The Nigerian students, on the platform of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, are now in high spirits, while building hopes of a new dawn of a positive post-schooling experience.
The excitement was over the rollout of the Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme, TIES, by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, recently.
Speaking to a group of stakeholders and student leaders recently, NANS President, Sunday Asefon, said the era of joblessness as hallmark of university graduates would soon be over as the students embrace the TIES.
He also noted that the school curriculum has been fundamentally challenged by TIES to begin a redirection away from redundant education to a more result-oriented functional system that meets the needs of the graduates.
He lamented, “As Students and stakeholders, the population of our graduates flowing into the market of joblessness is alarming, our training and experience causes our expectations to be heightened at graduation and the hopes get dashed after youth service.
“Union leaders are under tremendous pressure by graduates on how to access programmes of Government or how to get jobs as none seems coming forth. This has led to the slang, the ‘Pool of Unemployment’.
He said with the TIES coming into full effect these woes would be a thing of the past.
While encouraging students, graduates and employers to imbibe the culture of entrepreneurship, the former Senate President of NANS, who is the CEO of Youths and Jobs Company, Smart Edwards, said that the best days are around adding that the interventions of the Godwin Emefiele led CBN are both strategic and doing the magic.
He said, “With over 200,000 graduates every batch going to serve, it means half a million people will serve every year and in one single democratic 4year tenure the whole country has to deal with 2million Jobseekers in addition to the stranded ones.
‘‘This TIES is not just a scheme, it is an inoculation, its a jab, a wake-up call and a change of culture, in fact, Emefiele has emerged as a Governor of innovations, a pride of the tertiary institution.
