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| Vice President Yemi Osinbajo reads to students of L.E.A Primary School, Life Camp, Abuja in the company of the Rainbow Book Club founder, Mrs Koko Kalango to mark the World Book and Copyright Day (April 23rd) 2018 |
To celebrate
the 2018 UN World Book and Copyright Day, the Rainbow Book Club ran her ‘NIGERIA
READS’ Programme at the L.E.A Primary School, Life Camp, Abuja. The Vice
President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo read to the students from the book- The Legend: Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe in the
company of the Rainbow Book Club Founder, Mrs Koko KalaNgo. Other dignitires in attendance were the Minister of Education, Mr Adamu
Adamu and the FCT Minister, Alhaji Muhammed Musa Bello, the UNESCO Country
Director, Mr Ydo Yao Represented by Mr Ajaegbo.
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| Students of LEA Primary School, Life Camp, Abuja, present a handmade card to the Vice President and Mrs Kalango after a reading with the VP to mark World Book & Copyright Day (April 23rd) 2018. |
After the reading, there was a
question and answer session whereby the Vice President asked the children
questions from the book in focus and also answered the questions the children
had for him. The students asked him questions on issues such as corruption, marriage,
life as a Vice President, his childhood, bullying, and ways to regain the
country’s lost glory. The Vice President answered their questions intelligently
while advising them on ways to be better children to their parents and better
citizens to their country.
The children presented His
Excellency with a hand-made card and went on to take pictures with him.
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| Students of L.E.A Primary School pose with the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Rainbow Book Club founder Mrs Koko Kalango, the Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu ,the FCT Minister and Alhaji Muhammed Musa Bello after a reading with the Vice President to mark World Book & Copyright Day (April 23rd) 2018 |
The students and Staff of the L.E.A
Primary School, Life Camp, Abuja thanked the Vice President for motivating the
children to read and for visiting their school. The also remained very grateful
to the Rainbow Book Club for creating the opportunity for them to celebrate the
2018 World Book and Copyright Day.
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His Excellency VP Osinbajo and Mrs Kalango (founder Rainbow Book Club) pose with the excited children of L.E.A Primary School, Life Camp, Abuja after a reading with the VP to mark World Book & Copyright Day (April 23rd) 2018
RBC kicked off the ‘Get Nigeria Reading again!’ Campaign
in 2005 with Chimamanda Adichie and since then has enlisted the participation
of high profile authors, captains of industries, government officials and
celebrities to create awareness of the correlation between reading and building
a successful nation. Rainbow has
managed the Port Harcourt Book Festival (Formerly the Garden City Literary
Festival) since 2008. The work of the book club got Port Harcourt nominated as
UNESCO World Book Capital 2014. The organisation has run over 200 book clubs in
primary and secondary schools, set up 13 libraries, organised trainings for
over 500 book club facilitators, organised over 42 reading and writing
exercises to groom upcoming writers and
published some of them. We have also promoted established writers.
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Vice President Osinbajo, Rainbow Book Club founder Mrs Koko Kalango, the Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu, the FCT Minister Mr Alhaji Muhammed Musa Bello stand for the National Anthem at L.E.A Primary School, Life Camp, Abuja, where the VP read to children in company of Mrs Kalango, to mark World Book & Copyright Day 2018 |
Honorary members of the Rainbow Book Club include; Jesse
Jackson, Wole Soyinka, Emeka Anyaoku, Mathew Kukah, Oby Ezekwesili and
President Jonathan.
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