MultiChoice strengthens learning in Adamawa schools through 10 resource centres

As part of its effort to ensure students across the country get the best out of teaching and learning, MultiChoice Nigeria has added 10 new resource centres to its existing number, bringing the total to 294 in 29 states across the federation.

John Ugbe, director, MultiChoice Nigeria, while speaking at the commemorative commissioning ceremony of 10 new MultiChoice Resource Centres (MRC) in Yola, Adamawa State held at General Murtala Mohammed College, Yola recently, said: “The launch of MultiChoice Resource Centres in Yola is happening almost 10 years after the inaugural launch of the project in Abuja in 2004 to commemorate what was then MultiChoice’s 10th anniversary of the resource centre in Nigeria.

Ugbe who was represented by Caroline Oghuma, public relations manager, Dstv, noted that the resource centre initiative is the company’s corporate social responsibility project that has grown from only four centres at inception to 294 schools in 29 states of the federation.

Oghuma added that MultiChoice’s strong conviction is that the technological, economic, social and political advancement of any country has a direct correlation with its level of educational development and that the future of a country is intrinsically linked to the quality of education the youths are exposed to. She said that these principles underpins the company’s roll-out of the audio-visual learning aids across the country. She further added that MultiChoice plans to have the resource centres in all the states of the federation eventually.

Gabriel Amaadama, commissioner of education, Adamawa State Ministry of Education who was represented by Timothy Adamu, director, post-primary education, ministry of education, Adamawa State, said: “Adamawa State Government is delighted to partner with MultiChoice Nigeria and Innovative Technology Literacy Services Limited on the MRC project, as their objectives tally with the government’s policy, which stresses the importance of ICT education for the overall development of the Adamawa child in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

“This partnership to establish MultiChoice resource centres in 10 of our schools is to kick-start ICT-driven education in the state, enabling these schools to have access to MultiChoice Education bouquet with a view to enhancing technology integration into classroom instruction.”

Adamu commended MultiChoice Nigeria for the initiative, which he said came at no cost to the state. He promised that the beneficiary schools will make good use of the facilities and that the state will expand the project to other schools in future.

 KELECHI EWUZIE