Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has urged the federal, state and local governments to do more in the area of employment.
The
former president who spoke at the 10th anniversary and 6th and 7th convocation
ceremonies of Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED, Ijagun, Ijebu Ode,
warned: “If there is no job for the unemployed to feed themselves and also to
contribute to the development of the country, then, we will all be sitting on
gun powder.
“If
university education was not for development then, it was not serving any
useful purpose. It must be for development, personal, local, national and even
global and that is very important.”
He
stated that education is a meal ticket for anybody that has it, adding that it
is also a means of breaking the poverty cycle.
Obasanjo
advised: “I believe in lifelong education. Nobody should stop learning until he
or she die.”
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