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Punch wins National Library award

Oladimeji Ramon

Your darling newspaper, The PUNCH, on Tuesday, won the National Library of Nigeria award for the Most Compliant Legal Depositor for 2017.

The award was conferred on the newspaper during the National Library of Nigeria’s Annual Readership Promotion Campaign, which held at the National Library, Alagomeji, Yaba, Lagos.

Receiving the award on behalf of The PUNCH, the Deputy Manager, Punch Information Centre, Mrs. Modupe Komolafe, said the recognition would spur the newspaper on to do more.

The programme, with the theme: “Sustaining life-long reading for positive change,” had the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, as the Special Guest of Honour, while the Deputy Director, Ministry of Education, Education District VI, Oshodi, Lagos, Alhaji Tijani Adebisi, was chairman on the occasion.

In his remarks, the governor, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Office of the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Yetunde Odejayi, lauded the National Library of Nigeria for its commitment to the promotion of knowledge acquisition for national development.

He urged all Nigerians to embrace the culture of reading, saying it was the key to national development and growth.

“I urge all Nigerians, especially our youths, to apply themselves to reading as a tool for empowerment because knowledge is power. If we are desirous of a change in our circumstances, then we have to adopt a new attitude to reading books and other materials for self-development and national growth,” Ambode said.

In his address, the National Librarian/Chief Executive Officer of the National Library of Nigeria, Prof. Lenrie Aina, said the readership promotion campaign for 2018 was aimed at “promoting reading beyond sheer utilisation and examination purposes.”

Aina, who was represented by the Acting Director, Collection Development and Technical Services Department, National Library of Nigeria, Abuja, Mrs. C. Onuoha, said as part of this year’s readership promotion campaign, the National Library of Nigeria would not only create model reading clubs in primary and secondary schools but it would also distribute books to pregnant women to read to their unborn babies.

According to Aina, a writer and child psychologist, M.M. Sabah Karini, had, in one of her works, shown that reading to unborn babies “improves the babies’ cognitive intelligence with a variety of stimuli.”

“It is, therefore, pertinent that I encourage pregnant mothers to read to their unborn babies and that we should all cultivate the culture of reading in order to benefit maximally and progress as a nation,” Aina added.

In her welcome address, the Head of the Lagos State Branch, National Library of Nigeria, Mrs. O.C. Onuorah, described the declining reading culture among pupils as a cause of the alarm, adding that it had also impacted negatively on the quality of graduates being produced by the higher institutions of learning.

The programme featured reading competition, quiz competition and spelling bee among public school pupils in Lagos State.

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