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Professor Gregory Ikechukwu Ibe, administrator, academic and businessman is the Founder and Chancellor of Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State. He shares the story of his life with TUNDE ADELEKE.
Your name, Ikechukwu, means God’s power; can you recount the circumstances of your birth that informed the name?
Well, it’s a reported thing I am going to tell you because nobody knows any information, but it was in Kaduna around 3pm and a white doctor wondered why a child should come by 3pm as most births came by evening or early morning. But this one was in the hot afternoon on a December 10. Somehow, it wasn’t funny because for three months, I wept! You can confirm from my parents, they are alive; my father is 99 years old and my mother is 76 years old. My father is the king and is in his house there.
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The current Covid-19 crisis has turned life for all of us upside down. In your 35 years in the hotel industry, have there been any events with a comparable global impact on the travel and hospitality sectors?
Similar to how the terrorist attacks of 9/11 changed the travel industryâs security requirements, Covid-19 has changed our biosecurity protocols for the better and we will travel safer in the future. However, we never imagined the social and economic impact as we are now experiencing, which has forced us to recalibrate our operations, as well as our products and services in preparation for new global travel expectations.