SMEDAN TRAINS ABIA STATE TEACHERS ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP
REPORTER: LAWRENCE NWOKEDI
The Director General, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Dr. Dikko Umaru Radda, says the Federal Government’s economic policy focuses attention and supports the development of non-oil revenues.
Dr. Radda stated this in a message to a three-day capacity building training for Entrepreneurship Teachers under the Mind-shift -National School Entrepreneurship Programme going on in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.
Dr. Umaru Radda, represented by the Zonal Coordinator of agency South East zone, Mr. Victor Ugwu, said the introduction of Entrepreneurship Development Centres in the Universities and NYSC orientation camps had impacted positively on Nigerian youths, who no longer waited for white collar jobs after graduation from school.
He noted that the National School Entrepreneurship Programme was aimed at building the capacity of primary and secondary school teachers as well as armed them with the requisite knowledge they needed to teach their students.
Dr. Radda listed some of the benefits of the programme.
They included inculcating the culture of Entrepreneurship into the students; to stimulate and facilitate the culture of Entrepreneurship and community service in primary and secondary Schools in the country; and to assist students in exhibiting creativity and innovation.
In their separate remarks, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education, Mr. Eze Ajuzie, represented by Mrs. Ola Agomuo, and his counterpart from Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency, Abia State, Mr. Nkwachukwu Agomuoh, also represented by Mr. Kelechi Onyegbule, urged the participants to take the programme seriously, assuring them that the State Government would contribute its quota towards the success of the programme.
One hundred teachers drawn from both public and private schools in the state are participating in the training.