NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISM CELEBRATE GEW 2015

Uche Blessed and Tobiloba Adenekan.

The students of Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagoshas been urged to embrace the art of entrepreneurship beyond what they are taught in school.

The Director, membership and marketing Institute of Entrepreneurs (IOE), Dr. (Mrs.) Folu Olagunju, gave the advice during the lecture organized by the Institute to mark 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Week in Lagos.

Speaking on ‘Unleashing Your Potentails’, she said that the acquisition of skills will help students achieve success at an early age without depending on anybody.

‘You do not need to be dependent on anybody to achieve success in life, when you can learn a skill and be successful,’ she said. She called on the school management to take up the responsibility of producing graduates who are not just theoretically groomed but are exposed to the art of Entrepreneurship.

‘The management should ensure that everything done should go in accordance with the demands of the theoretical know-how,’ she added.

Olagunju went further to educate the students on the need to partake in the ongoing project she is engaged in whereby students are given the opportunity to be members of a movement to spread the word of the importance of Entrepreneurship.

She explained that the Institute of Entrepreneurship has been opened and would support any student willing to make headway in life through the art of entrepreneurship.

In an interview with the Entrepreneurship lecturer of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Mrs. Bisi Bamishe, she noted that the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2015 had benefitted the students immensely and had given the students avenue to discover their skills and passions.

She further explained that the students of the institution (NIJ) have been able to produce customized products and acquire creativities and initiatives in creating a business enterprise on their own.

Buttressing the point, Olagunju declared that there are financial benefits accrued to participants for productiveness and presentation of a good business plan. 

According to her, the business plan will enable the management of the Institute of Entrepreneurship (IOE) to examine the level of seriousness of the individual.

She therefore advised that students take right steps to success so as to be figured to be reckoned with in the society.

However, comments on the exhibition by the students were incisive. A Higher National Diploma student, Miss Adenike Adelakun said the forum gave her an insight into what she could do after school.

‘The forum has opened my eyes to know that I could do something after school. What I could do is to make up, I have neglected that side of me for some time now but with this seminar, I could employ myself after school,’ Adenike explained.

Oparah Precious, National Diploma student expressed her gratitude to the management for bringing and also providing opportunity for her to be equipped via the lecture. ‘I thank the school authority for the opportunity to be equipped with this seminar. It has helped me to discover more of what I can do,’ Precious admitted.

She further urged fellow students to put into practice what they have heard and ensure they make impact in the society they may find themselves.