The National Library of Nigeria recently launched its 2023 annual Reading Promotion Campaign entitled Read Your Way To The Top.
Varying from previous campaigns, this year’s is focused on the organization of reading competitions amongst students of Junior Secondary Schools across the nations.
“It is another block placed on the foundation of last year’s campaign to impact the hinterlands where we could reach out of school children,” the National Librarian and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Prof Chinwe Anunobi.
Meantime, founder, Havillah Publishing company, Lanre Adesuyi pledged a N50 million worth of books to the national library for the reading campaign.
“With this, we are going to work with Havillah to ensure the books given with us are Nigerian-based and within the age range of the children – from light and short reading materials to more intellectual ones. mind you, N50 million is nothing because books are quite expensive today,” concluded Anunobi.
Last year, the reading campaign targeted at the hinterlands saw the distribution of books, writing materials, reading tablets to schools and vulnerable ‘hard-to-reach’ groups across 36 states of the country; thus, impacting over 4000 people – comprising secondary school students in about 102 secondary schools, in addition to male and female adults. The apex library also donated over 1855 volumes titles of reading materials to 16 out of 46 primary, secondary and higher institutions that requested for resources support.
