Alumnus of University of Ibadan, one of Nigeria’s premier universities, Dr. Phillip O. Ozuah, donated a whopping $1 million for the rehabilitation and equipment of its Medical College.
Ozuah who is the President and CEO of Montefiore Medicine, New York made the donation in response to invitation by the acting Dean of Medical College, University of Ibadan, Professor Adebola Ogunbiyi in a zoom meeting for alumni.
The Zoom meeting held Monday, August 1 and joined by the former students of the medical college was meant to address the college’s infrastructural decay and rot.
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Addressing the alumni, Prof. Ogunbiyi listed the challenges facing the college especially the need to provide new hostels and classrooms for the medical students as well as to refurbish the college.
The acting Dean of the college appealed to the alumni to support her in rebuilding and restoring the lost glory of the medical college.
Her speech opened the floodgates of donations from the medical doctors produced by the Medical College, University of Ibadan.
Ozuah said UI’s medical college shaped and refined him to the man, hence the need to give to his alma mater.
After graduation, he did his internship at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital before he proceeded to Southern California for his Master’s programme and his PhD from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
More donations – N1 million and N200,000 – are still trickling in for the project.
