Twenty years after graduation, the 1997 set of the Old Students Association of Lisabi Grammar School, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday, commissioned an e-library for the use of the current students of the school.
President General of the 1997 set, Dr. Olumide Sorunmu, said that the e-library was donated by the members in order to celebrate their 20 years of passing out from the institution and to also give back to their alma mater .
Sorunmu, who lamented that the social media had taken over reading culture from students, said that the e-library would inculcate serious reading culture in them.
He said, “Unfortunately, civilization is fast turning our young ones away, hence a need for total re-inclusion of library in learning. We have encouraged them to go back to back to the library, pick their books and sink their heads in them.
“We want them to feel so at home as they gather knowledge by themselves. From this day, we want the library to become the womb of greatness for our young academicians- hence we have come with this token.
“To this end, on this day, we are donating sets of furniture to the school library. We want our young “Lisabians” to feel comfortable as they sink their heads in books.”
Sorunmu, who is a veterinary surgeon at the Ogun State Veterinary Hospital, Ita Eko, Abeokuta, noted that the set of furniture donated to the library would only take about 40 computers with an equal number of 40 students operating the systems.
The president, while mentioning the names of great men who had passed out of the school, including the founder of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare ; the former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Tunde Lemo, among others, urged the students to focus on their studies in order to be great in life.
“Take your destiny in your hand. Help yourself to unlimited greatness because no one can really put you down until you sponsor the coup yourself. Invest your life in learning and learning alone,” he said.
Speaking on the occasion, the Principal of the Senior Secondary School, Lisabi Grammar School, Mr. Olufemi Okeowo, thanked the set for donating the e-library, saying that it would help to promote good readership culture among the students.
The Acting Head boy, Olukoya Ayobami, noted that the library would boost the reading culture of the students and also aid their academic performance.
