Education
FCMB Donates Hostel To RSUST …As VC Seeks More Partnership
The First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has donated a 54-room two storey hostel building to the Rivers State University of Science and technology (RSUST).
Handing over the building on Thursday, the Zonal Head, Rivers and Bayelsa States of FCMB, Mr. Oliver C. Opara said the donation is intended to make life easier for the students.
According to him, the building, which is designed to accommodate two graduate students per room, “is donated with the hope that the students will use it to their development and the University at large.”
While thanking FCMB for the donation in his response, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Blessing Didia said the school authority has already completed furnishing of the rooms for immediate use.
He also assured the Bank that for this gesture, which is the first of its kind in the school by a Bank, the University will be willing to partner with the Bank.
“We want to thank the Bank for this particular gesture and to say that this University is ready to partner more with them,” he said.
The VC used the opportunity to call on other well meaning individuals, companies and groups to borrow a leaf from FCMB, noting that such buildings will be named after the donor as will the one by FCMB.
“If you at anytime build us a hostel, faculty building, classroom, hall, lecture theatre, we will name it after you.
“So this is a clarion all on Rivers people and Bayelsans, those around us, to come and do anything here in memorial of their name, and we shall name that thing after that person or company,” he said.
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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