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Article

19 May 2015

Author:
Oluwaseun Akingboye, Guardian (Nigeria)

Nigeria: Texaco, NNPC provide school with equipped library, internet facilities

'Texaco donates hybrid library to riverine school in Ondo', 19 May 2015: Texaco Nigeria..has donated a hybrid library…building equipped with Internet facilities and other basic amenities to Ilaje High School…of Ondo State to improve education and facilitate learning among the students and teachers of the riverine area...Supervisor of Community Relations, Nkwo Hellen, said NNPC collaborated with Texaco Nigeria Limited to ensure improved standard of education in the country. She said they sponsored the donation of the library because “we know that education is not only an instrument of social change but an investment in national development…”…Commissioner for Education, Jide Adejuyigbe…stated that…[the lack of] modern library facility[ies] is a major challenge to effective learning and teaching in Nigeria…Principal of the school, Mr. Olawale Mesogboriwon said the school was enjoying the philanthropic gesture...of the companies…