Eleven selected schools in Kaduna State have received a total of 22,000 books donated by the Sir Emeka Offor Foundation as part of efforts to encourage reading culture among students in the state.
Arewa Trust gathered that the donation is part of the foundation’s nationwide distribution of books and other educational materials to schools in some selected communities.
The benefitting schools in Kaduna include Queen Amina College, Dalet Girls Senior Secondary School Senior/ Junior Kawo, Government Secondary School Hayin Banki, Sardauna Memorial College Unguwar Dosa and Barewa College, Zaria.
Others were LEA Unguwar Rimi, LEA Rigasa, LEA Unguwar Sarki, LEA Yahaya Hamza, LEA Unguwar Liman Zaria, LEA Kawo and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
Chief of Staff to Sir Emeka Offor Foundation, AIG Chris Okey Ezike (rtd), said each of the schools got 20 cartons of books except Ahmadu Bello University Zaria which got 60 cartons.
Ezike warned that the books were not to be sold, resold or exchanged for profit or gain, adding that the foundation, in collaboration with Books for Africa, has donated over 30 million dollars’ worth of books, computers and other materials to educational institutions in Nigeria and 18 other African countries.
He said more educational institutions would be accommodated in the 2021 national book distribution programme.
