Fr George Adimike
Anambra State has emerged champion in the just concluded 2022 National interschool Presidential Debate.
The Team Anambra beat all other states to clinch the first position in the competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Education for secondary schools in Nigeria.
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Four students who represented Anambra State in the competition were from three Catholics schools.
Of the four students who represented the State, two are seminarians from All Hallows Seminary, Onitsha (AHS); one is from Mater Amabilis Secondary School, Umuoji (MASS); and one from St Michael Secondary School, Nimo. All Hallows Seminary and Mater Amabilis Secondary School are two of many great secondary schools established and run by the Archdiocese of Onitsha.
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The team that represented Anambra State will represent Nigeria at the World Debate Championship that will take place in Vietnam in 2023.
Archbishop of Onitsha, Most Rev. Valerian Maduka Okeke, congratulated the students and their teachers for making Anambra State and the archdiocese proud.
He noted that the efforts being made in raising well-formed and globally competitive human capitals are already yielding great fruits, and vowed never to relent in giving all the best to the education of the youth, which is the greatest legacy to be bequeathed to the future.
In adherence to the culture of excellence as championed by Archbishop Okeke, the proprietors of the schools are committed to the goal of integral formation and all-round excellence of their students.
The mission schools in the state since after their return to the owners by the Peter Obi government, especially those of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, have been recording a harvest of awards and victories in national and international competitions.
The heads of these institutions, Frs. Paschal Okonkwo and Francis Onwuchulum (AHS and MASS, respectively), expressed profound gratitude to the archbishop, whose vision they are implementing, for his motivation, inspiration, direction and unquantifiable support.
They promised that their students will make Nigeria proud at the world stage next year in Vietnam.
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