Information reaching us has it that Oyo State Government is coming up with her own version of tablets for secondary schools students in the state.

We heard that the tablets which may likely be called ‘Ajumo’mo tablets’ are already in production in one of the Asian countries, and the department in charge, the ICT, are putting finishing touches to the project. We hear that it will be for higher secondary schools first before getting to other levels of education in public schools in the state.

The tablets we hear will be packed full of textbooks for schools, past questions, encyclopedia, games, dictionary, holy books etc and it will come with a solar panel for charging as a way to address the epileptic power supply available in the country .

adaobi123: Wow, interesting move.......

Afam4eva:
INteresting indeed...I guess i'll be expecting other ACN states to do same.

Afam4eva:
INteresting indeed...I guess i'll be expecting other ACN states to do same.

django1: It means 'knowing together'.
One thing I don't approve of is the way he coins things to blend with his name.

Afam4eva:
He should leave subsequent governors to name things after him and not him naming it after himself. It's not just right. If this stuff succeeds, the next governor might see a need scrapping if not for anything but for the fact that it has the name of the previous governor attached to it.

Meritbaba: Must you criticise everything from the SW?

Afam4eva: Btw, what does "Ajumo Mo" mean? is it only me that thinks it sounds like Ajumobi? I just hope this guy didn't name the device after himself.

Desola: Ajumo mo ko, ojumo mo ni. Why couldn't he just leave it at the befitting name given by Aregbe. Just trying to out do sha!

Anyway, if I see them throw another yeye unnecessary party to launch this thing again I would make a formal complaint!

cogitoErgo: hmmm, using our collective money federal govt. will soon buy ipad/tablet for all unity schools and a[b] kid in Yobe with a score of 2 [/b]will have ipad/tablet he/she can not use while a kid in Anambra with a score of 130 will not be able to get the ipad/tablet he/she so much yearn to work with!

Eko Atlantic: Aregbe has laid the foundation for other governors thanks to him.
Expecting Lagos, Edo, Ogun and other states in Nigeria to follow suit.

God bless Nigeria.

Dudu_Negro: Why do we need to call it "Ajumo Mo" in Oyo but Opon Imo in Osun?

Do the students of Oyo state not know what "Opon Imo" means? By now we are fourth generation degree families in Yorubaland......its time we apply the synergy value that works effectively in Western societies. There is no need to name Opon Imo differently in each of our governing states. If a state comes up with something ingenous we should deploy it for uniformity.

Why reinvent an effective and productive wheel?

If i may add, this introduction becomes part of the achievement in the DAWN scorecard.

Afam4eva: Btw, what does "Ajumo Mo" mean? is it only me that thinks it sounds like Ajumobi? I just hope this guy didn't name the device after himself.

Afam4eva: Btw, what does "Ajumo Mo" mean? is it only me that thinks it sounds like Ajumobi? I just hope this guy didn't name the device after himself.

pro01: The devil is in the details, as always. The 'Nigerian Factor' would always come into play. This whole Opon Imo initiative (or by any other name) seems unsustainable, considering the unit production price, likely high rate/incidence of damage, high turnover of students, and endless room for corrupt practices at every stage of the chain (from the governor/government officials, to contractors, ministry of education oficials, all the way to teachers).

In less than two years from now, the project would prove too much of a drain on resources to survive. It's just one of those white elephant projects conceived for short-term PR purposes with little chance of long term sustainability.

UNESCO Endorses Opon Imo for Osun State Students
Posted date: Jun 4, 2013




ILESHA, OSUN: Country Director, UNESCO, Prof. Hassana Alidou has endorsed Osun State public school computer initiative popularly called Opon Imo, Tablet of Knowledge. She said the computer initiative was a unique initiative that would galvanize learning and engender development.

Alidou, who was the guest speaker on the occasion at the Opon Imo unveiling ceremony, held in the historical city of Ilesha, said Osun had inaugurated its students on the superhighway of information technology, stressing that the initiative would change the face of learning in the state and country.

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka also described the initiative as a “revolution” which will alter the face of learning in the country. Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal; former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; and a former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu also spoke at the inauguration of the initiative.

Soyinka, who spoke through a Professor of Molecular Biology, Sola Adeyeye, said all tiers of governments must provide solutions to challenges confronting the country. The Laureate recalled that the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries witnessed the blackman swimming in the backwaters of underdevelopment, adding that the blackman never fared better in the 20th Century.

He said the computer used when the United States landed the first man, Neil Armstrong, on the moon weighed three tones with five gigabytes, stressing that science and technology had evolved to produce handy mobile phones with 76 megabytes. Commending Aregbesola for initiating the use of the computer tablet, Soyinka, who said he was “filled with envy,” described the innovation as a “groundbreaker”.

Soyinka said, “It is a pioneering achievement in the area of education development. The blackman is still behind. This is the challenge every president, every governor, leaders should face. Osun is developing, something tells me.” Tambuwal described the inauguration of the initiative as “a remarkable day in the annals of Osun, in particular and Nigeria, in general”.

The Speaker commended the state government for providing the students with the device, adding that Osun had blazed the trail in education. Atiku, who explained that ICT remained a veritable tool for learning and development, stressed that the beneficiaries of the initiative pupils would be exposed to computer education. He said, “This is unique. This is innovative. This is leadership. Digital learning is the way forward for this country.”

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, said the public presentation of the computer tablets symbolised the breaking of the yoke of backwardness afflicting the Africa. He said, “He who opens a school door, closes a prison door. We won’t look back in laying a foundation for education in Osun. We are saving N50.25bn, which won’t be used to buy 17 textbooks, WAEC, JAMB textbooks and 51 audio tutorials in the next 10 years. The device, which only weighs 1.1kg, contains a virtual library, e-classroom and 17 textbooks on various subjects.”