A DIRGE FOR OUR MATRIARCH AND FORMER PRINCIPAL OF IBUSA GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOL, HON DR. MRS. FELICIA NWAEZE (1940

A DIRGE FOR OUR MATRIARCH AND FORMER PRINCIPAL OF IBUSA GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOL, HON DR. MRS. FELICIA NWAEZE (1940 - 2023)

With mournful eyes and hearts, and elegiac character, we, the members of the Old Students Association of Ibusa Girls Secondary School, Ibusa, your mentorees put together this plaintive piece in honour of Hon Dr. Mrs. Felicia Onyemaechi Nwaeze, B.A. M.EdA, Ph.D; an academic, and politician who was a former Principal of our dear school earlier mentioned here.

Hon Dr. Nwaeze, our principal and matriarch, who nursed and nurtured us to transform into who we variously are today, was a core disciplinarian, whose task, it seemed was to raise in sagacity and from scratch, men and women who would further contribute to man's society and she succeeded on us.

To achieve this task, she foundationally elevated the Ibusa Girls Secondary School of her time, to the best of school in Oshimili and beyond, utilizing the tools of counseling, guidance, and mothering love, three tools, which would enable her to transcend us to the educational pinnacle of value.

Hon Dr. Felicia Nwaeze, highly educated, up to Ph.D. level, having passed through St. Louis Girls Primary School, Kano, Mary Immaculate Teachers Training College, Ado Ekiti, University of Ibadan, and the University of Benin, not only placed so much value on education but humanely and philanthropically determined to pass that legacy to mankind and she achieved the legacy in many of us, her students who in our successful ventures today, think well of this prized mentorship.

A kind and humane administrator, we remember that it was under her tutelage that the cumbersome practice of resuming and departing from the school with the transportation of our chairs and desks ceased. With laudable ideas, she simply made our studentship worthwhile and knowledge-filled through the conducive learning environment that she created so that upon exit, many of us were regretful even though we were no longer students of the institution. Who would not recommend the administration and expertise of the amazing Hon Dr. Mrs. Felicia Nwaeze? We make bold to assert that not much of her calibers can be noticeably found among her contemporaries. The models, theories, and administrative patterns of Nwaeze should be adopted, improved on, and utilized to raise students.

Nwaeze realized that the preservation or promotion of culture was an aspect of education and instructed the love in us. Her ideology was that the Ibusa or Enuani culture cannot be lost if the students are instructed to live with it early enough. That accounted for the retention of our Enuani dialect, eloquently spoken by many of us today.

Nwaeze, our matriarch and mentor was not all about education since she found other means to also impact positively on our society. Joining politics in 1998 following her retirement as Principal Merit Grade, she was an astute politician whose groundbreaking leadership contributions were potent in moving forward her constituency having risen to a member representing Oshimili North Constituency at the Delta State House of Assembly in 1999. To date, her representation of the Oshimili North is still being hailed.

We also remember her societal contributions through her presidency of Ezinne Club, Ibusa; Coordinator, Marble for Charity Organization; Adviser, Duchess Club International, Lagos Branch; membership of the Country Women Association, among others.

We, the members of the Ibusa Girls Secondary School, products and beneficiaries of same-sex schools in Ibusa, our community are proud of the achievements of Hon Dr. Mrs. Felicia Nwaeze being an example of the importance of the girl-child in our world and having determinedly spoken with practical experiences that the female child can function in the society where trained, encouraged and empowered.

Once again, we join the Management and students of the Ibusa Girls Secondary School, Ibusa, the Umuodafe Quarters, Ibusa, and the people of Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State in mourning our departed mother in Hon Dr. Mrs. Felicia Onyemaechi Nwaeze who will miss.

Finally, we recommend that a hall inside the school be named after this heroine as a means of preserving her legacies within and outside the school.

May her soul rest in peace. Amen

Old Students Association, Ibusa Girls Secondary School, Ibusa, Delta State

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