By Rose Oranye
Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Dr. Law Mefor, has been awarded Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Educational Practitioners, United Kingdom (CIEPUK).
According to the Global
President of CIEPUK, Dr Marcel Ezenwoye, the fellowship award was in
recognition of his outstanding professional achievements and contributions to
the fields of mass communication and entrepreneurial technology. It also
reflected his distinguished career spanning over three decades, during which he
successfully handled notable media and communication projects domestically and
internationally.
"Also, your fellowship
with other Nigerian institutions is a testament to your exceptional expertise
and commitment to excellence," Ezenwoye stated.
Speaking during the Investiture
and Induction Awards Ceremony, held at Paul University, Awka, Anambra State,
where he was appointed a visiting professor, Dr. Mefor appreciated the
institutions, respectively, assuring them of his support and that of his
friends.
He further reiterated Governor
Chukwuma Soludo's special interest in education, which the governor
demonstrated by offering free education from primary to secondary school for
not only the people of Anambra but all residents of the state regardless of
their states of origin.
According to him: "Free
education is a tool created to break generational poverty transfer. Some
families are so poor that unless something is intentionally done, the poverty
will continue from generation to generation. With free education, it becomes
possible that such families where you have dynasties of poverty can now become
havens of wealth because, with a secondary school education, any person can
spring up from the family with a basic education.
"The free education
offered by Governor Soludo is not just for Ndị Anambra. As long as you live in
Anambra, you will enjoy free education. I am aware that some people living in
neighbouring states are enrolling in Anambra schools because of free education.
We are not sending them back because Anambra is a place for all," Mefor
said.
The Vice Chancellor of Paul
University, who handed Dr Mefor the fellowship award, approved the request of
the Information Commissioner to lecture in the university gratis in his spare
time, assuring him of his appointment as associate professor or professor after
peer review of his academic credentials.
The vice chancellor also
announced a 50% rebate for school fees for certain categories of students and
the university’s readiness to partner with the Soludo administration to advance
education generally in the state.
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