Commission, NUC, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Niger Delta Development Commission, Petroleum Development Trust Fund, Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, and other intervention/ donor agencies for their benevolence and sustained assistance towards the development of the university.

Also in his speech, the university Bursar, Don Nwokecha, said out of the N1.54billion budgeted by the Federal Government for the university, the institution was able to assess N667.713 million having a shortfall of N876.57 million representing about 43.2 per cent. According to him, this development deferred the outpredicated

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