The Plateau State government has distributed digital skills equipment to 80 senior secondary schools across the 17 local government areas under subcomponent 2.2A: Digital literacy and remote learning platforms.
While presenting the equipment to principals of the benefiting schools in Jos, the state commissioner for education, Mrs Elizabeth Wapmuk, said each school would have a complete equipment of solar panels, inverters, tuber batteries and charge control.
Other equipment include 20 laptops and internet connectivity as well as projectors, motorised projectors/screen, ‘digital safe’ to protect the laptops. She said the equipment would reduce the digital infrastructure gap among students in the state.
The commissioner said the use of computers and digital technology is a requirement for future empowerment of the population, noting that without digital literacy, youths would be at a major disadvantage both economically and educationally.
“If we fail to provide them education for…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
