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The Governing Council, Senate, staff, and students of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, is hereby informed that the University of Nigeria has won the World Bank-funded Africa Center of Excellence for Sustainable Power and Energy Development (ACE-SPED), after a very competitive and months-long rigorous World bank experts evaluation process, involving about 134 proposals from Nigeria and many other proposals from the west and central African sub-region.

UNN won the Africa Center of Excellence Impact Project along with ten other Nigerian universities in various disciplines, such as health, pharmacy and medicine. The Vice-chancellor, Prof. Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba and the leader of the ACE-SPED proposal team, Prof. Emenike Ejiogu of the Department of Electrical Engineering, received the good news from the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, on November 13th, 2018, at a ceremony in Abuja.

This has since been followed by a nine-day Launching and Boot Camp Training held at Djibouti from February 18-27, 2019, organized by the World Bank and the Association of African Universities. The University administration is rapidly taking steps for the center to smoothly resume full operations.

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The Africa Center of Excellence for Sustainable Power and Energy Development, University of Nigeria Nsukka, wishes to inform the 2019/2020 M.Eng students that online lectures will commence from August 3rd, 2020.

This is in accordance with the learning from home policy put in place by the Federal Ministry of Education, in the bid to curb the spread of Covid-19.

 Please stay safe and have a wonderful online learning experience.

Signed: Management

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The Laboratory of Industrial Electronics, Power Devices and New Energy Systems (LIEPNES) has collaborated with the Africa Center of Excellence for sustainable Power and Energy Development (ACE-SPED), UNN, to embark on the production of equipment needed for the prevention of the spread of Covid-19.

According to the LIEPNES Director and ACE-SPED Center Leader, Prof. Emenike Ejiogu said he organized a young Academic Covid-19 initiative consisting of a six-man research groups with a funding of Five hundred thousand Naira, to embark on the different areas to prevent the spread of Covid-19.   

He said that the equipment expected to be produced by the six-man research groups are a plasma-based system for surface disinfection, a hand-held infrared thermometer, fabricated hand and foot sanitizer, a fabricated body disinfection unit and a distance control device. He said the distance control device detects when a person gets closer than a one-meter distance to another in a crowd.

Moreso, the Academic Programme Coordinator, ACE-SPED, Dr Cosmas Ogbuka, disclosed that ACE-SPED recently concluded training for Lecturers and Teaching/Research Assistants (TRAs) ahead of the scheduled commencement of online lectures for the first batch of MEng/MSc students slated for August 3^rd, 2020. He said that the Center has successfully procured and installed two sets of recording equipment and that two studios have been refurbished to house the equipment within the Center’s facilities for effective recording and online content delivery.

Also, as part of the Institutional impact and commitment to capacity building of staff of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, ACE-SPED has also begun a University-wide training of staff in online course delivery. The first phase of this scheme involved the training of lecturers in the Faculty of Engineering, other faculties will follow in due course.

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The Africa Center of Excellence for Sustainable Power and Energy Development (ACE-SPED), Team felt the cozy ambience of the Jabi Lake Mall while been hosted to a lavish dinner by Mirai Denchi Nigeria Limited.

Mr Chibuike Mgbeahurike, who spoke for the Company in partnership with the Center, stated during his remark that he was delighted to host the ACE-SPED Team in Abuja.

He said that the Company will always remain a proud partner of the Center in achieving it set goals of impactful educational research development and training  in their five major thematic areas such as: Electronic power system development, Removable energy, waste-to-energy and energy conservation, Energy resources assessment and forecasting, Sustainable energy materials and Energy policy, Regulation and management.

Also, Mr Mgbeahurike stated that Mirai Denchi has been sponsoring some key projects in the University of Nigeria such as the organic waste conversion system for 100kva gasification system and the ongoing 500kva gasification system. He said partnering with ACE-SPED is another feat for the company.

The Center Leader, ACE-SPED, Prof Emenike Ejiogu while appreciating the partnership of the company, stated that in 2018 five committees were set up to  win at least two ACE Centers for the University but only the ACE-SPED Team succeeded.  He specified that the major reason the ACE-SPED Team secured the World Bank Grant was because of the partnership with Mirai Denchi and Ink Japan and other Sectoral Partnership.

 Further, he said that Mirai Denchi which means future energy deals on renewable and solar energy that is sustainable and the company is a member of the Nigeria Chamber of Commerce in Tokyo founded in the 1980s.

Prof Godwin Unachukwu appreciated the leadership of the Center while buttressing that the Center has a leader with a drive and readiness to always produce results. He echoed that Prof Ejiogu is a great deliverer in any project he pursues. Prof Unachukwu promised that the Center will deliver successfully to both its Sectoral Partners and the country at large.

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