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Florence Obi Quotes

Nigeria

Florence Banku Obi is a Nigerian academic, author and a professor of education with specialization in psychology and special needs education. She is the 11th substantive vice-chancellor of University of Calabar and the first female vice-chancellor since the inception of the institution.After her appointment as the new VC, Ovie Omo-Agege who chairs the Senate Adhoc Committee on Constitution Review, described Prof.

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We need to begin to talk to our children about equity from home; if we do that, our children will grow up with it and affect the society positively.

I can assure you that the government is doing something towards revitalising public universities.

We create the bias from the cradle when we begin to tell our children the chores that are meant for boys and those that are for girls.

As the first female vice-chancellor of the university, it comes with a lot of responsibility and expectations. Many people want to see what a female vice-chancellor can do. There are also high expectations from people who think the university is too complex for a woman to run.

The VC is also responsible for administrative action and is the chief financial officer of the university. When things go wrong financially, the VC is held responsible. Those are the tripartite responsibilities of a vice-chancellor.

I think one of the greatest achievements I would like to be associated with is the peace, unity, oneness and purpose on campus. I derive joy from the fact that people are working in a cordial environment and anybody can have access to the vice-chancellor.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Florence Obi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.