Nsukka, Nigeria – Dr Willy Onu, Director of Shalom Academy, Nsukka (SAN), says qualitative education in the country will eliminate crime, corruption and ensure rapid development in the country.
Onu said this in Nsukka at the weekend at the 25-year anniversary ceremony and graduation of 2024 set of the academy.
He said qualitative education deposits intellectual and spiritual contents in a person.
Onu explained that if qualitative education is imbibed, corruption and crimes would be eliminated and the country would experience rapid development in all sectors of the economy.
“The escalating security challenges and corruption in the country is because majority of schools have failed to give qualitative education to our children in primary, secondary and higher institutions.
“Majority of schools give our children only intellectual education certificate that lacked spiritual content.
“Here at Shalom, our education training is kristocentric that helps our graduates take wise and right decisions in life no matter the circumstance,” he said.
In a brief historical profile of the academy, the director said SAN was. established in October 4, 1999, with 135 students with vision and mission to raise children that would be academically excellent and spiritually impeccable.
“We have committed staff and our curricular is Nigerian, American and British combinations.
“Our students have made us proud as they have represented Nigeria many times in international competitions and performed creditably.
“In external exams our students have also excelled, Cynthia Ali, our student in 2017, made West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) book of records when she scored 9As in all her subjects.
“This earned her scholarship from Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the immediate past governor of Enugu State, to study Medicine and Surgery at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus,” he said.
Onu said graduation ceremony of the 2024 set of the academy falls within the 25 years anniversary of the academy.
The director admonished 2024 graduating students not to relent in living godly life and taking their tertiary education serious.
“Avoid peers that will change and destroy your good visions and missions here on earth,” he admonished them.
In a lecture, titled “Qualitative Education as Vehicle to National Development”, Mr Ben Nnam, the Chief Executive Officer, Feild Phase Group Estate Company, said qualitative education would ensure sound education and high moral in pupils and students.
“Qualitative Education will equip graduands with required capacity to contribute their quota towards national development and good society.”
Nnam, who is an alumnus of SAN, said it was the qualitative education and sound morals he acquired from the academy that made him what he is today.
“With qualitative education and sound moral you will be fortified to resist temptations in the society to be lured into corruption or crime.,” Nnam said.
In a remark, Pastor Clement Olumide, the Chairman of SAN Parents/Teachers Forum (PTF) thanked the staff, students and parents as instruments to sustain high academic standard and moral in the academy.
Olumide noted that PTF needed assistance from all stakeholders, spirited individuals, philanthropist to build well equipped science laboratories, IT units, arts and music studio,a hummer bus to ease logistics in the school among others.
Earlier, Mr Komolafe Olugbenga, the Principal of SAN recalled that the school started on October 4, 1999, with 14 teachers and two classroom.
Once Rita Ojonigwu was named as the best graduating student of the 2024 set of SAN.
