Simply A World Beater

Victor Udosen, lecturer, Maritime Academy of Nigeria, MAN, Oron wins the International Maritime Lecturers’ Association Award as the Best Young Researcher in the world

By Onyeka Ajumobi

A lecturer with the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, MAN, Oron, Mr. Victor Udosen, has won this year’s International Maritime Lecturers’ Association, IMLA, Award as the Best Young Researcher in the world.

• Victor Udosen, lecturer, MAN.

He won the award at the just-concluded IMLA conference at Izmir, Turkey, where hundreds of researchers/lecturers around the world gathered to make different paper presentations on maritime education and training.

The 16th International Conference of IMLA–on maritime education and training–had as its topic, “Safety, Security and Quality Objectives of MET institutions” and featured 104 papers from 24 member nations.

Mr. Udosen’s paper, “The Effects of High-Males to Low-Females Proportions (class mix) on the Performance of Female Trainees in Maritime Studies in Nigeria, emerged the best among the presentations made worldwide.

The association’s president, Prof. Gao Deyi said he was excited at the depth of Mr. Udosen’s presentation, and the panel of judges had no hesitation in declaring him the winner.

Prof. Reza Ziarati, general co-ordinator, Turkish Maritime Education Foundation, expressed delight that the winner’s principal, Maritime Academy of Nigeria, MAN, Oron has been able to identify his huge academic and training potentials and placed him in its employ.

The Chairman, IMLA Izmir 2008 organising committee, Prof. Guldem Cerit noted that lecturers of Udosen’s ilk are what the maritime industry around the world desire to achieve the global sea trade training that is pre-requisite to placing the industry on the global economic frontline.

Back in Nigeria, Mr. Sunday Edet Atting, the Director of General Studies, MAN, said he had no doubt that Udosen would beat the world to emerge the winner, judging by the brilliance and determination to advance maritime education and training he exhibited at Oron.

He, therefore, called on other lecturers to imbibe the spirit of academic diligence that has driven the prize winner, and prove that MAN offers the best of maritime education in the world.

The Rector, MAN, Pastor Nseyen Ebong, thanked the IMLA for its impartial sense of judgment in declaring his lecturer the best in the world, adding that it vindicated his previous claim that MAN, Oron offers the best of maritime education and training in Africa.

He, therefore, urged shipping companies, maritime establishments and government organisations to take advantage of the resources and expertise available at the academy to train their personnel, instead of going overseas training which could be provided in the academy.

He urged federal and state scholarship boards to provide scholarship to young Nigerians to study in the academy, just as he called for a significant percentage of proceeds realised from the nation’s cabotage operations to be allocated to the academy for further maritime manpower development.

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