.png)
By Madu Obi
Renowned businessman and philanthropist, Sir Emeka Offor has donated N100m endowment fund for the development of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN).
Offor, who is the Executive Chairman of Chrome Group of Companies, made the donation during an award of Doctor of Business Administration (Honoris Causa) at the 52nd convocation ceremony of the UNN.
His representative at the event, Chief Steve Ahaneku, said Offor would later discuss modalities for the disbursement of the fund with the Vice Chancellor of UNN, Prof. Charles Igwe.
The two, he added, would also determine areas of development the money would be used in the university.
According to him, Sir Emeka Offor Foundation has been in the fore-front of educational, health and youth empowerment, adding that UNN had been a great beneficiary of his foundation with Books for Africa to the tune of millions of naira worth of books in various disciplines.
He said that so far, the Foundation and Books for Africa have donated books worth $30 million to institutions in 18 African countries in various disciplines, including law, computer science, business administration, political science among others.
He recalled that during the COVID-19, the foundation donated 100 fully fitted hospital beds to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) Ituku-Ozalla near Enugu to reinforce the desire for Nigerians to have sound health.
Also in 2010, the foundation endowed a professorial chair worth N20 million in the UNN, adding that it had been quite a time a comprehensive report had been sent across on the endowed chair.
He expressed great appreciation for the honour to him and his group.
Earlier, the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Charles Igwe, said that the university carefully chose world class personality that met the stringent criteria stipulated for the award of the honorary degrees of the UNN.
"Sir Emeka Offor has exceptionally done well in all God has blessed him to engage in; a shining example of simplicity, humility and someone who is fully out to uplift humanity in its entirety, " he said.
Comments