Nigerians Must Embrace No national attain greatness through mere wishful thinking except by taking the bull by the horn, and ensure that they engage in the right developmental logic, Emir of Dutse, Alhaji Nuhu Hameen Sanusi has advised.
Hameed Sanusi who is the Chancellor of Sokoto State University (SSU) made the appeal in Sokoto during the institution’s Convocation Lecture as part of the activities lined up for the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th ceremony.
According to him, there is no better time for Nigerians to think outside the box and embrace production and entrepreneurship than now.
These, if genuinely pursuit and carried out to the later stand a better chance of earning global for Nigeria and making the country another destination of hope.
Talking on how reality is triggering a paradigm shift in the mentality of Nigerians, the Dutse Emir said he is particularly happy that lately, Nigerians ate waking up to contribute their individual quota to national development.
He however appealed that women should step up and take their rightful place in the society by ensuring that they actively engage themselves in entrepreneur, be innovative and dream bigger with productivity chain.
“What a man can do, a woman can do better If you educate a woman, you educate a whole community.
“Majority of those graduating from our Quranic schools in Jigawa State are women, that means that we have a very bright future.”
On his part, the State Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Prof. Jabir Sani Maihula emphatically said Sokoto is committed to advancement of education and entrepreneurship.
Prof. Jabir who represented governor Ahmed Aliyu affirmed that the state back it’s commitment to education with adequate funding.
Lending his voice to the discuss, a technocrat and entrepreneur, Engr. Umar Buba Bindir, admonished students across the federation to embrace creativity, innovation and entrepreneur as a viable way of pulling the nation off the hook of poverty.
Dr Bindir who is the guest speaker, faulted the tag of Sokoto as Nigeria’s poorest state, saying it does not reflect the state’s human and natural resource endowment.
He however content that if students, policy makers and researchers doesn’t go beyond reliance on certificate to a more innovative dimension of education geared towards building solutions that generate wealth and employment, it will continue to be in that poverty rating.
Dr. Bindir, further urged Sokoto students’ to identify the state’s comparative advantages through research and translate such findings into viable enterprises capable of generating long term economic status for the state.
He singled out agriculture as low-hanging fruit, challenging soil science students to study the state’s soil profile and recommend crops with the highest yield and market value.
Citing Cambridge University as an example, he said the institution contributes over £300 million annually to the UK economy — a figure he put at hundreds of trillions of naira.
“Cambridge University alone contributes more than £300 million to the economy of the country, equivalent to hundreds of trillions of naira,” Bindir stated, adding that Nigeria’s resource base far exceeds Britain’s.
On his part, the Vice-Chancellor of Sokoto State University, Prof. Mohammed Bello Yerima, said the university is thriving to lead in entrepreneurship education soonest with the aim of producimg jobs and create wealth
