Eternal plc advises government on school adoption programme, donates library to school

Eternal plc has advised the Lagos State Government to consider the school adoption programme by corporate organisations so that they would be able to contribute meaningfully to advancement of education in their areas of operations.

Mahmud Tukur, managing director and chief executive officer of Eternal plc gave the advise at the commissioning of a renovated Library by his company and donated to Alapere Comprehensive Secondary School at Alapere in Kosefe Local Government area of Lagos State.

The Eterna plc boss who was represented by Kudi Badmus, chief financial officer of the company said: “We hope that the government would be able to bring back the policy of adopting schools programme which the Federal Government had some years back where corporate organisations can adopt schools and based on the adoption they keep improving on the facilities and learning environment of that particular a school”.

He said it is a policy I think Lagos State can adopt given the fact that there are so many schools but with limited resources as the principal has said

“We hope the new administration of Babatunde Sanwo Olu can consider this through public

private partnership”, he said.

According to the chief Financier Officer of the company we have now realised that the school needs more than the library to make the student study in a more conducive atmosphere and promised that Eterna plc would look at other arrears it can assist the school in the nearest future.

In addition to the renovation of the library apartment, two computers and several books that cover various subjects, chairs and table for about 28 students were also donated to the school.

She said the company actually wanted to donate library as it own Social Corporate Responsibility (CRS) that was why it looked at the school that is closest to its facility and it decided to come to the school, but having come here with a population of 1,200 students and seeing the facilities they have, we saw that they are still a lot that can be done.

What we are currently discussing as members of Eterna plc is that rather than going through several routes, we can improve on the facilities that they have here; we all can see there is a lot of dilapidations, so we believe there is a lot more that we can do in this school as regards improving the facilities here. This is why we are thinking it would be better for the state government to see the option of the school adoption programme improving the lots of the schools.