The authorities of Rivers State University (RSU) Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt yesterday rededicated the university to God for the 2019 academic session.
The rededication was heralded with a thanksgiving service organised by the institution to expressed her profound gratitude and appreciations to God for His mercies and achievements recorded the 2018 year ended.
Speaking at the annual Thanks giving / Re-dedication service held at the chapel of Redemption, RSU in Port Harcourt, the vice chancellor of the university, Prof Blessing Chimezie Didia said the program was put together by the university management to appreciate God for His providence last year.
Didia averred that the university has every reason to thank God adding that this years celebration was more unique compare to other years.
He opined that with the successful hosting of the programme, the institution he said, was on the verge of making history, as more successes and achievements will be recorded.
He used the opportunity to thanked all staff of the institution for their collective supports and efforts towards the various feats achieved in the university and promised that his administration would continue to advance the frontiers of the institution for greater heights.
The vice chancellor also used the opportunity to give reasons while lecturers in the universitybacked out from the on-going ASUU National Strike.
Prof Didia explained that RSU lecturers backed out from the strike because the state government was not owing them, adding that the lecturers appreciated the efforts being put in by the state government to improve on the standard of the university
The vice chancellor read the first bible reading for the service while, the registrar, Mrs Victoria T. Jamabo took the second bible reading.
Earlier in his sermon, the guest speaker, senior pastor of Glorious Covenant Church, Port Harcourt, Rev Tonye Dagogo Amakiri said any life without thanksgiving, devoid of love is dead, adding that thanksgiving is a command every human being living must comply with.
Rev Amakiri took his message from the books of psalms 158:1-8 and described thanksgiving as an eternal debt of gratitude human beings owe to their creator, even as he lauded the management of the institution for organizing the program.