IOE to Partner NASS on Entrepreneurial Skill
As the country awaits the take off the Buhari administration, the skippers of the Institute of Entrepreneurs (IOE) – Nigeria, are looking forward to exploring some avenues of co-operation and policy designs, with an eye to sharpening and deepening entrepreneurial culture, as a growth and development feature of the country’s economy.
Speaking at a conference, with the theme: “Entrepreneurship As A Desirable Path To Accelerated Development”, organised, recently, by the IOE, its Executive Secretary, Dr. RotimiOladele, said it would liaise with the in-coming National Assembly, under the All Progressives Congress (APC) government, primarily, to influence policies and laws for leadership and entrepreneurship.
He said the IOE would also do same with the National Institute of Legislative Studies, Abuja, as well as the National and State Ministries of Education, to design an architecture for some synergy in curriculum development – as it had done with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), and the Lagos State Government, with which it had injected forward-looking entrepreneurial features into the programmes of technical schools.
Oladele said that the IOE’s planned legislative foray at the National Assembly, for instance, was part of a healthy belief that “entrepreneurship is a life style, from cradle to grave, as well demonstrated by the Socialist Republic of Cuba.”
The IOE’s pro-entrepreneurial, legislative initiative, Oladele said, would be predicated on entrepreneurship as a strategic option for the country, as if in a post-oil-dependent era, aimed at “freedom from ignorance, education for illumination, discountenance of myopic mindset that blurs a creative probe into the future, by taking a cue from China and the Asian Tigers”, with a healthy bias for small- and medium-scale enterprises.
In effect, such an initiative would be knowledge-based, to sculpt a new socio-economic order – a la Dubai – so that future industries would not melt, painfully, away – as did such giants as Arewa and Odutola groups.
