Ogun education commissioner charges pupils on reading

Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Professor Abayomi Arigbabu has identified reading as a tool that can help children boost their spellings, vocabulary, storytelling as well as master public speaking skills in order to  develop and prepare them for future challenges.

Professor Arigbabu made this known at the opening ceremony of the annual children storytelling/reading activities, skill acquisition and other related activities tagged: “Inculcating Reading Habits in Children” which was held at the Simeon Adebo Library, Abeokuta.

According to him, the storytelling programme is in tandem with the vision of the present administration, to prepare children for future challenges.

He charged the children to pay rapt attention to the programme, saying, “I want to implore you to pay attention to every detail as no skill is useless; the skills you learn today will no doubt become useful to you later in life.”

He stated that the state government would continue to create an enabling environment and organise programmes that would drive the education sector.

He added also that apart from the reading activities, the children would be trained in various skills, such as, financial literacy, oral skill presentation, music, drawing and art work, computer appreciation and many more.

He therefore enjoined them to take active participation in all the programmes in order to be well-rounded academically, technically and socially at the end of the programme.

In his remarks, the chairman of the occasion, Dr Taofeek Salisu emphasised that reading is as important as life, noting that readers do not only read to pass but are exposed to things going on around the world.

Dr Salisu advised children to join book clubs in their various schools, stressing that reading would help to sharpen their mental abilities and increase their thinking capacities.

In their goodwill messages, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Technical Education and Vocational Training, Professor Joseph Odemuyiwa, The ANCOPSS President, Dr (Mrs) Ayodele Womiloju and Dr Oyinade Tomori submitted that effective reading sharpens mental ability, develop people’s skills, gives a lot of exposures and that anyone who stops reading may not excel in life.

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