Peter University, first Nigerian varsity to complete fiber optics Internet service
The fibre optics cables were laid around the entire school with 10 terminations, to serve users from the base station at Ekwulobia.
Peter University, located in the Achina and Onne towns of Anambra, has become the first Nigerian tertiary institution to complete its fibre optic cable for Internet access with a 35-metre mast.
The university is located in the twin towns of Achina and Onne in Aguata and Orumba North Local Government Areas, respectively, in Anambra State.
The fibre optic cables were laid around the entire school with 10 terminations to serve users from the base station at Ekwulobia.
It will serve as the institution’s radio station when it becomes operational.
The school is equally deploying current Learning Management Systems (LMS) to enable distant-learning students to access lectures from any part of the world.
This indication was given on Tuesday by a spokesperson for the university, Mr. Chuka Nnabuife, in a statement made available to journalists in Awka, the Anambra state capital.
According to the statement, Nnabuife spoke as the university prepares to matriculate its first set of students (200) on Friday, April 19, 2024, who were admitted on October 3, 2023.
The school is owned by the two sister dioceses of Awka and Ekwulobia, under the guidance of Bishop Paulinus Ezeokafor and Peter Cardinal Okpaleke.
Nnabuife said His Eminence, Peter Cardinal Okpaleke, will be the chief host of the matriculation event, which is expected to have the Catholic bishops of Awka and Nnewi in attendance.
Also expected at the event are governors, prominent academic scholars, frontline government personalities, political leaders, and captains of industry in the South East.
The institution has undergone full resource verification, had its courses approved by the National University Commission (NUC) and all requisite
agencies run as a robust academic citadel with quintessential Catholic values of sound scholarship and deep moral ethos.
Nnabuife disclosed that with four faculties, 12 departments and 24 programmes spanning through the humanities; social and management sciences; science and computing technologies; health and Allied Sciences, the university is set produce brilliant and focused graduates.
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Rev. Fr. Chukwuemenam Emmanuel Umezinwa, explained that the goal of the school is to give birth to a new generation of Nigerian youths who are distinguished by their high knowledge, exceptional sense of social responsibility, and zeal for productivity.