Toro old boys to improve learning in alma mater
Old students of Toro Science School in Bauchi State, have promised to put more efforts to improve learning and student welfare in their alma mater.
The Toro Old Boys Association (TOSOBA) at its 10th Annual General Meeting held in the school’s assembly hall with the theme, “The role of old boys association in resuscitating public schools, “promised to galvanise its members’ interest towards repositioning the school back to its past glory.
In his key note address, the chairman of the occasion, Chief Medical Director (CMD), Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe, Dr. Abubakar Sa’idu, said the association would be transformed to be more strategic in its activities towards improving the school.
He therefore called on members to be more proactive in line with the objectives of the association and to view it beyond a platform for social meeting but see themselves as role models and shapers of society. Earlier in a welcome address, the national president of the association, Mr. Umar Tanimu Umar, expressed his happiness on the cooperation received from members for the success of the meeting.
He urged members to be diligent in discharge of their respective obligations and enjoined them to actively tackle the challenges facing the school.
He also called on Bauchi State government to improve the school’s learning facilities.
The theme of the meeting was discussed by Professor Demo Kalla of the Department of Animal Production, ATBU Bauchi who also called on the alumni of the school to help towards its resuscitation.
In their various remarks, the special guest of honour, the Bauchi State Attorney- General and Commissioner of Justice, Barrister Ibrahim Yakubu Umar, the MD/CEO, Naval Building and Construction Co Ltd, Rear Admiral Abdul Adamu and the school’s PTA Chairman, Alhaji Baba Ahmed Toro asked the old boys to do the needful in the revival of the school.
Emir of Dass, Alhaji Uthman Bilyamin Usman who was also the chairman board of trustees of the association, asked members to contribute more to the development of the school.