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Nigeria: NCC Donates Engineering, ICT Books to Institutions
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Leadership (Abuja)
28 May 2008
Posted to the web 28 May 2008
Betrand Nwankwo
Abuja
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has donated a total of 385 books on engineering as well as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to four institutions in different parts of the country in support of capacity building in telecommunications and ICT in Nigeria.
The benefiting institutions in this phase of the NCC book donation project are University of Calabar, Calabar, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, and Federal Polytechnic, Offa. Each of the three universities received 100 books while the polytechnic got 85 books, all of which were the latest editions.
Delegations of the NCC comprising commissioners and management staff were at the four institutions between April 6 and May 16, 2008, to present the books to the heads of the institutions. As a socially responsible corporate citizen and aware of the dearth of up-to-date books in most tertiary educational institutions and public libraries in the country, the NCC took the initiative to procure the books for them.
The benefiting institutions in the first phase of the NCC book donation project in 2007 were Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna, and Gombe State Library, Gombe, each of which received 100 books. The head of public affairs of the Commission, Mrs Dave Imoko said, the NCC book donation project is designed to provide current, high quality engineering and ICT books to tertiary educational institutions and public libraries in the six geo-political zones of the country. The objective of the project, according to him,is to give future professionals in the ICT industry the opportunity to acquire quality education as well as to promote the reading culture among the youth.
In this phase of the NCC book donation project, at the University of Calabar a commissioner of NCC, Chief Patrick Kentebe, presented the books to the deputy vice chancellor, academics, Professor Friday Mbon, and at Nnamdi Azikiwe University the vice chancellor, Professor Ilochi Okafor, received the books from a commissioner of the NCC, Dr. Michael Onyia.
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Also in this phase, the Vice Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Professor Babatunde Adeleke,
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