NDIC presents resource centre to GCI

Managing Director, NDIC, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation on Thursday inaugurated a N30m Education Resource Centre it built for the Government College Ibadan.

This came as the corporation’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Umaru Ibrahim, promised that the organisation would not relent in supporting the growth of education in the country.

Ibrahim spoke through the firm’s Director, Asset Management Department, Mr. Bashir Umar.

Ibrahim said, “The corporation will not relent in its efforts toward its educational support programme in line with its corporate social responsibility policy by granting financial assistance to education institutions for the growth of the sector in Nigeria. The donation of the education resource centre to GCI is heart-warming and intended to sustain the academic pedigree of the foremost post primary education institution in the country.”

Also, the Chairman, Kakanfo Inn and Conference Centre, Dr. Lekan Are, who spoke on the occasion, commended the NDIC for donating the centre.

He also urged other individuals and corporate organisations to support the state government’s transformation agenda.

Are, a former president of the alumni association of the school, called on the state government to improve on its support for the school in order to restore its academic excellence.

He said, “The Old Boys Association and the Parent-Teacher-Association are trying their best for the institution, but we still require the support and commitment of the government. Many facilities and property that used to be the pride of the school have vanished because of poor maintenance culture.

“People that should not be here in this school are here and it is no more the school for those that passed and are qualified through examinations and interviews but for those who are posted there by the ministry of education. When they say the result of school certificate examination is bad, I tell you, it is the fault of the ministry because it just brings anybody here.”