Enugu Assembly Seeks Compulsory Entrepreneurship Studies In Secondary Schools

The Enugu State House of Assembly has adopted a motion urging the state government to make Entrepreneurship Development Studies compulsory in all public and private secondary schools in the state.
Speaking yesterday during the plenary in Enugu, the sponsor of the motion, Mr Ibenaku Onoh, representing Enugu North Constituency, said that the country was facing serious unemployment issues.
He noted that unemployment was projected to reach 33 per cent before the end of 2020 by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity.
The legislator noted that entrepreneurship was the solution to unemployment to the world as many nations had begun to imbibe the culture of entrepreneurship in the lives of their citizens, particularly the youth.
Onoh recalled that the federal government through the ministry of Education in 2018 proposed making entrepreneurship studies compulsory in all universities in Nigeria.
He recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had directed the National Universities Commission (NUC) to review the curriculum of universities in order to focus more on entrepreneurship and skills development for students.
He enumerated the benefits of the motion to include developing the mind-set of the students early enough to think as innovators and job creators.