Courtesy Of 𝐍𝐂𝐃𝐌𝐁, Another School Gets ICT Centre

In an effort to expose secondary school students across the country to digital technology, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has again completed and handed over a fully equipped Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre for the advancement of learning.

The latest beneficiary is the Community Secondary School, Sangana-Akassa in the Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

At the commissioning ceremony, General Manager, Corporate Communications and Zonal Coordination of the NCDMB, Esueme Dan Kikile, explained that the ICT Centre was part of the board’s programme for capacity building.

According to him, it was necessary for students to get exposed to modern technology and associated devices early enough in their education.

The ICT centre consists of 31 units of desktop computers (with a one-year Internet subscription), servers, a Wowbii Interactive Board (which makes it possible for lessons to be taught and received, questions asked and answered, from locations far apart), a printing system, and facilities for solar power along with a back-up power generating set.

The gesture is intended to promote digital literacy and acquisition of professional IT skills and also  enhance research interest among students at an early level. While commending the community for the warm reception accorded the NCDMB team, he enjoined the people, particularly the council of chiefs and the youth leadership to know that the ICT facility was their own project.

He challenged them to ensure safety and proper use of what has been provided to encourage the Board to consider them for other support projects and programmes in future. He assured that NCDMB would work with the community, but was quick to add that that personnel from the Board would be visiting the school from time to time to ascertain how the centre was being put to use.

Kikile commended members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, serving in the school for their invaluable services and disclosed that the NCDMB was undertaking support programmes for rural schools under its Back-to-the-Creeks Initiative to make them attractive for service.

The Manager, Zonal Coordination, Mr. Joseph Adebayo, who also spoke at the event said NCDMB had brought modern technology and quality education to the doorsteps of the people. He revealed that “the NCDMB wants the ICT Centre to be a CBT (computer-based test centre),” which would be very beneficial to the school as persons seeking to do external examinations and Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would be there to register.

I a welcome address, the Sangana Council of Chiefs, through their spokesman, Chief Tekena Nelson Oki, commended the NCDMB for building and donating the ICT to the community. They expressed optimism that “the project will bring knowledge and progress” to their people.