Corporation commissions Computer Base Test Centre in Ogun
By Sekinat Salam-Opebiyi- Abeokuta
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, has commissioned an ultra modern multi-million Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Computer Based Test (CBT) Centre in Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria.
The Centre located within the premises of Comprehensive High School, Ayetoro, is equipped with over 200 computer systems and a central server to ease the stress candidates go through during examinations in Yewa North and Imeko Afon Local Government Areas of Ogun State.
The NDIC Board Chairman, Mrs Ronke Sokefun, said the CBT Centre is part of the Corporate Social Responsibility of the Corporation, and that the project was put in place as part of efforts to support government programmes towards developing the education sector and enhancing ICT education nationwide.
Mrs Sokefun said; “In the last 24 months, we have commissioned over 100 projects of this nature in different parts of the country and all, mostly community intervention from the ordinary borehole, we have been able to meet the need of our people. We have improved in terms of staffing and others. The projects cost us not less than a billion naira.
“Towards enhancing ICT education in other parts of the country, the donation of ICT centres should be emulated because as social amenity decay, it’s not limited to education so there are a number of projects we will still put in place and as the Chairman, I can do more.”
“In terms of cost, I am not going to put a specific figure, all I am going to tell you is, it runs in millions of naira. For project of this nature, you don’t focus on the amount spent, but you should focus on the benefits it will bring to the citizenry and that is why this is here today.
“It is facilitated by the NDIC, as a director on the Board of the NDIC, you are entitled to a CSR project per year and this has taken me two years, I started with the building and off course the infrastructure. I am grateful to them and the thing is you can have benefit of CSR and you don’t channel it properly. This is exactly what I wanted and I am happy it comes to life today.
“We are waiting for JAMB, I spoke with the state Zonal Coordinator, he is coming with the team to do an assessment and I can assure you I am not sure anywhere in the state that there is facility of this nature. I can beat my chest that this will be JAMB certified,” she explained.
Mrs Sokefun stated that ”Maintaining culture is not a concern, it is more of encouragement to the beneficiary to put into use. Off course, the foundation itself is manual, it is not like we are dependent on third party to manage it for us, we do our manual that we will operate to the later otherwise it will fall like other projects which after a couple of month or years is put to waste.
”I think it should be emulated, but as you know as social amenities decay is not limited to the education sector, so there are a number of areas I am still looking out to improve on and I am hoping and praying that during my tenure as chairman, I can do more things in that office.”
The State Governor, Dapo Abiodun commended NDIC for the project, saying it is a boost to his administration which had been adjudged as the best ICT focused state in the country by the Nigerian government.
According to Governor Abiodun, the business of education is a business of all and the project came at a time when the education sector needed to be developed through Information Communication Technology, ICT.
The Commissioner for Education, Professor Abayomi Arigbabu, represented the Governor at the event.
The building of the JAMB CBT Centre commenced mid 2019 and until its establishment, there was no centre in the whole of Yewa-North and Imeko Afon Local Government Areas of Ogun state, South west Nigeria.
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