MOUAU Launches Business School, Inaugurates Board to Drive Leadership, Enterprise

The Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike has officially launched its Business School and inaugurated its Board of Directors alongside a Management Team, marking a significant step toward advancing leadership, entrepreneurship, and policy development.

Speaking at the inauguration held at the University’s New Lecture Hall, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Maduebibisi Iwe, described the Business School as a strategic platform designed to serve as a hub for leadership development, executive education, entrepreneurship, and policy engagement.

According to Prof. Iwe, the MOUAU Business School represents a deliberate shift toward interdisciplinary thinking and real-world impact, while remaining firmly rooted in the institution’s core values of excellence, integrity, and service, stressing that the school symbolizes continuity and progress.

The outgoing Vice Chancellor, however, stressed that a vision of such magnitude requires sustained collaboration and support.

He called on board members, alumni, industry leaders, development partners, and government agencies to partner with the University through infrastructure support, scholarships, research funding, and international linkages to transform the school into a globally competitive institution.
AUDIO 1

He commended a member of the board; the former Member for Ikwuano/Umuahia North and South Federal Constituency Rep. Sam Onuigbo for what he described as sustained effort in seeing to the relisting of hitherto delisted management courses of the institution which he said laid the foundation to the realization of the Business School.

AUDIO 2

Speaking at the event, Onuigbo corroborated Professor Iwe on the foundation of the Business School, as he maintained that the MOUAU Business School being the first of such in the region will help in opening up a wide range of opportunities for economic growth and development.
AUDIO 3

Onuigbo who currently represents the South East on the board of the North East Development Commission, urged the leadership of the institution to work towards a smooth transition for the incoming administration to be able to meet up to the challenge of implementation of the ideals of the Business School.

AUDIO 4

Dailytrail news reports the governance structure of the MOUAU Business School has the outgoing Vice Chancellor as Chairman of the Board, with former Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah, serving as Co-Chair, while Prof. Michael Ekwe heads the Management Team as Director.

Other prominent members of the Board include Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu; Abia State Commissioner for Transport, Dr. Chimezie Ukaegbu, former Senate President, Dr. Adolphus Wabara; former lawmaker, Chairman of the South East Development Commission, Dr. Emeka Wogu; Deputy Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Austine Okezie Mmeregini; Director General of the Abia State Debt Management Office, Dr. Kingsley Nwaigburu; and Chief Chikwe Udensi; among others.