Cyril Agodi Onwumechili

Cyril Agodi Onwumechili (20 January 1932 – 16 May 2023) was a Nigerian physicist, academic administrator, and professor of geophysics at the University of Ibadan and later University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Quotes We are nowhere for now! Recall I said to you earlier, this topic, ‘Internationalisation of University Education for Global Relevance…’ isn’t to entertain the Adekunle Ajasin University administrators and students. The lecture is structured to ‘rouse the conscience of the nation’. Remember Frederick Douglass who was credited with the saying that when they were fighting for slaves to be freed in the United States: he declared to the adamant rulers of the time, ‘The conscience of the nation must be roused’. That is the purpose today: to rouse the conscience of the nation and to honour the memory of Pa Adekunle Ajasin who was part of the pioneers of educational administration of the then Action Group. The late Ajasin also set up the organic Ondo State University in Ado Ekiti, not in Owo his home town where he stayed in his house built as a teacher and principal of Imade College, Owo even as Governor of old Ondo State. We must rouse the conscience of this nation Madiba predicted would be the trigger for the rise or fall of the black race. Remember before he flew away in 2013, Mandela had granted an interview to a Nigerian diplomat though whom he noted: ‘The world will not respect Africa until Nigeria earns that respect. The black people of the world need Nigeria to be great as a source of pride and confidence And so the curriculum has to be disrupted: old journalism school curriculum has been disrupted through unbundling of mass communication courses: Journalism, for instance in this institution will now be added to some areas of computer science to produce 21st century journalists and communication experts in public relations, advertising, film making, etc. Since the complexity of managing tertiary institutions can be overwhelming today, I would like to suggest that chief executives and even members of Governing Council of the universities should seek to get some from of Business and Management Education, not from motivational speakers’ books but from Management and Business formal schools. Modern chief executives need such education to be able to manage not just academic programmes but there are issues in managing budgetary and financial issues. External links Category:1932 births Category:2023 deaths Category:Physicists from Nigeria Category:Academics from Nigeria