St. Matthew’s Royal College: Where Rural Nigeria Trains Nurses for the World

 


From Eidenu-Irrua to Europe and America. Rt. Rev. Dr. Matthew Akhaze Okpebholo has just made private nursing training a global game.

After nine parts exposing rot, it’s time to spotlight revival.

1. Location as an Advantage

St. Matthew’s Royal College of Nursing Science sits in Eidenu-Irrua, a rural community in Edo State. No traffic. No chaos. Just a serene and conducive environment for learning. In an age where city campuses battle noise and insecurity, rural is the new elite.

2. Facilities That Shame City Schools

The college’s facilities are second to none:

  • Spacious classrooms : students breathe, think, and learn.

  • Well-equipped laboratories : science isn’t taught; it’s done.

  • State-of-the-art Nurse Practical Bay : real hospital setting, real skills.

  • Specialist Teaching Hospital attached : for on-the-job training and internships. Students don’t wait to graduate before attending to patients.

  • Qualified and professional lecturers and staff : no quacks, no half-measures.

  • Fully residential college : safety, focus, and discipline.

  • Adequate electricity and water supply : the basics many “big” schools still lack.

3. The Founder’s Challenge

Rt. Rev. Dr. Matthew Akhaze Okpebholo, Founder, has challenged the public: Name any facility found in any College of Nursing Science across the globe that is not in St. Matthew’s, and it will be added.

That’s not boasting. That’s benchmarking against the world from Eidenu-Irrua.

4. The Global Pipeline

St. Matthew’s isn’t training nurses for Nigeria alone. The college has:

  • Linkage programmes with similar institutions in Europe and America - curriculum exchange, exposure, and standards.

  • Built-in facilities for writing qualifying examinations for foreign practice.

  • Training designed for international employment - graduates will not look for jobs; jobs will look for them.

  • Visa-assisted programmes - easing travel for students and graduands.


CampusDialog Position: The New Destination Point

Let’s make St. Matthew’s Royal College of Nursing Science the destination point for candidates who wish to pursue Nursing Science as a career.

Why? Because it has solved three problems killing Nigerian education:

  1. Insecurity: Fully residential, rural, fenced, gated, and with an attached Teaching Hospital. No madman is strolling in here.

  2. Incompetence: Qualified lecturers, global linkages, practical bays, and real hospital exposure. This is training, not theory.

  3. Unemployment: Visa assistance + foreign examinations + employment pipeline = graduate and go.


From “Stay Home” to “Go Abroad”

While SSS memos shut schools in some parts of the country, St. Matthew’s has opened a global door. While parents fear school gates, this college has built one that leads to London, Texas, and Toronto.

The same Nigeria that produced Chibok can produce St. Matthew’s.

The choice is ours: decay or destination?

For Nursing Science, the answer is in Eidenu-Irrua.

Admission Note: St. Matthew’s Royal College of Nursing Science, Eidenu-Irrua, founded by Rt. Rev. Dr. Matthew Akhaze Okpebholo, is currently admitting candidates. If you want nursing training that ends in a job, not a job search, this is your gate.


Ambrose Odiase, FIPMA, MANUPA, MAUA (UK), Founding Editor/Publisher, CampusDialog.blogspot.com.

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