RenaissanceGuy:
Students that would graduate and start looking for paid jobs or the ones that will put what they studied in practice, creating jobs in the process, just as it's in developed countries?? What Nigeria needs is not more universities, it's aggressive industrialisation. In fact, let's even begin with the easiest—agricultural industrialization, which can turn Nigeria into a developed country within 2r would then trickle down into other industrial sectors such as steel, shipbuilding, car, electronics manufacturing, etc. This is how countries such as the USA, China, Malaysia became what they are today!

DaddyJapan:


$500 million university? Okay, I have a bridge that connects Nigeria to France to sell.

seborrhic:

Is it today you knew Nigerians like floating superfluous figures to feel big and important?
In Nigeria a goverment official will tell you we are a country of 300m people and that in next 5 years the economy will be bigger than that of China and US combined.
Where is Wigwe going to source for $500m (₦500b)within 5 years or people think he would conjure up that amount from his pocket?

obaidan:

Honestly.....he should empower the jobless ones in the pool first so they can have the capacity to create ventures that will employ the ones in the university....u have that much money to invest...that's 500 billion naira, half of a trillion..... get 100,000 young business minded people with good ideas, 5m each to support their businesses........focus on tech, agriculture and production of items that can be exported

obaidan:
at least if u need Access bank job, u know what to do

Abaman001:

Yes of course, it's in his home town in Ikwerre lga Rivers state..

OfeAchi:
Someone should tell this nigga that we do not need another university in Nigeria.

How about he invests this funds into creating a mini power grid within a locality? A power grid with at least 20hrs daily supply.

OR funding already existing universities. Some brilliant minds are wallowing away due to lack of funds to support their research.

Unless, the dude is trying to launder funds with this new university. White elephant stuff. Same way Ebonyi State wasted funds in building an airport.

blowjohn:
500 million dollars for a school where the youths are already in the wrong state of mind.

What happened to giving out loans to everyone?

ow much will be the school fees( for all of u hailing him)
If u think a Nigerian will carry 500 million dollars to build a school where even u urself knows that no Plato or Albert Einstein will be made for nothing, then ur not thinking well.

Either the money is not his sweat or there is more to it.

Swiftgrp:

That's good to know. Being a Rivers State indigene, I assume Herbert Wigwe would want to set the world-class Uni over there in Rivers State. On the other hand, it could be in Lagos State since he is also professionally a Lagos big dude... A part of the original Guaranty Trust Bank employees who moved on to set up Access Bank.

I read years back how Herbert's father who was then a Nigerian military officer in Abeokuta survived being killed in the aftermath of the counter coup of 1966, and how he was tipped off by a colleague who asked him what he was still doing in the West when some of his military colleagues had relocated. He miraculously made it back with his nuclear family to their ancestral home town near the Port Harcourt area. It was a very fascinating story of survival and the triumph of the human spirit... I never forgot that interview.

masseratti:
yes it is but with that money he can build a world class phone manufacturing.
Not assembly óò.. Manufacturing except the chip set factory, that will cater for Nigeria and other Africa economy.. Not only phone but phone accessories, and parts screen, eye piece, etc.

With that money he can have an oil. Plam plantation or cocoa seseme seeds, well it's his money tho.. And with 5 years scale up.. All he needs his his friends like 200 of them donating or buying $100m yearly... But that school will cost die..

1TrippleCee:
God bless me with money. I also want to impact this world. Hit the like button to tap i to this prayer too

Fulaninigger:
Igbo*

waternogetenemy:
I assure you, if it was Igbo that have brothers in Togo and Benin republic, we would have been making efforts to join them.


Mind you not all our people speak Igbo language.


All the groups in SS are Igbo relatives and part of our extended family, all the way down to the middle belt with Igala, idoma and down to Cameroon.


As know, our brothers in Cameroon join Kanu to demand separation from Cameroon and we are working together to reunify.



Igbo will never leave their kith and kin behind, we are just too strong as a group to allow it.

1TrippleCee:
God bless me with money. I also want to impact this world. Hit the like button to tap i to this prayer too

Gerrard59:


Don't get it twisted, this is business not philanthropy. Please know the difference.

Gerrard59:


Tola of GTB founded Daywaterman Schools in Ogun where he comes from. So, Wigwe is expected to site his in Rivers state.

waternogetenemy:



Igbo as a group is larger than Yoruba, we still have our Ekpeye Igboid clan.

Kushites:


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-11/banking-tycoon-wigwe-invests-in-new-500-million-university-in-nigeria

Swiftgrp:

@Armaggedon,

Yes thanks for the info about the Uni and Herbert's Isiokpo hometown... His professional working life is majorly in Lagos State so that's why I said Herbert Wigwe is a "Lagos big dude" (or top gun). He used to work for the then new generation bank called GTB which was co-founded back in the 1990s by Fola Adeola and Tayo Aderinokun.

Herbert then left GTB to co-found another new generation bank called Access Bank with Imokhuede thereby sealing their names in the sands of time among the modern banking pioneers. They brought that iconic GTB work ethics into Access Bank operations. These guys have a lot of international and local investments made from their banking assets running into millions of USD.

All the best.

Gerrard59:


There is nothing like a manufacturing factory for phones. Phones are assembled with parts from different manufacturers of those parts. So, a screen manufacturer is different from the battery manufacturer. Then, every part goes to the brand's assembling facility or authorised partner. Upon assembling, it gets shipped out. The same applies to cars. Cars are not manufactured but assembled.

Wigwe's source of wealth is from banking, and it is easier to venture into tertiary education than assembling electronics when there are fierce competitors in Asia. No country in Africa can out-do the East and now South East Asian countries in electronics production and assembling. Even the West cannot.

Swiftgrp:

@Armaggedon,

Yes thanks for the info about the Uni and Herbert's Isiokpo hometown... His professional working life is majorly in Lagos State so that's why I said Herbert Wigwe is a "Lagos big dude" (or top gun). He used to work for the then new generation bank called GTB which was co-founded back in the 1990s by Fola Adeola and Tayo Aderinokun.

Herbert then left GTB to co-found another new generation bank called Access Bank with Imokhuede thereby sealing their names in the sands of time among the modern banking pioneers. They brought that iconic GTB work ethics into Access Bank operations. These guys have a lot of international and local investments made from their banking assets running into millions of USD.

All the best.

moneyissweet:
Now he is ikwere man. If he is indicted for crime now you will him call Ipob terrorist...ozuor

gidgiddy:


Ikwerre dont put the "N" in"Nwa"

waternogetenemy:



And wat are the Ikwere clan?

What is W igwe


Wigwe simple means Nwa-Igwe shortened.


which is King pikin or child.

Whalis:

There is no Ikwerre man that has ever been misconstrued for an Igbo person in term of crime.

moneyissweet:
Maybe you have forgotten about don wali that wike killed.

When are in trouble they will become ipob, but when they are enjoying and occupying political offices they will become ikwere

Just dey play.