For his critical score and actor in the struggle for colleges of Education in Nigeria, prof Okey Reuben Okechukwu, Provost Federal College of Education (Technical) Isu Ebonyi State, has been honoured as “an Icon Of Hope To Nigerian Teachers Under Training” by the National Association of Nigerian Colleges of Education Students (NANCES).
The outstanding National Leadership Award of the Hero of Education took place at the National Commission for Colleges of Education NCCE Abuja on 15th August 2024.
This is even as the Educationist was decorated with a fellowship investiture by the Association of Educational Management and Policy Practitioners during their international conference held at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Anambra State, on July 24th 2024.
Also, in recognition of his magnanimous support to the board of churchwardens and the Catholic Church in general, prof Okey Reuben Okechukwu on July 28, 2024, was recognised as the “pride of Catholic men” by the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, Nigeria.
Correspondent reports that the Provost was bestowed with numerous awards recently.
At the NANCES award, with Sen Kur Isaac Usherhimber as the host, the students commended prof Okey for the successful take-off of Academic activities as the pioneer Provost of FCET Isu Ebonyi state.
According to them, the honour was one of the outstanding decisions of the Students Association, and it was the first of its kind to any of the Provosts from the newly established Colleges of Education in Nigeria.
“You deserve to be applauded because it requires an encyclopaedic mind to excellently flag off the Academic activities of a Teacher Training Institution with such success within a short time.
“Despite all these challenges and against all odds you have remained firm and still stand taller in the successful story of the newly established Colleges of Education in Nigeria”.
They urged him to sustain the tempo.
In his remarks shortly after receiving the award. Prof Okey said he was highly elated, and it will ginger him to do better in the educational sector where he found himself.