Obafemi Awolowo University
Students of the Faculty of Technology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, have disclosed that the way in which ahead for the nation’s growth and overcoming the current financial mishaps is to embrace techpreneurship (expertise entrepreneurship) and for the youth inhabitants to grow to be innovators and answer suppliers.
The tech students made the assertion on the 2018 Technology Entrepreneurship convention held within the establishment. The convention, which had high-ranking dignitaries in attendance had audio system emphasising the function of entrepreneurship, particularly that of expertise in driving the nation’s economic system.
Speaking on the occasion, former Vice Chancellor of the college, Prof. Michael Faborode, admonished contributors to grow to be drawback solvers and assist create alternatives for a lot of others, stressing that entrepreneurship is the driving drive behind the event witnessed within the Asian tigers and could also be replicated right here in Nigeria if individuals grow to be extra pragmatic and entrepreneurial.
Former chief examiner, Nigeria Society of Engineers, Ibadan department, O. A. Morakinyo, emphasised that expertise is shaping the world, including that within the nearest future expertise entrepreneurs in Nigeria will likely be on the echelon of the economic system.
Speaking on the necessity for people so as to add values to life, Procter & Gamble Human Resources Manager and the Convener, The New Breed Network, Idowu Oladiamonds, each human being has no cash as a result of they haven't any worth to promote.
As said by him, “it is value that brings money and people must learn to identify how best to become valuable to the society. Any one can make money but not everybody can add value.”
Ife Business School Director, Dr. Makinwa Adereti, urged participant, notably the students to have a look at methods to unravel the issues round not essentially by ranging from what nobody has performed earlier than however constructing from what's already current, including that this might be achieved by considering a few years forward of the current instances. Highpoint of the occasion was the awards to the dignitaries and a scholarship to Ife Business School to a scholar who constructed a drone with native supplies.