Read How University Can Save Nigeria’s Economy From Depression

Idea of establishing a university is to develop human skills capable of solving various problems in the society.

Such skills are expected to be developed from different courses and disciplines. University, which is often called gown, presents a great opportunity to earn money as well as a degree when appropriate techniques are employed in imparting the needed knowledge on the students.

Having discovered that government and private businesses cannot provide white collar jobs sought after by 1.8 million graduates in Nigeria yearly, the federal government in 2006 set up entrepreneurship studies, and made it compulsory for students of higher institutions irrespective of area of specialization.

Since entrepreneurship became compulsory course in most of the country’s institutions, what has been its contributions in churning out entrepreneurs from the universities? Despite being enshrined in the university’s curriculum, a number of graduates are still seeking employment in various establishments.

It has been discovered that some of the lecturers who teach the course do not have entrepreneurial skills sufficient enough to equip the students for the challenges ahead. No doubt that a great number of them have proven teaching skills –imparting knowledge in line with best global practices, but there is still a need to move from traditional way of teaching.

They need to be more innovative in crafting industrial-related course’s plan that would produce successful business owners beyond the campuses. Information about marketable ideas should be prioritized and acquired by the students in their preparation into entrepreneurship rather than job-seeking world.

In advanced countries such as United Kingdom and United States of America, where entrepreneurship is also compulsory for students, emphasis is more on teaching the students on how to address lifetime goals and personalized such for creating successful businesses.

This is not only important to these countries in their quest towards rolling out successful entrepreneurs from their universities, having access to resources on campus is also crucial.

Strategically, the countries ensure that student start-ups have access to physical office space and a means to accelerate their ideas on campus. Nigeria has a lot to learn from these countries considering the number of graduates coming out from our universities every year as against the number of available jobs both in the public and private sectors.

Government at all levels also need to double their efforts towards entrepreneurship development through government, university and professional advisory partnership.

Dead body of Amodu Shuaibu

Update : Dead body of Amodu Shuaibu at his home town, Okpella in Edo state.

When i heard this i cried, Amodu Shuaibu came to Benin to beg for his 17 months unpaid salary from the Edo State Government. In the evening of yesterday, his wife called him to say they were starving at home and the man became agitated. Soon after, he complained of chest pain and he later died at night. His corpse has since been buried, with Edo State Government officials from Etsako area shedding crocodile tears.

The Edo State Commissioner for Sports was slapped severally at the mortuary.

Am not surprised at this very appalling scenario in Edo State because many pensioners are owed as much as 42 months, Judicial workers are owed at least 9 months, just as many other State Government workers under the aegis of COEASU including LGA workers like for example, Egor LGA workers are being owed 16 months salaries.

This is Wickedness in its Highest Order.

Why will any Sane Government torment her citizens all in the name of Change???

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Boko Haram Displays Arms Captured After Attacking Yobe Town

According to Terror Monitor, an organization which closely monitors and reports terrorists actions globally, Islamic State affiliate group Boko Haram has showed off arms, ammunition and other items captured after a recent attack on Kanamma town of Yobe State, north east Nigeria.
According to reports, residents said the insurgents stormed the town on Monday night, shooting sporadically, before attacking the Divisional Police Station of the area and some shops in the town.
According to them, the insurgents were on rampage in “search of food” and consumed beverages among other eatables in the shops.
The Yobe State Commissioner of Police, Mr Chika Maidam, who confirmed the attack said the insurgents, who came in their numbers, attacked the Divisional Police Station of the area.
He revealed that three of his men were injured during the raid but have been treated at the Geidam General Hospital and discharged.

