Okpara varsity elevates three employees

Three senior officers of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU), Abia State have been elevated to the positions of substantive Registrar, Bursar and Librarian.

Accordingly, they are Dr. Nkeiruka Mbanasor, Ugochukwu Ironkwe and Dr. Isaac Ogbonna.

With their elevation in April 2023, they joined the Vice Chancellor and two deputy Vice Chancellors as principal officers of the Federal Government-owned university. Their elevations followed their successful applications for these positions and their subsequent success during the interviews conducted by the university’s governing council.

The elevated Mbanasor, who was employed in 1995, rose through the ranks at different periods to Deputy Registrar in October 2012 and held various positions including head of personnel, senate and college affairs, admissions, academic matters exams and records, among others. He is currently the chairman of the University Chapter of Association of Nigeria Professional Administrators.

Ironkwe, who was employed by the university in 1994, is a fellow of the Association of Cost and Management Accountants and Association of National Accountants.

Similarly, the Librarian, Dr. Isaac Ogbonna, who was employed in 2013 as Senior Librarian, was promoted to Deputy Librarian in 2016 and appointed to the University Librarian in April 2023.
He holds first and second degrees with a PhD in Library and Information Science, specialising in Library Development and Advocacy with special interest in Bibliographic Control.

Commenting on the elevated three principal officers, the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Maduebibisi Iwe, said he was delighted with their appointments, expressing elation that some other MOUAU staff had been found suitably qualified by other universities for appointment as Vice Chancellor, Registrars, Bursars, Librarians, professors and other posts.

According to the VC, “We are happy to have had the promoted trio who have keyed into our hurrying quest to achieve what is good for the university towards growing and advancing it to greater heights under God’s guidance.”