Uniport VC Inaugurates UPWA Int’l  School

The Acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Professor Stephen Okodudu, has inaugurated the Secondary section of  University of Portharcourt Women Association International School.
Speaking during the event at the school campus last Thursday, Okodudu congratulated the women on their contributions towards the development of the University Community. While noting that little beginning should not be despised, the Acting Vice Councilor revealed that the school started as a creche to primary section and  now has a secondary School.
He maintained that they are in talk with Rivers State Government on how to complete and make good use of the abandoned  primary school building in the campus and expressed hopes that the legacies put in place at the school would be sustained.
Professor Okodudu charged the pupils to make good use of the opportunity offered  them in aquiring the requisite knowledge so as to be meaningful to their parents and the society at large.
Earlier in her remark, the President, University of Port Harcourt Women Association (UPWA) Dr. Ezinneka Eunice Okodudu explained that “the decision  to add a secondary School to the already existing Nursery & Primary unit of UPWA School was not an overnight thought of an individual but as a result of parents & guidances whose children & wards were already in the school, hence the management saw reasons with them and followed government new UBE system that terminate at Junior Secondary School”.
The UPWA President who doubles as the wife of the acting Vice Chancellor of the institution revealed that the Association was founded in 1978 with 54 Women as members, saying that further advancement was the establishment of a Children Resource Centre to create enabling environment for academic development of Children of nursing mothers’ staff of the University.
She stated that their fees are affordable compared to it’s  standard and what is obtainable outside adding that they also put into  consideration the children of the staff of the University.
Okodudu further called on parents across the state to enroll their wards and get the best for them.

By: Lady Godknows Ogbulu & King Onunwor