DELTA: Governors, lawmakers to grace SPCC’s 70th anniversary

THE 70th-anniversary celebration of St. Peter Claver’s College, Aghalokpe has been slated for April 9 and 10, 2021.

The event will attract high-ranking federal government functionaries, prominent traditional rulers, professionals and leaders of political parties in Nigeria.

According to a statement by the Chairman of the 70th Anniversary Organising Committee, Chief Kingsley Omokri, there will be Mass at the College Chapel, inspection of college premises and distribution of anniversary crested books to students of SPCC, Aghalokpe and pupils of SPCC Nursery and Primary School on the day.

Major programmes at the gathering, Chief Omokri said, include the ‘commissioning’ of renovated projects by old students, anniversary lecture, award ceremony for those that have distinguished themselves and launching of a book titled; SPCC Aghalokpe: The Hidden Pearl of the Ethiope.

The statement added, ‘’There will be free medical service for the natives of Aghalokpe, Aragba, Oviri, Ekpan, Okpara-Waterside and Igun on Saturday, April 10, 2021’’ the statement said.

“A novelty football match between Old Boys Association of St Peter Claver’s College, Aghalokpe and Urhobo College Old Students Association will take place on Saturday, April 10, 2021’’

St. Peter Claver’s College was the first secondary school in Sapele.

It was founded in 1950 as the fourth secondary school in Warri Province (later renamed Delta Province in 1952).

Its proprietor, His Lordship P. J. Kelly, Catholic Bishop of Benin Diocese which included Warri/Delta Province during British Colonial Times, envisaged St Peter Claver’s College as the equivalent of St Patrick’s College, Asaba, for the Catholic Community in Warri Province.

SPCC moved from Sapele to Aghalokpe in 1953.