NANS confers leadership award on UNN VC

Students (NANS) Zone B, have conferred the association’s highest honour, “the Heroes Leadership Award” on the Vice- Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Prof. Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba. The award was conferred on him in recognition of his sterling contributions to the education and socio-economic development of the country. Ozumba, according to NANS, would become the fifth distinguished Nigerian to be conferred with the award. The other recipients of the award are the author of Things Fall Apart, the late Prof. Chinua Achebe; Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUD), Aare Afe Babalola and Prof. Peter Ejiofor. Presenting the award to Ozumba at the Vice-Chancellor’s Conference Room, the Coordinator of NANS Zone B, Okorie Ikechukwu, said that Prof. Ozumba was bestowed with the award in recognition of his contributions to the growth of education in the country. “We can without any equivocation bear testimony to the fact that Prof. Ozumba has always supported any cause that will uplift education as well as whatever that will accelerate the pace of socio-economic transformation of the country,” he said.