Speaker Assures UNIPORT Of Improved Facilities

The Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Otelemaba Amachree, has assured the Faculty of Natural Sciences, particularly the Department of Physics, University of Port Harcourt of his readiness to partner in the improvement of learning facilities.

Hon Amachree stated this Wednesday when the Head of Department (HOD) of Physics, Prof Israel Owate led other lecturers and students leaders to pay him a courtesy visit in his office in Port Harcourt.

The Speaker represented by the Whip of the Assembly, Hon Ikuinyi Ibani, thanked the initiators of the visit and for the kind words about his humble contribution to the development of society.

He noted that words of encouragement by his former teachers were enough to spur him to greater heights and promised to visit the school at his earlier convenience to assess the needs.

Earlier, the leader of the delegation and Head of physics Uniport, Prof Israel Owate, said they were in his office to felicitate with him as one of their own having graduated from the department.

Prof Owate said they were pleased with the way he had piloted the affairs of the state Assembly so far and urged him not to relent in providing appropriate leaders for the House.

Prof Owate who was a former Commissioner for Education in the state, requested that the Speaker should visit the department to act as a morale booster to the current students.

Also speaking, president of National Association of Physics Students, Uniport chapter, Mr Chinwe Omah said that the Speaker of the Seventh Assembly graduated from the department and lauded him on some of the laws passed by the House to improve quality of education.

Mr Omah, however, appealed for the assistance of the Speaker in the provision of learning materials and busses for excursion by students on field study.