A legislative move by the Senate for the establishment of the Federal University of Agriculture and Entrepreneurship in Bama, Borno States, got overwhelming support from all stakeholders during a public hearing held on Monday in Abuja.
At the public hearing organised by the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFund, the sponsor of the bill, Senator Kaka Shehu Lawan (APC, Borno Central), said the sad trend of the quest for white-collar jobs with the attendant unemployment rate underscores the need for a specialised university with a focus on agriculture and entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship education, according to him, is a form of education that seeks to provide knowledge, skills, attitude and motivation to students for entrepreneurial success in various facets of human endeavour by equipping them with the ability to seek investment opportunities and maximise returns from those investments.
“The proposed university, which focuses on agriculture and entrepreneurship, will provide a platform for youths to transform opportunities into business ventures and, accordingly, manage those ventures to become a medium for job creation for themselves and others,” he stressed.
Senator Kaka added that Nigeria needs the proposed university to tackle the rising rate of youth unemployment, which is second to that of South Africa
