Staff of the Imo State University, Owerri (IMSU) have been extolled for their commitment, discipline and efforts to bring the university to its former glory.
The Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Berthram Nwoke who made the commendation in his opening remarks on the occasion of the inaugural lecture of the university revealed that in the last 14 months, the school has been able to push the inaugural lecture to the 8th one.
Prof. Nwoke maintained that the consistency of the lecture is to assure the Imo people that the university is back on it wheels, as well as to let the world know that IMSU is a centre of excellence.
He disclosed that IMSU has the best post graduate programme in the country, and called on indigenes of Imo State who are undertaking PG programmes in other states to come back and identify with the university.
The Acting Vice-Chancellor outlined his achievements to include staff salary, research grants, staff promotion, aggressive staff development and international conferences among others.
In his inaugural lecture on “Dialectics of International Development Law and the Dilemma of Developing Countries”, Prof. Uba Nnabue of the faculty of Law, IMSU, pointed out that the underdevelopment of the third world countries is not entirely due to the dialectics of international development law.
Prof. Nnabue attributed Nigeria’s problems to human elements stressing that God has blessed Nigeria with much resources but it has failed to take significant advantage of the opportunity.
He concluded that if all the laws are made (nationally and internationally) but none is obeyed, the nation will not develop and expressed his conviction that Nigeria has the capacity to migrate into the developed world if it can respect its reforms and listen to the dialectics of the international development law.
