Pastor Kayode Dada who represented the Proprietor, Pastor William Folorunsho Kumuyi; Overall Best Scorer, 2023 UTME, Precious Nkechinyere Umeh; Education Secretary DLHS, Mrs. Thelma Malaka; Mr. Uzonna Umeh, his wife, Chinyere and the Principal, DLHS, Michael Ajala at the media parley to celebrate Umeh and others with their parents in the school campus, Mowe, Ogun State, Nigeria.
The General Superintendent, Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Williams Kumuyi, who is also the Proprietor, Deeper Life High Schools, has urged Nigerians to imbibe core values, such as discipline, integrity and hard work.
He also charged youths in the country to be focused and ready to celebrate integrity in their academics.
Kumuyi gave the advice, yesterday, during a media briefing where 16-year-old Miss Nkechinyere Precious Umeh of Deeper Life High School, who scored 360 marks in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and other students from the school that scored 300 and above were celebrated with their parents.
The General Superintendent, who was represented at the occasion by Pastor Kayode Dada, said: “Establishing DLHS across the country was borne out of burden and passion for total eradication of the current trend of vices prevalent in the society.
“We are committed to ensuring that the school will continue to set very high targets of excellence for her students, while prioritising the mental, spiritual and physical training, as well as grooming and mentoring every child to become a complete package of what God wants for each of them.”
Also, the Education Secretary, DLHS, Mrs. Thelma Malaka, reiterated that the secret behind the success recorded in the school could be rightly attributed to core values, such as holiness, hard work and discipline.
She, therefore, implored parents to do their best at home by raising their children in a godly way as charity begins at home.
She also congratulated Umeh and her co-students for making the school proud.
The School Administrator, Emmanuel Eze, attributed the huge success to zero tolerance for examination malpractices at all levels.
Meanwhile, the Chief Executive Officer of Innoson Motors Limited, Chief Innocent Chukwuma, has urged probe into the controversy trailing the disclaimer by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) concerning the highest score of over 362 marks in the 2023 UMTE.
JAMB had in a statement disclaimed the score as fake, saying that Miss Ejikeme Umeh of Anglican Girls School, Nnewi, scored 249.
Chukwuma said he would set up a probe team to find out if somebody manipulated Ejikeme’s result without her consent or she deliberately faked the result to deceive the public.
He said: “The little girl I saw looked so innocent that I can’t believe she can manipulate her score.
“If I find out that she deliberately faked her result, I will cancel the scholarship because I can’t encourage a criminal; such person cannot be useful to the society.
“But if I find out that she didn’t have a hand in the manipulation; that the score was given to her in error or that someone manipulated the result for her without her knowing, I will not cancel the scholarship. So, I will make inquiry to find out what actually happened.
“I didn’t know the girl before. I heard that she hails from Enugu State, but studied in a public school in Anambra State, so my interest is to make sure that I support her to realise her potential in education and be useful to our nation, that is all. And to encourage other younger ones to take their education very seriously,” the Innoson Motors boss concluded.
