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Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State, says he administration will fund academic researches with a view to industrializing the State.
Nwifuru disclosed this at the weekend while unveiling Trend In Health, Administration, Politics and Academia, a Festschrift in honour of Prof. Chigozie Ogbu, former Deputy Governor of Ebonyi State and the Vice Chancellor of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki.
According to a press statement issued by Dr . Monday Uzor, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Nwifuru charged academics at the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki to create needed visibility of the state through their research endeavours.
He stated that with the current economic realities and the urgency of research-driven governance to address problems, the academics should move from theories to practice.
In their separate speeches, former Governors Chief Martin Elechi, Dr Sam Egwu, former President of the Senate, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim described Professor Ogbu as a consummate administrator and an erudite scholar who successfully combined politics with academic.
Meanwhile, reviewing the 58 chapter book spread across 957 pages, the book reviewer and former President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo stated that the Festschrift across multidisciplinary fields is a must read, even as he commended Professor Ogbu for his intellectual sagacity and astuteness.
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