Anambra State University Renamed: Now Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University by bintexhimself

Anambra State University
Renamed: Now Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu Ojukwu University
by bintexhimself

Sep 12, 2014
Anambra State University in Uli has been
officially renamed after the late Biafran
leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu .
The Anambra House
of Assembly on
September 11th
passed a bill ,
changing the name
of the state -owned
university at Uli to
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University.
The bill was passed during the plenary of the
legislature in Awka to honour the former
Biafra hero .
The decision followed the report of the House
Committee on Education which recommended
the change of the name .
Mrs Rita Maduagwu (APGA Nnewi South 2) ,
the Chairman, House Committee on
Education, recalled that the bill had been
read the second time on the floor of the
house on Dec . 17, 2013 .
She said that the committee found that the
university’ s name had been changed before
from Anambra State University of Science
and Technology and that there were a
number of provisions in the extant law that
required review . .