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Head, Public Relations, MultiChoice Nigeria Segun Fayose, (left)
Deputy Governor, Osun State, Titi-Laoye Tomori and CEO, Innovative Technology Literacy Services Ltd,
Ronke Bello, during the launch of additional 10 MultiChoice Resource Centres
in Osun State held at Ataoja School of Science, Oshogbo, Osun State recently.
PHOTO BY: ADENIYI ADUNOLA
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In its aim to empower teachers and students with skills in
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Multichoice Nigeria, the
leading pay-TV firm rolled out more Multichoice Resource Centre (MRC) in public
schools in Osun State.
The novel intervention has been introduced to 245 schools in
24 states of the federation and been proven to impact critically on the
knowledge levels and understanding especially of technical subject areas by
students. It is now being extended to students of 10 public secondary schools
in Osun State, bringing the total to 255 in 25 states across the country
About 10 public secondary schools in Osun State which
benefitted from the project include: Unity School, Ejigbo, Anglican Grammar
School, Osogbo, ADS Grammar School, Osogbo, St. James Grammar School, Osogbo
Ataoja School of Science, Baptist Grammar School, Osogbo, Laro Grammar School,
Osogbo and Ijebu-jesa Grammar School, Ijebu-jesa.
Speaking at the event, the Deputy Governor, Osun State/ HCE,
Ministry of Education, Grace Titi-laoye Tomori lauded MultiChoice and its implementing
partner, Innovative Technology Literacy Services Limited, for the initiative
which she described as a veritable tool for the provision of valuable learning
resource components for public schools across the country. “The MultiChoice
Resource Centre project, which provides valuable learning resource components
for 10 selected public schools in the State of Osun to support the government
efforts towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria’s
education sector, is a welcome one,” she said.,
“This also dovetail into one of the six integral action plan
of the Osun state government that aims at functional and qualitative education
in the state”
MultiChoice provides the following learning aid items to
each of the beneficiary schools: DSTV decoder, television set, burglary proof
for the equipment, education bouquet. Others include generator, whiteboard,
Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS), among others.
The Managing Director of Innovative Technology Literacy
Services Limited, Aderonke Bello said “The MultiChoice resource centre is
designed to grant beneficiary schools access to the special MultiChoice
Education Bouquet with the aim of integrating the programmes into their
curriculum to further enhance the teaching and learning processes in the
classrooms”
“in line with modern technology, our secondary schools in
Osun state, are being familiarized with audio-visual equipment with full
assurance that effective usage of these equipment, will enhance classrooms
practices and move student to the next level in education.
“in addition, this innovation will enable students to be
opened to more instructions which will also aid their thinking skills in the
classroom”.
She urged the teachers to make use of the equipment that are
being given to them in the transformation stage.
Fifty of the teachers have been trained as master trainers
to help coordinate the centers and train other teachers with a view to ensuring
effective usage of the facilities. It is our hope that Osun State will make
good use of the facilities, utilize them for the attainment of quality
education for our students, and more importantly protect them from being
damaged', she said.
Furthermore, Head of public Relation and Corporate
Communications, MultiChoice Nigeria, Segun Fayose, urged the teachers and
principals to do the much they could and encouraged the student to make good
use of the resource center set up to increase their learning, awareness about
the world and to help them to become leaders, not of tomorrow, but starting
from today.
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