Paul Akan Obi
20 October 2009
Abuja — Cybuss Integrated Services, an information technology company is partnering with Cisco West and Central Africa, Microsoft Nigeria and universities, among others to offer training for university graduates to become entrepreneurs.
Other partners of the company are the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), National Universities Commission (NUC), Institute of Chartered Accounts of Nigeria (ICAN) and Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSAN).
To this end, a one-day workshop on 'Professional Education in Nigerian Universities: A Bridge between University and Industries', was organised in Abuja by Cybuss, in collaboration with the NUC, CISCO West and Central Africa, as well as Microsoft Nigeria.
In his opening remark, Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof Julius Okojie said, "the workshop is in realisation of the need to redress the problem of graduate unemployment in the country and create job opportunities for the teeming Nigerian youths. An essential component of this workshop is recourse to entrepreneurial education as a tool to redirect the minds of Nigerian youths towards self-employment and creativity, thereby jump-starting the Nigerian economy."
He further observed that, 'the workshop would prepare the participants to have a better view and appreciation of the strategy for facilitating effective learning and teaching through professionalism, as well as the suitable environment for the creation of graduate imbued with entrepreneurial culture that will make them "think business" always."
Programme Coordinator of Cybuss Integrated Services, Elizabeth Idimi said it was important to update students with entrepreneurial spirit and the advantages of becoming a professional. "The training is designed to inculcate professionalism in our citizens, as part of the education process, so that excellence, skills and cognate experience are developed, effectively."
While briefing the press earlier, Cybuss' Project Co-ordinator, Victor Onumadu said most of the courses were professional, the major ones being Computing, Accounting and Secretarial Studies, which offer internationally recognised certificates.
Cisco's Area Academy Manager, West and Central Africa, Julius Ayuktabe said the Cisco Networking Academy has designed curriculum in many areas, with IT essentials for those who are unable to make it to the university.
Whereas Cisco is in less than 70 countries, he said, its academy is in 170 countries, training people to obtain globally recognised certificates. There are more than 70 of them in Nigeria.
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