Anambra State Post Primary Schools Service Commission has charged students in Anambra to imbibe good virtues for leadership positions.
Speaking during the leadership training, the Chairman, Post Primary Schools Service Commission, Mrs. Ifeoma Okaro said the training is intended to inculcate in the students the true virtues of leadership both in character and learning.
The leadership training which had the theme “Exemplary Leadership” was was held simultaneously in six education zones of the commission namely Aguata, Awka, Nnewi, Ogidi, Onitsha and Otuocha with over more than one thousand student functionaries in attendance.
The lectures on subthemes also included “The place of prefects in school governance”, “specific functions of school prefects” and “Prefects and crises management” were also held at the training.
The Chairman on the occasion, Dr Mitchell Onugbolu who is also the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano on Social Orientation asked the students to place priority on the core values of the State.
The Deputy Chairman of the Commission who is also the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on primary education, Lady Pat Offia, the Member of the Commission in charge of Aguata Zone, Lady Francisca Okeke and the Co-ordinator, Guidance and Counseling unit of the Commission, Mrs. Eucharia Illikah said the training will close the gap caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic which made the commission not to conduct the training in 2020.
