Incidentally, given the primordial considerations that inform the location of projects, it is then easy for us to understand why there have been a progressive decline in the development of our nation over the years. For instance, when the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo conceived a university that would compete with any in the world during the First Republic, he domiciled it in Ile-Ife and not Ikenne, even when there was already a university not far away in Ibadan. The late Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, did the same in establishing a university of global standard which he then located in Zaria. I am very sure the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe had sufficient clout to have taken the University of Nigeria to Onitsha but he allowed it to be cited in Nsukka, which provided a serene and better learning environment. But ever since the late Prof. Ambrose Ali, as Governor of the old Bendel State (now Edo and Delta), opened the floodgate in the Second Republic by siting the state university in his native Ekpoma, that has become the tradition for almost all our public office holders, from the state to the federal.- Segun Adeniyi Welcome to Federal University of Otueke
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 06:24:26 +0000
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