By Michael Ezenwata
The Primary and Post Primary Schools in Anambra State and beyond resumed academic activities in earnest for the third term 2025/2026 academic year.
A visit to St. John of God Secondary School in Awka recorded an impressive turn out of teachers and students who resumed the academic term with great enthusiasm.
The Manager of the college Rev. Fr. Malachy Maduewesi, in a press statement in his office in Awka, expressed delight in their appreciable turn out of students for the academic session.
Fr. Maduewesi noted with satisfaction that resumption staff/ management meeting was held on Friday April 24 to prepare the ground for the school’s full resumption on Monday April 27.
In response to the exodus of some students seen leaving the school premises to their various homes, he said that some students who did not show evidence of the payment of their school fees for the third term were not allowed to resume classes because they were all issued with news letters before they vacated for the second term instructing them to show evidence of payment of their school fees upon resumption for the new term.
The cleric blamed the parents of the affected students for not complying with the directive or asking for a period of grace to enable them to make some necessary adjustments to pay up.
He affirmed that the school’s management decision was predicted on the abuse of privileges by some parents who delay the payment of their children or wards school fees even during examination periods.
Fr. Maduewesi used the forum to announce that the school will host its interhouse competitions comprising Sports, Music and Arts tentatively on May 16 or 23.
He further seized the opportunity to felicitate with all workers, especially teachers of the college and all teachers in Nigeria on this year’s Workers Day celebration, wishing them the best in their chosen careers.
On his journey in priesthood, the cleric said that on August 9, he will clock 12 years by the grace of God and noted with great humility, that the vows of obedience, chastity and poverty to the ecclesiastical authority demanded from every priest are being kept not by his power and might but by Divine Providence.
In a related development, when the press visited the National Secondary School Awka, the teachers were at their duty posts attending to their students.
The Principal of the College, Dr. Ngozi Anagor expressed delight in their impressive turn out in response to the new academic term.
She identified one of the greatest challenges to education as bad economy which has occasioned teachers education drain to business to seek for greener pastures.
To this end, Dr. Anagor advised the affected teachers to go back to their original profession which is a vocation to reform the society.
She used the forum to encourage students to jettison their addiction to android phones and cultivate the reading culture which will promote their overall development.
Ezenwata is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State
