While Governor Mbah received an honorary degree in business administration and corporate governance, the ESUT Governing Council and Senate conferred the award of honorary degree in business administration on Bergmair.
The award ceremony was conducted during the institution’s recent 20th convocation
The ESUT Vice Chancellor, Prof Aloysius-Michaels Okolie, stated that the award to Bergmair was in recognition of his achievements as an outstanding independent investor, global actor and philanthropist.
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“The university committee has continued to observe your concrete achievements in the areas of investment, industry and innovation. We have followed your achievements with great satisfaction and noted, inter alia, that most of your areas of investment and intervention align with the vision and ideals of the university’s founding fathers. It is in recognition of this that the university has elected to appreciate your laudable efforts.
“The institution resolved to award honorary degrees to distinguished personalities whose conduct, achievements and contributions to sustainable human capital development align with its vision as the foremost university of science and technology in Africa,” Okolie said.
According to him, ESUT, in line with its motto, ‘Technology for Service’, pursues its goal of creating, developing, nurturing, advancing, applying and deepening autonomous technological knowledge for dealing with the demands of contemporary society.
“As a technologically-driven citadel of learning, the institution aims at driving a revolution in technological re-invention of the black race and to instigate and stimulate rapid societal transmogrification of Nigeria in particular, and the black race in general,” he added.
