EXECUTIVE Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius A. Okojie has expressed appreciation of the entire university system to the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for the donation of 224 hard copies of her book, Reforming the Unreformable, Lessons from Nigeria, to Nigerian universities, through the Commission.
Describing the gesture as a challenge to the system, Okojie said, “I am very pleased about what has happened. This level of intervention is very important. You walk into a library and see that a Minister, a mother and wife, despite her busy schedule, has sat down to write a book, not an autobiography, but to talk about substance in the system. She spent her energy, resources and time. I have not read the entire book, but from the little that I have seen, it is a book that will serve the Nigerian University System (NUS) very well, especially students of Economics and Finance, including those who are interested in Development Economics.
He added: “We want to encourage other public office holders, either while in office or when they leave, to put their experiences in writing to help us understand where we are coming from and where we want to go to and lessons that have been learnt in the process. That will help the country to grow and scholars in the system to. learn.”