
GOU to immortalize Late Professor Chijioke
Godfrey Okoye University Enugu is to immortalize the late Head of department of Geo-Sciences, and Emeritus Professor of the university, Professor Dr. Mark Chijioke by naming a building after him.
The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Reverend Father Professor Christian Anieke announced this during a special Senate session organised in honour of the late Physics Professor.
Reverend Father Professor Anieke said the senators would decide the building that would be named after Late Professor Chijioke.
The Vice-Chancellor stated that the late Professor was a very good man who was committed to the progress of the university, stressing that those that passed through him were doing well, adding that the university would continue to honour him.
Reverend Father Professor Anieke who described the wife of the late Professor, Mrs. Allen Chijioke, the pioneer Librarian of the university as a virtuous wife, that took great care of her husband and advised her children to follow the footsteps of their parents.
In a tribute, the Dean, Natural Sciences and environmental studies, Professor Chidi Uhuegbu noted that late Professor Chijioke worked meticulously and accommodated the students.
On his part, another Professor in the faculty, Professor Ndidi Ozofor, described Mark Chijioke as an embellished Professor of physics.
Responding , the wife of the late Professor Chijioke, and former Librarian of the university, Mrs. Allen Chijioke said her husband’s life was his works, stressing that his passion was the development of Nigeria through education especially technical education.
The special Senate session was attended by virtually all the senators of the university and children of late Professor Chijioke.
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