COVID 19: FirstBank introduces learning to minimize schools’ closure disruption

&NewLine;<p><strong> <&sol;strong>First Bank of Nigeria Limited&comma; premier Bank in West Africa and the leading banking services solutions provider in Nigeria for over 125 years has introduced e-learning for students across Nigeria as a patriotic response to fill the gap and keep students busy in this period of schools’ closure as a result of COVID 19&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This was disclosed by the&NewLine;CEO of FirstBank Dr&period; Adesola Adeduntan who &nbsp&semi;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;announced that the Bank in partnership with&NewLine;government and other stakeholders is extending its attention to immediate needs&NewLine;in our society in the face of the widespread COVID-19 by putting in place&NewLine;complementary efforts in education to support students and minimize the&NewLine;disruption to education resulting from schools’ closure&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A statement signed by Folake&NewLine;Ani-Mumuney&comma; Group Head&comma; Marketing &amp&semi; Corporate Communications and made&NewLine;available to OpenLife&comma; the bank stated that &nbsp&semi;the initiative is a follow up of the &nbsp&semi;Bank’s Business Continuity Process through&NewLine;which it has deployed measures to safe guard staff&comma;&nbsp&semi; customers &nbsp&semi;and stakeholders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Emphasizing the need to&NewLine;keep children engaged during the unfortunate closure of schools&comma; Adeduntan said&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we are warmed by the fact that different organizations have risen to the&NewLine;various challenges and are supporting in areas such as health and welfare&comma; and&NewLine;we feel the peculiar needs of our children and youth must not be left out and&NewLine;have therefore elected to focus on contributing to solving the current&NewLine;education challenge through e-learning&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>To achieve this objective which is built on partnership&comma; he stated that the bank would be working with governments at the State level&comma; &nbsp&semi;United Nations Global Compact and &nbsp&semi;Robert &amp&semi; John &nbsp&semi;to provide the e-learning solution in accordance with government approved curriculum&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The roll out begins first&NewLine;week in April starting with Lagos State where FirstBank will support the roll&NewLine;out of Roducate which has been adjudged a best fit solution by educators&comma;&NewLine;teachers and all necessary authorities&comma;” the statement said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>While calling on other&NewLine;stakeholders for &nbsp&semi;supports&comma; the bank disclosed&NewLine;that the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Solution has the full curriculum on both the online and offline&NewLine;versions with the offline version of particular interest as it eliminates the&NewLine;challenge posed by data affordability&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;