Youths should move from being job seekers to job creators - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has reaffirmed job creation as one of the cardinal policies of his change agenda.

Buhari said this on Saturday at the second convocation ceremony of the Kaduna State University, Kaduna, where he was conferred with his first ever honorary doctorate of letters.

President Buhari who spoke on the subject, “Entrepreneurship for Development,”  pledged his administration's fullest possible support to all efforts to create more jobs through the reorientation of Nigerian youths towards an entrepreneurial mindset.

His words
“This administration will ensure that youths in the country are gainfully employed and youth restiveness curtailed.

“One of the focal points of this administration is job creation. Job creation will help in the achievement of other objectives of the government such as poverty reduction and security which are some of the challenges this administration is confronted with . Insecurity cannot be divorced from unemployment and poverty because an idle mind, they say, is the devil’s workshop.”

Speaking about the need to diversify the economy, given the dwindling oil revenue, Buhari said;
“One of the ways we can achieve this is through the reorientation of our youths towards an entrepreneurial mindset. We must therefore promote and enhance the teaching and learning of entrepreneurial skills in all schools and tertiary institutions, thereby exposing our youth to the basics and rudiments of starting and sustaining their own businesses."