The Anambra State Commissioner for Education, Professor Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, has explained that sports is an important aspect of education that helps students to build up their body and mind.
Professor Chuma-Udeh stated this at Ide Girls’ Secondary School, Enugwu-Ukwu, Njikoka Local Government Area, during the school’s 2023 Inter-house Sports and Entrepreneurship Competition.
The students were divided into six houses namely; Alumni House, Honourable Valentine Ayika House, Honourable Dozie Nwankwo House, Dr Celestine Ugonabo House, R N Okeke House and Honourable Chidi Ibemeka House.
Speaking at the event, Professor Chuma-Udeh said that when students are actively involved in sports, it would help them understand the basics of sportsmanship, even as their intellectual development would also be fully enhanced.
She said that sporting activities would be reintroduced in the state’s education sector, and commended the efforts being made by the management of Ide Girls’ Secondary School, Enugwu-Ukwu, the alumni association, as well as Parents Teachers Association, PTA, in ensuring that the school is well repositioned all round.
Earlier in a welcome address, the Principal of the school, Mrs. Uju Onuegbu, appreciated the Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, for recruiting and posting fourteen new teachers to the school, and called on government to intervene in other basic needs of the school which include sewing machines, white boards, rebuilding of collapsed fences, electricity supply, standard ICT laboratory, among others.
In their separate remarks, the traditional ruler of Enugwu-Ukwu, Igwe Ralph Ekpe, the Chairman on the occasion, Professor Walter Nwafia, and the Secretary of Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board, ASUBEB, Mrs. Ebele Mgbemena, described sports as an avenue for discovering young talents for future development, and urged the students to key into it in order to achieve greatness.
One of the members of the school’s old girls’ alumni association and staff of Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS, Mrs Ijeoma Uche, said they have been supporting the school and have also adopted a house named Alumni House, and equally donated a trophy in order to encourage the students to work harder.
The event featured presentation of awards to notable individuals, relay race, march past, entrepreneurship competition, cultural dance and invitational relay race from neighbouring schools.
While Honourable Valentine Ayika House took the first position in march past, Honourable Dozie Nwankwo and Alumni Houses took second and third positions, respectively.
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