Tunde Bakare, the senior pastor
of Latter Rain Assembly, says he believes God to give Nigeria the right
leaders.
NAN reports that Bakare spoke on
the sidelines of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Annual Goalkeepers
meetings in New York, on Friday.
He said Nigeria’s education
system needs a total overhaul to create sound graduates.
He said 50% of Nigerian youths
are not employed while 25% are unemployable.
According to him, the current
system has huge implications on the economic development and life outcomes of
young people.
“In the past, when you are coming
out from the university, there are regular jobs, car loan and other facilities
that will keep you in the country,” Bakare said.
“Right now, because of the lack
of jobs, job creation has become a major issue. Our young people are now taking
to crime and are benefiting from proceeds of crime and kidnapping.
“But with the right policy in
place, we can inject new ideas that will create jobs for our people.
“I trust God that the right
leadership will come. I call them a new breed without greed that will consider
others and begin to create opportunities for us within our countries.
“About 50% of our youth are not
employed and 25% of them are not employable. So, there is something
fundamentally wrong with our education system that is producing
semi-illiterates.”
The pastor, therefore, called on
the government to review the education curriculum saying Nigeria would need
better-educated graduates to cope and compete in the world.
Bakare had trended at the weekend
after a February 2018 video recording where he said he is “number 16” after
President Muhammadu Buhari, who he says is “number 15″ in the ”scheme of
things” resurfaced.
The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation’s Goalkeeper’s report, which measures the state of performance of
the SDGs across the world, had said there is inequality in almost every
location in the world.
According to the report, the
quality of education people receive differs depending on the state or local
government area they live in.
The report showed that a girl
born in Ado Ekiti will most likely finish her secondary education, but if the
same girl were born in Garki local government in Jigawa, she will not complete
primary education.
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