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Buhari Encourages Teaching Of Entrepreneurial Skills In Educational Institutions

Buhari in kadunaPresident Muhammadu Buhari has advocated the teaching of entrepreneurial skills in all schools and tertiary institutions to expose the youths to basics and rudiments of starting and sustaining their own businesses.
According to the President: “one of the ways we can achieve this is through the reorientation of our youths towards an entrepreneurial mindset. We must therefore promote and enhance the teaching and learning of entrepreneurial skills in all schools and tertiary institutions, thereby exposing our youth to the basics and rudiments of starting and sustaining their own businesses.”
Speaking at the 2nd Convocation ceremony of the Kaduna State University which had “Entrepreneurship for Development” as its theme, President Buhari said that job creation will remain one of the top most priorities of his administration’s economic agenda.
This is because, he said, it is vital for the attainment of the government’s other objectives of improved security and poverty reduction.
He emphasised that his government will give the fullest possible support to all efforts at creating more jobs through the reorientation of the youths towards an entrepreneurial mindset.
“This administration will ensure that youths in the country are gainfully employed and youth restiveness curtailed.
“One of the focal points of this administration is job creation. Job creation will help in the achievement of other objectives of the government such as poverty reduction. Insecurity cannot be divorced from unemployment and poverty because an idle mind, they say, is the devil’s workshop.
“With declining internally generated revenue and over dependence on equally declining oil revenues, there is need to seek other ways of diversifying the economy so as to boost revenue.”
The President said that he would encourage and assist youths to move from being job seekers to job creators, even as he said that his government will sustain and improve ongoing programmes by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), the Bank of Industry, the Bank of Agriculture and other Federal agencies to grant them start-up loans at concessionary rates.
President Buhari advised the private sector to also do more to support government’s efforts to boost youth entrepreneurship and the development of micro, small and medium scale enterprises in the country.
He thanked the University for conferring an honourary doctorate degree of letters on him.

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