MultiChoice Commissions More Resource Centres in Sokoto

 MultiChoice Nigeria has launched 10 additional resource centres in Sokoto, bringing to a total of 141 across the country.
 The MultiChoice educational resource centers are technological resource facilities by which the company helps to enhance learning and development in secondary schools across Nigeria.
Speaking at the launch, Hon. Muhammad Arzika Tureta, commissioner for Education, Sokoto State, said that the MultiChoice Resource Centre is a welcome development in the state and the state government would do everything possible to support the laudable venture.
Ten schools benefited from the launch of the Resource Centres which is in its sixth phase. These include Sokoto Teachers College; Sokoto; Sultan Abubakar College, Sokoto; Sheik Abukakar Mahmud Gummi Memorial College, Sokoto; Nana Girls Secondary School, Sokoto;  Women Centre for Continuing Education, Sokoto; Giginya Memorial Secondary School, Sokoto; Government Day Secondary School, Kofar Marke; Government Day Secondary School, Arkilla; Government Day Secondary School, Wamakko and Habsatu Ahmadu Bello Model Arabic Secondary School, Sokoto. 
According to Segun Fayose, head, Corporate Communication, MultiChoice Nigeria, “the MultiChoice Resource Center launch is part of the corporate social initiative of MultiChoice towards the development of education in the country.”
Fayose pointed out that MultiChoice makes available to each secondary school where the centre is launched, physical hardware including television sets, decoders and satellite dishes, learning boards, laboratory tables and chairs, power generating sets, video recorder as well as bouquet of learning and educational channels are customized to this special project and are not available commercially.
The Education Bouquet provided by MultiChoice Nigeria for this project consists of seven channels: Activate, Animal Planet, SABC Africa, Discovery, History, National Geography and BBC.
Mrs. Ronke Bello, assistant national coordinator, SchoolNet, stated that the objective of the launch “is to assist schools in making the process of learning more vivid and empirical and therefore more impactful.”
She also noted that over 50 teachers have been trained in the state in the use of the MultiChoice Resource Centre in the teaching-learning process procedures.
MultiChoice Nigeria had earlier in September launched 10 Resource Centres in 10 schools in Ibadan, Oyo State.