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Governing Structure

Overview

The governance of Alvan Ikoku University is structured in the following manner:

Leadership and Management

Alvan Ikoku University is a duly formed organization entity that

Solely Led, Managed, Owned
is wholly led, managed and owned by its sole Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku.
Sole President, Chair
has the Founder serving as its sole President and Chair.
Sole Powers, Rights
has the Founder as the sole person with decision-making, executive, fiduciary, managerial, ownership and voting powers, rights, and equivalent, especially those pertaining to Alvan Ikoku University’s formation, governance, and overall administration.

Membership and Fiduciaries

Alvan Ikoku University has

Sole Member, Owner
the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, as its sole Member and complete Owner, of the organization entity, its assets and properties, its divisions, series, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and its products and services.
Sole Fiduciary, Interests-Holder
the Founder as its sole fiduciary and sole interests-holder, shareholder, stockholder, or equivalent.
No Other Fiduciary, Member, Owner
no other person, legal or natural, as its fiduciary, member, owner, or equivalent.

Partnerships and Affiliations

Announcements of any affiliations, partnerships, sponsorships, and equivalent with Alvan Ikoku University will be provided upon agreements executed by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, solely via this Founder’s express written instrument signed and sealed.

Public Records and Standing

Alvan Ikoku University is a private and nonpublic organization entity, with minimal disclosure requirements. Appropriately limited public record confirmation of Alvan Ikoku University’s formation, governance, and status will, when appropriate and mandated, be made available via minimally required disclosure of filing with the appropriate government entities, links to which will then be provided here.

Understanding, Saint Benedict of Palermo, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, July 2018 (Ricky Turner)

Governing Nature

Provision

The governance of Alvan Ikoku University is, as follows, in character, essence, and nature:

Confidential in Nature

Alvan Ikoku University is formed to be and remain confidential and thus:

Confidential Existence
exists as a confidential organization entity.
Confidential Governance
is an entity of confidential administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Non-Confidentially
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way non-confidentially — including via disclosure, exposure, investigation, publicity, regulation, transparency, vetting, or equivalent.
Organizational Confidentiality
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational confidentiality of Alvan Ikoku University, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Independent in Nature

Alvan Ikoku University is formed to be and remain independent and thus:

Independent Existence
exists as an independent organization entity.
Independent Governance
is an entity of independent administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Non-Independently
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way non-independently — including by any other entity, office, or person, or via bureaucracy, collectivism, conservatorship, custodianship, regulation, sponsorship, supervision, takeover, or equivalent.
Organizational Independence
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational independence of Alvan Ikoku University, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Intact in Nature

Alvan Ikoku University is formed to be and remain internally intact and thus:

Intact Existence
exists as an internally intact organization entity.
Internally Intact Governance
is an entity of internally intact administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Non-Internally Intact
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way that is not internally intact — including via unauthorized access or during efforts at communication, connection, exchange, networking, provisioning, sharing, testing, or equivalent.
Organizational Integrity
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational integrity of Alvan Ikoku University, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Private in Nature

Alvan Ikoku University is formed to be and remain private and thus:

Private Existence
exists as a nonpublic and private organization entity.
Private Governance
is an entity of private administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Publicly
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way publicly — including via access, exposure, or transparency or via attempts at control, decision-making, or ownership that are collectivist, communal, cooperative, governmental, socialist or equivalent in nature.
Organizational Privacy
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational privacy of Alvan Ikoku University, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.
Private in Public Benefit
with Alvan Ikoku University maintaining such private nature and status through any arrangement, effort, or purpose that is “charitable,” “philanthropic,” or “public benefit,” as defined in the Codes and Policies.
Private via Philanthropies
with any charitable, philanthropic or public benefit arrangement, effort, or purpose fulfilled primarily in coordination with The Ikoku Foundations and The Ikoku Philanthropies division of The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC.
Philanthropies Solely Administered
with the sole person with powers and rights to conduct, delegate, finance, fulfill, manage, operate, report, review, and otherwise administer any charitable, philanthropic or public benefit arrangement, effort, or purpose of Alvan Ikoku University being the sole Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and as executed solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Philanthropies Solely Authorized
with the sole person with powers and rights to authorize, change, limit, review, specify, and otherwise determine any charitable, philanthropic or public benefit arrangement, effort, or purpose of Alvan Ikoku University being the sole Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and as executed solely via the Founder’s authorization.

