Rotary Club Gbagada South has donated books and awarded scholarship to some indigenes of Ijede community in Lagos State.
Its President Ademola Olutusin made the donation during the fourth Ijede Development Foundation (IDF) lecture, which held at Ijede Townhall.
Olutusin said the gesture was part of the club’s contribution to the town’s educational development. He said as a service organisation, yearly the club focuses on six areas, including education.
He said though Ijede is not within its area, Rotray came there because he is from the town. He promised to do more for the town during his tenure. ‘
‘During my tenure, I will focus on Ijede,” he said, adding: ”I will build a toilet in one of the primary schools. We have gone round and discovered that one of the public schools has no good toilets.”
Olutusin said the books, which included mathematics, quantitative reasoning and verbal aptitudes texts, would only go to pupils of public primary schools in the community – Anglican Primary School and Anwar Ul-Islam Primary School.
IDF Chairman Alhaji Fola Salu praised Rotary and Olutusin for the gesture. He urged Rotary to continue to support the town. He said yearly the Foundation gives scholarship to some students of tertiary institutions who are doing well in their studies.
In a lecture titled: Entrepreneurship: Future of the Nigerian youth, Registrar ( Information and Public Relations), Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, Olanrewaju Kuye, harped on the need for the upcoming generation to embrace entrepreneurship as a way out of unemployment.
He said: ”The global economic trend today solely relies on entrepreneurship for national development. Developed countries over the years into this trend, which yielded good results that made them world powers.
“Nigerian youths should begin clearly that their future is tied to entrepreneurship. The government should begin to do more investment on youths in the area of entrepreneurship training, funding, development, wetc both local and international levels.”