Ebonyi Govt To Give Scholarships To 300 Varsity Graduates For Further Studies In Nigeria Institutions
……100 First Class, 2nd Class Upper Divisions For Oversea Training
By Joyce Onuora, Abakaliki
Ebonyi State Government has promised to Send 100 first Class and 2nd Class Upper division Graduates to Countries of their choice to further their education
While also promised to give scholarships to 300 persons to do their Masters in any Nigeria Higher Institutions of their choice
Governor Francis Nwifuru disclosed this during a Pastoral Visit of the Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Abakaliki, Most Reverend Dr Peter Nworie Chukwu to the Government House Chapel, Ochoudo Centenary City on Sunday.
According to Nwifuru, “We are very much badly challenged in the area of Education and we have agreed in Exco that we are going to send 100 first Class and 2nd Class Upper Graduates to Countries of their choice to further their education when they come back they will teach in our Schools.
“We will also send 300 persons to do their Masters in any Nigeria Higher Institutions of their choice
“We have a lot of challenges in the Education sector and as far as I am concerned we are going to get it back by having quality teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools.
Governor also said that he will return all Mission Schools back to their original owners before the end of this year.
Nwifuru commended the Catholic Bishop for coming to bless the congregation of the Government House Chapel and assured of his readiness to carry along the Churches including the Catholic Church in his administration.
He also discouraged the Church against meddling into politics, saying their primary duty should be to preach salvation to mankind.
Governor Nwifuru who was responding to an appeal by the Bishop acknowledged that the Catholic Church is strategic to attainment of quality teaching and learning in Schools in the State and directed the Commissioner for Primary and Secondary Education and the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice to immediately commence the process of handover of the Schools to the Missions.
Earlier, the Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Abakaliki, Most Reverend Dr Peter Nworie Chukwu appreciated Governor Nwifuru for positive steps so far taken in his administration and restated the readiness of the Catholic Church under his leadership to support the Governor to achieve his goals for the State.
He called on Cabinet members of Government to cooperate with the Governor to bequeath enduring legacies on the sands of time.
“If there is failure in your area there is a failure in the whole Government because the success of any member of the Cabinet is the success of the Governor and that of the whole Government.
“So today’s reading is an invitation for all members of the current Government to assist the Governor to achieve his goals for Ebonyi State.
“We are going to cooperate with the Governor to turn the story around for Ebonyi State so that in no distant time Ebonyi will be a shining example in entire Nigeria.
“I challenge you to accomplish great things for our people because if you do so, your name will go down in history as a great Leader of our time.
“In the area of Education, the Church is ready to work with the Government, those Schools formerly owned by the Catholic Church that were forcefully taken away from us after the Civil War, the Governor knows our feelings about that.”
