Rochas Okorocha University: The Governor of Imo State, Nigeria, Rochas Okorocha, who chairs The Rochas Foundation has founded a tuition free university that would take off within range. Okorocha disclosed this in Abuja during activities co mmemorating his 50th birthday and the 10th anniversary of the Rochas Secondary Schools across the country which are tuition free. The Director-General of the foundation and daughter of the governor, Uloma Okorocha also added that "the university which would only be for students from poor family backgrounds would have a touch that would compete favorably with other universities in the world," stating it would be a Western standard institution of higher learning. Foundation of the university has already been laid at Ogboko, Imo State, according to the governor. Rochas' five tuition free secondary schools are located in Ogboko, Owerri, Ibadan, Jos and Kano.
