Rivers
IAUE VC Commits To Building Robust Institution
The Acting Vice-Chancellor of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Professor Okechuku Onuchuku, has reiterated his commitment to building a robust university dedicated to quality teaching, research, and improved welfare of staff and students.
Onuchuku, who disclosed this in his New Year message to the university community in Port Harcourt as the school resumed academic activities after the Christmas and New Year breaks, said plans are on top gear to take the University to its academic peak as part of his avowed objectives.
The Acting Vice-Chancellor commended the Governor of Rivers State, Barrister Nyesom Wike, for his support to the institution.
He also appreciated the university community, Alumni, the host communities, security agencies, and other stakeholders for their support towards building a robust university.
He reaffirmed that as the Acting Vice-Chancellor, he would offer inspirational and transformational leadership to take the institution to its expected position.
“My role as the Acting Vice-Chancellor is to serve this community of scholars and administrators through inspirational and transformational leadership that would take this University to where we all want it to be”, he said.
Professor Onuchuku urged the staff to adhere strictly to all the extant laws that govern the operational structure of the institution without cutting corners and making cheap compromises.
He advised against engaging in actions that would make the public lose faith in the capacity of the university to produce a competent workforce for the nation and promised to give more attention to research and development.
“We shall empower the existing research and development unit to engage in high-impact research that can be utilised by the industry.
“We must engage in quality teaching and research that solve problems and equip our students with the right skills and moral values to transmit to the rest of society”, he said.
The Economics expert further reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to promoting entrepreneurship education that would equip the students with basic relevant skills to make them industry-ready graduates.
He also urged the lecturers to properly guide the students on contemporary ways of conducting quality research to ignite broad-minded learning, as he emphasised the role of well-articulated research in national development.
Professor Onuchuku noted that ethics and self-restraint are core values that define the worth of every organisation and warned that any staff who engages in any form of unethical practice would be sanctioned.
He noted that as a pioneer in the comity of specialised tertiary institutions in Nigeria, the expansion of the scope of academic activities in recent times has placed the university in a unique position and tasked the staff to use the opportunity to make more contributions to national development.
The Vice-Chancellor, while admitting that the remarkable achievements made in the institution would not have been possible without the commitment of staff, applauded them for keeping the wheels of academic and administrative activities rolling at the institution.
Onuchuku further enjoined the students to make optimal use of their time at the university to achieve their goals and disclosed that expansion of academic programmes would offer more opportunities for university education in Rivers State.
He assured that his administration would build more infrastructure and other facilities to create a conducive learning environment for the students to realise their potential, as he wished the academic community a prosperous 2023.
By: King Onunwor
Judges of the High Court Port Harcourt Rivers state will on Monday July 21, 2025 commence this year’s annual vacation.
The State Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi in a statement signed by the Chief Registrar High Court Port Harcourt, David Ihua_ Maduenyi (esq) made available to The Tide in Port Harcourt over the weekend, said that the 2025 annual vacation for judges of the State High Court will begin on Monday, July 21, 2025 and end on Wednesday ,September 17, 2025
The statement said the vacation is in pursuant to Order 49, Rule 4 (d) of High Court of Rivers State (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2023, as altered, adding that all the judicial divisions of the State High Court shall remain closed during the period of the vacation.
The statement further disclosed that normal court sessions will resume on Thursday 18, July 2025 across all the divisions.
The statement however, noted that during the period, a vacation judge shall be appointed by the chief judge to sit on urgent matters and applications and advice litigants and lawyers to take notice of the information.
The International Federation Of Women Lawyers,(FIDA )in collaboration with the Police Community Relations Committee,(PCRC ) have held a one day training on paralegal exposure aimed at equipping police officers across the Rivers state police command on ways of handling gender based violence cases in the state.
The one-day capacity training workshop organised by the two humanitarian organisations in the state, the FIDA and PCRC was designed to boost the knowledge and capacity of the police echelons in the state on how to deal with gender” based violence cases reported in there various Divisions and areas.
