How Mrs. Stella Akinbohun Gives Boost To Education In Ondo State
The Principal of Commercial Secondary School, Akure, Mrs. Stella Omosileola Akinbohun has deployed ‘pull and push’ strategy to advance the course of education in Ondo State.
Apart from her high level of intelligence and discipline, she also put her personal resources into good use to support less privileged students to access quality education.
Some of the indigent students from her school benefited Jamb Scholarship from her last year and she also donated books and writing materials to some financially challenged students as the school resummed new academic calendar year on Monday 18th of September, 2023.
While having a chat with the Democrat News Magazine in her office on Tuesday 26th of September she said that has been consistent in driving the development of Commercial Secondary School, Akure since she came to the school some years ago.
She pointed out that the excellence height that the school has attained is attributed to God and the collaborative efforts of the management and teachers of the school.
“God has been help us to maintain excellence and we have to raise the bar higher this new session.
“We should be our brothers’ keeper. The little I can do, I have done it and I will like to encourage others to do same to make life more meaningful for all and sundry because education is the bedrock of very society.
“Let me tell you that some of the students that benefited from our Jamb Scholarship last year scored above 200 marks, one of them scored 275, to me, it is an encouragement to do more.
In the same way, Mrs. Akinbohun charged the students to shun violence and thuggery and that parents should give adequate attention to their children.
While calling on government to employ more teachers to fill the vacancies in the various Secondary Schools across the state, she also charged teachers not to relent in their efforts towards excellent performances of their students.