The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, says education that is not directed towards job creation is useless.
Ngige, therefore, said there was a need for schools to revise their
current curricular to reflect modern challenges and development,
according to a statement by the Director of Press at the Ministry of
Labour, Samuel Olowookere.
The minister said this in Abuja on Tuesday while addressing a
breakfast session of the ongoing National Economic Summit (#24) in Abuja
with the theme, ‘Multi-Sectoral Roundtable on Job Creation and Skills
Development in Nigeria’.
He said, “With a working population of over 80 million, the majority
of who are unemployed, we have to do something radical, the narrative
must change. School curriculum must change to include new and emerging
skills. Education is power but it is useless when it is not in the right
direction. We, therefore, must collaborate to solve this problem.”
The minister emphasized the need for a paradigm shift in approach to
job creation as the current efforts might not be sufficient to create
the jobs needed to gainfully engage over 80 million people.
In his remarks, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities
Commission, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, expressed the readiness of the
commission to partner with organisations and groups to transit Nigeria into a knowledge-based society, thereby facilitating a knowledgeable economy.
Earlier, in his remarks, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian
Economic Summit Group, Mr Laoye Jaiyeola, stated that individual efforts
would not produce the much-needed result on job creation as each
organisation was doing something in bits and pieces.
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