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By Favour Ulebor
The Federal Government has said that the constitution of Chinese Corners successful schools crossed the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) volition supply Nigerian students with opportunities for planetary vulnerability and world advancement.
The Secretary for Education successful the FCT, Dr. Danlami Hayyo, stated this during the inauguration of the 14th Chinese Corner astatine Government Secondary School, Tudun Wada, connected Tuesday successful Abuja.
Hayyo explained that the inaugural had besides benefitted teachers, who participated successful capacity-building programmes successful China.
He further noted that the Chinese connection had precocious been included arsenic an planetary enactment successful the elder secondary schoolhouse curriculum, describing it arsenic a measurement that would unfastened wider doors for Nigerian students to vie globally.
He said, “Our unit and teachers too, person benefitted from the collaboration by attending capableness gathering successful China. Today we are arrogant to accidental that it is lone the FCT that has Chinese Corners successful her schools successful the full federation.”
Speaking astatine the ceremony, the Cultural Counsellor astatine the Chinese Embassy, Mr. Yang Jianxing, said the inaugural was designed not lone arsenic a schoolroom but arsenic a level to link cultures and grow opportunities.
He thanked the FCT Secondary Education Board and CCECC Nigeria Ltd. for supporting the enlargement of the programme, which helium said had go a awesome of China–Nigeria friendship.
He said, “For students, the Chinese Corner is not lone an immersive schoolroom for learning Chinese and experiencing culture, but besides a model to observe the world. Many of its beneficiaries person secured Chinese authorities scholarships, joined Chinese-funded companies successful Nigeria, oregon adjacent go Chinese teachers themselves”.
The Director/Secretary of the FCT Secondary Education Board, Dr. Muhammed Sani Ladan, described the Chinese Corner arsenic a taste and acquisition hub fostering deeper ties betwixt Nigeria and China.
He said, “Your publication to our taste and acquisition improvement is written successful golden successful our annals of history. We are grateful to the Chinese Embassy and CCECC Nigeria for this laudable project.”
In her remarks, Irene Mojisola Akerele, Principal of GSS Tudun Wada, stated that the installation would alteration students to larn Mandarin, admit Chinese culture, and payment from teacher grooming opportunities.
She said, “We are precise pleased with this gesture; enabling america to travel and larn the Chinese connection is simply a awesome of a bilateral narration betwixt the Chinese and Nigerians and it foster unity among america that makes america 1 of the Chinese Corner schools successful FCT with this caller innovation.
“You tin spot from the center, you volition announcement that everything present is purely Chinese, and arsenic such, the students volition get acquainted with the drawings, the paintings, and the books that are donated to the school.
“And the Chinese halfway trains teachers. So we judge that precise soon, we are going to person a teacher trained to travel and enactment america done the learning of this connection here.” She added
On his part, Mr. Zane Peng, Director of Corporate Culture astatine CCECC Nigeria Ltd., reaffirmed the company’s committedness to supporting Nigeria’s development.
He said, “The concern and relationship betwixt Nigeria and China person grown stronger, and CCECC volition proceed to lend to the country’s development”.
With the latest addition, the FCT present hosts 14 Chinese Corners, making it the lone portion successful Nigeria with specified a wide web of Mandarin and taste learning facilities.
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