Safe and Secure in Nature

Alvan Ikoku University is formed to be and remain safe and secure and thus:

Safe, Secure Existence
exists as a safe and secure organization entity.
Safe, Secure Governance
is an entity of safe and secure administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Insecurely, Unsafely
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way insecurely or unsafely — including via accident, attack, disruption, hinderance, interception, interference, intrusion, trespass, or equivalent.
Organizational Safety, Security
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational safety and security of Alvan Ikoku University, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Single and Unified in Nature

Alvan Ikoku University is formed to be and remain single, central and unified and thus:

Single, Central, Unified Existence
exists as a single, central and unified organization entity.
Single, Central, Unified Governance
is an entity of single, central and unified administration, including governance, executed solely by the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
Governance Not Decentrally, Plurally
with no aspects of its administration, including governance, executed in any way decentrally or plurally — including via decentralization, duplication, federation, franchise, license, multiplication, pluralism, plurality, pluralization, redundancy, or equivalent.
Organizational Unity
with the above constituting basic conditions for the organizational unity of Alvan Ikoku University, as further provided for in the Codes and Policies.

Sole Administration and Management

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Sole Administration, Management Powers
any and all executive administration and management powers with respect to Alvan Ikoku University, including executive powers of control, development, finance, governance, operation, oversight, regulation, supervision, and equivalent of and over Alvan Ikoku University.
Entailing Fiduciary
and including, especially, any and all executive fiduciary powers in any way pertaining to Alvan Ikoku University.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all executive administration and management powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Administration, Management
with such executive administration and management proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such executive administration and management not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole executive administrator and manager and sole manner of executive administration and management, and with such executive administration and management also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Authorizer and Authorization

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Sole Authorization, Executive Powers
any and all authorization and executive powers with respect to Alvan Ikoku University, including powers to authorize Alvan Ikoku University to engage in, enter into, expend for, or otherwise execute any acts, activities, agents, arrangements, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all authorization and executive powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Alvan Ikoku University.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all authorization and executive powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Authorization
with such authorization proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such authorization not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole authorizer and executive and sole manner of authorization, and with such authorization also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Books- and Records-Keeping

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person executively empowered with:

Sole Books, Records Powers
any and all books- and records-making and keeping powers with respect to Alvan Ikoku University, including powers to have Alvan Ikoku University add, correct, create, disclose, edit, hold, officialize, redact, reproduce, revise, safeguard, seal, sign, stamp, update, and otherwise maintain any accounts, agreements, books, communications, contracts, correspondence, documents, dossiers, files, forms, ledgers, instruments, minutes, notifications, notices, proceedings, records, reports, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all books- and records-making and keeping powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Alvan Ikoku University.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all books- and records-making and keeping powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Books, Records
with such books- and records-making and keeping proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such books- and records-making and keeping not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole books- and records-maker and keeper and sole manner of books- and records-making and keeping, and with such books- and records-making and keeping also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Decision-Making and Voting

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and the Board of Directors are the only persons empowered with:

Sole Deciding, Voting Powers
any and all decision-making and voting powers with respect to Alvan Ikoku University, including powers to have Alvan Ikoku University make and execute any decisions, votes, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all decision-making and voting powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Alvan Ikoku University.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all decision-making and voting powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Deciding, Voting
with such decision-making and voting proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and the Board of Directors, and executed solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such decision-making and voting not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole decision-makers and voters and sole manner of decision-making and voting, and with such decision-making and voting also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Employment and Appointment

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person executively empowered with:

