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The Chairman's Opening Remark At The 11th Convocation Ceremony Of The Michael Okpara University Of Agriculture, Umudike, Umuahia, Abia State
On
NOVEMBER 24,
2023
BY
SIR PROF. IHECHUKWU MADUBUIKE, OONFormer Minister Of Education
Former Minister of Health
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA Protocols:
A
Historical Perspective
Before
the Justice Cyril Asquith Commission of
August, 1943, a compliment of the Elliot Commission ( June1943) and much later,
the Ashby Commission on Higher Education in Nigeria in 1960, the educated elite
in Lagos and other parts of West Africa had, as far back as the 1920s began a
clamor for higher education in Nigeria under governor Dealtry Lugard. Lord
Alfred Dealtry Lugard, imperial governor of Nigeria,1914- 1919, refused to
accede to the request, insisting that the local elite must fund such a higher
institution.
The taste for higher education further triggered the setting up of these
commissions.