The Chairman of the Nigerian
Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr Sam Amadi, will today (Wednesday,
July 25, 2012) present 100 copies of the book, Time to Reclaim Nigeria
(Essays 2001-2011) to the National Universities Commission (NUC) for
distribution to eighteen (18) universities across the country.
Time to Reclaim Nigeria (Essays
2001-2011), written
by journalist and rights activist, Chido Onumah, is a collection of essays on
Nigeria’s socio-political evolution in the last decade.
Dr. Amadi said he was making the
donation because “Time to Reclaim Nigeria (Essays 2001-2011) is a
seminal work, bristling with passion that addresses issues such as corruption,
abuse of power, politics, and misgovernance in Nigeria, and would be both a
handy reference material and a veritable source of information for Nigerian
students”.
“There is a dearth of scholarship in
our universities,” Dr Amadi noted. “This donation is part of my commitment to
strengthen the intelligence base of social existence amongst Nigerians
especially those in the universities. Literature like
this, a first-hand chronicle of political developments in the country will
stimulate informed discourse and strategies on moving our nation forward.”
While ten copies of the book will go to
the NUC, five copies will go to three universities in each of the six
geo-political zones for the faculties of law, social sciences, arts/humanities
and university libraries.
The institutions that will benefit include
10 federal and eight state universities. The universities are: South West Zone:
University of Ibadan, Lagos State University, Ekiti State University;
South-South Zone: University of Benin, University of Calabar, Rivers State
University of Science & Technology; South East Zone: Ebonyi State University, University of Nigeria, Imo State
University; North Central Zone: University of Abuja, Federal University of
Technology, Minna, University of Jos; North West Zone: Ahmadu Bello University,
Sokoto State University, Bayero University; North East Zone: University of
Maiduguri, Gombe State University, and Adamawa State University.
The books will be handed over to the
NUC at a ceremony to be presided over by its Executive Secretary, Professor
Julius Okojie. Venue for the presentation is the premises of the National
Universities Commission, at 11am.
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