Thief Who Stole Generator In Sapele Caught In The Act

A thief in Sapele known as Godstime has been nabbed by some youths in the town after a failed attempt doing his act.
According to a Source who leaves in the area (Shell Road), Orodje grammar school area Sapele, sent this in and we confirmed it.
His victim known as Ese Imoni, found his documnet with him and also stole their Generator set which the said Godstime placed in a sack back.
After he was confronted, he could not say anything, rather he had to be begging for mercy saying it is the work of the devil.
Reports gathered from the Shell road residents also confirmed to us that there have been increase in the case of theft in the area for some months now, this occurs on a weekly basis..
Godstime was later given some beaten of his life and handed to the securities.

Open Letter To FG – Scrap NYSC

I have read online about the purported postponement of the NYSC. I have decided to compile several reasons why the NYSC should be scrapped.
I don’t want this to come across to you as a political propaganda, I am neither for APC nor PDP I only represent myself in this view and a few others who will see reason with this. I fully represent NIGERIA.
Dear Mr President, DG NYSC and Mr Senate president,
I write to you with great respect because its not easy to be a leader and I humbly present my case that the NYSC scheme should either be scrapped or redefined to fit into the future of this great nation. Permit me to start with the reasons why I think the scheme be scrapped or amended after which I will talk about probable amendments that could be implemented.
WHY THE NYSC SCHEME SHOULD BE SCRAPPED/AMENDED.
1. The scheme was created to help the nation heal quickly from the effects of the Civil war: Now the civil war is over and we should be focused on avoiding another war- an intra personal war. This is a war that a person fights with himself otherwise known as Confusion.
How do you expect someone who studied Biochemistry to teach intergtated science effectively? First of, the graduate studied Biochemistry and not Biochemistry education! The former is practical and field related while the latter has to do with class activities)
2. Too much money is expended on this scheme and there are no visible results: I personally believe that the money spent on the NYSC scheme will be enough to create jobs for these graduates. Its not yielding results because after the 1-year mandatory service most of the graduates are left jobless and without savings to start up a business of their own – they don’t have savings not because they don’t want to but because the cost of ‘survival’ is high. NOTE that I used ‘cost of survival’ and not ‘cost of living’ that’s simply because the latter is not affordable!
3. Looks Like A Use-and-dump Scheme: After the one year compulsory service I said earlier that the graduates end up as jobless people. This is because there is NO system, not to talk of having an organized one. The companies (most times schools) that the corpers are posted to milk them of every dime the FG is paying (a paltry 19,800 most of which will be spent on transport). These people will still rent an apartment if they are so unlucky to be posted to a state where they know no one (80% of youth corp members fall in this category).
4. No relevant experience is gained in most cases: I need not to talk too much about this but I’ll say a little.
Now, of what relevance is the teaching experience a Banking and Finance graduate gets from teaching a primary school student? He/she will be dealing with adults on the job after NYSC, he/she can’t probably use whatever experience gotten. Total Waste Of Time You’d Permit Me To Say!!!
There are lots of reasons I believe the scheme should be scrapped or amended but I’ll leave the rest to the readers of this letter.
I have included the Senate president as recipient of this letter because I know nothing can be done except through the senate. The NYSC was brought in through an ACT, that act has to be amended by the legislative arm of government.
Before I go ahead to the possible solutions, I know some big guns will not agree that the scheme be scrapped because of what they gain from the system, a not-well-organised system.
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
1. Scrap the whole scheme and use the funds put into the program to create jobs.
2. Let each person serve in their respective fields: Let the man who studied engineering serve with Julius Berger or ministry of works and let the man who studied Agriculture serve on a government farm and let them have the option of being fully employed after their service year.
3. Trainings: Should the scheme be scrapped, the government should make available free training centers for fresh graduates.
4. Soft loans: These loans should be given out to fresh graduates who wish to start up businesses without collecting collateral. There should be strict rules guiding the monitoring and implementation, defaulters should be punished.
These loans should be treated as a contract between the FG and the individual, the FG is contracting the young graduate to start a business and create jobs. That’s what happens when there are more businesses, more jobs are available.
I wish I could write more but I’m typing this from my phone, permit me to stop here.
I am Adebusoye Ademola and I think the NYSC should be scrapped or amended.
Nigerians what do you think about this?

