At the celebration of the 10 years anniversary of the Independent Delegation of the Claretian Missionaries West Nigeria, exactly October 24, 2017 inside the magnificent St Augustine’s Catholic Church hall Maryhill Ikorodu, the Major Superior of the Organism Very Rev Fr Daniel Onyeayana, cmf, gave the joyous crowd a sweet surprise.
The Superior presented some elegantly dressed school pupils who he introduced as students of the newly acquired institution by name Claret Comprehensive Academy, located in Ewo-owa, in the outskirts of Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State, South Western of Nigeria. It was an already existing school property purchased from the private proprietress by the Delegation. That brings to two such institutions founded and managed by the young Claretian Missionaries West Nigeria.
It is important to relate here that the Organism had three years ago conceived and constructed from the scratch the Claret Secondary School in Kabba, Kogi, North Central State of Nigeria. The indigenous community generously donated the virgin land to the Delegation.
These humble strides are indicators of the determination of the government, professed and lay members of the Claretian Family West Nigeria in adhering to the injunction of Father Claret to using all efficient means to spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom. School education, especially at the nursery and secondary levels, is key to practical steps to the formation of the human person.
I once was a student and I came out with full and exquisite training