Bishop Mike Okonkwo Marks 77th Birthday

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Bishop Mike Okonkwo Marks 77th Birthday

2022-09-10T14:13:29+01:00

By Church News

The Founder and presiding bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Bishop Mike Okonkwo marked his 77th birthday with an inaugural lecture and a prize-given ceremony.The awards to the winners of the 17th edition of the Bishop Mike Okonkwo Annual Essay Competition were part of the activities marking the 77th birthday which is usually an annual event.Cash prizes of N100, 000, N75, 000, and N50, 000, as well as plaques were presented to the first, second, and third winners respectively, while the top three winning schools were presented with computers.Consolation prizes were awarded to seven other contestants who emerged fourth to 10th position.A final year Senior Secondary School student from the State Senior High School in Ikeja, Ayeni Oluwanifemi Bright, was announced as the overall best in the completion that received over 1000 entries and she received a laptop in addition to the other gifts for the first position.Also at the 21st Mike Okonkwo annual lecture, still on the same day, Prof Anya, the speaker at the lecture in his speech said one of the steps to the current security situation in the country is by creating an environment for enduring social and political harmony and the easiest path to this according to the Professor, is to implement aspects of the 2014 National Conference that have constitutional and long term policy impact.He added that there was also a need to develop a strategic plan that aims to create a new environment for the selection, training and development of a leadership elite, with emphasis on teaching the youths who have the greatest potential for adaptation.The Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM) Bishop Mike Okonkwo, who used the event to mark his 77th birthday, expressed hope that things would get better.“God has blessed this country with so much. I don’t think there’s any country in the world that is endowed as this nation. There is none. The only thing is that they were able to manage what they have,” Okonkwo said.ALSO READ TREM Daily Devotional by Bishop Mike Okonkwo