Rhema varsity installs Okorie as pioneer chancellor

Graduates 44 at combined
maiden convocation

Director of Living Word Ministries, Bro. Emma Okorie has been installed as the pioneer chancellor of Rhema University, Abia State.

He was also honored him with an honorary doctorate degree at the school’s maiden convocation ceremony, where 44 graduands were presented with their first degrees.

Speaking at the event, Okorie, disclosed that he forayed into education in 1985, “When God gave me the burden to build a school where teachers would not go on strike, and where children would be trained and raised up with emphasis on academic excellence and Godly character development. A school where the head as well as the heart would be educated, and where all subjects would be taught through the eye of the word of God.”

He urged the graduating students to be “the change we want to impart on society,” adding that with the accreditation of the school’s academic programmes by the National Universities Commission (NUC), the university was preparing to takeoff its college of medicine.

Vice-chancellor of the institution, Prof Ogbonnaya Onwudike, who said that the school founded by the Living Word Ministry, now with a student population of 400, aims to train, nurture and equip her students for excellence in both academics and sound morals.

He said, “In Rhema University, we are training both the head and the heart, producing men and women who will not be lost to society, but set free from the “Acute Integrity Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS),” which he said is a major problem all over the world.