WE ARE ESTABLISHING ANOTHER UNVERSITY IN CALABAR NEXT YEAR. IT SHALL BE CALLED CROWN UNIVERSTY---BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO

Bishop David Oyedepo said this at the World Press Conference\Media Launch of the 10th Founders Day Anniversary at Covenant University, Otta, Ogun State.“Our vision as a mission is to establish four more universities in Nigeria and others across Africa.
“We will also establish as many primary and secondary schools as possible in the country because we see education as a core of the organisation’s mandate.
“It is only through education that we can liberate
ourselves as a nation and a race,’’ he said.
Oyedepo said that plans had been concluded to establish a new university in Calabar next year.
The chancellor said that the university would be known as “Crown University’’ and would specialise in maritime studies.
He said that research had shown that the country needed to explore this sector as not much had been achieved in that branch of education.
“We always strive to delve into areas that will drive the economy of this country and create employment for our youths as this also informed the reason for the establishment of Land Mark University in Kwara with emphasis on agriculture,’’ he said.
The chancellor said that he was happy that five out of the nine first class graduates that were awarded scholarship by the Federal Government to study abroad came from the university.
He claimed that the insecurity in Nigeria has become an issue with many faces. He added that the agenda in the north that has caused insecurity is channeled towards the 2015 general elections. “All the agenda in the north is sponsored towards 2015. It is illiterate elites that are behind this issue. We have a leadership challenge because where there’s no decisiveness there will be no control,” he said.
He opined that our nation is threatened by leaders who went are indirectly illiterate because they attended universities but lack the characteristics of leaders. “The value system of our country has collapsed and this starts with the adult in the family and our leaders at the top.”
He stated that our mindset must change from the home. “Family members now encourage their relatives to make the most of the position they find themselves. Our political system has been virused and only a spiritual influence can overturn it. From top to bottom.”
He is however optimistic of the future and believes that Nigeria will enjoy glory days soon. “We must pray because our country will be great again but I believe it is a spiritual solution that we need,” he explained.
He warned that the government must abstain from using political might to favour itself.  I believe that this situation will come under control.
Covenant University had produced  293 postgraduate students since inception and enrolled 16,729 students.