The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has donated with two blocks of classrooms and a borehole as its support for Junior Secondary School, Guto in Bwari Area Council
The board disclosed this in its Weekly
Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar in Abuja.
According to the bulletin, Mr Garba Koko,
Acting Director, General Services of the board, represented the Registrar,
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede at the inauguration of the school projects.
Koko said that the board was committed to
making a positive impact in the council and its environs, adding that the
project was funded through the board’s Corporate Social Responsibility
programme.
The school, he explained, also used part of
the funds to renovate existing classrooms, provided office equipment, a
generator set and other educational materials for academic use.
He also said that the school was one of the
three schools JAMB adopted in its intervention programme to enhance their
infrastructure.
“In addition, the board also provided some
of its qualified hands to teach students of the school so as to ensure academic
excellence as part of its social intervention project.”
The Principal of the school, Mr Emmanuel
Santas, was also quoted as saying that the philanthropic gesture was well
appreciated.
Santas, who described the act as “uncommon”,
said that it was unprecedented since the establishment of the school.
He assured the board that the project would
be used for the benefit of the students and the community at large.
In his remark, the Chairman of the council,
Mr John Gabaya, expressed his gratitude to the board for the laudable act.
Gabaya, who was represented by Mr Gibiye
Marcus, commended the board’s effort and described it as a big stride in
repositioning the education sector in the council.
He encouraged other organisations to
emulate the gesture in order to transform the education sector in the community
and the country at large.