Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, commissioned the first Solar and Electronic classroom, E-Classroom, to boost learning ability of public secondary school students in the state.
The state government also in collaboration with Tanus Book Limited, unveiled its own version of the Opon-Imo, computer tablets, to boost students Information Technology, IT skills.
Fashola who handed over the project at the Ayedere/Ajibola Junior Secondary School, Ketu, Lagos, said that the initiative was to ensure that schools in the state depend less on electricity for their academic activities.
The governor stated that the idea to start in the school was as a reward to the school for winning the year 2013 ‘Power kids’ energy initiative competition for public schools in Lagos.
The governor who was represented by the Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr. Taofiq Folami added that the state government has concluded plans to deploy this initiative to all the schools across the state.
Explaining the components in the E-classroom, Fashola said: “The installed system comprises of 55 units of 185 watts, 10KVA inverter, four units charger and 16 units of batteries.
On the tablets, the governor said “This is similar to the opon-imo because they both use computer tablets. And the only addition to this is that we are deploying renewable energy to power the facilities. It is to help the students reduce the number of text books they carry about daily.”
