The President of the National Union of Isoko Students (NUIS) World-wide Comrade Goodness Okudo has said that education is the template to build a better future in an era of social media and quick wealth syndrome during the Isoko Educational Summit organized by the union.
She made this known while speaking to newsmen during the Isoko Educational Summit held at the Delta State University, Engineering Faculty, Oleh, Campus with a theme; The Place of Education In The Age of Social Media And Quick Wealth Syndrome.
According to her “for any society to become better and transformed, the students who are seen as the hope of the future must have sound education and developed mindset.”
Comrade Okudo asserted that “One major means to achieving this is via education, where appropriate competences, skills and abilities are developed, horned and tested.”
She added that “The Isoko Education Summit will seek to renew our collective commitment to education and lifelong learning as a pre-eminent public good.
“First, we must develop the student ́s capacity for learning the fundamental building blocks of knowledge that we usually sum up as literacy, numeracy, and scientific thinking. These are essential to develop critical thinking and for our capacity to distinguish valid and well-supported arguments from mere opinions or – worst – from fake, invalid or unsubstantiated arguments.”
Continuing, “education is critical for the capacity to learn and re-learn through life and the skills for the changing world.”
Earlier, the chairman of Isoko South Local Government Council Hon. Friday Ovoke Warri who graced the event called on participating students from various secondary schools to focus on their education and be steadfast to become the best, stating that education is never a scam but key to a better future.
He emphasized that the debate competitions would promote educational excellence and intellectual competition among students, building their confidence and encouraging them to compete academically with peers from other regions.
He commended the National Union of Isoko Students Comrade Goodness Okudo for organizing the Isoko Educational Summit, noting that the summit is timely in this era of quick wealth syndrome through fraudulent act by some of the youths.
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Meanwhile, Prof. Chris Akpotu the President General of Isoko Development Union (IDU) who was the chairman of the Summit lauded the National Union of Isoko Students for coming up with this kind of programme to encourage the secondary students to be competitive in the area of science quiz, spelling bee and debate, he stated.
Represented by Chief Dan Odhomo who spoke in dual capacity also as the chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers, urged NUIS to come up with more ideas and do a follow up of the programmes in the nearest future.
Prof. Akpotu added that the best way to live a better life is through better preparation with education.
A keynote speaker during the event, Prof. Chris Obruthe Abakare, Professor of African Metaphysics, Department of philosophy Nnamdi Azikwe University, Akwa, said that students who are determined can do it with the zeal in them instead of following the quick wealth syndrome.
He added that the present generation of youths has seen riches to be wealth, noting that “filthy riches comes and go but genuine wealth comes to stay.”
He admonished participating students from various schools to be obedient, work hard and be of good characters to become successful in life.
The Isoko Educational Summit organized by the National Union of Isoko Students (NUIS) featured a mind -transforming lecture, spelling bee, debate, science quiz, panel discussion and interactive questions and answers session respectively.
Our Lady of Visitation Secondary School, Oleh clinched the ultimate prize with the 1st position in the Secondary School debate and Irri Grammar School took 2nd position.
