FirstBank donates digital learning boards to LASUSTECH

First Bank of Nigeria Ltd has donated five units of 82 inches Ultra High Definition (UHD) digital learning boards to the Lagos State University of Science and Technology, (LASUSTECH).

It was reported that the boards were presented to the institution on Thursday at the school’s campus in Ikorodu.

Mr Olumide Roberts, Business Manager, Public Sector, Lagos Team2, FirstBank, said the donation was part the bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to higher institutions “in furtherance of learning”.

Roberts added that it was also a mutually beneficial relationship between the bank and the institution ,which he said was one of its big customers.

LASUSTECH Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olumuyiwa Odusanya, thanked First Bank management for being thoughtful to provide the interactive boards, which he said , would help the institution’s digitisation processes.

“These boards are connectible to the internet, so, it can store information, be used for assignments and also find things readily online.

“It is like bringing a huge computer to class, that can teach, that can be used to write, that can be used to store.

“It is one of the best gifts we have received this year and we are grateful to First Bank. And we equally ask them to do more, after all, they are our biggest bankers,” he said.

Odusanya urged other organisations to emulate First Bank by making donations to universities ,which he described as engine rooms of the nation’s development.

He said that education funding should not be left for government alone, saying that in the long term, universities have symbiotic effect of producing highly skilled manpower required across sectors.

The VC said a board would be given to each college in the institution, noting that additional donations could spread from the facility to departmental levels.

It was reported that Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), Ikorodu, was accredited by the National Universities Commission in 2022 to run 37 academic programmes in five colleges.