Mbaise Group Holds Colloquium August 14

Mbaise Colloquium 2017, the annual intellectual gathering and discussion by Mbaise intelligentsia, has been scheduled to take place on August 14, 2017. This flagship programme of Mbaise People’s Congress (MPC) will hold at the prestigious Chris VI Hotels and Resorts, Eke Ahiara Junction, Mbaise, Imo State at 11a.m.

A statement from the Director of Publicity and Mobilisation, MPC, Chuks O. Enwerem, said the 2017 colloquium which is the 22nd edition has as its theme, “The role of the youth in the development of Mbaise.”

Eminent scholar, Professor Val Ekechukwu of University of Nigeria, Nsukka and formerly of National Universities Commission (NUC), will deliver the lead paper with the topic: ‘The Case for establishment of Mbaise University,’ while Prof. J. U. J. Onwumere, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, will preside over the occasion.

According to Enwerem, former Minister of State for Education, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, will give the keynote remarks, while Eze Benjamin A. Nwachukwu (Ihie 11 of Ife Ezinihitte) and a former Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Owerri, (FUTO) will be the Royal Father of the Day.

Distinguished and erudite discussants of the paper include: Professor Okwuoma Abanobi, Dr. Eddy Agulanna and Chief John Kemakolam (promoter of Lumina University Mbaise), among others, while the Chief Host is Barrister Cyril Anyanwu, President General, Ezuruezu Mbaise.