Provost Wants More Infrastructure In College Of Health

The Provost of the Rivers State College of Health Sciences and Management Technology, Dr Franklin Nlerum, has appealed to the state government to invest in infrastructure in the institution to meet the current students inflow.
Such infrastructure, he said, include classrooms and hostels to accommodate the increase in students warranted by an astronomical increase in applications and subsequent admission of more students.
He also stated that the increase in the number of students also required more manpower to enable the school meet the new mandate of the school as a polytechnic.
Making the appeal during the Annual Orientation Programme for Year One Students recently,  Dr Nleruma said the increase in student population is the result of the upgrading of the college from a monotechnic to polytechnic.
While thanking the State Governor, Nyesom Wike, for upgrading the school to be at per with its peers in the country, the provost advised the students to take their studies serious, and avoid vices such as cultism.
Speaking on the topic, “Money for Marks, Sex for Marks, and Cultism”, Mr. Ken Henshaw of “We The People”, a Non-Governmental Organisation, urged the students and lecturers to avoid indulging in the act(s).
According to him, the advice is necessitated by the fact that lecturers oftentimes compel students to buy their books and or lecture notes, while those who fail the buy are made to fail in the course.
On cultism, Mr. Henshaw debunked the widely held belief that the vice in schools that is popularly called cultism is actually not cultism.
“What we have are gang groups who fight, maim, and kill one another for supremacy”, he said.
According to him, “cultism is a veneration or worship of a deity among members … Students are involved in killings, robbery, raping, and other vices”.
He warned the students to eschew belonging to any of the gang groups, noting that members usually end up in prison, or die in the process.