God has once again given us this unique opportunity to welcome you all to yet another

epochal event in the annals of our God-given institution. It is with this spiritual affection that
we express our modest welcome to you, as you witness the conclusion of the mandatory six
years of secondary education and graduation ceremony of the class of 2020/2021, which
marks the end of the academic year today.
We consider our position as a tool in the hands of God to accomplish his ordained work of
teaching, directing, guiding and counselling our children, on the choices to make and the
path to follow as they struggle to cope and adapt to situations in their lives. We are
continually grateful to our commendable vision-bearer the Watchman Catholic Charismatic
Renewal Movement. The twin task of academic excellence and godliness of the youth for
which this school was established has remained challenging. However, as truth shall spring
out of the earth and righteousness shall look down from heaven (Ps 85:11) in the same way;
this challenge has met its equal in the practice of learning and conduct here in Logos
International Secondary School.
To our esteemed, lovely and understanding parents, friends and well-wishers, we thank you
for identifying with us at all times. We thank you especially for your convictions to buy into
the vision of our unique school. The task of achieving this vision is the mission and life of this
school and we will remain ever grateful to you for your prompt participation in the process of
achieving these God-ordained destinations in the active life of your children and wards. We
welcome you with all our hearts.

And to you, our graduating students, today is your day. As we look around and watch your
faces beaming with smiles, satisfaction and enthusiasm, we are happy that you made it.
While it lasted here, it was a mixed bag of feelings. Feelings of inadequacies, of not being
sure of the right step to put forward, and even of being overwhelmed with the circumstances
of your mission. In this uncertain context, you persevered with all your faith in God, you
renewed your strength. You obeyed the voice of God, listened to your teachers, attended to
your lessons and assignments, and at the end, you are proud to say to yourselves - you
came, you saw and you conquered. We say big congratulations to you because you have
shown yourselves approved by going through this secondary education process. Essentially,
we counsel you to hold fast that which you have acquired from LOGISS namely; all the Godly
characters, the academic lessons, good friends and especially, the praxis you have
developed here in Logos International Secondary School.

The work of grooming you is an impetus march to achieving the ordained vision and mission
of the founding Fathers of this school as enunciated in the motto of our school, “Academic
Excellence and Godliness of the youth”. The Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal
Movement’s Education Project believes that this goal is within our reach. Right from the
inception of this secondary school in 1994, this singular theme has reverberated in the
pedagogical practices of the school. Against all odds, setbacks and inadequacies, but with
our implicit and solemn faith in God, we are pursuing this vision for a resounding success.
Those who have followed the trends of excellent performances in academics and character
of the students of this school over the years will readily affirm that our track records of
performance are in a class of its own, in the public domain among our contemporaries.

It is not just challenging to affirm this vision in words; indeed, it is more challenging to work
out this vision realistically in practice. In any case, our determination to succeed in our
educational praxis has consistently been blessed by God. Our ex-students, wherever they
find themselves, in any professional endeavour in this world, have demonstrated the quality
of training they received here in LOGISS.
The content of our pedagogy of learning is quite integrated. Anchored on Christian
foundations, it consists of active teaching and learning, active preparatory studies also
known as prep, the study of the Package Accelerated Christian Education (PACE),
progressive continuous assessment exercises and coherent internal examinations. In
addition to these, we study the Curriculum, for International Examinations that guarantee
the offer of admission into universities in the more advanced societies of the United States
of America, Canada, the European Continent, Japan as well as China in the Asian continent.
These international examinations include the American College Test (ACT), the Scholastic
Aptitude Test (SAT), the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the International
English Language Testing System (IELTS) among others. These are the prerequisite
conditions for students seeking admission into tertiary institutions of learning outside the
shores of Nigeria.
Modesty will not permit us to proclaim our success in this novel venture of the school which
is just three years old. Otherwise, we will be pleased to inform you that a good number of
our students, who were candidates for these international examinations, were exposed to
the course content. They successfully went through the courses and performed excellently
in the examinations. A good number of them have since resumed their studies abroad, while
many others are at various stages of concluding their admission and travel processes. It is
important to point out that the growing need for studies abroad stems from the rot that has
enveloped our national education system, and in fact the nation as a whole. We, therefore,
make this earnest, clarion call to our esteemed parents to key into the advantages of our
success story of studying abroad. You can do this by encouraging and enrolling your children
and wards into this veritable scheme for success into tertiary institutions of learning.

The appeal to seek alternative university education abroad, for your children and wards, has
become urgent. Any delay in this directive, may not be the best for the career development
of your child/ward. We are conversant with the political, social and economic, situation
under which these students studied here. We are familiar with the security situation in our
society today. These ranges from the security of our health against coronavirus (covid-19)
pandemic to the security of our lives against physical violence and death. These posed a
whole lot of challenges within the year. These challenges affected our programmes
enormously, especially in the unilateral closure, resumption, extension of the academic
calendar and high cost. On this background, we would be safe to affirm that the class of
2020/2021 is a unique class indeed. Their uniqueness is demonstrated in their ability to
persevere to the very end.

