The Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) Awka, Anambra State, has appointed the Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, Obiora Okonkwo, as the visiting professor of entrepreneurship.
Mr Okonkwo made this known in a statement obtained by Nigerian Tribune, on Tuesday.
He noted that his appointment was conveyed in a letter dated July 21, with reference number NAU/A/R/P/G.02 signed by the university’s registrar, Philomena Okoye.
Ms Okoye said that Mr Okonkwo’s role would include “teaching, students supervision and research” as well as undertake other “academic-related services as the department/faculty/university shall assign” to him.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the University of Abuja Business School (UABS) had also in April 2022 appointed Okonkwo as a professor of business studies at the university.
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Okonkwo, who holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Political Science (with distinction), from the Russian Academy of Science, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow, will execute the appointments on a pro bono basis.
He earned a Master of Science degree in Economics, also, with distinction, from the Russian Peoples Friendship University, Moscow, and a first class degree in Economics from the Russian Peoples Friendship University, also, in Moscow.
A successful businessman, Okonkwo started out at Onitsha where he had his primary and secondary education which he combined with trading at the Onitsha Main Market.
He also holds a Professional Fellowship doctorate from the Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria and a fellowship from the Institute of Chartered Arbitrators and Mediators of Nigeria.
He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (FNIPR) and the Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria (FCE).
Okonkwo had about a year ago commissioned a research at the UNIZIK Business School in IGBA BOYI, the Igbo concept of mentorship that revolutionized commercial activities in Igboland, especially in the Onitsha Main Market.