Employment, Appointment Powers
any and all employment and appointment powers with respect to Alvan Ikoku University, including powers to have Alvan Ikoku University apprentice, assign, contract, elect, hire, outsource, or otherwise engage any agents, entities, offices, parties, persons, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all employment and appointment powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Alvan Ikoku University.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all employment and appointment powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Employment, Appointment
with such employment and appointment proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such employment and appointment not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole employer and appointer and sole manner of employment and appointment, and with such employment and appointment also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Finances and Funding

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person executively empowered with:

Financial and Funding Powers
any and all financial and funding powers with respect to Alvan Ikoku University, including powers to have Alvan Ikoku University engage in, enter into, expend for, or otherwise execute any financial acts, activities, arrangements, or equivalent, including those relating to accounts, bonds, budgets, debts, disbursements, distributions, fees, fines, grants, investments, liens, loans, payments, purchases, sales, scholarships, taxes, transactions, wages, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all financial and funding powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Alvan Ikoku University.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all financial and funding powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Finances, Funding
with such finances and funding proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such finances and funding not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole finance authorizer and funder and sole manner of finances and funding, and with such finances and funding also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Policies- and Rules-Making

The Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person empowered with:

Policies- and Rules-Making Powers
any and all policies- and rules-making and compliance powers with respect to Alvan Ikoku University, including powers to have Alvan Ikoku University adopt, alter, amend, apply, enforce, interpret, remedy, revise, substitute, or otherwise ensure adherence to any code, guideline, law, policy, recommendation, regulation, rule, or equivalent.
Entailing Governance
and including, especially, any and all policies- and rules-making and compliance powers in any way pertaining to any aspects of the administration, including governance, of Alvan Ikoku University.
Entailing Property
and including, especially, any and all policies- and rules-making and compliance powers in any way pertaining to any assets, estates, finances, funds, monies, real or intellectual properties, resources, or equivalent.
Sole Manner of Policies-, Rules-Making
with such policies- and rules-making and compliance proceeding solely by act of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, and solely via the Founder’s authorization.
No Alternative, Delegation
with such policies- and rules-making and compliance not allowed to have any alternative — be it another act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent — to the aforementioned sole policies- and rules-maker and compliance adjudicator and sole manner of policies- and rules-making and compliance, and with such policies- and rules-making and compliance also not allowed to be delegated to or otherwise assumed by any other entity, office, or person.

Sole Powers of Determination

As such, the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, is the only person with the authority and powers to adjudicate and determine — without appeal or liability — whether a given act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent is:

Compatible or Not
compatible or incompatible with Alvan Ikoku University itself, as well as its founding, governance, and overall administration, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably compatible.
Compliant or Not
complaint or non-compliant with the Codes and Policies of Alvan Ikoku University, as well as applicable law and regulation, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably compliant, law-abiding and policy-abiding.
Confidential, Private or Not
in accordance with or infringing the policies, principles, and protections for confidentiality and privacy, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably confidential and private.
Consented or Not
in accordance with or infringing the policies, principles, and protections for consent, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably consented.
Ethical or Not
in accordance with or infringing the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics of Alvan Ikoku University, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably ethical.
Faith-Aligned or Not
in alignment or non-alignment with the faith-based commitments of Alvan Ikoku University, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably faith-aligned.
Mission-Aligned or Not
in alignment or non-alignment with the mission and purposes of Alvan Ikoku University, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably mission-aligned.
Protective, Safe, Secure or Not
in accordance with or infringing the policies, principles, and protections for independence, integrity, safety, and security, as provided for in the Codes and Policies, with the objective to render the issue under review clearly rather than arguably protective, safe and secure.
With Intent, Knowledge
with the understanding that any act, activity, agent, arrangement, or equivalent effected or facilitated with intent or knowledge of infringement of the Codes and Policies — including avoidance of Founder authorization or adjudication — is to be considered, from its inception and prior to Founder determination, effectively and provisionally incompatible, noncompliant, unaligned, unconsented, unethical, unlawful, unprotective or equivalent, with the objective to preclude any intended or unintended evasion of Founder adjudication or determination and to limit any deleterious effects before or after eventual remedy.

with No Removal or Reduction

And furthermore, there is and will be no manner, means, or possibility of removal or replacement of the Founder, Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku, nor any delegation or diminishment of any of his aforementioned powers, in any way, under any circumstances, for any period, or for any benefit, end, goal, interest, mission, need, objective, purpose, or reason.

