Good People, the University of Calabar and The Guardian have selected an Ovim village boy on the 50th anniversary of UNICAL as one of the “50 Most Distinguished Alumni With Impactful Contributions To National Development”.
You see – things happen. If not, how do you include the name of a village guy when there are “His Excellencies”, “Her Excellencies”, “Honourables”, etc, that can easily make up the list? To my fellow Malabites and Malabresses, and to our great university, Thank You.
I have a tough LOVE for UNICAL because they taught me Business Strategy and Market Competition by the best in the game. Those days they hired former executives of companies and banks to teach students, and the MBA classes were academic-boardrooms, with practical, actionable, intellectual raw materials for professional ascension. My focus was on global markets and international currencies, and I wrote briefs for the World Bank, AU, etc. You can read this seminal one on the single African Currency (I remain against it until there is a prior convergence of regional economies under a supranational banking institution, so as to avoid welfare losses) which I presented before the African Union Congress on invitation.
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Prof CK Ayo, ex-Vice chancellor of Covenant University, supervised my thesis and it was all about mathematics and statistics. When a professor of mathematics with focus on numerical computation guides you on analysis of currency and competition, you will see things from a different angle. He introduced me to SPSS and actually taught me how to use it. Prof whom I visited many times when he was in Covenant has since gone to heaven.
Of course, on a day like this, I will dedicate this to venerable banker, Chairman Paschal Dozie, who recently exited the solid bounds of the earth for the ecclesiastical heaven, with cherubim, seraphim and angels welcoming him, for the uncommon grace and favour I found before him when I was in Diamond Bank.
UNICAL – the best university for an impactful MBA in Nigeria. Get a print copy of the Guardian and read my short interview.
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