Akwa Ibom State Sponsors 39 Students To The UK On Educational Excursion

The Akwa Ibom State government have sponsored 39 secondary school students on an all-expense paid educational trip to the UK.

According to the state Commissioner for Information, Ini Ememobong, the trip, which is the maiden edition of the initiative, is an incentive for students at the secondary school level to spur them to do better academically and encourage reading habits among students in the state.

The commissioner told West Africa Weekly that the trip was part of Governor Umo Eno’s comprehensive education policy. The participants from rural public schools sat for an examination, and the best performing 31 students were selected for the trip.

“The idea behind the trip is to incentivise education at the secondary school level and to let the students know they can go anywhere in the world through education. Reading culture has dwindled generally.

“We used to go to school because we thought it would give us a better life and make money from it, but in today’s reality, people who didn’t are doing well. However, there is a general awareness and self-actualisation that education brings away from the financial benefits and good life, and there is what it does to human beings, which is good for society,” Ememobong told West Africa Weekly.

Ememobong said the idea was to put the students in classrooms in the UK and hoped they could have UK students visit Akwa Ibom in future editions. The students visited Imperial College, Cambridge University, and Oxford University and had experiential learning at the Royal Observatory, the Museum of Science, Natural History and the National Maritime Museum.

During a visit to the Nigerian House in London last week, the Acting Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK, Ambassador Mohammed Maidugu, commended the dedication of the Akwa Ibom State government to preparing its youths for the future. The students are visiting the UK for two weeks and are billed to return soon.

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