Sideview of Bust of Nelson Mandela
Civics, Bust of Nelson Mandela, London, United Kingdom, 2017 (Clem Onojeghuo)
Sciences, Model of Brain, Berlin, Germany, November 2019 (David Matos)
Humanities, Statue of Buddha, Kanagawa, Japan, February 2018 (Emily Ken Cairn)

Governing Policies

Provision

The governance of Alvan Ikoku University is, in important part, conducted via the Codes and Policies below:

Ikoku University Agreement

The Ikoku University Conduct and Service Agreement, which:

Collectively Governing
consists of several Codes and Policies that collectively govern all conduct and service in any way relating to Alvan Ikoku University.
Collectively Including
collectively include the Basic Policies — the Conditions and Terms of Founding, the Conditions and Terms of Governance, the Conditions and Terms of Conduct and Service, and the Founding and Governing Code of Ethics — as well as all other codes and policies, associated as the Correlative Policies.
Available Below
are made available further below.

Conditions of Founding

Conditions and Terms of Founding of Alvan Ikoku University (HTML)

Conditions of Governance

Conditions and Terms of Governance of Alvan Ikoku University (HTML)

Conditions of Service

Conditions and Terms of Conduct and Service (HTML)

Founding Ethics

Founding and Governing Code of Ethics (HTML)

All Policies

All Policies (HTML)

Conclusion

— Conditions and Terms

— All of the above and aforementioned in this section constitutes the Conditions and Terms of Governance of Alvan Ikoku University (the “Conditions and Terms of Governance” and “Conditions of Governance”) and forms an integral part of the Conditions and Terms of Alvan Ikoku University, the Codes and Policies of Alvan Ikoku University, as well as the Ikoku University Conduct and Service Agreement you may enter into with Alvan Ikoku University.

— Concerns and Questions

— Please report any concerns about code or policy violations, and send any questions you may have regarding the Conditions of Governance or the Ikoku University Conduct and Service Agreement, to policies@ikokuphilanthropies.com.

— Concluding

— And as a concluding aviso and proviso, you are informed as well as reminded that by commencing or continuing any conduct or service relating to Alvan Ikoku University — in any way, either directly or indirectly, and via any manner, means, method, or mode — you enter into the Ikoku University Conduct and Service Agreement and agree to abide by and be legally bound by the Policy conditions, principles, protections, and terms described above, and the Codes and Policies, in their entirety without modification or severability, as amended from time to time solely by the Founder.

Research, Minsk, Belarus, January 2016 (Roman Mager)
Teaching, Kpevego, Togo, October 2018 (Jordan Rowland)
Learning, Chongqing, China, March 2018 (Yu Wei)
Writings, Paris, France, August 2019 (Rodrigo Vergara)

Also at the University

Ikoku University is dedicated to furthering academic knowledge and inquiry via education, practice, and research — in Africa and across the globe. And so in accordance with the above, the University provides the following:

I.

Inquiry via Education

A university that furthers academic inquiry via education — as engaged in both learning and teaching — to enhance knowledge as well as communities and societies in Africa and across the globe.

II.

Inquiry via Practice

A university that also furthers academic inquiry via practice — as engaged in both application and revision — to contribute to and improve knowledge as well as communities and societies in Africa and across the globe.

III.

Inquiry via Research

A university that also furthers academic inquiry via research — as engaged in both examination and investigation — to advance, broaden, and deepen knowledge as well as lives and relations in Africa and across the globe.

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