Agoro clocks 70, canvasses ‘Business Education’ to tackle Youth Unemployment in Nigeria

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…From Dele Ogunyemi, Ibadan…

Worried by the mass unemployment currently ravaging the nation, the erstwhile national chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), Dr. Olapade Agoro has canvassed the encouragement of ‘business education’ among the teeming youths rather than concentrating all their focus on conventional education. This, he said, would ultimately go a long way in creating specialists in all fields of human endeavour.

Agoro, the Presidential candidate of the former National Action Council (NAC) gave the advocacy on Thursday at Itapa-Ijesa in Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State at a civic reception in commemoration of his 70th Birthday anniversary during which he also emphasized the need for both the government and the citizenry to develop and tap the potentialities of available businesses at the grassroots.

While insisting that Nigeria is not destined to be an import-oriented economy, Dr. Agoro emphasized his resolve to embark on the practical aspects of all he had been advocating for decades “to convince everyone that it is possible for the citizenry to actually break the yoke in this nation.”

In this regard, he explained that his pet project – the Olapade Agoro Business University (OABU), located on a sprawling piece of land in Itapa-Ijesa, has already identified over 200 businesses that would soon be developed into high-profitable industrial ventures in the nearest future, for the benefit of the people.

Agoro listed some of the agricultural products including cassava, maize, palm produce, water melon, etc concluding that a Yoruba man need not be going to the North to bring cattle, groundnut, beans when all these could be produced locally, if the available facilities are well tapped and nurtured. He added that “it is an insult that Nigeria, with its age, has continued to import even infusion fluid.”

He said: “From palm tree alone, we have already identified 19 products including palm oil, vegetable oil, diesel, gas, while the cell can even generate electricity; We have identified the various uses to which we can adapt cassava, maize, etc. As animal wastes will be used to generate fertilizer, so also human wastes will be used to generate gas.”

Agoro then declared: “I want people to remember me for turning Yorubaland and Nigeria to Silicon Valley where every inch of the land is industry.

According to him, his proposed business university is not giving degrees alone but is all out to impact business experiences to people of varied backgrounds, irrespective of their social status.

Concluding, Dr. Agoro used the forum to speak on his ambition in life stressing that it is to give meaningful and benefitting service to mankind. “I want to impact on the life of my people in Ijesaland, Osun State and Nigeria as a whole. I want to impact on their life, particularly now that an Ijesa son is the Governor of the State. We should support him. I am supporting him hundred per cent,” he said.