Kunle Adelabu
The COHORT 2 students of the Ikorodu Division Resource Development Group (IDRDG), IT Launchpad, have graduated after 9 weeks of intense training.
A total of 50 students were trained at the Barr. Samuel A.B. Oteju ICT &’Innovation Hub of the Alhaji Musediq Alogba E – Library & Research Centre, Ikorodu Town Hall, Ikorodu, on Saturday, November 25, 2023.
At the ceremony attended by Chairman, IDRDG, Sen. Adeseye Ogunlewe, former IDRDG Chairman, Chief Tele Oduloye and other guests, Master Olanubi Moses, Miss Adiele Faith and Master Olaleye Olamide emerged as the overall best, first and second runners-up of the COHORT 2, respectively. .
Certificates of Participation were presented to all the participants, while the three best students will be presented with a laptop each and N30, 000, N20, 000 and N10, 000, respectively.
They also got automatic admission into the SAIL Innovation Lab as pledged by Senator Tokunbo Abiru, when he attended the graduation of the COHORT I two months ago.
Mr Afolabi Abiodun, a member of the IDRDG who facilitated the training, congratulated the graduands and charged them to make use of the opportunity that they have acquired and also improve on it.
“It has been 9 intensive weeks of Launchpad training and I appreciate this class and the Resource Group for providing this platform for the youths”, he said.
“It is an opportunity for the students to learn, unlearn and relearn. As students, you have been able to do things that ordinarily you will not be able to do before now.
“I can see that you are very proud of yourself and I congratulate you. With the skill sets that you have learnt, you now have edge over your contemporaries and opportunities to further improve on it and make yourself employable”, he added.
Afolabi charged the graduating students to continue to go for further training and not relax on the knowledge that the IDRDG IT Launchpad has offered them.
Sen. Ogunlewe, speaking, thanked the IDRDG IT Launchpad faculty led by Afolabi Abiodun and also congratulated the students for dedicating their time to learn about ICT.
He enjoined them to continue to improve their knowledge on STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), which he said is the direction that the world is going.
He announced that Sen. Abiru has donated N2million for further upgrading of the facility, and charged the faculty on the need to use it in providing needed facilities at the centre.
