President Muhammadu Buhari has recommended Professor Charles Egbu, from Anambra State, who had just been appointed as Vice Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University in the United Kingdom, as a role model.
In a statement today, July 17 by the special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, the President said that Professor Egbu, a foremost Quantity Surveyor with 12 books and over 350 publications to his credit, is a worthy example of an industrious Nigerian, “whom the younger generation should adopt as a role model.”
Buhari congratulated the Professor for being the first black person to be appointed as helmsman of a ranked university in the UK, even as he advised him to continue to proudly hold the flag of Nigeria aloft in all his endeavours in the elevated position.
“With wide experience as Pro-Chancellor at the University of East London, Dean of the School of Built Environment and Architecture at London South Bank University, and stints at University of Salford, University College London, Glasgow Caledonian University, Leeds Beckett University, among others, I have no doubt that you will acquit yourself creditably once again in this new assignment.”
President Buhari also advised the new VC, who assumes office in November, to build on the strong foundations laid by his predecessors at the university, where he is equally an alumnus.
