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As innovation in technology continues to reshape opportunities and challenges across different fields of human endeavour, the need to review Nigeria’s curriculum of higher education to focus more on technology and creativity has become a necessity rather than an option, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.
Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Friday at the Fifth Convocation Lecture of the Federal University, Duste, Jigawa State attended by a cross-section of Nigerian academics, public intellectuals, and traditional leaders including the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano and the Emir of Dutse among others.
In a lecture titled “Facing the New Decade,” the Vice President said “Education today must be education for employability, not just for its own sake. So, our curricula must be versatile and dynamic.”
According to him, “the focus must be on innovation, critical thinking, interdisciplinary thinking, design thinking, synergizing and collaboration with others across the world to solve problems.
“The era of cramming teacher’s notes and regurgitating for high grades is over. The graduate of the future is a problem solver, a thinker, an entrepreneur.
“Our educators, policymakers, schools, universities must now adapt their curricula, policies and projects to improve the skills that enable the graduate to nimbly and constantly respond to the ever-changing face of the economy and the workplace.”
And speaking directly to the students the VP said “the exciting future ahead of us, the opportunities are limitless. Go for it!”
He further noted that the need to prepare school graduates adequately for the challenges of the future, the Vice President said “there will be a truly international market place of ideas, talents and opportunities, but to access that market place you need to become a global citizen by your own effort. Self-education will be important. Second, technology in its various iterations and applications will be crucial in all and every aspect of human existence.”
He said Nigerian graduates of higher institutions of learning would only fit into the future driven by technological advancement if the management and teachers in the institutions review the entire system in order to adapt to realities in their environment.
According to Prof. Osinbajo, “there is no question that an exciting future lies ahead, there are breakthroughs in radical technologies, capable of disrupting whole industries, and perhaps even our very conception of work itself.
“For higher institutions who are getting graduates ready for the world of work, for the graduates and near graduates who are here today, what does the disruption of the workforce by emerging technologies signify for both livelihoods and employment?”
Speaking specifically about areas that require improved skills training to increase access to opportunities, the Vice President said that adding value to what already exists is what can create more wealth in societies hitherto fixed on old methods and ways of doing things.
He said: “So today the most successful businesses are those adding value, even our culture can become a great wealth creator but only if we add value.”
“In our future, there is truly something for everyone. We should all take advantage of digital technology, especially social media and the various platforms on offer, to grow a customer base, gain traction and advance businesses.
“You can write a blog, develop a website to sell your products or even your ideas – whatever it is you know how to do best. People are running fully-fledged commercial businesses on Instagram without a single physical shop, an opportunity only made possible by the internet.”
Continuing on the need for graduates and young Nigerians to leverage innovation in technology to rewrite the history of their communities, Prof. Osinbajo said: “We are an entrepreneurial people, a society of multitaskers who thanks to the virtual economy, can make real opportunity out of anything we are passionate about.”
Citing examples of some Nigerians who have dared to tap from limitless opportunities in creative collaborations in hitherto unknown ventures, the Vice President challenged young Nigerians to be creative and courageous enough to break new grounds.
“ What is your passion? How can you take the skills that you have, and add value to the world around you?
“I have seen videos tutorials on how to make the best soups, or bake the best cakes, getting hundreds of thousands of views on Instagram and YouTube.
“YouTubers like Dimma Umeh are showing us how to do makeup, how to master that highlight and contour, and she told us in one video that she made her first million from YouTube!”
“Thanks to the social media age, whatever ideas and skills that you have can be leveraged for benefit. Your knowledge is of immense importance and you have to find creative ways to take advantage of that. While it is easier than ever to sell your knowledge and skills, it has also become easier and cheaper for you to acquire them.
“The Mobile Prof” in Lagos, for example, is teaching people how to code from their mobile phones, you don’t even need a laptop anymore! The future is about self-education and self-development.”
He urged Nigerian Universities and other higher institutions of learning to support and nurture students that would face the emerging future starting with this new decade, driven by the limitless opportunities in creativity and technology.
https://www.yemiosinbajo.ng/how-innovation-technology-will-drive-progress-in-the-new-decade/

Best Vice president of Nigeria that refused to be manipulates by the Criminal Association of Nigeria

President Abba Kyari don relegate our Star boy to Minister of Technology.
Inside life.

Davash222:
President Abba Kyari don relegate our Star boy to Minister of Technology.
Inside life.

Don’t be unfortunate Mr man

murecool:
Don’t be unfortunate Mr man

Take your frustration to President Kyari.

We thank God for given us Professor Yemi Osinbajo

Davash222:
Take your frustration to President Kyari.

You have been reasonable if you have read the content.

If we are to look at the way things are going now, we will see that creativity has become a necessity rather than an option. The school curriculum must have basis of creativity.

Davash222:
President Abba Kyari don relegate our Star boy to Minister of Technology.
Inside life.

Your sense of reasoning is just depleting by the day

Technology is very important in our society....Having access to other information outside of the book gives students many different ways to learn a concept. Technology has changed the learning environment so that learning is more hands-on and moreover, technology helps make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun. Thank you Mr vice president for this great lecture

Davash222:
[s][/s]President Abba Kyari don relegate our Star boy to Minister of Technology.
Inside life. [s][/s]

Shame on you if this is the best you can give.

Mere commissioner, did you take permission from president Abba kyari before commenting...

You have said all Mr Vice President, because of technology, education is becoming more flexible and accessible. We have seen a growing popularity of online degrees and mobile learning, physical boundaries have been removed, and many executives have embraced technology to supplement the further education of their employees.

BlackfireX:
[s][/s]Mere commissioner, did you take permission from president Abba kyari before commenting...[s][/s]

Poverty has so much eat up your brain, only God knows when you gonna have sense. Imagine you can't see anything good in that man's speech. May God restore your lost senses (Amen)

May God continue to bless the Vice President for his tireless commitment towards the progress of Nigeria youths.

You can tell the ones with sub zero IQ by the stupid comments they will post here when the matter is about intelligent learning.

Truly technology is important for the growth and development of the nation

Technology, a tools to develop the nation ,God Bless VP osinbajo for paying more attention to the youths

Technology can't be substituted in Nation building.

Davash222:
President Abba Kyari don relegate our Star boy to Minister of Technology.
Inside life.

Like suffering relegated your brain

Davash222:
President Abba Kyari don relegate our Star boy to Minister of Technology.
Inside life.

Sit down there and be wasting your little Data while the VP osinbajo continues to flourish and shine

Davash222:
Take your frustration to President Kyari.

He's not frustrated but your family

Davash222:
President Abba Kyari don relegate our Star boy to Minister of Technology.
Inside life.

Guy you can't just continue like this, your brain need to be formatted kiakia before things get out of hands. Oponu.

BlackfireX:
Mere commissioner, did you take permission from president Abba kyari before commenting...

Life is just too difficult for wailers to understand. Pele

The best VP we ever had since Nigeria inception of democracy. Keep making us proud

Davash222:
President Abba Kyari don relegate our Star boy to Minister of Technology.
Inside life.

don’t be stupid ogbeni

This is a man whose painstaking effort towards Nigeria is always felt,l give it to you Osinbajo

Technology is the key in the development of any Nation.

Technology and creativity these are the two areas that advanced countries are focusing on which is really given them hedge over uder-developed countries like Africa and I think Nigeria need to have a rethink if our economy and general living will be better

Deputy1111:
Life is just too difficult for wailers to understand. Pele

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Davash222:
President Abba Kyari don relegate our Star boy to Minister of Technology.
Inside life.

He is the Aso Rock chief errand boy.