Myriads of challenges facing Nigeria can be solved by Tertiary Institutions, says Oyetola's Aid on Education.






A call has gone to all tertiary institutions in the country to look beyond the abstract education curriculum and turn to technology, innovation and entrepreneurship in a bid to help the nation solve many  problems facing it, one  of which is the hydra headed  unemployment among the youths.

Special Adviser to Osun Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola on Education, Jamiu Olawumi made this known  in  an opening remarks  at a lecture to mark the 7th Combined Convocation Ceremony of Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke.

He said tertiary institutions across the country are better positioned to go into deep intellectual research and help Nigeria solve varying challenges facing it as a nation. He observed  unemployment to be the highest among the teething challenges facing Nigeria.

Olawumi, however, noted  that tertiary institutions have the resources, both human and materials to solve all the  challenges, stressing that the country's Ivory Towers should take the challenge of producing  young graduates who will be self reliant instead of looking for non existing white collar jobs.

Olawumi  described the theme of the lecture: "Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Nexus" as very apt because the nation and the world at large have gotten to a stage where the three variables must be taken seriously if there will be a headway.

According to him, "it is very reasonable that 
an institution like the Osun State College of Technology, has chosen the theme for the lecture: Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Nexus.

"While the lecture is marking and setting lifetime agenda for the graduands, it is also instructive that all of us take more seriously, the need to embrace the new normal which is the need to embrace Science and Technological Education if we desire to change the paradigm. 

"The main challenge of our nationhood today is unemployment, It is dawn on all of us now that our challenges would not be solved through the abstract curriculum but technology, innovation and entrepreneurship". Olawumi noted.

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