An educationist, Pastor Muyiwa Bamgbose, has charged youths in the country to be entrepreneurs, noting that education leads to innovation, which will make them entrepreneurs.
Speaking at the maiden edition of Entrepreneurship Development and Knowledge Triangle: An Inseparable Siamese, at the Otunba Subomi Hall, University of Ibadan, said youths should stop looking for free support or grants before they make something happen.
He said Nigerian youths should be creative enough and research what they learnt and put it into action.
Speaking further, he said: “Help destroys entrepreneurship; free things do not last, it is hardness, disappointment, lack that build muscle for entrepreneurship. People should stop looking for free support.
“Who help Mark Zuckerberg; who helped Bill Gates? Go and check their history, all those things that we think are helping, are destroying entrepreneurship. We need to go through hardship to be strong, I will suggest to everybody to look to God and look to yourself.
“Go beyond recall, understand and apply to anything you read or hear, how does it affect me as a person? How can I apply it to my life, to problems facing my society, so whatever the means of education, quality education will take you beyond recall; it will take you to the top. Ensure that you can do something innovative, I believe that is the essence of quality education,” he said.
In his remark, the acting Vice-Chancellor, the University of Ibadan represented by the Provost of the Post-Graduate College of the institution, Jonathan Babalola said students should engage in entrepreneurship, adding that it would boost their careers after school.
He said: “You don’t just learn, but you learn and try to apply whatever you have learnt, so the advice is that as you come to school now, you should be looking for how to make what you have learnt are applicable and subsequently start to implement it.
“Certificate actually by itself cannot bring food to your table, but when you have skills, the skill becomes part of you and you can do so many things without depending on somebody else to employ you to do any work.
Also, the Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Ibadan, Professor Oyedunni Arulogun, said the centre chose the topic to celebrate World Entrepreneurs Day.
She said for education to make an impact, there must be innovation, where people can think and do new things.
She said: “You cannot divide entrepreneurship and innovation, you cannot divide them because entrepreneurship starts with innovation and idea.”
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