Salaga (N/R), March 28, GNA - Mr. Moses Bukari Mabengba, the Northern Regional Minister, has urged students of second cycle institutions to use ICT for learning instead of using the facility to engage in criminal and other anti-social activities. He said it was because of the importance ICT played in effective education delivery and service that government had provided some Senior High Schools (SHSs) with computer laboratories while efforts were being made to construct more in other schools. Mr. Mabengba was addressing the maiden speech and prize giving day of the Salaga Senior High School in the East Gonja District at the weekend.

He said a number of ICT laboratories had been hooked to the internet for e-learning to keep students in touch with the rest of the world but expressed regret that some students were 93Using the facility for Sakawa and the downloading of pornographic material." Mr. Iddrisu Neindow, Headmaster of Salaga Senior High School, said the school was established 35 years ago with a student population of 54 and now has 1,346 students made up of 984 male and 362 female. The total staffing situation is 98 with a teaching staff of 48 and 50 non-teaching staff.

Mr. Neindow said since its establishment the school had seen very little infrastructural development, particularly in student accommodation.

On staff accommodation, he said only 19 out of the 48 teachers were adequately accommodated.

Mr. Neindow said ICT was being taught as theory subject in the school adding that some students had never seen or handled any part of a computer. 28 March 11