DOCTOR SHEDRACK AKALOKWU AND DOCTOR HARCOURT WHYTE SAY PLAN TO BUILD THREE NEW CAMPUSES OF THE RSU IN AHOADA, EMOHUA AND ETCHE WILL EXPAND THE FRONTIERS OF LEARNING AND RESEARCH.

Discussants on Radio Rivers weekly Current  affairs  programme  Spotlight Doctor  Shedrack Akalokwu and  Doctor  Harcourt  Whyte say the plan to build three new campuses of the Rivers State University in Ahoada Emohua and  Etche  will expand  the  frontiers of learning and research in the task of bringing higher education to the people of the State.

Doctor Shedrack Akalokwu Former for  head of  Information, Publications, and  protocol old RSUST, and  the  present  Public Relation Officer of Rivers State University Doctor Harcourt Whyte  stated this  while  speaking as  guests  on Radio Rivers weekly Current  Affairs programme tagged Spotlight  today.

Doctor Shedrack Akalokwu and Doctor Harcourt Whyte emphasized that by the expansion and upgrading of facilities the  present administration of Governor Nyesom Wike has laid the solid foundation to take higher education to the rural folk which will in turn bring development to the door steps of rural dwellers in their immediate environment.             

Doctor Shedrack Akalokwu, the first Rivers State representative on the board of NDDC listed the names of returned Universities with campuses outside the Country of origin saying that the practice has brought high standard of education to poorer nations without Compromising standard and called for understanding.

According to him, the  new campuses particularly the Emuohua campus world serve potentials learners from the Kalabar, Local Government Area While emphasizing that with road network the issue of upland and riverine dichotomy has been addressed.

In his contribution, the  present  head  Public relation of the University Doctor Harcourt Whyte said the University Management  was ready and prepared for the expansion and  establishment of the three new campuses and paid glowering tributes to the   praginatic leadership of  the Present Vice Chancellor Professor Nlerum Okogbule in transforming the University for the better.                          

He  disclosed  that the  University has  inaugurated  a strategic Development committee  to articulate the  way forward  to advance  research in the  University and extend same  to the proposed New Campuses .

The  duo admitted the  expansion would  go a long way to actualize the  vision of  the  founding  fathers  to establish campuses  outside  the  main campuses.