I will like at this juncture to commend some of our outgoing school prefects, who against all
odds and challenges demonstrated a keen sense of responsibility and leadership, among
their peers. Please endeavour to keep up this sense of duty and responsibility in all your
endeavours in life. Let me again; modestly inform you that your children are those who
performed creditably well in the just-released Unified Tertiary Institutions Matriculation
Examination result, organized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Many
of them had scores of 297, 269,265,262,258,256,255,254,253,252,251, etc.

This is against the backdrop of the generally poor performance, which made the Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board, to describe this year’s performance as a calamity. The
body is already tinkering with the idea of bending backwards to lower the cut-off marks for
admission into our universities to below one hundred and fifty marks.
Let me also inform you that in keeping with our tradition of academic excellence on internal
and external examinations, as well as, national and state academic competitions, your child,
Miss Arinze Princess, was among all the students of LOGISS who sat for the UTME this year,
made the highest score of two hundred and ninety-seven (297) out of the 400 marks in the
exams. The same Miss Arinze Princess is a champion of this year’s 23rd National Jets
Competition for Secondary Schools in Nigeria, organized by the National Mathematical
Centre, Abuja, under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of Education.
As you would have witnessed from our previous outings of this nature, the tradition of giving
awards to our high flying students have come to stay. In view of this, some of our students
who excelled in our internal examinations and morals will today be rewarded with various
degrees of awards. The essence of the award is to recognize their efforts in the pursuit of
academic excellence and godliness. These include their sleepless nights of reading,
sacrifices, selfless services and pious lifestyle. The gesture will also encourage them to keep
up with the performance. We are convinced that by so doing, we will be able to spur them to
greater performance.
This award is for the overall best student of the year in the junior secondary school, the
second best and the third. The same goes for the overall best in the senior secondary
school, the second best and third, respectively. Beginning with junior secondary school, the
overall best will go home with the prize of a full scholarship for the 2021/2022 academic
year. The second overall best in the junior secondary school will go home with the prize of
free tuition for two terms in the 2021/2022 school year; while the third position in the junior
secondary school will go home with the prize of free tuition for one term in the 2021/2022
school year. In the senior secondary school, the best overall, the second best and the third-
best will be rewarded in the same manner, respectively. The most God-fearing and morally
sound student of the year will go home tuition-free for one term. Other awardees include the
best, second best and third best of the most diligent, selfless, committed and disciplined
staff members of the academic and non-academic departments of the school.
This welcome address will not be complete without an explicit and sincere appreciation of
the presence of these honourable and distinguished ladies and gentlemen, who have had to
abandon every other engagement today, and covered long distances to grace this occasion.
These include the Divisional Police Officer of Awo Omamma Police Station, The Zonal
Coordinator, National Examinations Council, Owerri. The Chairman, LOGISS PTA and his
executive members. The President and Executive members of LOGISS Alumni Association.
Members of the Press present and all other guests we have not been able to mention. Your
presence indeed has added much colour to this ceremony. Thank you for coming.

Finally, our appreciations go to all members of staff for their selfless service. I am deeply
indebted to the management staff namely; Mrs Martina Okoro, Mr Duru Thomas, Mr Iwu
Chrysanthus, Mrs Felicia Anuna, Mrs Iwuoha Ngozi, Mr Ihejirika Kingsley, Mrs Chinekezi
Virginia, Mr Anyanwu Alexander, Mr Onyeka Emenike. There are also those who are behind
the stage who did marvelously well in our success story in their corners such Engr. Michael
Ohanebo, Mr Augustine Esemonu, Engr. Michael Ihuocha, Mr Christian Ariwodo, etc. These
men and women hazarded their lives, sacrificed their comforts to drive this vision to where
we are today. We say a big thank you for all the sacrifices you have made in the success
story of these students. Only God can reward you adequately. Let me take this time to
reaffirm our unalloyed loyalty to our father and vision bearer, the General Superintendent of
the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement and Chairman, Board of Governors,
Logos International Secondary School, Pastor A. C. Ohanebo and our mother, Mummy
Comfort Ohanebo, for their immense and manifest support and encouragement. The same
goes to all members of the Board of Governors. We thank you all for providing this serene,
enabling and beautiful environment for teaching and learning. We also appreciate our elders
in the ministry, the Diocesan Pastors and the Diocesan Women Coordinators, as well as, our
predecessors who made great sacrifices to lay this solid foundation on which we are
building.
Once more, I congratulate you my graduating students and wish you success in all your
future endeavours. Long live the Logiss vision, long lives the Watchman Catholic Charismatic
Renewal Movement. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
Thank you.
Anyanwu Chinwe (Mrs.)
Principal.
Join the LIVE graduation ceremony of the SS3 students of Logos International Secondary
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