Club Rehabilitates, Equips School Labs in Kabba

Succour has finally come the way of students of St. Augustine’s College, Kabba, Kogi State, as De Family Club 1975, recently renovated and equipped the school’s Physics and Chemistry laboratories; as well as provided a borehole at the cost of N3.5 million.

The school authorities, parents, students and the Kabba Community have commended the club, saying that the students can now offer science subjects after several years of not studying Physics and Chemistry because the school had no laboratory.

Speaking at the inauguration of the project, the President of the club, Mr. Gbenga Alepa said the project was conceived when, on December 26, 2018, the Obaro of Kabba, Oba Solomon Owoniyi made a clarion call on elites from Oweland to build standard science laboratories in Kabba to encourage public school students to take science subjects.

He said the club settled for St. Augustine’s College popularly called Sainto because it was the school that produced the group of eight boys (Skymatrics group) that started the club in 1975.

“The strategic objectives of the club is to be the leading change agent in the unification of Kabba sons and daughters at home and in the diaspora, as well as the socio-economic and infrastructural development of the town.”

In his remarks, Oba Owoniyi, who is also the Chairman of Okun Traditional Council, expressed joy at the successful implementation of the project.

He said his concern about the state of schools began when he was informed that students in public secondary schools had stopped taking science subjects.