By Michael Nnebife
In preparation to take off academic activities having secured necessary approvals from regulatory bodies, Regina Caeli College of Nursing Sciences, Awka, has held screening examination for over 143 candidates, who applied to study nursing and midwifery at the College situated at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Awka.
According to the College’s Administrator, Rev Fr JohnPaul Chinazor Chukwuelobe, the essence of the computer-based test, which took place on Wednesday November 26, at the College’s ICT centre, was to select the best and most qualified candidates for the commencement of academic activities at the College by January 2026.
While speaking with Fides, the College’s Administrator said they had got the Nursing Council’s approval to begin academic activities.
The Administrator further said among others that the National Board for Technical Education had come, looked at what the College had, and gave it directives to screen its candidates.
He added that after the screening examination, the names of the best qualified candidates would be regularized in the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB’s portal.
According to him, by December this year and January next year, registration and academic activities would commence in earnest.
The Administrator advised the candidates to feel free to show the College the best they had and assured them that the College would give them the best of what it had prepared.
‘Those we will finally take are the pioneer students; we are assuring them that we would give them the best we have,’ he pledged.
In separate interviews with Fides, some of the candidates, Delight Udemem, Favour Maduabuchi, among others, expressed excitement to be part of the exercise.
They pledged to be obedient to the rules and regulations of the College and to take their studies seriously if they were admitted in order to realize their ambitions.
