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Library Equipment: Dangote Partner With PH Club
Dangote Group of Companies had Partnered with Port Harcourt Club in equipping its library to standard.
Speaking at the commissioning ceremony of the library the company’s Managing Director, Alhaji Adesina Sijuade Tajudeen said the gesture was one of its corporate efforts in boosting education and commended the management of the club for judiciously utilising the amount given to them for the project.
Tajudeen who noted that gone were the days when schools had a dispensary and library, said that the equipping and commissioning of the Port Harcourt Club library would help in improving the reading culture of children, so that they could be future authors.
He expressed satisfaction with the provision of computers and a website in the library and enjoined the management and the children to protect and utilise them effectively, as it is first of its kind.
In his remarks, the president of Port Harcourt Club, Mr. Churchill Uti thanked Dangote Group for their support to the Club and hoped that the spirit would be sustained for closer relationship.
Uti was happy with the company’s corporate gesture to partner with individuals and organisations alike to improve facilities at the club, and assured of judicious good use of the facilities.
He said that the Dangote Group donated the sum of N5 million for the establishment and upgrading both the adult and children library as well as a website and computers for the section, pointing out that the library is free for all members of Port Harcourt Club and their families.
The president reiterated his dream to make Port Harcourt Club grow faster than any other club in the country, and assured that with the support and co-operation of all, his dream will be actualised.
Mr. Uti however, called on other companies, organisations and individuals to borrow a leaf from Dangote Group as they have been doing a lot in sports and education nationwide.
Highlights of the occasion was the presentation of souvenir to the managing Director of Dangote Group, Alhaji Tujudeen, and the club’s secretary, Barr Soalabo West.
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