University degrees alone won’t guarantee jobs – Minister Udeh tells students

Nigeria’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Kingsley Udeh, SAN, has told students that possessing a assemblage grade is nary longer capable to unafraid employment, stressing that innovation is present the cardinal operator of occupation opportunities.

Udeh made this known implicit the play during a Cosmopolitan University matriculation ceremonial successful Abuja, wherever helium addressed recently admitted students connected the realities of today’s evolving planetary occupation market.

According to him, relying solely connected world qualifications is nary longer sufficient, arsenic graduates indispensable clasp creativity and technological innovation to stay competitive.

“A postgraduate grade doesn’t construe to a occupation anymore. What translates to ‘job’ is innovation,” the curate said.

He was represented astatine the lawsuit by the Director-General of the National Centre for Technology Management, Olushola Odusanya.

Udeh urged the students to instrumentality vantage of innovation and exertion to signifier a amended aboriginal for themselves and the country.

Also speaking, the Vice-Chancellor of Cosmopolitan University, Prof. Carl Adams, described the matriculation ceremonial arsenic a important milestone for the caller intakes joining the institution.

In his remarks, the Registrar, Mani Ibrahim Ahmad, revealed that the assemblage had received support from the National Universities Commission (NUC) to present further world programmes...