A female don, Prof Nnenna Oti, has emerged as the new Vice Chancellor (VC) of he Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), th governing council has announced.
Prof. Oti will then succeed the outgoing VC, Prof. Francis Eze.
Until her new appointment, Prof. Oti was the Deputy Vice Chancellor, (Academic).
She emerged tops with 75.5 points to beat six other candidates.
Her closest rival was Prof. Ikechukwu Dozie who scored 69.7 points.
Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Prof. John Offem, announced the appointment of the new vice chancellor after a day-long selection and interview of the seven candidates that scaled through the initial selection process.
He said there were a total of 29 applications at the initial stage and only seven emerged after final selection.