Obiageli Ezekwesili, a former Nigerian Minister of Schooling, has referred to as on the Nigeria’s Authorities to prioritise entrepreneurship, industrialization, and infrastructure improvement as a part of efforts to create sustainable jobs and drive financial development.
Talking on the twentieth Anniversary’s Public Lecture of Redeemer’s College in Ede, Osun State, with the theme “The Actuality of Our Time: Harnessing Human Capital, Know-how, and Values for a Sustainable Future”, Ezekwesili emphasised the necessity for the federal government in any respect ranges to scale back obstacles to enterprise creation by streamlining registration processes, lowering taxes for start-ups, and rising entry to finance for younger entrepreneurs.
The previous Vice President of the World Financial institution additionally advocated growth of enterprise capital funding and innovation hubs throughout African nations to help youth-led enterprises in sectors corresponding to agriculture, know-how, and renewable power.
Ezekwesili highlighted the potentials of the gig financial system in creating employment alternatives for younger individuals, citing digital platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, and native African start-ups corresponding to Andela and Flutterwave.
To realize sustainable job creation, she harassed the significance of scaling up industrialisation and infrastructure improvement in African economies.
She additionally urged Governments to spend money on infrastructure, together with energy, transportation, and digital connectivity, to facilitate job creation throughout a number of sectors.
The famend economist additionally really helpful the creation of Particular Financial Zones (SEZs) and innovation parks to encourage funding in job-intensive industries like agribusiness, fintech, and renewable power.
Talking on the Transformational Schooling, she mentioned greater training should shift from theoretical, lecture-based fashions to skills-based studying that might emphasise vital pondering, problem-solving, and entrepreneurship.
She mentioned, “Universities ought to embed digital expertise, AI literacy, and rising know-how coaching into curricula to align with world job market tendencies. Partnerships between academia and business have to be strengthened to make sure graduates are outfitted with sensible, employable expertise.”
Earlier, Shadrach Akindele, Professor and Vice-Chancellor of the College, mentioned that the twentieth Anniversary of the College was the reflection of what the College had achieved academically, spiritually and scientifically.
Akindele, who famous that the subject of the lecture couldn’t be extra well timed and related, mentioned that it was a name to motion and never simply mental discourse