60th Birthday Colloquium of Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje on 'The Role of Education in Achieving the SDGs in Africa and the Developing World: Imperative of Strong Old Students and Alumni Associations'
The Role of Education in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa and the Developing World: Imperative of Strong Old Students and Alumni Associations Being Paper Delivered by the Vice Chancellor of Imo State University Prof. U. U. Chukwumaeze, SAN, FCArb, On the 60th Birthday Colloquium of Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje this 26th Day of February, 2024 Greetings I congratulate my senior, Dr Uzodinma Adirieje on this occasion of his 60th birthday. Senior Uzodinma is a man of style who is unique in all his ways. This quality is innate in him because having stayed with him in the same dormitory, House D, in Eziachi Secondary School Orlu in Imo State for 3 years, from 1978 to 1981, I saw in him then the quality of a great leader and achiever. Among his peers, he was a star, exhibiting an outstanding degree of statesmanship, a gift of steady application, and a knack for seminal creativity. He is proficiently intelligent, doggedly hardworking, and transparently honest. I was