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Shanahan University To Partner Oxford, Harvard: Archbishop Okeke Reveals

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Onitsha Archdiocese, Most Rev. Dr. Valerian Maduka Okeke, has assured that the newly approved university for the Archdiocese, Shanahan University, will not only be for the rich.

Angel Network News reports that Archbishop Okeke while speaking at the Onitsha Correctional Centre, also said the university will partner with the best universities in the world such as the Oxford and Harvard to provide quality education.

The Prelate revealed that the Archdiocese had built the best university hostels in the country at Amansea, Awka for Nnamdi Azikiwe students years back.

The hostels, he said, has the best facilities with six buses that provide free transport, steady water, power supply among others.

The Archbishop said the university would not be different from the hostels as it is going to be the best and affordable as well as provide scholarship for the students.

“It will be one of the glories of Onitsha. Onitsha will not be known for buying and selling anymore. Onitsha will also be known as university town” said Archbishop Okeke.

The Archbishop assured the management of Correctional Centre that their request to have a branch of Shanahan University in the Correctional Centre is possible, promising that he would look into the possibility and logistics.

He announced that ten bags of rice were cooked for about 1,050 inmates with one cow killed to cook the rice, one life cow to prepare pepper soup for the inmates.

Other items he presented to the inmates included tooth paste, toilet and laundry soaps, biscuits beverages among other items.

In his speech the Comptroller of Corrections, Anambra State, Usifo Joseph, lauded Archbishop Okeke for his commitment to lift the inmates of Onitsha Correctional Centre which earned him the Grand Patron of Correctional Centres in Nigeria 

He said Onitsha Correctional Centre is a reference point for all others in the country with provision of water, skill acquisition centre among and others, urging the Archbishop to extend Shanahan University to the Correctional Centre.

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