Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Ahmad Bamali has said that certain courses in the Nigerian universities should be phased out because they will not fetch youths anything.
He also said Nigeria needs leaders that will groom the young ones to be responsible future leaders of the country.
The Emir made this known at a Women’s Conference organized by the Women Models and Mentors Foundation (WMM).
The conference is themed “The Right to participate”.
He said, “What we are lacking today is mentorship. You don’t have to be a professor to mentor people. We should try as much as possible to impact knowledge to those behind us, especially, those that require some tutelage and technical know-how.
“Entrepreneurship is very key, I am passionate about it, especially, when it is an issue that relates to women.
“I am one of those blessed people that have girls as my children. I have four girls and a boy, so I can say I am a father of girls.
“We are encouraging young girls to go into entrepreneurship, especially those graduating from Islamic schools. We always tell them to combine the two education; western and Islamic education.
“It is not about getting a degree. A degree is just a sheet of paper, with the education that you have acquired, how have you applied what you studied?
”It is not about having multiple degrees, what have you done? What can you do with your hands? That is what matters today, not to be doing things that will not even help you in your own home. We should always try and encourage the young ones, especially women.
“Yesterday and the day before yesterday, I mentioned that certain courses in the university should be phased out. I am an advocate of that. Those courses will not fetch you anything.
“Those courses that when you graduate from the university, you will only add to the increasing number of unemployed graduates.
”There is no point in going to the university to study something that will not be useful to society.”
The royal father further encouraged young girls, especially those graduating from Islamic schools to strive to combine Islamic and western education to excel in all their endeavors
He stressed that entrepreneurship is the key and way forward to development, try and be employers of labor not seekers of white collar jobs.
He also encouraged people to go into farming as a sustainable means for families to cater to their needs.
