The Karu Ggagyi Development Association (KAGBADA) in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the FCT has commissioned a digital library for students in the area.
City & Crime reports that the association also disbursed N4.8 million scholarships to the students from the community.
Chairman of KAGBADA, Sumner Shagari Sambo, while speaking at the event on Sunday, said the library would enable the students to have access to conductive reading environment as well as access to books and internet for researches.
He said the association named the digital library after the late Felix Marley because of his immense contributions towards inspiring the younger ones to acquire education.
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“The late Felix Marley, who was an architecture, was someone who had inspired our youths to acquire education and also taught them. In fact, late Felix Marley who was also the youth president of this association, had struggled and stood for the youths of Karu chiefdom,” he said.
According to him, the digital library will have an administrator where every applicant who wants to apply for jobs can easily log in to access information.
On the scholarships, the KAGBADA chairman said the association also decided to support over 200 indigenous students of Karu in order to pursue their educational career.
Also speaking, the FCT Mandate Secretary for Area Council Service Secretariat (ACSS), Bitrus Lawrence Garki, commended the executive members of the association for the library as well as supporting the indigenous students of the area with scholarships.
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