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HOW GRADUATES CAN GENERATE SELF-EMPLOYMENT Education remains the most important tool for behavioral reform and economic emancipation. It is not only a leveler in the society,it is the only legacy parents or country can bequeath their children and citizens. The importance of education can never be over stretched. It covers everything,in fact,it is everything. Both the rich and the poor pursue knowledge. The world would have been nothing without knowledge. Human beings would have been nothing without education. It is important to state however that going to school is not an automatic way to securing jobs (either white,grey,green or blue collar)after graduation. Our society believes that automatic employment from government or private Sectors should follow graduation. Unlike in the past when the Nigeria economy was stable, this notion is no longer true. The mentality of running after good grades in school for the purpose of securing jobs after graduation is unfortunate. Pursuing knowled...

A young Nigerian member of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC, after seeing the bad condition of her host community, raised funds and changed local well to a solar-powered tap in Ogun State. A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Cherish Akefe Odunayo, has helped to ease the difficulties of drawing water manually from a deep well by the people of Leguwa, Kemta Housing Estate, Idi-Araba, Ogun state. She has renovated the community well and converted it into a solar-powered tap that now automatically pumps and stores water in an overhead tank which she also provided. The young lady was posted to the community to carry out her one-year mandatory youth service. But when she got there, observed the poor condition of the people and decided to contribute her quota, no matter how small. Cherish Akefe incidentally attended secondary school in Kemta, the place she was posted for her NYSC. In an interview with Legit.ng, she said: “Leguwa has a well that was in a very poor conditio...

Anambra-born businessman, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, has narrated his experience while on his way to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, for his convocation in 1999. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, he shared a photo of himself, while narrating how he used a ‘night bus’ to travel from Abuja to Nsukka for the convocation. He wrote “1999, we were going to University of Nigeria Nsukka for our convocation ceremony from Abuja, in the company of some of my friends and classmates; Nze, Ultimate, Onwa, Ogali, etc!!! We entered a bus from Area 1 Garki Abuja to Dumez, near Suleja so we could enter the cheaper “night bus” instead of boarding from Jabi Park! “We got tickets for Mercedes Benz 1414 commuter vehicle, attachment! My Uncle, Zubby, bought me a pair of ‘schools’ shoes, having made him proud by making a 2:1 in the political science department! Inside the 1414 Benz bus, there was zero comfort, especially with the ‘attachment’!”(sic) While narrating his experience, Obi Cub...

A Nigerian student identified as Oyedeji Temitope from the University Of Ibadan (UI), has graduated as the best student in the mathematics department with a CGPA of 3.87/4.00 and bags 41 awards While some students name Mathematics as their worst subject, 2020/2021 University of Ibadan, UI, graduate, Oyedeji Temitope Victor, finished as the best student in the Department of Mathematics with a CGPA of 3.87/4.00. The honor student also bagged 41 awards, including the National Outstanding Mathematics Student of the Year SNE Award, Best Graduating Student in Faculty of Science, Best Graduating Student in Mathematics, JCI FOPA Award for the Most Outstanding Student in Academics, Best Sportsman of the Year, NDMSS UI, among others. While recalling how the journey to academic stardom started, Temitope said: “When I came into the University of Ibadan 2017, that was the same year my brother Oyedeji Timilehin graduated from the University of Ilorin. “He graduated top of his class and in the fac...

```ASUU strike to end soon, FG Claims``` The Federal Government on Tuesday assured that the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, would be called off soon, saying it was taken aback by the renewed strike which university teachers embarked on February 14, 2022. Addressing the resumed conciliation meeting with the Union, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, said the government was surprised ASUU negated the understanding and assurances it gave through the Nigerian Inter-Religious Council, NIREC, led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar and the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Supo Ayokunle. Quoting Senator Ngige, Deputy Director Press and Public Relations, Charles Akpan, who was in Botswana for the meeting of the African Regional Labour Administrative Centre, ARLAC, when ASUU declared action, the Minister said he thought the university teachers and their employer, the Ministry of Education would have res...

Jelilat Abdrasaq has celebrated emerging the best graduating student from the geology department in FUTMINNA with a CGPA of 4.46. Jelilat Abdrasaq In her words: I “congratulate myself today, as I shine out to be the Best Graduating Student, Geology Department, Federal University of Technology Minna. I am the first girl in my family to have come this far and it matters to me! It’s a credo that dreams are valid if we have courage to pursue them. I was raised in a kind of community that has not much keen interest in girl-child education but yet I kept the believe and remain resolute to my dreams. Today, I feel proud to be inspiration to girls in my town (SAKI) that they can achieve their dreams too.” “It all started 9yrs ago at The Polytechnic, Ibadan before proceeding to Federal University of Technology Minna as direct entry student. Although the journey was really rough but I didn’t give up. In the darkest moments, I was focused to see the light. The moment I deemed the toughest as ...