By Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja
The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has emphasised the need to review Nigeria’s curriculum of higher education to focus more on technology and creativity.
He made the remark on Friday while delivering a lecture: “Facing the New Decade”, at the Fifth Convocation Lecture of the Federal University, Duste, Jigawa State.
The Vice President, who joined other dignitaries from a cross-section of Nigerian academics, public intellectuals, and traditional leaders including the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano and the Emir of Dutse among others, noted that the next generation of Nigerian graduates must be educated indeed.
According to a statement issued by his spokesman, Laolu Akande, the Vice President said “Education today must be education for employability, not just for its own sake. So, our curricula must be versatile and dynamic,” he said.
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He also said Nigerian graduates of higher institutions of learning would only fit into the future driven by technological advancement if the management and teachers in the institutions review the entire system in order to adapt to realities in their environment.
According to Prof. Osinbajo, “there is no question that an exciting future lies ahead, there are breakthroughs in radical technologies, capable of disrupting whole industries, and perhaps even our very conception of work itself.”
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