The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Holdings, Herbert Wigwe, has joined the ranks of banking chiefs who have veered into the education sector.
Recall that the former managing director and co-founder of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTCO), Tayo Aderinokun had floated Day Waterman College, located in Ogun State before he passed on.
Similarly, Jim Ovia, founder and chairman of Zenith Bank, floated James Hope College in the Lekki area of Lagos State. Likewise the late Oba Oladele Olashore, founder of defunct Leads Merchant Bank, who floated Olashore International School in Osun State. Following in their footsteps, but a notch higher, Wigwe decided that owning a university would be more like it and has commenced setting it up when he recently laid its foundation.
Situated in Isiokpo area of Rivers State, his home state, the institution will be called Wigwe University and will focus on grooming fearless generations of youths. The institution is expected to have 60 per cent Nigerian academic lecturers and 40 per cent foreign lecturers. There are plans to have students of the institution spend one year of their academic period on exchange in foreign schools in order for them to gain international exposure.
Ivory Ukonu is a versatile journalist with many years of experience, with entertainment and society reporting as her area of core competence.
