As the long wait for the presidential pronouncement on who becomes the Vice Chancellor of the recently upgraded Alvan Ikoku University of Education Owerri continues to keep many in suspense, pro-development group, Southeast Development Ambassadors Network (SeDAN) has noted that only an internal person who knows the problems of the institution in and out is suitable to be appointed the Vice Chancellor of the new university.
SeDAN said such an internal person if appointed wouldn’t waste time to place the former College of Education on a strong footing so that it will compete with, and even outshine others in her mould.
Based on this premise, therefore, the group has tipped the Current Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) of the university, Prof Mrs Stella Lemchi as the woman with the magic wand, experience, capacity and contacts for the vice-chancellorship seat.
Rising from her third exco meeting in Enugu on Monday, Southeast Development Ambassadors Network (SeDAN) said Prof Mrs Stella Lemchi as an internal person in Alvan Ikoku University of Education Owerri whose teaching experience in the institution from its College of Education days spans about three decades would turn the Varsity around if confirmed the Vice Chancellor.
Coordinator General of the group, Sir Chidi Emeagi while making his group’s position public, remarked that under Lemchi’s less than two years as Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) of Alvan Ikoku University of Education Owerri, the newly upgraded university has witnessed exceptionally remarkable transformations that cut across almost every sector of the institution.
Emeagi, a journalist, Corporate Administrator and Policy development expert said Southeast Development Ambassadors Network was irrevocably committed to projecting institutional leaders like Lemchi whose visions are in tandem with that of SeDAN, all geared towards the overall development of the Southeast region.
“For the records, Prof Mrs Stella Lemchi joined the services of then Alvan Ikoku University of Education Owerri in 1995. She holds a BSc honours degree in Home Economics from the University of Nigeria Nsukka. Upon graduation, she was offered an appointment at UNN but she declined and opted to join Alvan Ikoku College of Education.
The woman of the moment got her MSc and PhD in Home Economics from her alma mater, the University of Nigeria Nsukka.
Her brilliant academic outings earned her both the Federal government and Arthur Nzeribe Scholarships during her university days.
Her areas in Home Economics with huge expertise include Textiles & Clothing, entrepreneurship, curriculum development, gender studies, etc.
Prof Stella Lemchi as a world-class educator and Examiner is a resource person to UNICEF, and NERDC, among others.
She is a Member of the following professional bodies: Science Teachers Association of Nigeria(STAN), Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria(TRCN), HERAN, IRDI, to mention but a few.
The landmark achievements of this Amazon at Alvan Ikoku University of Education are superb and unbeatable. In less than two years, she had renovated the school medical centre, closed many infrastructural gaps, achieved 100% accreditation for NCE programs, and cleared backlog of promotion arrears from 2018 till date.
Prof Mrs Stella Lemchi we know is one transformational leader who believes in more of actions than empty noise and motion without movement.
Today, under her watch, graduates of her institution are always mobilized for NYSC with supersonic speed.
Her contacts are effervescent and usually link up with or without network. Little wonder, she has been able to access TETFUND’s library and annual intervention fund for her university up to 2023.
She championed the proper placement of the teaching staff of Alvan Ikoku University of Education Owerri during the transition process.
Today, according to our findings, the morale of the staff of the newly upgraded university is high thus promoting quality service delivery.
It is in public domain that all the staff unions of Alvan Ikoku University of Education Owerri viz; COEASU, SSUCOEN, NASU and NAAT only recently issued a joint communique where they passed a vote of implicit confidence on their Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) Prof Mrs Stella Lemchi for making the institution proud with her outstanding achievements thus far.
The students, we gathered are not left out in the torrence of encomia for this distinguished university administrator.
Today, at Alvan Ikoku University of Education, you cannot frustrate students from graduation with illicit demand for money or other unnecessary items under Prof Mrs Stella Lemchi.
The Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) is such a humble woman, a jolly good fellow, team worker with a great measure of integrity.
She is a very dynamic 21st-century scholar with a great passion for excellence.
All of us at Southeast Development Ambassadors Network (SeDAN) accordingly therefore without any reservation(s) submit that Prof Mrs Stella Lemchi is the woman for the Vice Chancellorship position of Alvan Ikoku University of Education Owerri”, the group concluded.
