Undergraduate students at Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, have described the institution as an intellectual and entrepreneurship skill development center where entrepreneurial education thrives with positive impacts on their economic lives .
They made the marks recently at this year’s trade fair week organised by the entrepreneurship unit in the institution for students to showcase their products and services for public knowledge.
Some of the students who spoke with Tribune Online asserted that the university is helping students to develop their innate talents to make money for themselves.
Alabi Oluwaseun, a 400-level student of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, explained how she joined the entrepreneurship unit from her first year and has been able to learn bag making and the art of using different materials for different markets.
According to her, her bags are unique, designed for the rich and average people, adding that she is making a lot of money out of it. She noted that lack of white collar jobs in the economy will not be a problem to graduates of Bowen university.
Speaking in the same vein, Ayorinde Afolarin Dasilva, a 2021 graduate of Biochemistry from the university, who also attended the trade fair to exhibit his product, lauded the initiative and its impacts.
He said he engaged in the production of perfumes immediately after he graduated, having leant the trade through entrepreneurial education in the university.
According to him, he is an employer of labour and has his products in the local and international markets. He described the university as an institution endowed to raising Godly and well-rounded children who will obtain higher potential in life.
Dr Morohummubo Akinrinlola, Entrepreneurship Coordinator for Bowen University, stated that every undergraduate must acquire one skill or the other in which he or she has the highest aptitude.
She noted that the university is producing self-reliant graduates to contribute their quota to the economic development of their immediate society.
According to her, the university exposes every student to different skills, trades and services that are in high demand in the markets.
Meanwhile, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Jonathan Babalola, declared in a forum that Bowen is one of the noticeable functional faith- based Ivory Towers in Nigeria. He added the institution is focused on the development of intellectual capacity-building of individual students for local and international markets needs, based on its established core value of innovation, excellence, Godliness, entrepreneurship and social responsibility.
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