What Nigerian Youth Need to Succeed

The Founder of Ajayi Polytechnic, Ikere Ekiti , in Ekiti State , Dr . Busayo Ajayi, has called on youths and graduates in the country to embrace entrepreneurship .
He also stressed the need for the country to imbibe the global modern ways of running businesses through Information and Communication Technology .
Ajayi spoke during the institution ’ s maiden inaugural lecture themed, , in Ado Ekiti .
The Director of Learning in the institution , Mr . Tolu Fagbola , said the lecture was to help the students to know the practical realities of businesses and entrepreneurship skills through the ICT as a major factor in how businesses thrive globally .
“ In doing business in today ’ s world , we have moved away from the traditional way characterised by trade by barter over a thousand years ago to the new age of internet - enabled businesses . ”
Ajayi lamented that most Nigerian youths and graduates were jobless and unemployable because they lacked the necessary skills and training .
He said the polytechnic was a platform designed to equip them with the required entrepreneurial skills to set up businesses of their own .
Ajayi added that the most important skill needed by the youths of this generation was to be self - reliant and vast in the knowledge of the ICT .
He said , “Innovation , being proactive and ability to take risks are some of the characteristics of the entrepreneurship which the youths must develop . It has to do with creating businesses and becoming an employer of labour in the larger business world but within an organisation it is called entrepreneurship .
“ Apart from creating businesses and being employable through the entrepreneurial training , the ICT knowledge will help them to secure jobs in other countries while in Nigeria because we are now in global world . ”
He revealed that the institution was in partnership with Samsung and the British Computer Society to enhance its training scope and confer international recognition on the institution and its graduates .