The Senate’s legislative push for the institution of the Federal College of Agriculture and Entrepreneurship in Bama, Borno State, acquired enthusiastic backing from stakeholders throughout a public listening to held on Monday.
On the listening to, Senator Kaka Shehu Lawan (APC, Borno Central), the invoice’s sponsor, highlighted that the proposed college can be the primary of its variety in Africa.
Organised by the Senate Committee on Tertiary Schooling and TETFUND, the listening to drew widespread help for this landmark establishment.
Addressing the gathering, Kaka emphasised the necessity for a specialised college specializing in agriculture and entrepreneurship to handle the nation’s excessive unemployment price and reliance on white-collar jobs.
“The proposed college, which focuses on agriculture and entrepreneurship, will present a platform for teens to rework alternatives into enterprise ventures and, accordingly, handle these ventures to develop into a medium for job creation for themselves and others,” he stated.
Explaining additional, Kaka described entrepreneurship schooling as a significant type of schooling that equips college students with the information, expertise, attitudes, and motivation to achieve varied entrepreneurial fields. This schooling, he famous, empowers college students to establish funding alternatives and maximise returns, serving to them develop into self-sustaining contributors to the financial system.
The senator confused that Nigeria urgently wants the proposed college to fight its excessive youth unemployment price, which at present ranks second solely to South Africa. “Disheartening is the truth that, based on the Spectator Index (a world youth unemployment index), Nigeria has an astronomical 53 per cent youth unemployment price, inserting it second solely to South Africa, which has 61 per cent youth unemployment.
“These worrisome statistics have adverse results on the nation usually, as they result in a geometrical rise in social vices and crime in society, all within the quest for survival. The required answer, nevertheless, lies within the proposed college that focuses on agriculture and entrepreneurship schooling, getting ready the youths to be accountable and enterprising,” he defined.
In his opening handle, Committee Chairman Senator Mohammed Muntari Dandutse additionally underscored the importance of the proposed establishment, noting, “The proposed Entrepreneurship College within the space of Agriculture, when established, would increase a technology of job creators and never job seekers.”
Borno State Governor Professor Babagana Zulum, alongside the Shehu of Bama, Dr Ibn Umar Kyari El-Kanemi, and different native leaders, expressed gratitude to the Senate for this legislative initiative. They dedicated to leveraging the deliberate establishment to rework the financial panorama of Borno State and enhance the livelihoods of its individuals.