…As previous college students renovate services, construct school rooms, set up support schemes for indigent college students
Ondo State Governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa has tasked stakeholders within the schooling sector, company organisations, and wealthy alumni with partnering with the state authorities to deal with infrastructural challenges and deficits in public faculties.
Aiyedatiwa additionally mentioned the duty of bettering academic infrastructure and making certain entry to high quality schooling shouldn’t relaxation fully with the federal government.
The governor, who spoke on Sunday on the fiftieth anniversary celebration of Omooluorogbo Grammar College, Akure, challenged former college students to contribute to the development of the establishments that offered the inspiration for his or her success.
Representing the Commissioner for Bodily Planning and City Development within the state, Hon. Sunday Olajide, Governor Aiyedatiwa mentioned alumni contributions remained an vital a part of efforts to strengthen public schooling anyplace on the earth.
He defined that though the federal government remained dedicated to bettering the schooling sector, the size of infrastructural wants required the involvement of people, non-public organisations and different stakeholders.
In accordance to him, collaboration between authorities and alumni associations would assist deal with the scarcity of important services, enhance educating and studying circumstances and create an setting the place college students may compete favourably with their counterparts elsewhere.
Aiyedatiwa suggested the previous college students to see the golden jubilee not merely as an anniversary celebration however as a chance to renew their dedication to the establishment.
He mentioned the college had contributed to their particular person achievements by offering the academic basis upon which they constructed their careers and urged them to be sure that current and future generations loved higher studying alternatives.
Talking on the occasion, Chairman of the fiftieth Anniversary Planning Committee and former Ondo State Commissioner for Data, Kayode Akinmade mentioned the previous college students resolved to embark on initiatives aimed toward bettering the college’s infrastructure as a part of actions marking its 50 years of existence.
Hon. Akinmade, who can be the Particular Adviser on Media and Technique to Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, described giving again to the establishment as a duty quite than an act of charity, noting that the college performed a major function in shaping the lives and careers of lots of its former college students.
He mentioned the alumni thought-about the anniversary a chance to translate their appreciation into concrete interventions that may have lasting advantages for the establishment.
As a part of the initiatives, Akinmade undertook the development and furnishing of a four-classroom block and offered a generator to enhance the college’s electrical energy provide.
The Nation reported that Munirat Ogunlayi, who renovated the college corridor, and Oluwole Adelabu, who renovated the employees workplace and administrative block, have been each unveiled on the occasion
Different interventions included setting up a fringe fence to strengthen safety and shield the college’s services, in addition to donating train books to support college students’ tutorial actions.
The previous college students additionally established a Pupil Support Programme to present monetary help to indigent college students making ready for his or her Junior Secondary College (JSS) examinations and the West African Senior College Certificates Examination (WASSCE).
Appreciating the alumni, Akinmade mentioned the initiatives have been fastidiously designed to deal with among the establishment’s infrastructural wants, present further classroom house and enhance the working setting for academics and administrative employees.
He mentioned the interventions mirrored the alumni’s dedication to complement authorities efforts and make sure the faculty continued to present high quality schooling.
He urged different former college students, notably those that had attained positions of affect and monetary stability, to support the establishment via initiatives and programmes that may profit present college students.
He mentioned investments in schooling ought to be considered investments sooner or later, including that the influence of alumni’s contributions would prolong past the speedy beneficiaries to the broader society
The golden jubilee celebration introduced collectively former college students, academics, present pupils and different stakeholders to replicate on the establishment’s five-decade journey and its contributions to academic development.
