Youths in the country have been urged to focus more on vocational and entrepreneurial development to overcome the problem of unemployment.
The Chaplain, Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, Lagos Christian Fellowship, Pastor Daniel Farinde, made this known at a one-day career development and management seminar on Friday
While delivering his opening remarks, Farinde urged youths to remain committed to goals which would ultimately lead to their success.
Farinde, who spoke on the theme, 'The road ahead,' noted that it was necessary for youths to also discover their God-given talents and identify ways of managing and developing themselves in order to understand how to prepare for the future ahead.
He noted that for Nigeria to attain its industrial growth, polytechnic education must be given serious attention, saying this would prepare the youths to become great technologists, technocrats, great entrepreneurs and self-employed and employable materials.
"Vocational training through polytechnic education would make the students to become good technologists/technocrats, adequately-trained entrepreneurs as well as bringing out their creativity which would lead to self employment," he said.
Farinde identified four personality types which are choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic personalities, as factors, which the youths must strive to manage in the development of their careers and ambitions.
He said, "The gains of polytechnic education are enormous as it develops you to become technologists and technocrats, it makes you products of risk management and actuarial valuation of life. Make up your mind not to fail, be poor or be sick. Be committed to your good goals leading to success. Develop the power of foresight to reveal the treasures of life.
"As youths, you are entitled to four types of parents which include biological parents, social parents, spiritual parents and heavenly parents. In all these, you must make sure that you do not act on your own without the proper guidance of these parents. You are expected to obey all of them. The primary law of nature for life is obedience."
On his part, another speaker, Mr. Adebo Williams, who is an entrepreneur, urged the youths to embrace polytechnic education, because according to him, it is the only way to prepare them for the industrial challenges of the future.
Williams also noted that acquiring polytechnic and vocational education would enhance their creative skills.
NBS graduates 175 Religious Studies students
Sodiq Oyeleke
In a bid to promote spiritual knowledge, the Nigeria Bible School has graduated 175 students in a specialised training on Religious Studies and its influences.
The President of the school, Dr. Murphy Akrasi, at the convocation of the school on Saturday, said Bible knowledge was necessary to reform the country.
