By Sunny Igboanugo
When the Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Ositadimma Nebo, stood before the Senate earlier this year to declare that he was going to exorcise the demons in the power sector, it immediately made media headlines. It could not have been otherwise because the approach was completely new. Nobody before him had openly pursued it. If they contemplated it, they never brought it to the public space. That Nebo has blazed this trail, is not surprising.
He possesses what many of his ilk lack or overlook. It is strange that many people who have gone through the academic mills and acquired the first-grade credentials, as he has, soon abandon the most crucial part – God.
That, of course, is one of the major fundamentals the former Vice Chancellor of two federal universities in Nigeria is bringing to the table which, rather than serving as a footnote, is likely to define his era in his present job and from there, create the template for Nigeria to leap into a future of greatness that has become so elusive in the past, but which everybody, including its enemies, believe is waiting right at the next bend.
And nobody is guessing here. It was the same talisman that Nebo used to end the many years of rot at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, which, before his arrival, was already gaining notoriety for being a suburb of hell that many of the nation’s tertiary institutions have become in recent years because of cultism. Under Nebo’s predecessor, Professor Ginigeme Mbanefo, was kidnapped and for a few days, became game for the unconscionable elements. Also under Mbanefo,15 students were killed at a go in 2003 and a former dean butchered thereafter.
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