Lions Club donates computers

THE Lions Club of District 404B Nigeria has donated computers worth N450,000 to the library of Ifako Comprehensive High School, Ifako, Gbagada, Lagos, to boost e-learning.

Its President, Wesley O. Kafidiya said the donation was in response to the request by the Principal, Mr Muslim Okunowo, during a visit by his team in November last year, to assist in redeveloping ‘inadequate and non-functional toilet facilities and providing e-learning facilities’.

Kafidiya said the club had started work on the former which cost experts put at N5 million, adding that members were delibrating on the funding.

On the computers, Kafidiya said they learnt that Zinox Computers had donated some computers which could not be installed at the school, necessitating the club’s provision of high capacity desktop computers with DVD-RW, LAN, PCI express wireless cards, 20 flat screen monitors, key boards and mouse.

Earlier, he said the club sponsored the reading programme of the school which featured about 20 participants.

The initiative, Kafidiya stressed, was to underscore the importance and develop reading culture among pupils. He urged the pupils to make good use of and maintain the facilities.

“Please maintain the equipment given to you so that more can come. Keep them very well. Don’t abandon them,” he adviced.

The District 404 Governor, Stella Agbogun, said the club’s theme for the year was: Reading Action Programme which according to her, aims at boosting reading among pupils. Lamenting that poor reading habit among pupils, she urged them pupils to inbibe the habit.

The representative of the Tutor-General/Permanent Secretary, District II, Ministry of Education, Lagos State, John Esevbode, said the government was happy that non-governmental organisations, groups and individuals were supporting education.