Modification of varsity curriculum will check unemployment – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advocated modification of curriculum of Nigerian universities to include skills acquisition, as a way out of the high rate of graduates’ unemployment in the country.
Obasanjo made the suggestion on Tuesday in Makurdi during a private visit to the Vice- Chancellor, Benue State University ( BSU),Makurdi, Prof. Msugh Kembe.
Obasanjo lamented the high turnout of university graduates, while available jobs to accommodate them were getting slimmer by the years.
He recalled that since Nigeria had her first university in 1948 and now, the number of universities in the country had increased tremendously with millions of students graduating yearly.
Obasajo said the country had reached the stage where attention had to be focused on job creation to accommodate the large number of graduates that were coming out of universities and other tertiary institutions.
The former president advised the V-C to forge collaboration with other V-Cs for the purpose of wooing foreign investors into the country to expand the economic space.
He commended BSU for its doggedness in sustaining its College of Health Sciences in spite of the many financial challenges, which resulted to graduating its first batch of medical doctors in nine years.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the school was inaugurated by the former president in 2007 during his second tenure.
Receiving the ex-president in his office, Kembe said the visit was “auspicious” coming ” barely three weeks after the induction of the first batch of medical doctors from the college.’’
He appealed to the former president to use his influence within government circles to secure funds for the university to build hostels, the senate house and install needed facilities. (
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This old man should stop talking trash, skill acquisition won’t create employment without the right environment. ask your friends to Put the right things in place first, e.g. electricity, good means of transportation. then watch Nigerians unleash their potential, Nigerians don’t need your skill acquisition bullshit
Skills development is fundamentally imperative. Even entrepreneurial universities public or private are highly relevant
Obj, just bring back your loot and leave the rest. You joined the military when it was the exclusive preserve of school dropouts, but today, you own a university established with stolen public funds and even suggest tweaking university curriculum to create jobs. Which curriculum prepared you to steal? If not for distortions in the society which brought roguish school dropouts to mismanage our economy, who would hear of thieving charlatans like you, IBB, Abacha, Abdulsalami and Jonathan? It is imbecilic presidents like you that caused unemployment in the country through their senseless looting. You should bury your empty head in shame. Grand old fool!
OBJ stole $16b in the name of electricity and nothing to show for. It is only in Nigeria that this evil man can still be reckoned with.
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