The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has moved to improve the quality of teaching in Taraba State by donating learning materials to pupils in basic schools in the state.
While presenting the items to school children in Jalingo, NIMASA Director General, Dr Bashir Jamoh, who was represented by a Public Relations Officer in the agency, Kefas Kubuza William said the gesture was part of the NIMASA’s efforts to support the education of children in the state.
Jamoh said the agency had procured medical equipment to also boost primary health care services in the state.
He advised benefiting clinics to make judicious use of the equipment to enhance health care services to the indigent people.
“This is part of the agency’s ongoing Corporate Social Responsibility initiative across the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
“If we succeed in helping to ensure that some students improve academically, we would have made a difference.
“I want to appeal that the materials donated today be used judiciously to give the children the best”, he urged.
The Director of Relief, Taraba State Emergency Management Agency, Anthony Danu said inadequate provision of teaching and learning equipment in public schools was a major challenge for basic education in the state.
Danu listed some of the equipment donated to include desktop computers, printers, whiteboard, markers, assorted textbooks, writing materials, exercise books, food flasks, school bags, sandals and sucks.
Headmaster of Howai Primary School, one of the benefiting schools, Mr Sa’ad Yakubu thanked NIMASA for its support to education in the state.
Yakubu said the items would go a long way in supporting the school in its day-to-day teaching and learning, and
assured that the school would judiciously utilise the items for the good of the pupils and educational development in the state.
The agency also donated medical equipment including stethoscope, clinical thermometer, pulse tester, delivery kits, hand sanitizers, beds and bedsheets and drip stand.
