By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
At the recent Strategic School Management and
Outstanding Private Schools Merit Awards organised by the House of
Representatives Committee on Education in conjunction with Family Affairs
Consultancy Limited, Logos International Secondary School (LOGISS), a mission
school located in Awo-Omamma, Imo State, whose motto is “Academic Excellence and
Godliness of the Youth” stood out among the other honorees selected
from among the countless private schools scattered across Nigeria.
*The Director of Logos International Schools, Pastor Bede Ogu (left), and the Principal, Pastor Precious Ahiaogu, displaying the award to LOGISS at the International Conference Centre, Garki, Abuja
The
event which took place at the International Conference Centre, Garki, Abuja,
saw the Director of Logos International Secondary Schools, Pastor Bede Ogu,
singled out and invited to the podium to tell the various representatives of
other private secondary schools selected for the award the story of LOGISS –
how it has grown from a dream to its present enviable state.
Addressing
the audience, Pastor Ogu traced how the journey to what is today known as
LOGISS started in 1994 “with a mandate that was truly divine” which was given
to the General Superintendent of the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal
Movement (WCCRM), Pastor A.C. Ohanebo, “to start a secondary school to help to
restore the quality of education in Nigeria and to bring the youths to
discipline once again in the school system.”
He announced that the WCCRM plans to set up at
least one secondary school in every state of the federation.
*Pastor Bede Ogu addressing the audience at the International Conference Centre, Garki, Abuja
“It
took off in October 1994 … [and we] have been able by the grace of God to train
and send out students that have represented this nation in various nations of
the world. Our students are noted for academic excellence and godly character.
Indeed they have excelled and have been able to distinguish themselves in
various fields in various nations. I have had the opportunity to visit them in
the various nations where they have been and their testimonies have always been
the same,” Pastor Oguh told the gathering which reacted with an applause.
Speaking
on the impact made across the world by former students of LOGISS, Pastor Ogu
said: “we have students in almost all the continents of the world that
have graduated from our school and have had very good and wonderful
recommendations from the various places. One of those institutions wrote to our
school and called our students ‘legendary
Nigerians’. We sent some students
to India and the number one private university there turned them down saying
that they had closed admissions to Nigerians (that they have blacklisted
Nigerians) because of what some students from Nigeria did in that school. I was
sent to go to the head of the school and insist that we are bringing a
different brand of students. Eventually, they gave admissions to those
students. Today the Nigerian students from us are the people they are using to
advertise the school in Western nations. In fact, last year that university (SRM University Nigeria Nigeria