Speaking at the event held at the police officers mess in Port Harcourt, yesterday, the state Commissioner of Police ,CP Olugbenga Adepoju emphasized the importance of capacity building for Police Officers, stressing the need for continuous training and development for the officers to stay abreast of emerging trends and best practices in law enforcement.
Adepoju noted the police have being having lectures like this from time to time as directed by the Inspector General of Police and urge the police officers to turn out in their numbers to come and gain one thing or the other.
“There is nothing as good as building our capacity to ensure we deliver service to mankind and let Rivers be a different. to others.
“We have people who have the capacity that can deliver and they are here with us. And we will not hesitate to ensure we employ and use them. What ever we have learnt here, jot it down and ensure you use it judiciously”.
Also speaking, the Chairperson of FIDA Rivers, Life Jim George stressed that
the paralegal training offers the opportunity where retired Police officers, desk officers and different division in charge of gender based crime are assembled to educate them on how to handle with the gender violence and abused public ,how to deal with reporters of all kinds of Gender Based Violence.
“They need to be empathetic, they need not to judge them as they move into them. They need not to throw them away immediately or to make the atmosphere very toxic so that they will just go away and at the end of the day extort them and make known that Police is not your friend is only in the book””.
“We remind you all that you are not just a Police officer,there is a duty imposed on you to look at the laws. Not just to drive people away because We have reports where, once you approach a Police station and say my husband or wife beat me up,they drive you away, please madam this one is husband and wife matter, go and settle with your husband or wife. They began to judge you.”
“We are saying no,that is not what the law is.
Please show empathy, if you throw them away like that, most of them can take their life. Some go into third degree depression and is difficult to bring them out.They will now began to blame themselves for going to the Police station.
In his speech,the Chairman of PCRC in the state, Mr Voke Emore explained that One primary responsibilities of the PCRC is to bring the community closer to the Police, while FIDA as an international organization cares for the less privilege and handle cases involving women and children.
“The police only protect women and children in talking of gender abuse in the society rather taking the issue of gender violence as wholistic that includes men,women and children in every strata of the society.So that is the essence why the two humanitarian organisations ,FIDA and PCRC decided to partner to ensure that the things are done rightly in line with global practices.”
“And the only way to do that is to give training We always talk about training and re-training of Police officers.he stated.
The training focused on key areas such as
The Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) of Rivers State,
Dehumanizing and Harmful Traditional Practices Laws,
Prohibition of the Curtailment of Women’s Rights to Share in Family Property Law and
Violence Against Persons Prohibition Law amongst others.
The Rivers State University (RSU), Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt, has unveiled a new feature – Student-Sponsor Account, called SponsorsLink as part of its ongoing re-engineering efforts. This innovation is to address the problems of students collecting funds but not paying fees, leaving school but still pretending to be in school and inability of parents, guardians and sponsors to ascertain progress and performance of their children, wards and beneficiaries.
The platform is also designed to strengthen transparency, accountability, and communication between students and their parents, guardians and sponsors.
SponsorsLink is available on the university’s portal (www.rsu.edu.ng) and offers a range of benefits. Sponsors can track academic performance, monitor outstanding fees, make payments, and access detailed student profiles from a single dashboard. This centralized system ensures that sponsors are no longer left in the dark regarding the academic and financial status of their wards.
To utilize SponsorsLink, sponsors need to create an account on the RSU eCampus platform. This involves selecting a sponsorship type, filling out a registration form, and verifying their email address using a confirmation code. Upon successful registration, sponsors pay a one-time onboarding fee based on the number of wards they intend to manage.
Once registered, sponsors can add a ward by searching with the student’s registration number, matriculation number, or full name. After the student approves the request, the sponsor gains access to various features. These include checking results, which requires a result-checking fee, viewing student profiles, and making tuition or related payments directly through the platform.
The introduction of SponsorsLink demonstrates RSU’s commitment to enhance the educational experience of students. This initiative is expected to foster better communication between students, sponsors, and the university, ultimately contributing to the success of RSU students.
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