AdminGeometric Power Chairman, Prof. Bart, joins the Igbo community in Michigan, United States today, 17 August as a special guest to celebrate Igbo Day and their maiden new yam festival.
The festival will feature “authentic Igbo cuisines, masquerades, cultural music, and a cultural competition,” according to the president of the Igbo Cultural Festival of Michigan (ICAM), Gabriel Ugwu.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelThe 2024 ICAM event which is sponsored by Mabel Hotel in Asaba, headquarters of Nigeria’s Delta State, will be held at the nothwestern campus of the Wayne County Community College, West Detroit.
“We are lucky to have as our special guest Professor Bart Nnaji, the chairman of the Geometric Power group and former Minister of Power”, Ugwu stated.
Nnaji, a former Nigeria’s Minister of Science and Technology, was officially named a Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering in the United States, the first Black person to be so honoured in American history.
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ICAM president said the Igbo group couldn’t have thought of a better person to serve as their special guest in event than Nnaji, who is a globally respected industrial engineering professor.
“One important lesson Nigerians need to learn from the 2024 ICAM is that culture, technology, and entrepreneurship must go together,” Ugwu stated.
