Obasanjo Raises Alarm Over Increasing Poverty In Nigeria

Obasanjo Raises Alarm Over Increasing Poverty In Nigeria

Obasanjo Raises Alarm Over Increasing Poverty In Nigeria

Former President, Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo has urged Federal, State
and local governments “to do more
in the area of employment” as too
many Nigerians are suffering the
consequences of poverty.
Obasanjo warned that “if there is no
job for the unemployed to feed
themselves and also to contribute to
the development of the country then,
we will all be sitting on gun
powder.”
Speaking very frankly, Obasanjo
insisted:
“If University education was not for
development then, it was not serving
any useful purpose, insisting that “It
must be for development, personal,
local, national and even global and
that is very important.”
The former President who spoke at
the 10th anniversary and 6th and
7th convocation ceremonies of Tai
Solarin University of Education
(TASUED), Ijagun, Ijebu Ode, Ogun
State.
He stated that education should be a
meal ticket for anybody that has it,
adding that it is also a means for one
to break the poverty circle.
Obasanjo advised “I believe in
lifelong education. Nobody should
stop learning until he or she dies.”