UNIZIK appoints ex-CMD, Unilorin teaching hospital, Kuranga Pro-Chancellor

Professor Sulyman Alege Kuranga has been appointed as the new Pro-Chancellor and Chairman Governing Council of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State.

Tribune Online learnt that the Federal Government early this week released the list of Universities’ Governing Council with its Chairmen and four external members.

The new Governing Council Chairman hails from Kwara State, a Professor of Urology and former Chief Medical Director of the University of Ilorin teaching hospital.

The scholar is currently an Executive Board member of the Society of Quality in Health Care in Nigeria, sitting in the capacity as the Vice Chairman of the reputable organisation.

Prof. Kuranga, a consultant urologist, born on June 19th 1957 has over 60 published scientific articles in reputable national and international journals.

He was the 180th Inaugural Lecturer of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) Inaugural Lecture Series having presented a lecture titled: “The experience of a Urological Surgeon in a Tertiary Institution in Sub-Saharan Africa.” The new council Chairman is married to Pharm (Mrs) Aduke Kuranga and the marriage is blessed with four children.

Other external members of the UNIZIK Governing Council are Chukwu Obinwanne Hope who hails from Imo State; Honourable Aliyu Abubakar Tureta who hails from Sokoto State and a one-time Deputy Speaker of the Sokoto State House of Assembly; Barrister Ibrahim Elarab from Yobe State and the Executive Chairman of Yobe State Pilgrims Commission and Delta State Elder statesman, Chief Paulinus Akpeki, a former Commissioner of Housing and former Chief of Staff in Delta State Government.

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