Education
UNIPORT VC, Others Mourn Director’s Mum
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Prof Ndowa Lale recently joined other prominent personalities to eulogise the mother of the Director of the Institute of Petroleum Studies(IPS), Mrs Fidelis Oriji.
Prof Lale, who spoke at the funeral service of Mrs Oriji held in Choba said the late matriarch would be missed for her motherly care and disposition, as he urged the family to sustain her legacy.
In his sermon at the funeral, Ven Jolly Ndubuisi of the Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Choba, admonished christians to believe in Christ as Late Mrs. Oriji did in her lifetime.
He urged the people to do away with all forms of social ills by being Christlike.
The chief mourner and Director of IPS University of Port Harcourt, Dr. Boniface Oriji said he would miss his mum, recalling the good times they had together.
Dr. Oriji recalled that his mum sacrificed a lot to bring him and his siblings up in a polygamous family.
According to him, the mum never relented in the face of the odds and engaged in all manner of farm work and business to train them up.
He described his late mum as hardworking and one who believed in the future of the children and gave them her best.
In his words, “our mother was forthright, always forthcoming, charming, full of wisdom and and above all a very good Christian.”
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