NDDC Reaffirms Commitment To Education, Capacity Building

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has reaffirmed its committedness to boosting acquisition and quality capableness improvement successful the Niger Delta region.

The NDDC lawman manager of Education, Health and Social Services, Mrs. Florence Ediagbonya, disclosed this during a sensitisation rally successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State, arsenic portion of the International Literacy Day activities.

Ediagbonya emphasised the event’s importance, explaining that the locomotion aimed to rise consciousness astir International Literacy Day and showcase the Commission’s ongoing efforts to beforehand literacy crossed the Niger Delta region.

She highlighted respective initiatives of the Commission nether Dr Samuel Ogbuku’s enactment to beforehand literacy and education. These see overseas and section postgraduate assistance programmes, the organisation of tablets and acquisition materials to schools, and different impactful interventions to physique an enlightened and inclusive society.

The lawman manager noted that NDDC had built hostels successful antithetic tertiary institutions, constructed classrooms, donated desks and different facilities successful galore schools and assorted communities crossed the Niger Delta Region.

“This sensitisation is not lone important to the NDDC but besides to the world. Literacy is the bedrock of improvement and a cardinal quality right. Every idiosyncratic deserves the basal quality to read, write, speak, and communicate,” Ediagbonya said.

She noted that the NDDC was committed to ensuring that communities successful the Niger Delta are not near down successful the planetary pursuit of literacy.

The manager commended Ogbuku, for his dedication to improving acquisition successful the region, stating that helium had empowered the Education Directorate to intensify enactment connected literacy.

She stressed: “Literacy is the bedrock of development; it is simply a cardinal quality right. Every quality being connected world is expected to beryllium literate.”