FG renames Federal University Ebonyi after Ekwueme

The federal government has renamed the Federal University Nduflu Alike, Ebonyi state, after Alex Ekwueme, former vice-president, who died in London last year.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo announced this at a funeral service for the deceased in Oko, Anambra state.

Osinbajo said the government decided to rename the school after the great Nigerian as a way of immortalising him.

The government of former President Goodluck Jonathan established the university February 26, 2011.

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