Secondary school education in Ekiti State, the famed Fountain of Knowledge gets a booster with the launch of 10 new MultiChoice Resource Centres
By Michael Mukwuzi
The desire by secondary school students across Ekiti State to join the Information Communication Technology, ICT, age received major support recently with the inauguration of digital learning centres in 10 schools across the state by MultiChoice Nigeria.
The MultiChoice Resource Centre project which is a corporate social initiative by MultiChoice in alliance with SchoolNet, its implementing partners, allows for the use of audio-visual technology to facilitate learning and development in public schools in the country.
Under the arrangement, Multichoice equips the benefiting schools with instructional teaching aids such as video recorders, television sets, DStv decoders, learning boards, laboratory tables and chairs, alongside standard power generating sets to ensure stable electricity supply. The DStv decoders are configured to screen only channels under the customised education Bouquet. Channels on offer include National Geographic, History, BBC World, Discovery, Animal Planet among others. According to Mrs. Ronke Bello, the Assistant National Coordinator of SchoolNet Nigeria, the MultiChoice Resource Centre project has so far benefited 60 public schools across Abuja, Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Kano, Cross River, Abia and Ekiti states.
Speaking at the Ekiti State launch of the project held at Mary Immaculate Grammar School in Ado-Ekiti, Governor Segun Oni who was represented by Mrs Abiola Ayimonche, state Commissioner for Education, stated that ICT development, especially in schools, is critical for the state because “any community that hopes to be abreast of the developments in the society should not treat ICT with levity’.
Oni expressed delight that Ekiti is the first state in the South-West zone to enjoy the MultiChoice Resource Centre facility, confirming the age-long belief that Ekiti State is always in the forefront of educational development in the country. The benefiting schools in Ekiti include: Ekiti Government Secondary School, Ado-Ekiti; Ola Oluwa Muslim Senior Grammar School; CAC Comprehensive Senior High School, Ado-Ekiti; Baptist Comprehensive Senior High School, Ado-Ekiti; Ado Community High School, Ado-Ekiti and Ado Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti. Others are Mary Immaculate Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti; Mary Hill Senior Boys High School, Ado-Ekiti; Christ’s Girls Senior School, Ado-Ekiti and Muslim Senior College, Ado-Ekiti. Only last month, the MultiChoice Resource Centre made its debut in Abia State with the launch in 10 secondary schools across the state.
Speaking at the launch of the project, the Managing Director of MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, Mr. Collins Khumalo said his company is determined to expose as many students as possible to the advantage of digital learning in its bid to make Nigeria take her pride of place in ICT development.
Khumalo noted that the company will continue to give relevant assistance to public schools in the country through its corporate social investment project targeted at the education sector.
“We at MultiChoice Nigeria have long decided that as a technologically focused company, we have a major role to play in ensuring that we fast-track government’s efforts towards raising the quality of learning in our public schools. This is the major reason underlying the introduction of the MultiChoice Resource Centre initiative,” he said.
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