Ojukwu Loved Planting Trees, Bianca Reminisces at Odumegwu Ojukwu University Founders’ Day Event
Wife of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, attended this year’s Annual Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu Memorial Lecture.
The event organised by the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), Igbariam, Anambra State, was in commemoration of the institution’s Founders’ Day.
The European Union Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Gautier Mignot, delivered the guest lecture on the theme- “Sustainable and Climate Resilience Future: Beyond Rhetorics.”
The Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University promotes climate resilience, also as the man it is named after.
During her remarks at the event, the minister quoted the late Igbo leader saying “Some men walk through the world, and others plant roots within it.”
According to her, he loved planting trees, and understood long before many others, even before climate action became more amplified, that respecting nature’s balance was important and that “trees were the silent guardians of our air, our soil and our future.”
She wished the University and its brand new Governing Council, a highly successful founders’ day celebrations.