Education
Elechi Amadi Lauds Amaechi For Promoting Arts/Reading
Literary icon and Chairman of the Rivers State Scholarship Board, Captain Elechi Amadi has commended Governor Chibuike for being the govenor who has shown exceptional quest to promote arts and literature in the history of the state.
Captain Amadi gave the commendation during the launching of the Port Harcourt Book Centre at the weekend.
The chairman of the State Scholarship Board said,” Govenor Amaechi is the first governor who has taken a look at the arts’’.
Amadi who is one of the patrons of the Port Harcourt Literary Society therefore challenged Amaechi to ensure that the Port Harcout, Book Centre is completed before the end of his tenure, as that would further cement his name as a governor and arts promoter.
The conception and building of the book centre according to Amadi had been a dream he had nursed over the years as a writer, and therefore congratulated all those who made it a reality.
The celebrated writer of popular novel ‘’ the Concubine’’ decried the dearth of bookshops in the city while exepressing hope that the new centre wold help reverse the trend.
Meanwhile, Proprietor of the Garden City Library and promoter of a new mobile library scheme, Mr Austin Nwaeze has lauded the Rivers State Government for winning the Port Harcourt World Book Capital.
Mr Nwaeze commended the efforts of Mrs. Koko Kalango for her efforts in reviving the reading culture through numerous programmes, most especially the annual Port Harcourt Book Festival.
” I’am delighted that the Rivers State Government is showing commitment to this goal by sponsoring a literary festival, even though I think it is elitist in nature. But it is good having won us the UNESCO World Book Capital City. I must commend he Rainbow Book Club led by Mrs. Koko Kalango and her team. She is a rare gem and an inspiration to young ones like us what we do is complimentary’’, Nwaeze observed.
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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