The Post Primary Schools Service Commission, Awka has inaugurated its 2024 /2025 State Leadership Training for newly elected prefects of public and public mission secondary schools in Anambra State.

 

The capacity building which took place at Community Secondary School, Ifite-Ogwari had students, teachers, principals and officials of Post Primary Schools Service Commission, among others in attendance.

The Post Primary Schools Service Commission annually approves leadership training for Anambra school prefects as one of its pro-active strategies in the management of schools.

 

In her keynote address, the Chairman of the Commission, Professor Nkechi Ikediugwu, while congratulating the newly elected prefects, said leadership is all about service and inspiring others, noting that the Commission believes that what makes or mars a school and indeed any organization is leadership.

She explained that the main duty of a prefect is to maintain an atmosphere of friendly co-operation, peace, discipline and unity in the school, saying that as prefects they will encounter various types of students in the school, which requires a lot of diplomacy and wisdom to handle, hence the training was organized for them to acquaint themselves with challenges of leadership and how to overcome them.

 

Professor Ikediugwu charged the prefects to emulate Governor Chukwuma Soludo in all ramifications of good leadership, which she said has placed Anambra high in Nigeria, even as she appreciated all that contributed to make the leadership training a success.

The Chairman on the occasion, Chief Raphael Machie, who won Presidential award 2010 in school administration, said the occasion was to teach the young ones about leadership, the challenges and benefits therein, and appreciated the Post Primary Schools Service Commission and Anambra State Government for all their efforts in the education sector.

 

In a good will message, the Director of Education, Post Primary Schools Service Commission, Otuocha zone, Mrs Nkoli Agbata, pointed out that the leadership training programme is one of the annual Guidance and Counseling Programmes of Post Primary Schools Service Commission designed to groom the newly elected school prefects on how best to carry out the leadership tasks entrusted on them, and how to combine this new role with their academics and still excel in both.

At the business section of the event, various papers were presented, including the one titled “Good leadership”; a condition for social transformation by Mrs Uju Mebo, “The Role of Prefects in Eliminating Anti-Social Behaviour in Schools” handled by Mrs Anna Ndianefo,”Prefects and Crisis Management” handled by Mrs Eunice Mbaegbu, and “The Place of Prefects in School Governance” by Mr Michael Ekwunife.

 

Induction of the new prefects by Reverend Canon Anderson Onyeanona, question and answer session, welcome song, and cultural dance featured during the ceremony.

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