Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Awka
NCC builds, equips, hands over ICT Center to Nnamdi Azikiwe University
[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki]
Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) has handed over an Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre built and equipped by the Commission to Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UniZik) , Awka.
The ICT Centre is equipped with 100 high caliber computer systems, Server room, external Power Generating set and solar system to to aid teaching and learning.
The University is one out of the four universities in four geopolitical zones that benefitted from the NCC project.
Other beneficiaries are the University of Port Harcourt (South South); Federal University of Technology Minna (North West); and another one in the North East Zone.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Charles Esimone expressed delight that UNIZIK was one of the institutions to have benefited from the NCC project.
Esimone said the institution was not ignorant of the demands expected of it in terms of teaching and research, even as he assured that the institution would explore the existing partnership with NCC by effectively utilizing the ICT Centre.
Engr. Kenneth Uzoekwe, the Official of NCC while handing over the centre, stated that the ICT Centre is a federal government intervention through the NCC as part of her mandate towards bridging digital divide, encouraging development and breeding technology hubs.
According to him, the ICT Centre will enhance Research and Development, which has the capacity to take high tech software like Engineering design, science and programming.
Uzoekwe noted that the system can be upgraded even as the Centre has a Central Processing Unit and a server to further boost its capabilities.
