Mohammed Shosanya
13 November 2009
Lagos — MultiChoice, Nigeria 's leading pay television operators has launched 10 additional MultiChoice Resource Centres in Sokoto, Sokoto State , bringing the total number of the resource centers across the country 141.
The MultiChoice educational resource centres are technological resources facilities by which MultiChoice helps to enhance learning and development in secondary schools across Nigeria .
Speaking at the launch, the state's Commissioner for Education, Hon. Muhammad Arzika Tureta said that the MultiChoice Resource Centre is a welcome development in the state and the state government would do everything possible to support this laudable venture.
Ten schools benefited from the launch of the Resource Centres which is in its sixth phase. The schools are as follows; Sokoto Teachers College; Sokoto; Sultan Abubakar College, Sokoto; Sheik Abukakar Mahmud Gummi Memorial College, Sokoto; Nana Girls Secondary School, Sokoto; Women Centre for Continuing Education, Sokoto; Giginya Memorial Secondary School, Sokoto; Government Day Secondary School, Kofar Marke; Government Day Secondary School, Arkilla; Government Day Secondary School, Wamakko and Habsatu Ahmadu Bello Model Arabic Secondary School, Sokoto.
According to Segun Fayose; Head; Corporate Communication, MultiChoice Nigeria, "the MultiChoice Resource Center launch is part of the corporate social initiative of MultiChoice towards the development of education in the country" he remarked. Fayose pointed out that MultiChoice makes available to each secondary school where the centre is launched with physical hardware including television sets, decoders and satellite dishes, learning boards, laboratory tables and chairs, power generating sets, video recorder as well as bouquet of learning and educational channels are customized to this special project and are not available commercially.
The Education Bouquet provided by MultiChoice Nigeria for this project consists of seven channels, these include; Activate, Animal Planet, SABC AFRICA, Discovery, History, National Geography and BBC.
Speaking on the rolled out schools in the State, Mrs. Ronke Bello; Assistant National Coordinator, SchoolNet, stated that the objective of the launch "is to assist schools in making the process of learning more vivid and empirical and therefore more impactful" she commented.
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