Lord’s Chosen Int’lSecondary School wins award

IN recognition of their academic prowess for
excellence both local and international, the
Lord’s Chosen International Secondary School,
based in Mgbidi in Oru West, Imo State, has
been given outstanding private schools merit
award.
Disclosing this before the mammoth crowd
that converged at the Chosen International
Secondary School, Mgbidi, for this year’s Mgbidi
crusade, tagged: “God will make you to rejoice”
the principal of the school, Sister Iheoma
Iwumba said: “this is not the first time that the
school is being recognised for its excellent
performance.”
Before she presented the plaque, which the
school won from the Federal Government, the
principal read out the inscription written on it
and it reads: “House of Representatives
Committee on Education in collaboration of with
Family Affairs Consultancy Services Limited
presents outstanding private schools merit
award to Chosen International Secondary
School, Mgbidi in Imo State, in recognition of
your remarkable standard in knowledge
impartation and effective school administration
this day 21, November 2014.”
She attributed the outstanding performance of
the school based on the declarations made by
the General Overseer of the Lord’s Chosen
Charismatic Revival Ministries, Pastor Lazarus
Muoka.
“This award came to us from the federal
government of Nigeria. It actually did not come
to me as a surprise because each time our
Daddy GO visits us here in the school, he would
declare that we are champions that every where
we go that we must surely excel even above our
equals. He has made several declarations about
us and the entire chosen International
secondary school, Mgbidi community,” she
said.
She added: “in fact, they said: “Chosen so you
made it.” I said yes, we made it because my
pastor has always declared that “where I am
not qualified” that his “God will qualify me” so
having anchored our faith in that declaration we
moved forward. What seemed difficult for others
to receive Chosen people received everything
even in excess.”
The school also participated in several other
competitions and won and their name for more
than two occasions entered into the Guinness
World Records.
According to the principal, “Apart from that,
last year, our school emerged the best school in
physics in the whole of Imo State. We also
emerged the best schools in junior science here
in Imo State. There are a whole lot of other
awards at the local government level.”

The Chosen International Secondary School is
a boarding school; where students are trained in
the best academic standard, instill discipline and
fear of God.

Pledge to restore discipline, revitalise learning at FSTC

Says school’s workshops in comatose
A RECENT visit at Federal Science and
Technical College (FSTC) Yaba, Lagos, revealed that the school is undergoing slight infrastructural and human transformation.

If only government and corporate bodies would liaise with the college, the new Director/ Principal, Chris Ugoji, said the culture and excellence, which unity schools are known for, would be restored.

When The Guardian sought the view of Ugoji, who is also a Director at the Federal Ministry of Education, in his Yaba office, he said the school’s infrastructure was in a sorry state when he assumed duty, but for the intervention of Parents Teachers Association (PTA).

Worse among all are the school’s workshops, about 12 of them, which he said, are up to standard compared to those in tertiary institutions but lack electricity to power the machines.

According to Ugoji: “When I assumed duty, I didn’t like what I saw, there was total indiscipline among the students coupled with the issue of inappropriate dressing, such as flying of shirts and wearing of slippers.

All these had been tackled heavily because they are not in the culture of unity schools.
“So, as a team, we agreed it cannot be
business as usual. We decided to inform the PTA of our mission to restore discipline because where there is indiscipline, there would be chaos and where there is chaos, academic activities will suffer.

Secondly, we discovered that some students are not paying school fees, and so we have introduced measures to ensure that students pay fees and every other thing and it’s been successful so far to the glory of God.”

He continued: “We have 12 workshops in FSTC Yaba that can compete favourably with any of the universities in the country.
These workshops are used to service 19 trades, although they are very powerful, but electricity to power them is a
major challenge.

So, we are seeking for assistance/partnership to power these
machines so that the workshops can be used to teach students and also to service the need of the country in technical and vocational education.”

Ugoji further stated that in the area of
infrastructure, the PTA has helped in decking the female hostel and also installing CCTV in the college, which has helped to improve the security so far, adding: “They also assisted with
classroom furniture, water, clinic, among
others.”

However, in spite of these shortfalls, Ugoji
hinted that the students’ academic prowess still gleams. He said: “At the yearly general meeting of
Federal Unity Colleges (FUC) held at Ilorin, the score card of FUC was made available an FSTC Yaba came overall second in the area of NABTEB. We also did exceptionally well in West
African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and National Examination Council (NECO).”

To achieve the objectives of the technical
session of the school, he said: “All we need to do is revive the workshop and power the machines. We already have competent, qualified, seasoned, administrators and members of staff
who can on their own head any school in this country.

We need facilities as we lack adequate infrastructure needed to impart the right skills and knowledge in a science and technical school.”

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