President Jonathan Is Giving Out Free Computers To Secondary School Students

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The Minister of State for Education, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, on Monday explained that President Goodluck Jonathan approved the donation of laptop computers to girls in selected junior secondary schools in order to ensure gender equality.

Gbagi said this while presenting 360 laptop computers to female students of eight selected secondary schools in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital.

He said the Information and Communication Technology initiative of Jonathan administration   also involved training of teachers in all the benefitting schools on the use of modern technologies.

The minister said the programme was being driven by the Millennium Development Goals Debt Relief Fund and that it was an MDG-assisted ICT initiative.

Gbagi insisted that qualitative education required improvement on teaching, learning and educational administration.

He said Jonathan had directed that ICT should be taken seriously in the country's educational system owing to its vital role in improving quality in education.

In his address, the MDG-ICT Project Coordinator at the Federal Ministry of Education, Mr. Uwem Asomugha, said the choice of the girl-child as the initial beneficiary of the programme was to emphasise the importance of women in nation building.

He said girls were integral to poverty reduction, sustenance of development and good governance.

Via Punch.