Education
Inaugural Lecture: IAUOE Awards Scholarship To Handicapped Student
The Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUOE) has offered a full time scholarship to a physically challenged student of the institution.
The third year student of the Music Department of the institution, Master Pius Silver, who is challenged in his sight also gained a N200,000 cash award for his upkeep.
The Vice Chancellor, IAUOE, Prof Ozo-Mekuri Ndimele announced the award during his closing remarks at the 28th inaugural lecture of the institution with the theme, “The Dilemma of Development in Post-Independence Nigeria: The Rural Development Options’, at the main campus, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, last Thursday.
Ndimele said the institution was poised to reward excellence and dedication to studies by students who are not deterred by any form of challenge in the course of their academic pursuit, adding that it would continue to encourage and support excellence in educational strides irrespective of person and place.
In his words, “This young man is blind. I just noticed it now and yet I see him in almost all of our activities here. Registrar, grant scholarship to him and also N200,000 for his upkeep. We are here to reward excellence and dedication to studies”.
Ndimele requested that the beneficiary, Silver, presents his school receipts of first year to third year to the management for a refund.
Earlier in his lecture, Prof Kingdom Elendu Ohia Nwaenyi, advocated that the concept of rural development should not be reduced to agricultural project alone, stating that substituting rural development with agriculture renders the development one-sided.
While noting that development was a many sided affairs, Nwaenyi regretted that rural development has been reduced to food sufficiency, adding that such misconception constitutes a bane on rural development.
By: Lady Godknows Ogbulu
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