“This huge investment is a dividend of peace in Nasarawa State University which needs to be sustained.”– Governor Abdullahi Sule
It was John F. Kennedy made the notable statement: “And so it is to the printing press—to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news—that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”
It was in keeping with this axiom that Chief Ogwu James Onoja, Senior Advocate of Nigeria launched into a multi-million naira venture to meet the printing needs of Nasarawa State University, Keffi, and its environs. Onoja who sank a whooping N450,000,000 (Four Hundred and fifty million naira) into the purchase of machines and construction of the building housing the printing press said it was his part of his contribution to boosting the university community’s fortunes.
By providing a quality printing press that was acknowledged to be the best in Nasarawa State, Onoja said the time has finally come for the institution to cease outsourcing printing works to commercial printers that delay and provide shoddy jobs.
Assuring Chief Onoja that his investment is secure during the project’s commissioning, the Governor of Nasarawa State, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, represented by his Deputy, Dr. Emmanuel Agbadu Akabe commended him for elevating the University’s business community while urging other entrepreneurs to take advantage of the abundant investment opportunities in the school.
The Governor also explained that the project will be handed over to the university after 10 years and added: “This huge investment is a dividend of peace in Nasarawa State University which needs to be sustained.”
The Nasarawa State University Printing Press, Keffi, a Built, Operate, and Transfer (BOT) project undertaken by Chief Onoja’s Bar and Bench Publishers Ltd., has been in operation since 2019.
Chief Ogwu Onoja SAN at the official commissioning ceremony today said the printing press will assist the school and the state meet its printing needs, thus, ending the era of outsourcing its printing works to commercial printers who often delay the work.
At the event which was graced by: Engr. Joseph Makoju, onetime CEO of the erstwhile National Electric Power Authority (NEPA)/Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and former Managing Director, Dangote Group, Moses Alfred Ebute, SAN, Chairman, Nigeria Bar Association, Abuja Branch, Hajia (Dr.) Alima Kebiru Geya, Chairperson Senator’s Wives Association, Prof. Bissallah Ahmed Ekele, Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH), Gwagwalada, Pastor Abel Uloko, Dr. Ameh Onoja, National Program Coordinator, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Value Chain Development Programme and other dignitaries, the ecstatic Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Suleiman Bala Mohammed extoled Onoja SAN. “Thank you for the laudable project that has further reduced unemployment in our society and we are expecting more of this as time goes on Sir.”
