By Linda Nduwugwe
A stakeholders ‘sensitization forum, codenamed NASE coordinator’s retreat on entrepreneurship week, has held in Abuja, with a primary focus on how to incorporate entrepreneurship in students’ curriculum in other to help fight the rising unemployment in Nigeria.
Network for African student entrepreneurship (NASE) which is a nonprofit organisation for students and graduates, seeks to create support for graduate and student entrepreneurs across Africa and the Diaspora. It also allows peer groups to share information, network and interact on business activities on a well structured business platform
This interaction is seen as capable of fostering business minded youths in working together towards solving economic problems in Nigeria.
Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof Julius Okojie, in his welcome speech said “the reason for this summit is to make youths of Nigeria employers of labour instead of looking for white collar jobs that are not readily available”.
He further maintained that youths acquiring these entrepreneurial skills also acquire technological and communication skills thereby raising a generation of youths with value system.
Other contributions from a cross-section of the audience highlighted the importance of entrepreneurship among Nigerians, as keys to making entrepreneurship yield maximum results and that for entrepreneurship to yield this maximum result, massive engagement is necessary.
