Glo donates classrooms, ICT lab to Ijebu School

 

Globacom has restated its commitment to improving the lives of the future leaders of the country as it donated a block of fully-equipped classrooms to Ijebu Muslim School, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, as part of the activities marking the 2012 Ojude Oba festival.

At the commissioning of the block of classrooms and an ICT laboratory on Saturday, October 27, Globacom said they were two of the many projects it designed as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility scheme. Globacom had during the Ojude Oba festival last year promised to deliver the block of classrooms to the school.

According to the Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Globacom, Mrs. Ben Ayede, the company is committed to providing facilities that will assist Nigerian youths to be the best in their endeavour as well as put them at par with their contemporaries across the world.

"We are mindful of the fact that government alone cannot successfully fund a functional educational system. This block of five classrooms is enriched with an IT centre, 50 internet-enabled computers and fully-furnished classrooms with students and teachers' desks and chairs. The facility will make the world indeed a global village for the students and teachers of this great college", she said.

She also said the facilities would empower the students of the college and other scholars to reach the world at the speed of light. "This center is linked to our ultra modern internet facility running on the first privately-owned nationwide fiber optic cable and the international submarine cable, Glo 1", she disclosed.

The state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, applauded Globacom for the donation. The Governor who was represented by his Special Adviser on Education, Dr. Tunji Abimbola, said, "We'll take the photographs of this facility and recommend it as the standard structure for schools in the state". He said Globacom had done what had not been done elsewhere by making provision for disabled students.

"I challenge the students and teachers of this school to put the facility into good use. I also call on others in the private sector to emulate Glo and partner with the state government in providing ultra-modern facilities for our schools", he said.

Senator Amosun said the donation signaled the goodwill and magnanimity of the Chairman of Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga (GCON), and appealed to other well-meaning indigenes of Ogun State to emulate the business guru.

The Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, who was represented by the Baagbimo of Ijebuland, Chief Fassy Yusuff, praised Dr. Adenuga for the kind gesture which he said showed his level of commitment to the cause of humanity.

He advised business organisations to take a cue from Globacom, adding that successful business ventures must give back to society in order to sustain mutually beneficial relationships.