A new dawn in education...Wake-up call to Nigerian students.

 In my previous post, I advised Nigerian students to take their destiny into their hands to ensure they are employable anywhere in the world as they leave school. Today, I want to emphasise why you need that skill and why you should seriously prepare to be globally employable so you can earn your living from outside Nigeria even if you still reside in Nigeria. Nigeria has witnessed a very huge setback in all ramifications since the last six years or thereabout. The rate of economic downturn witnessed during is period is unprecedented. There has been a mass exodus of foreign companies and a huge reduction in the growth of local businesses. This can be attributed largely to the insecurity in the country which has multiplied into different facets but this article is not to address the matter. The point I am trying to make is to bring to your consciousness the fact that actually if you rely only on getting a  job that is domiciled in Nigeria, you may become a victim of unemploymen...

 With recent development in the global village courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic; the lockdowns, the delivery of educational contents via the internet, this is a wake up call to Nigeria students. Over the years, the world has been advancing progressively in the use of  technology in facilitating learning, the advanced nations like the European union, the US, Japan, Korea, China, Russia, Israel and even  India just to mention a few have been complying with the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the delivery of education to their citizens. So when the pandemic struck, it was not so difficult for them to switch to the use of these ICTs to deliver to their populace. In those years, the UNESCO through Commonwealth of Learning have made efforts to carry Africa along, there have been series of trainings and grants made available in the educational sector to provide African institutions with the manpower, the technical knowhow and the educational furniture ...