ABOUT UNIZIK

About Nnamdi Azikiwe University

Following the split of the former Anambra State into two States -Anambra and Enugu States, the Awka and Nnewi campuses of the former Anambra State University of Technology, were by the Anambra State Edict No 5 of November 26, 1991 constituted into Nnamdi Azikiwe University. The Edict upheld Awka and Nnewi as campuses of the University.

The University was taken over by the Federal Government with effect from September 1, (1992, by Decree No 34 of July 15, 1992).

The Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Owelle of Onotsha, after whom the Univeristy is named was in the vanguard of the fight against colonialism in Africa and was the doyen of the independence struggle in Nigeria. Believing in the use of education as a veritable tool in the liberation struggle and in the enthronement of the dignity of man. He founded the first autonomous Nigerian University. His choice of a name for that University - the University of Nigeria- is an eloquent testimony to his belief in and commitment to Nigerian unity.

LOCATION OF THE UNIVERSITY
The main campus of the University is located at Awka sited thirty-five kilometers to the South -West of Awka and the second campus is at Nnewi.

STUDENT'S POPULATION
The University has a population of twenty-four thousand seven hundred and six (24,706) for the full-time and twelve thousand, four hundred and seventy-six (12,476)students for the part-time programmes during the 2004/2005 academic year.

MISSION STATEMENT
Nnamdi Azikiwe University is founded on the philosophy that knowledge should be propagated and disseminated to individuals without let or hindrance. Teaching and Research would be anchored on the needs of the immediate environment and the Nigerian society generally. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, after whom the University is named, stands out clearly in the history of University education in Nigeria and Africa in general. In the discharge of its mission, the University shall live up to the ideals of this renowned statesman, by making University education pragmatic, and using it to forge unity among the various communities in Nigeria.

The mission of the University is, thus, to use teaching, research and public service to solve societal problems. In the process of learning, students would be oriented to use education in the solution of practical problems confronting them and the Nigerian society. It is hoped that the University’s graduates will be able to use their knowledge to lift the society off its problem in Science, e.g. technological backwardness, poor health delivery services, agricultural under production, environmental degradation, misapplication and/or under utilization of human and material resources, cultural disorientation etc.

To achieve these purposes and harness the large pool of qualified secondary school graduands and high caliber manpower in the environment of the University, the University will be conventional in scope and outlook covering wide areas of learning and research.

In totality, the mission of the University is to produce graduates who shall possess the following attributes:
a wide and ordered knowledge in a discipline area;
the ability to reason logically;Dedication
the ability to communicate clearly in speech and writing with confidence and fluency;
numeracy and computer literacy;
accepted moral values as honesty, humility, truthfulness, and high ethical standards in personal and professional life;
acceptance of obligations and responsibilities;
the desire for life-long education and creativity;
self confidence and result-oriented ability.