By Michael Ezenwata
A Professor of Business Administration, Management and Entrepreneurship Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Prof. Clementina Agbionu has advocated the full utilization of entrepreneurial strategies to enhance individual or collective development.
Prof. Agbionu made the call at the 121st Inaugural Lecturer of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University.
Presenting her inaugural lecture titled,” Entrepreneurship Development In Nigeria: The good,The bad,The Ugly and the Way Forward,’ in Awka, the inaugural lecturer noted that Entrepreneurship is the solution to Nigeria’s reliance on oil and economic instability.
According to her, people should change their attitude in doing things the usual way but to fashion ways of doing normal things in an extraordinary way that will attract customers with high demands to themselves.
Prof. Agbionu recommended that to succeed in life, people should rediscover themselves, improve on their talents and stay focused.
She identified the old and often neglected “Igba Boi” practice as an old culture which should be reinvented to promote hard work, spirit of enterprise and success.
The inaugural lecturer noted with sadness, the watery education bequeathed to Africans by the white man and urged that Nigeria’s educational curriculum should be fashioned in favour of Entrepreneurship that will suit the country’s environment.
In their various remarks, the Traditional Ruler of Ihite, Igwe Timothy Ifurunwa, President General of Umunze Town Engr. Ezekiel Iheazor, his predecessor in office, Chief Chris Amobi extolled Prof. Agbionu for doing justice the concept Entrepreneurship and okayed the re-enactment of the “Igba Boi’ practice in Igbo land.
In a related development, the immediate past Dean of Medicine NAUTH Nnewi campus, Prof. Gladys Ahaneku spoke of the imperatives of Entrepreneurship which is being offered in the Medical school.
Prof. Ahaneku urged all medical students to be serious about Entrepreneurship to enhance their knowledge and proficiency in the field of Medicine.
She expressed joy that her son Okechukwu Ahaneku was part of the Unizik 2026 matriculation ceremony.
Ezenwata is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State
