Education that can’t create jobs is useless – Chris Ngige

Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngigi has emphasized the need for job creation after education.

The former governor made this known during a breakfast session at the ongoing ongoing National Economic Summit  in Abuja with the theme, ‘Multi-Sectoral Roundtable on Job Creation and Skills Development in Nigeria’.

There is a need for schools to revise their current curricular to accommodate modern challenges and development, according to a statement by the Director of Press at the Ministry of Labour, Samuel Olowookere.

He said, “with a working population of over 80 million, the majority of who are unemployed, we have to do something radical, the narrative must change. School curriculum must change to include new and emerging skills. Education is power but it is useless when it is not in the right direction. We, therefore, must collaborate to solve this problem.” 

Ngige went further to reiterate the need for a change in approach to job creation as the current efforts may not be sufficient enough to create jobs to cater for over 80 million people.