A Memo to Adamu Adamu

Introducing entrepreneurship education in our primary and secondary school’s curriculum will be of great significance, especially at this time of economic recession in the country. Also today millions of the less privileged parents can’t afford to sponsor their children up to the tertiary institution due to lack of sufficient means to do so, while many […]

Introducing entrepreneurship education in our primary and secondary school’s curriculum will be of great significance, especially at this time of economic recession in the country. Also today millions of the less privileged parents can’t afford to sponsor their children up to the tertiary institution due to lack of sufficient means to do so, while many other parents are in extreme poverty.
These children of the less privileged mostly abandon their education at primary or secondary school level, and as a result of that, most of them engaged in social nuisance, street hawking, thuggery, and sometimes prostitution by the females.
And still, even those that successfully graduated from Universities and Polytechnic, but owing to the fact that they don’t have any Entrepreneurship knowledge and skills to create their own businesses, they just rely on government to absorb them. And that is not forthcoming always.
These social problems can be attributed to the lack creativity and initiative to stand on their own.
The Federal government needs to insert entrepreneurship education as a compulsory in the whole tertiary institutions we have across Nigeria, with the sole aim that graduates should become self-reliant immediately after they finished their (NYSC).
In this era of economic downturn government can’t afford to provide everybody with job. But if students learn the Entrepreneurship as a course and a subject while in school, that can prepare them to becoming self-reliant after their graduation.
Entrepreneurship education will help benefits young people from all socio-economic backgrounds because it teaches kids to think outside the box and nurtures unconventional talents and skills.
Furthermore, it creates opportunity for building self-confidence to the younger people for future advantages. Therefore, government needs to introduce entrepreneurship education in primary/secondary school curriculum, in order to boost the talent and capacity of young age, so that it will help in reducing the high rate of idleness in the society. No doubt entrepreneurship education is an important tool that would help every child and youth, explore and develop his/her academic, leadership, and business skills.
Most importantly, young people especially the growing number students in primary and secondary schools lose the opportunity to enjoy successful and rewarding careers. At the same time, Nigerian companies cannot enjoy the market competitiveness as they become less and less able to keep up in today’s War for talent. Meanwhile, overall Nigerian economic competitiveness is low as our schools don’t have the capacity to develop a more creative and entrepreneurial talent base programmes.
Nigeria should supposed to copy the system of some Asian countries like, China, India, Indonesia etc, in terms of giving entrepreneurship an ultimate priority and introducing it in the primary/secondary schools curriculum, because it will serve as a panacea to unemployment problems in Nigeria.
Indeed, as a matter of urgency, government and Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)should start rebranding the youths through Entrepreneurship Programs in schools.
Jabir Usman writes this piece from Abuja. He can be reached at [email protected]