Highlighting the significance of the donation, Head Co-Curricular Activities and Community Service, Mr. Adewale Akinwunmi who represented the Principal of Corona Secondary School, Mrs. Adeyoyin Adeshina, said over the years, CSS Agbara has been extending help to neighboring communities as a way of alleviating the plight of people in their host communities, especially in the area of education and health.
According to him, by adopting schools and through series of projects, CSS has demonstrated its commitment to community service “We know education cannot be restricted to the classroom. Our goal is to create a symbiotic relationship whereby education would serve as a means to eradicate poverty,” he said.
Principal of Adie-Owe Community High School, Mr. Lasilo Akanji Lasilo, pointed out that, the intervention of the Club is an answer to a prayer.
On her part, the Zonal Education Officer, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government, Ogun-State, Mrs. Oluwatosin Oloko, who was full of praises for members of the Club, stressed that the end users would take advantage of the gesture by performing excellently well in West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and National Examination Commission, especially in the sciences.
Oloko who represented the state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs. Modupe Mujota, commended the effort of the management of the school in supporting its critical area of need.
In his remark, coordinator of the Club, CSS, Mr. Chidiebere Nnorom said the donation would go a long way to further boost the teaching and learning of science in the school.
“The project cost is estimated at N1.5 million and our expectation is to see the students improve in their academics and for the school management to maintain the facilities.”
Stephen Ipadeola, an SS2 science student of Adie-Owe Community School, admitted that before now the laboratory was empty and lacked the basic facility to perform basic experiment.
“I have gone into the new lab and it’s fantastic. We have running water, heat to perform experiment and the environment to learn. I am very confident that 80 per cent of science students will perform well come next WAEC and NECO.”
