The Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Professor Charles Esimone has listed what fresh students must do if they want to achieve their ambition in the university.
In his address to the 2023/2024 Matriculation ceremony of the university Esimone said among other things that for the students to succeed, they must pay fees prescribed by the university.
This is very essential, Esimone said, so the university can maintain existing facilities and provide new ones.
“Any student who does not pay his/her fees by the appropriate time runs the risk of being excluded from examinations”, Esimone threatened.
Besides, students must attend at least 75% of all lectures and practicals for them to be allowed to write examinations.
They must shun examination misconduct which could fetch them suspension for up to three years and even expulsion.
Among other things, they must shun certificate forgery because registering
with fake certificates can earn them expulsion;
Cultism is anathema in the University as all proven cultists are expelled.
These and other deviant behaviours such as robbery, rape, and so on are not tolerated because they are both misconduct and crime punishable by expulsion from the University and terms of imprisonment by the State, Esimone emphasized.
While congratulating the matriculants, Esimone reminded them that the event marked the formal closure of admission of fresh undergraduate students into the University.
He noted that Nnamdi Azikiwe University is placed 501+ in the global ranking and 5th in Nigeria.
It runs 15 Faculties and academic programmes, of which most are variously accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the relevant professional bodies.
It has linkages with many world-renowned Universities spread across the United States of America, China, Europe and Africa. This is in addition to linkages with local institutions, Esimone noted.
