May 10, 2017
By Ijendu Iheaka
The founder, Rhema University, Aba, Dr Emma Okorie has challenged Igbo people to invest in the education and development of their people adding that God calls a person to save his people.
Okorie made the call during the maiden edition of the Rhema University education exhibition in Aba.
He said that the Igbo should understand the value education confers on life and humanity and so return home to help educate their people.
He noted that the greatest zone in Nigeria today is the zone with the highest number of educated people and not the zone with the highest number of traders without education.
He also called on Nigerians to educate their children in Nigeria where they would graduate with moral strength to take care of their parents at old age and not abandon them.
The Vice-Chancellor of Rhema University, Prof. Ogbonnaya Onwudike said that the institution had concluded plans to mount more programmes.
He noted that the new programmes would include courses in Anatomy, Physiology and Nursing.
He also said that the institutions had set up a Continuing Education Programme under which it was planning to run the Chartered Institute of Bankers Linkage Degree programme.
Onwudike said the institute now operates a school of basic studies enabling students to obtain advanced level certificate after one year which prepares them for admission in any Nigerian University.
He said that great learning and superior abilities are of little value unless it is accompanied with virtue, honour, truth and integrity and urged parents to send their children to schools like Rhema.
Miss Divine Uwaakolam a student of Living Word Magnet School said that this was her first education exhibition and that it had opened her mind to what she needed to study at Rhema.
"With what I have heard here, I know I have been equipped to enter any high institution in Nigeria", she said.
Mr Victor Mba, a teacher from Citizens International College, Clifford Aba said that the education exhibition had opened their students to requirements for higher education.
He called for more education exhibitions in the state to prepare secondary schools students for what awaits them as they aspire to study further.
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