There are strong indications that graduate unemployment in Nigeria would soon be over as the Nigerian University Commission, NUC, has approved the integration of comprehensive end-to-end Entrepreneurship curriculum into the Nigeria university academic curricula.
With this development, universities graduates coming out from 2015 would have acquired vital entrepreneurship skills regardless of his or her discipline, which would make graduates become job creators rather than job seekers
Accordingly, students will be expected to undergo relevant general and specific program in Entrepreneurship which would help them in setting up profitable business ventures along their professional line after graduation.
Similarly, undergraduates would acquire, in addition to their university academic qualification skills like: developing new ventures or Start-Ups, innovation and creativity, business planning, among others.
In a letter by NUC/ES/306/Vol.5 dated October 2, 2014 and signed by Professor Julius Okojie, executive secretary, NUC and addressed to the chief executive officer of Association of Business Executives, Mr. John Goldup, conveyed the endorsement and formal approval of the Commission to ABE’s request to partner with NUC to promote entrepreneurial education in Nigerian universities.
ABE is recognised as an Awarding Body by the UK Government’s regulator, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), as well as equivalent bodies worldwide
Okojie in the letter said “The Commission in consideration of your pedigree as a reputable international organization and professional body, wishes to convey its formal approval of the proposed ABE international certification programme for delivery in Nigerian universities. Please accept the assurance of the executive secretary’s highest regards.”
The signing of the MoU will take place at the Annual Nigerian Universities Entrepreneurship Week (ANEW) which will hold next month.
Speaking on the new development, Mr. Tim Akano, vice chairman of Winigroup Limited, Nigerian representative of Association of Business Executives said that, ‘’ This is a momentous time for both Nigeria and the universities undergraduates.”
According to him, the graduate unemployment has been climbing in the past two decades .”Therefore the recent approval of NUC for the integration of a robust, end-to-end entrepreneurship program into the university academic curricula could not have come at a better time.
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