No fewer than 3,500 delegates are billed to attend the 11th yearly conference of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) in Rivers State.

A joint statement by the National Publicity Secretary/Chairman, Mobilisation and Contact Committee, Bishop Opukeme and the South-South President of NAPPS, Martins Osakue, made available to journalists in Benin City yesterday, said Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State would be the special guest of honour.

The two-day event, scheduled to begin tomorrow, November 15, 2017, has as theme, “Funding education in a volatile economy.”

The statement added that Director, Centre for Educational Development, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. Adun Afolabi, would deliver a paper on “The Mandatory Continuing Education Programme for Proprietors.”