A call has gone to medical and non-medical related students across the
country to work towards acquiring skills that will fetch them money
away from their desired white-collar job, without having to
over-burden their monthly salary.
The Permanent Secretary, Ogun State Ministry of Health, Dr. Adesanya
Ayinde, who made this known on the heels of the entrepreneurial
training given to the final year students of the School of Nursing,
Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, said that rate of unemployment in Nigeria and
over-dependence of the younger ones on white collar jobs are enough
reasons to acquire more practical skills.
Dr. Ayinde commended the leadership of the school for the laudable initiative.
He said that apart from regular monthly salary, alternative sources of
income relieves every individual of any form of financial burden,
adding that the skill being used to make money could later become a
full time vocation that one would be happy doing.
“The adage that one way does not lead to the market is ever true. In
our country that white collar is not going round the number of the
unemployed, entrepreneurial skill becomes very imperative.
“Even if one is gainfully employed, an alternative source of income
has a way of providing relief from any form of burden and this skill
may end up becoming one’s lifetime vocation,” Dr. Ayinde stated.
In her remarks, the Principal of the school, Mrs. Dele Alonge,
disclosed that one of the new changes in the curriculum by the Nursing
and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) is Entrepreneurship study
which involves both theory and practical as a compulsory course.
She said that it has therefore become mandatory for everyone passing
through the School of Nursing to acquire a skill alongside their
nursing training, pointing out that it has become a custom for final
years students to do extensive practical which will culminate in
exhibition within the school.
Speaking in a separate interview, two of the final year student
nurses, Taoheed Eniola and Akinbona Gbenga, expressed satisfaction
with the course, saying that it would afford them the opportunity to
use their day-offs from work judiciously.
The students were trained in soap making, baking, head gear making and make-up.
