The previous President-Common of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, John-Nnia Nwodo, has expressed critical concern over what he described as “a drastic decline” within the high quality of schooling within the nation.
He mentioned, “It pains me that youngsters of our contemporaries within the college can not get the standard schooling that we acquired throughout our time.”
Nwodo made the comment on the 2nd Matriculation ceremony of Maduka College, Enugu, on Friday.
The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) experiences that the college, based by Dr Samuel-Maduka Onyishi, the proprietor of Peace Motors, matriculated 664 new college students on the ceremony.
Talking in a keynote tackle, Nwodo recalled that whereas on the College of Ibadan, their faucets ran 24 hours and showers had hot and cold faucets.
“They ran all day and night time,” he mentioned,including that the hostel had an airconditioned room, the place they may entertain themselves and their company with chilly drinks, biscuits and muffins in addition to tea or espresso.
He additionally mentioned that the college laundry washed ten gadgets of clothes for every scholar each week.
In response to him, meals was subsidised and breakfast was 20 kobo, lunch and dinner have been 25 kobo, respectively.
Nwodo additionally recalled that the college buses left from the Predominant Campus to the Educating Hospital Campus each half-hour, carrying college students and employees members, who had lectures.
“We had departmental libraries in addition to a Central Library.
“Any e book revealed in Europe or America was obtainable in our reference part of the library inside one month of its publication. So have been journals.
“We patronised the worldwide literary visitors.
“We hardly skilled any energy failure within the three years I spent in Ibadan.
“Photocopying machines have been obtainable on the departmental libraries and Common Library.
“We had entry to topical and up to date information,” Nwodo mentioned.
He additional mentioned that the School of Drugs had many lecturers, who got here from Europe, whereas their Nigerian counterparts went on sabbatical, educating within the universities in Europe, Canada and America.
“However that I used to be an Igbo man, I ran election in opposition to a Yoruba candidate and defeated him and have become President of the Scholar Union with none bias of ethnicity.
“It pains me a lot that you simply, as our youngsters, can not get the standard of schooling we, your mother and father obtained however these of you in Maduka College are privileged.
“You might have good buildings, energy and water provide and lecturers hungry and anxious to show in an establishment with services,” Nwodo mentioned.
He, due to this fact, recommended Onyishi for establishing the college, which many college students have been now benefiting from.
In a speech, Onyishi, who can also be the Chancellor of the college, mentioned that college remained the pact he made with God to enhance his group and society considerably in a optimistic approach by way of the instrumentality of agriculture, schooling, healthcare and expertise.
He mentioned the varsity was established to fill the hole and resolve the schooling wants of society, describing the establishment as a quick rising personal college in Nigeria.
“It’s gratifying that inside our first one yr and 5 months, we have now been blessed with near 1,300 college students.
“These figures testify to the acceptance of our model of schooling on the tertiary degree,” he mentioned.
Whereas thanking mother and father and sponsors for founding the establishment worthy to ship their youngsters and wards, Onyishi mentioned the college was dedicated to offering high quality schooling and entrepreneurship abilities to its college students.
The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the college, Sen. Mohammed Daggash, urged the scholars to strife for excellence and take their lectures severely.
The President-Common of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Azuka-Mbata, additionally extolled Onyishi for establishing the college.
Azuka-Mbata referred to as on different rich Igbo little children to emulate him by investing at residence.
