A school proprietor, Chief Mobolaji Onitiri, has stressed the need for secondary schools to introduce business entrepreneurship in their curriculum.
Speaking in Lagos during a meeting with reporters, Onitiri said her school, the Gloryland International College, Surulere, Lagos, has introduced entrepreneurship into its new school curriculum beginning from September.
“The entrepreneurship course is to deepen, stimulate and fascinate the students’ academic knowledge and make them self-employed or employers of labour at the completion of their secondary education.
“Along with their academic pursuit, the students will be compelled to learn courses in catering, hairdressing, make-ups, tie and die, fashion design, bead making, computer IT among others,” Onitiri said.
Onitiri said the entrepreneurship scheme was being introduced to equip the students towards future challenges so that they won’t join army of unemployed youths, now roaming the streets to look for white collar jobs, after attaining excellence in their academics.
According to her, the college was fully designed to address the needs of parents who want their children to have a taste of 21 century education anchored on research, technology, and innovation in accordance with international practices.
She said the academic programme of the college was to focus specially on sports development by hunting for talents and groom them up to become the likes of Christian Ronaldo, JJ Okocha Kanu Nwakwo, Falilat Ogunkoya, Chioma Ajunwa. Chief Mrs. Onitiri said It is the policy of the college management to ensure that students achieve the best in their chozen career.