Private Universities Can Produce Better Graduates – Chancellor

Mr Emma Okorie, the Chancellor of Rhema University, Aba, says private colleges in Nigeria have the limits for delivering better graduates.

He talked on Saturday in a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the honor night sorted out by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to recognize the commission's twentieth commemoration and the International Human Rights Day.

He demanded that the vicinity of satisfactory enhancements and showing techniques in private colleges gave them the chance to create remarkable labor for the nation's advancement.

"We set aside time to prep our kids and soon, private college understudies will alter the nation.

"On the off chance that we change these kids, they will thus affect emphatically on the general population and they will change Nigeria,'' he said.

He, notwithstanding, communicated worry about what he saw as misuse of understudies' rights in some private colleges.

"Each individual should have worth forever and essential rights for business; I think individuals ought to be developed not simply extremist.

"The best thing that God made is person and administration to individual is the best administration in life.

"A normal understudy ought to live well and have fundamental conveniences for him or her to accomplish the best,'' he said.

The chancellor focused on the requirement for better showing and living condition for understudies of private and state funded schools in the nation.

He said restricted of accomplishing this was for open and private proprietors to recreate universal principles of boarding offices crosswise over Nigerian schools.

He kept up that if upheld by government, private colleges would get through different circles of life and industry.

NAN reports that Okorie was one of the 16 recognized Nigerians respected at the event.

The beneficiaries of recompenses are Mr Femi Falana (SAN), Ms Maryam Uwais, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma , Mr Festus Okoye, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin and the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN)

Others are Dr Emmanuel Okonkwo, Mr Zaaki Azzay, Mr Chino Obiagwu, Mr Mike Omeri, Beni Lar, Sen. Rabi'u Kwakwanso and Sen. Umaru Dahiru and Sen. Ita Enang.(NAN)