NIGERIA – The MTN Foundation Science & Technology Laboratory project has launched seven laboratories at Government Day Science Secondary School, Gombe, to boost technological advancement among schoolchildren.
The laboratories were for Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Agricultural Science laboratories. MTN’s Senior Manager, Hamza Ibrahim, said MTNF STLP focused on renovating, and equipping science laboratories, providing training for teachers and laboratory attendants and ultimately enhancing the teaching and learning experience in key science subjects.
According to him, the MTNF Science & Technology Laboratory project in its third phase was to enhance science education in public secondary schools in Nigeria.
“In the previous phases (phases one and two), the laboratories of the following three science subjects – physics, chemistry, and biology, were remodelled and renovated.
“For this current phase, phase three, the Agric laboratory is inclusive. In the third phase, the Foundation is renovating the chemistry, biology, physics and agricultural laboratories of six public secondary schools in six states across the country.”
Hamza clarified that the MTNF has invested over N2 billion in renovating 102 science laboratories in 32 secondary schools across 15 states across the country in the last three years, in furtherance of MTN Nigeria’s commitment to empowering youth and promoting academic excellence in public secondary schools across the country.
Lauding the initiative, the Principal, Abdulhakim Mudansir, said the laboratories would help in the educational advancement of the students.
He added, “These laboratories will serve as the needed catalyst for development. We want to thank MTN for investing in the future of the young minds.”
Governor Muhammadu Yahaya, who was represented by the Commissioner for Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Abdullahi Bappa, said the laboratories would give the required boost in his administration’s attempt at improving the quality of education in the state.
Similarly, an indigenous leading energy company, with a strategic focus on Nigeria, Seplat Energy Plc, unveiled two more Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) laboratories at Edo Boys’ High School and New Era College, both in Benin, Edo State, in June.
