By CHARLES IWUOHA

Evangel University Akaeze, Ebonyi State, has said its online teaching and learning in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic was very effective.

The university said it has already conducted its mid-semester quiz for the students online and that it will soon commence examinations online.

Director of Public Affairs of the University, Dr. Tibenz Nwali, stated this in Abakaliki while addressing journalists.

He noted that because of the coronavirus, the university has adopted online approach in all its activities to ensure that students graduate at the appropriate time and its academic calendar not disrupted.

He said: “It is worthy to note and establish here that Evangel online teaching and learning is very effective. As we talk to you now, we have just conducted our mid-semester quiz online and we are ready to start our exams online as soon as the time comes but within this week every lecturer has conducted online quiz for their students.

“So we have a very effective online teaching and learning for our students so that they are at home doesn’t not mean they are losing anything; that is why the Vice Chancellor has continued to say that the students of Evangel University will graduate in record time because they are not going to give in any dime.

“We have not been affected by the lockdown arising from the Coronavirus pandemic, we areeffectively online and we want to use this opportunity to call on the parents of the students to pay their school fees.

“The management of this university has been able to work hard to ensure that there is constant salary for the staff of the university, even during the period of lockdown every staff of the university was receiving his salary as at when due.

“So we thank the VC because of his magnanimity, his foresight in trying to pilot the affairs of the university to the point that the staff of the university are not hungry.”