As part of activities to commemorate its 25th Anniversary, a petroleum and manufacturing company, Lubcon Groups has donated 8,000 books on entrepreneurship to the 566 public senior secondary schools in Kwara State.

Copies of the book titled: Entrepreneurship for Senior Secondary Schools, were also presented to local government chairmen, some federal institutions and private secondary schools in the state.

Speaking at the presentation of the books in Ilorin, Acting Group Managing Director, Lubcon Groups, Kalu Onwunta said the book, written by Dr. Muritala Awodun, a former Dean of School of Business and Governance, Kwara State University, Malete, was inaugurated by Lubcon to expose secondary school pupils to entrepreneurship.

He said: "To celebrate our 25 years of performance, we decided to commission a textbook on entrepreneurship for senior secondary schools, to bring closer to our children what we have been practising in the past two and half decades.

"Entrepreneurship is new in secondary schools but is a compulsory subject. As there had not been many books on this subject at the secondary school level, we decided, as part of our corporate social responsibility to commission a book on the subject.

"We do hope that the schools will find the books useful. We encourage the principals to ensure that their students excel in entrepreneurship to make our society better, now that white collar jobs are difficult to come by." Appreciating the gesture, the Kwara State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Musa Yeketi said the books would add value to education in the state.

"The state government believes that the future of youths lie in entrepreneurship training as it will enable them set up their own businesses rather than relying on white collar jobs.

"This laudable achievement will no doubt go a long way in enhancing both teaching and learning in schools.

"I therefore call on the school principals and all those in charge of libraries to jealously safeguard the books with a view to ensuring their effective usage as a way of encouraging other corporate bodies and other public spirited individuals to donate to our schools," he said.

Yeketi also spoke of plans by the state to train about 500 teachers on entrepreneurship in collaboration with the Kwara State University (KWASU). He urged the management of Lubcon Groups to assist in the training as a result of paucity of funds.