International financial advisor and CEO of Futures and Bonds, Akin Oladeji-JohnBrown, has advocated for skill-based education to reduce the high rate of unemployment in Nigeria.
Oladeji-JohnBrown, who is also the president of Dora Foundation, stated this while unveiling the Foundation’s forthcoming entrepreneurial conference for youths slated for Ogbomosho, Oyo State.
He expressed the view that many young graduates in Nigeria are jobless because they had degrees without critical skills, disclosing that his non-governmental organisation (NGO) would begin a series of training designed to turn young graduates into employers of labour.
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He recalled that Yemi Kale, head of the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (BoS), disclosed that the nation’s unemployment rate had risen to 23.1 percent as at December 2018 from 18.1 percent in 2017.
According to him, “Kale in a report added that over 11million youths were jobless.”
He appealed to the public and private sectors to make efforts to solve the problem. Dora’s Foundation programme, Oladeji-JohnBrown stated, is part of the efforts to save the nation from the terrible consequence of unemployment of the youth population.
He said the theme of the conference was ‘Developing Entrepreneurial Mindset of a Game Changer.’
Expected to speak at the conference are the Vice Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University and his Bowen University counterpart. Over 500 young graduates, according to Oladeji-JohnBrown, are expected to participate in the conference.
