Group donates literary books to GSS Kabusa

Written by Abdulkadir Y. Abdullahi Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:00

The initiator of Read and Earn Campaign (REC), Prince Abdulsalami Ladigbolu, has donated 206 literary books to Government Secondary School, Kabusa in order to promote reading culture in the school.

The donated books include 100 literature story books, consisting of novels, poems, plays and storybooks.

Others were 106 reading materials and two Oxford dictionaries.

In his address, Abdulsalami said that the Read & Earn Campaign was borne out of the need to sensitize the citizens especially students and youths on the need to embrace reading culture, adding that the campaign is out to corroborate the efforts of the Nigerian government and all advocates of the literacy society by donating free books and other necessary learning materials to schools.

He said donating books to a school that is barely six months old would help rejuvenate their reading culture and called on Nigerians to work tirelessly towards eradicating illiteracy and poor readership in the country.

Principal of the school, Mrs Sylvia Inyang, who received the books on behalf of the school, said the books will assist students carry out their numerous academic assignments.

“This is a right step for a school that just kick-started its academic activities a few weeks ago. We are grateful to the initiator of the project and want other people to emulate him to take the literary world to the next level,” she said.

The Etsu of Kwali, H.R.H. Alhaji Shaban Audu Nizazo XI, urged Nigerian students to take full advantage of education and reading daily to uplift their academic standard.