Governor Olusegun Mimiko help in evironmental sanitation of Oja-Oba market in Akure

This morning Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state today visit Oja-Oba in Akure and helped in clearing refuse off the streets and the market area.

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Some road to be patched in Ibadan

It is time @oyostategovt Min. of Works do some road patching in Ibadan, Iyangagu/Olubadan Stadium Rd.

Heavy Rain Fall in LEKKI

Present situation during rain fall @ LEKKI... In Lagos

Former Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi is dead

Stephen Keshi, a former coach of the Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles, is dead
– The sudden demise of the football legend was confirmed by his relatives and the Nigeria Football Federation
– According to Keshi’s family member, Ricky Aburimen, the Super Eagle’s former coach complained of a leg ailment
– He was rushed to Faith Hospital in the Benin Government Reservation Area, where he died at about 3am
Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, a former coach of the Nigerian national football team, the Super Eagles, is dead.
The Cable reports that the football legend died in the early hours of Wednesday, June 8, in Benin City, Edo state.
The sudden demise of the former international was confirmed by his relatives and close associates.
“He was not ill at all, never showed any signs of illness, but we suspect he never got over the death of his wife,” one of his close friends said.

B’Haram kills 18 in Niger

Nigerien authorities said that Boko Haram militants killed 18 people, including a local religious leader, in an attack on a village in the nation’s southern border area of Diffa . Justice Minister, Marou Amadou, who disclosed this in a statement said “Boko Haram has once again sent us into mourning. “Eighteen villagers were killed, including the Chief Imam of the village whose throat was slit by his own nephew,” he said. Amadou said eleven people were injured and a three-year-old girl was abducted, adding that the army was pursuing the “terrorists in all nooks and crannies of Lake Chad.” According to him, the gunmen stormed the village of Gogone near the shores of Lake Chad on foot and fired indiscriminately on residents. The Diffa region had suffered dozens of cross-border strikes since January by the extremist group whose stronghold in North-East Nigeria lies a few kilometres away. A state of emergency has been declared there in a bid to boost security, but the attackers often managed to flee across the River Komadougou, marking the border with Nigeria.

NYSC urges banks to grant corps members loan

The National Youth Service Corps has urged banks and other corporate entities and individuals to emulate the Bank of Industry which provided N2bn loan to finance corps members with good business ideas.

The Osun State Coordinator of the NYSC,  Mrs. Regina Iluebbey, said this in an interview with journalists on Friday on the sidelines of the swearing-in ceremony of 2015 Batch B stream II at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Ede, Osun State.

The NYSC boss said providing soft loans for  corps members with business ideas would assist in making them job creators and would help in solving the problem of unemployment confronting the nation.

She said, ” The Graduate Entrepreneurship Fund of the BoI with the NYSC is a laudable idea. We in the NYSC wish the scheme could be bigger than what it is now. Making it bigger will accommodate more corps members who have good ideas.

“We want other corporate bodies, banks and even wealthy individuals to emulate the Bank of Industry in this area. Many of these corps members you see have wonderful business ideas and this type of soft loans will help them to transform their ideas into thriving business enterprises.”

Also, Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, also said in his speech  that the nation must put in place various programmes which would assist the nation’s youths to be job captors rather than becoming job seekers.

The governor stated that the NYSC had been performing the functions its founding  fathers had in mind, saying the call for the scrapping of the scheme was wrong.

Aregbesola said, ” Nigeria is at present faced with economic challenges because of the dwindling oil revenue. Our over dependence on oil as a source of revenue has made us neglect other sectors of the economy. This period of economic recession in which we found ourselves has compelled us to realise the need for the development of other sectors of the economy.

“It is therefore important that Nigeria must strive to become a nation of producer rather than a nation of consumers of foreign goods. We must evolve our own industrial and agricultural technologies. Adequate programmes must be put in place to assist our youths to be job creators rather than job seekers.”