“I still think for hard-working people this is where the opportunities are, I don’t think youths should be leaving this country. Look at the University, it is a seed for the future, opportunities abound everywhere”.
Speaking on the effect digital innovation, he said the new paradigm shift will enable young school graduate to be equipped with right skills, saying schools in Nigeria have prepared the youths for the challenging life ahead. “There is no place globally where there is no unemployment, you just have to harm yourself with the right skills for the job of the future, wherever you go to in the world there is unemployment, we have to deal with our unemployment, we have to have young people who are coming out of schools armed with right skills so that they can live in digital world.
“Those that travelled out of the country went to school here, obviously we have given them right skills and they are employable in abroad so if you are employable abroad you should be employable here too”, he said. Commenting on inflation and economic hardship in the country, he said, “The whole world is fighting inflation, so let’s not single out Nigeria, in the United States of America, they hit the 10%, in England inflation is hitting 10%, all over the world inflation is what we contend with and as a country, we are battling it just like everybody else.