Nigeria’s socioeconomic development and growth has remained stunted, basically due to the country’s faulty education sector

The founder of School Development Support International (SDS) Limited, Anthony Nwachukwu Isiani, who stated this, while addressing journalists at his corporate headquarters, in Amuwo-Odofin, Lagos, said in his quest to address the seeming lacuna in the sector, developed a concept called The Trinity of Human Development thus: agriculture, education and engineering.

Isiani regretted that these areas have remained the bane of the country’s development because of the lip-service being paid to these sectors by all tiers of government including the organised private sector.

He noted that if any country earmarks resources to these areas and pays critical attention to same, such country will be transformed and succeeds in every sector.

To his credit and that of his team, Isiani, through SDS has been able to craft and design over nine homegrown solutions to not just aid teaching, but to make it fun-filled, fulfilling, enjoyable, and seamless to cheer about.

While taking the media crew on the tour of the facility, they were stunned by the different inventions, most of which were all originally manufactured by the SDS team.

From writing desks, chairs and tables, laboratory rooms, theme park for children’s gaming and learning, remote controlled audiovisual learning and monitoring screens, to writing tablets, markers, door accessories, display boards, lockers, mini table tennis court for toddlers, it was indeed, something not commonplace and totally foreign to Nigeria.

Interestingly, all SDS products from chairs, desks, writing tablets, markers, audiovisual equipment are crafted and designed with the school environment in mind.

“SDS was born 27 years ago in June,” Isiani recalled, adding that the company was indeed a child of necessity.

“I was 28 years old when I set up SDS International. I didn’t plan to go into teaching in the first place but it was through divine direction that I found myself inside the classroom and I became a classroom teacher par excellence.

“But then, I knew that if I stayed there for 20 years or more, nobody was going to discover me, to the extent of making me a school principal because I didn’t have the requisite educational qualifications to stay in the classroom for that length of time. So with that in mind, I left teaching and joined an oil servicing company. But just within 30 months I resigned my appointment and decided to do exploits in the classroom,” he stressed.

The Enugu-born mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, who says he has all it takes to conveniently start a school of his own, said he totally jettisoned the idea because of its limiting factor.

“I have got all the requirements for me to start a formal school on my own but I dismissed the whole idea because it was going to limit my vision and scope. But rather opted to remain a solution provider to all schools, which is a more broad-based assignment for me. The most important thing for me as an engineer is I want to support the industry to the best of my ability.”

According to him, his vision is to support humanity as best he can, using his expertise in education engineering.