DLHS Asks Govt to Increase Funding, Celebrates Top UTME Scorer, 130 Others

To protect the future of Nigerian children and the youths and make them fit to assume leadership positions, the Nigerian government has been advised to increase funding for the education sector.

The Executive Secretary of Deeper Life High School, Thelma Malaka, said this while celebrating the best candidate of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Nkechinyere Umeh and other students of the school that scored 300 and above in the exam, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

Speaking at the Lagos campus of the school, located in Mowe, Ogun State, Malaka stressed the need for government at all levels to increase funding for the education sector, adding that God-factor and sound education are keys to nation-building.

According to her, before the examination, the school had set a target of 380, but eventually recorded 360, with more than 130 of its students scoring 300 and above in the examination. She said 46 of them attend the Lagos campus of DLHS.

She said the school decided to hold the ceremony to encourage the best scorer and other students of the possibility of achieving their goals irrespective of seemingly difficulties and challenges.

The educationist expressed dismay over the slow response of some Nigerians to Umeh’s attainment, saying, “If it were entertainment and other ventures that do not impact lives, many Nigerians would have reacted more than what the best scorer has gotten so far.”

She said this means that the country is losing its core values and urged the leadership to reset them.

Malaka, who promised that there would be more rewards for the best scorer, said that the secret behind the success recorded in the school could be attributed to the school’s core values such as holiness, hard work and discipline and God factor.

She implored parents to do their best at home by raising their children in a godly way, as charity begins at home. She congratulated Umeh and her co-students for making the school proud.

The school Administrator, Emmanuel Eze, said outstanding among the 46 students from the school that scored above 300 are Andrew Imoukhede, 355, Alagwu David, 351 and Esin Enobong, 350. He noted that Imoukhede scored 99 in mathematics.

He attributed the success to zero tolerance for examination malpractices at all levels. 

The school’s principal, Michael Ajala, said the targeted score given to the students was 380, and many scored close to it. 

Nkechinyere’s parents, Uzonna and Chinyere Umeh, who graced the occasion along with other parents and officials of the school, thanked God for their daughter’s success, who they said had received a similar honour in her primary school days.