Alumni To Raise N100m For Upgrade Of School Infrastructure

The Old Students of Iseyin District Grammar School, Iseyin (IDGS) in Oyo State has launched a N100 million fund raising to construct the school’s road and redesign its main entrance gate.
The event, which was part of the 60th anniversary of the school, witnessed the inauguration of a new national executive committee to pilot the affairs of the association for the next three years.
The chairman of the occasion, who is also an alumnus, Senator Gbenga Babalola, charged all the alumni at home and in the diaspora to rededicate themselves to the development of the school’s infrastructure, students and members of staff’s welfare.
He commended the efforts of Governor Seyi Makinde on his dedication to change the fortune of the education sector for the better in Oyo State and urged the administration to do more in physical infrastructure in public schools.

“We are happy to celebrate IDGS at 60 and we have seen wonderful jobs that have been done by every set among the alumni to give the school its present enviable condition; we are rededicating ourselves to serve the school more as it has served us in the past.

“While appreciating the governor for his efforts to make education affordable and effective through policies and proper funding, we appeal for more, like Oliver Twist, we also call on the old and new sets of alumni at home and in the diaspora to continue to support the school, this we shall achieve, God willing.”

The event also witnessed the inauguration of the newly-elected national executive officers of the association, which included the national president, Alhaji Ademola Dauda and the secretary-general, Dr. Femi Oyediran.