By Emma Elebeke

THE Lagos State Government and Zinox Technologies are going into partnership on digital education. This was stated by the Chairman of  Zinox Group, Chief Leo Stan Ekeh during a courtesy visit to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola.

He promised to use four schools in Lagos State as Digital Content Centres for its new digital Product – the ZINOX WHIZKID Ver. II, which is meant to help students  achieve excellent results in GCE, WASCE, JAMB and Post-UME nationwide. This, according to him will revolutionize education in tandem with President Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda.

The group also made a donation of  items worth over N50m to the Lagos State Government. The items donated  include: four units of fully equipped security vans, 150 units of digital radio, 150 units of digital solar lamps and 150 units of solar torchlights meant to enhance the efficiency and digital comfort of the Police and other security organizations in Lagos State, while on duty.

Chief Ekeh explained that Zinox will deploy the equipment and content, train the teachers in its digital laboratory in Gbagada and certify them ready to challenge the best teachers in the world.

Receiving the items, Governor Fashola thanked the Zinox Group for the donation, describing the gesture as a call beyond duty.

He  said: “Zinox is always one of the corporate persons that pay tax promptly. For Zinox to go beyond that and do so much for the state shows that Zinox has the heart and the head to maintain a balance between its corporate social responsibility and the size of her balance sheet”.

He said that the government would partner with Zinox in an effort to create a knowledge platform to harness innovations in the State.

Governor Fashola therefore challenged other corporate organizations in Lagos to emulate Zinox by donating to the Security Trust Fund or partnering with the government to rebuild the educational sector. He said that corporate persons who desire to intervene in education can adopt a school or a class or a set of pupils.