Eno James Ibanga

Eno James Ibanga is a Nigerian academic. He is a professor of solid state physics/materials science. He serves as the Vice Chancellor for Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU). Quotes We, the management, met with stakeholders and resolved to beef up security around the school and to do this, we need to assist the security agencies. So, we met with the governing council and got approval to buy two Volvo cars for security agencies, to help tackle the problems in the two campuses located in Ikot Akpaden, Mkpat Enin Local Government and Obio Akpa in Oruk Anam Local Government Area. We also have a synergy with the communities on the services of the vigilantes. You know our university is non-residential and most of our students stay within the communities around. Therefore we are partnering with the vigilantes in these communities to ensure adequate protection of students and arrest of crime. We have put several security measures in place here which is not for public consumption but worthy of note is that anybody suspected to be a member of any clandestine group whether caught or not is strictly warned to change or stay completely out of the university community. Our security measures are already paying off as 10 boys were arrested two weeks ago on their way to the initiation ground of one of the cult groups. As a university we have zero tolerance for any misconduct and for the already arrested suspect, appropriate laws will be applied. I would not want to disclose publicly all concerning our plans to ensure adequate security of the campuses and students. The University has guidelines, rules and regulations governing the activities of students and we made provision for them to lay complaints through SMS when they have issues. Since my appointment as vice chancellor of this university, we have terminated the appointments of eight lecturers based on harassing the students and other unacceptable relationship with students. At the moment we have an on-going case which is yet to be concluded. We want students to speak up if they have issues because if a matter is not reported to constituted authority, there is nothing we can do about it. Today our students are very happy because we are giving them the necessary coverage and shield, even those who have reported such cases knew that there will be no reprisals. We play both roles as parents and management here for our students. When I came in as a deputy vice chancellor in 2013, we presented 11 programmes in 2014 of the faculty of Applied and natural science and they all got accreditation at once. Now over the four and half years, I have stayed as the vice chancellor we have 38 programme plus a new one – fishery and agricultural programme – which started few years ago and all the graduates of our departments have no issues. The accreditation we are going for now is that of the first faculty we accredited in 2014 which is five years now and we are going for re-accreditation. Eleven programmes in Faculty of Biological and Physical Sciences. Biological Sciences has five programmes and Physical Sciences has six. The only one remaining now is Fisheries and Agriculture that started five years ago which made it 12 programmes. After the next visit of the team, that means that all the programmes in the university have been fully accredited. Now we are set for postgraduate programme after NUC approval with students already applying. By next year, we will have our first set of post graduate students. We have some programmes that will be run at masters’ level and some up to PhD. External Links Category:Living people Category:Academics from Nigeria Category:Physicists from Nigeria