The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Dr Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, on Monday, commissioned the renovated Ife Girls’ High School, Eleyele, Ile-Ife, Osun State
This was as he announced university scholarships for the three best-performing students of the school in their next school certificate examinations.
Adeniyi challenged the students to justify the investment in their education through outstanding academic performance.
The renovation includes four blocks of 15 classrooms, a block of four laboratory rooms, an Admin/Staff Block, the Principal’s Lodge (now the NYSC Lodge), a gatehouse and a fence.
Newly built were structures such as 10 toilets, a borehole with nine water distribution outlets, solar power for the borehole, staff rooms and classes, an all-purpose sports court for basketball, volleyball, tennis and badminton, as well as chairs and tables for 200 students, among others.
The students were provided with 200 school bags, 1,000 notebooks, 400 pens, 200 pencils, 200 erasers, 200 sharpeners and 200 rulers as learning materials.
Adeniyi urged the students to become good ambassadors of the school and return in the future to contribute to its development, just as old students had done.
According to him, the intervention was necessary to revive girl-child education at the school, which has more than 60 years of history but had suffered a decline in enrolment.
Adeniyi said the school, which once had thousands of students, had about 200 students before the intervention.
The Customs boss said efforts would be made to equip the laboratory and improve other facilities.
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