NEWS: NIGERIA - Buhari, Dangote bag KASU doctorate degrees

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday bagged an honorary Doctor of Letters, PHD alongside business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote who was honoured with a Doctor of Science, DSC by Kaduna State University (KASU).

President Buhari was decorated amidst cheers at the main campus of the university in Kaduna yesterday, during its second convocation ceremony which saw 38 students of the institution graduating with first class honours majorly in Mathematics and Arabic studies.

The honorary doctorate degree, according to the university, was awarded President Buhari not for his position as the number one citizen of Nigeria, but in recognition of his numerous contributions to the development of the country as an officer of the Nigerian Army, Minister, Head of State and currently democratically elected Nigerian President.

Responding to the honour done to him and ‘Africa’s Richest Man’, Aliko Dangote, President Buhari commended the University for finding them worthy of the award, saying the award would only challenge them to strive harder at bettering the lot of Nigerians.

The President, who spoke extempore on entrepreneurial education, stressed that security challenges confronting Nigeria cannot be separated from poverty and unemployment which was why his administration is working round the clock to put modalities in redressing the situation in place.

According to him, job creation and youth employment were top priorities of his administration, after security and the fight against corruption.

“One of the focal points of this administration is job creation, because job creation helps in the achievement of other objectives of the government such as poverty reduction and security, which are the major challenges this administration is confronted with. In­security cannot be divorced from unemployment and poverty, because an idle mind, they say is the devil’s workshop.

“This administration will ensure that youths in the country are gainfully employed and youth restiveness curtailed.

“The declining Internally Generated Revenue and over dependence on equally declining oil revenues, there is the need to seek other ways of diversifying the economy so as to boost the internal revenue. One of the ways we can achieve this is through reorientation of our youths towards having entrepreneurship mindset. You should therefore promote and enhance the teaching and learning of entrepreneurial skills in all schools and tertiary institutions such as yours.” he stated.

He however noted that it was in recognition of the importance of entrepreneurial skills that the federal government through the National Universities Commission made it mandatory for all universities to teach entrepreneurship skills, so that graduates can become job creators instead of job seekers after schooling.

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