The management of Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka says the institution needs the media to achieve its vision of being among the top 200 universities in the world.

The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Okechukwu Esimone, said this on Monday when the new executive of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Anambra Council, paid him a courtesy visit in his office.

Esimone said the university required the professional services of the media to market its programmes and activities within and outside the shores of Nigeria.

He said he had upgraded the school’s community radio (UNIZIK FM) and the Public Relations Department, since he assumed office in May 2019.

He thanked the chapel members for their professional reportage of the activities of the university and promised to sustain the existing cordial relationship for a more effective result.

Earlier, the Chairman of the chapel, Chuks Ilozue, said the visit was meant to reaffirm the chapel’s poise to work with the new management for their mutual benefits.

Ilozue underscored the need for the various departments and faculties in the university to interface with the chapel to showcase their programmes and achievements.

Also, a senior member of the chapel, Tony Okafor, said the chapel was ready to project the institution in good light at all time because the nation’s media and the university could trace their being to late Dr Nnamdi Azikwe, the first President of Nigeria.

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“The great Zik of Africa, after whom the university is named, was the first Nigerian to obtain a Diploma in Journalism.

“For that reason, we are committed to ensure that this university grows to being among the best in the world,” Okafor said.