National Association of University of Port Hacourt Alumni Association (Cross River State branch) has promised to donate books worth millions of naira to the Cross River State Library Complex, as a way of contributing their quota to educational advancement in the state and nation at large.
The association’s new president, Dr Sunny Egor-Oyama, made the pledge in Calabar yesterday during an interactive session with journalists after being inaugurated as the group’s president.
The alumni president stated that the books to be donated would be kept in a separate corner of the library complex to assist young ones who maybe in school but lack reading materials to help themselves.
Oyama, a gynaecologist consultant at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) stressed that the students can visit the library complex at regular intervals to access the books to aide their studies.
The alumni president said, “We have plans to make a donation of such books to the state library.
“We can have a section where these books will be kept so that young ones who may not have the finances to buy such books can go there from time to time to access the books at regular intervals. That will help them in their studies”.
He said that the alumni under his watch shall distribute learning and reading materials to secondary school students and others pursuing similar programmes that the members of the alumni studied.
In his remarks the association’s secretary general, Dr. Francis Ekok, who spoke in company of the immediate past president of the state branch of Uniport Alumni Association, Dr. Victor Edim Esq assured that the alumni will embark on membership drive to gather its alumni in the state irrespective of their locations.
“We will go for more members, so that we can have more members to participate in our programmes,” he said.
He stressed that the new exco will re-energize the chapter to align with programmes of the national leadership led by Senator Nwokocha, and assured that the new exco will initiate open door policy where all members of the alumni will be carried along.
“We will go for more members, so that we can have more members to participate in our programs,” Ekok stated.
