By SundiataPOST, NAN
The Sokoto State Government on Saturday donated 100 computers to some physically challenged students of the Abdulrasheed Adisa Raji Special School for the Physically-Challenged.
The Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Yusuf Danchadi, made the disclosure at the graduation of the beneficiaries from a three-month computer appreciation course.
The course was organised by the Sokoto State Education Development Trust Fund ( SEDTF).
Danchadi, who was represented by the Director, Sokoto State Education Resource Centre, Alhaji Abubakar Dange, said that the gesture was to assist the physically-challenged students to pursue education with relative ease.
The commissioner expressed optimism that the students would continue with their computer study after the training.
He commended SEDTF for the effort to educate the students on Information Communication Technology (ICT).
In a remark, the Chairman, Vocational Training Committee of SEDTF, Alhaji Tukur Abdurrahman, said it was imperative to educate and train students in ICT “because that is what is in vogue globally.’’