A Quick Guide To Entrepreneurship Education In Nigeria

How do you think you can become a successful entrepreneur in Nigeria? Is it through education? Or is it through experience? The answer is both. With the help of well developed entrepreneurship education you will be able to gain the knowledge and skills required to launch and grow your startup. I believe that effective entrepreneurial learning can enable us to achieve long term development in Nigeria.

Why entrepreneurship education

Our nation is currently facing a number of serious challenges which range from high poverty and unemployment levels, limited economic development, terrorist threats, poor infrastructure facilities, high standard of living and excessive dependence on technology and foreign goods. However, we will be able to overcome all the challenges in time, only if we arm our students with helpful entrepreneurship education that will make them self-reliant and create more jobs.

To succeed as an entrepreneur, you will need to acquire some specific skills, attitudes, knowledge and practices. Moreover, you also need to have a thorough understanding of the market so that you can identify various business opportunities, make the most of them and take calculated risks. Entrepreneurship education can help you prepare to be entrepreneurial thinkers and entrepreneurs so that you can significantly contribute towards the development of sustainable communities and the overall economy.

How to study entrepreneurship

Do you wish to acquire entrepreneurial education in Nigeria? Well, then you must realise that the formal institutions in the country, such as colleges, polytechnics and universities, will not be able to offer you the knowledge you need. These institutes will only teach you how to grow up to be an employee, not an entrepreneur. It is for this reason, numerous educated youths across Nigeria who tried to start their own business have either failed or in the process of closing down. American businessman and motivational speaker, Robert Kiyosaki once said “It's difficult for people to realize that school (traditional education) is obsolete. It's difficult for people to understand that what they consider to be "the norm" is damaging their and their children's financial futures.”

This is why you need to study entrepreneurship online. There are several high quality online fast track business programmes offered by UK universities and B-schools that can help you to acquire the right skills and knowledge. These programmes have been developed to provide you entrepreneurship training and enable you to start your own business. Moreover, these affordable online courses will also help you to earn a recognised MBA degree without investing excessive time or money. However, if you think that affordable means cheap, then you couldn't be more wrong. When you pursue an ATHE Diploma in Business programme, you will receive high quality business education that follow similar curriculum utilised in the classroom programmes and conducted by in-house and international professors.

Studying entrepreneurship online

Here I am going to talk about how online Fast Track MBA degrees can offer you effective entrepreneurship education which you will not receive from Nigerian formal schools. Read on...

Continuous learning opportunity

Online entrepreneurship education allows you to constantly learn new

information about relevant industries and the overall market so that you can gain a competitive edge. You will receive regular and updated content and information about the global business scenario that will help you make successful business plans. Moreover, a fast track business degree will allow you to top up your qualification by advancing to the final year of an accredited MBA programme, either online or on-campus.

Apply your knowledge

Learning about business and entrepreneurship is simply not enough; you must know how to apply your knowledge at work. It does not matter how much you know, but what you can achieve with what you have learned. As online programmes are highly flexible, you will be able to study and work simultaneously. This means you can immediately apply your knowledge into your business and hone your skills.

Learn to deliver value

I have seen many new entrepreneurs invest most of their time, energy and resources in acquiring new customers, instead of providing the best value to existing clients. The right entrepreneurial education will teach you not only how to gain new business leads but also how you can turn your present client into repeat clients.

If you ask me, pursuing a fast track mba degree online is one of the best ways to acquire entrepreneurship training for Nigerian youths. You will get to learn what you want, how you want, where you want, without emptying your bank account.

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How The American University of Nigeria Is Changing The Education Scenario

Since more than 250 schoolgirls were abducted in Nigeria by the terrorist organisation Boko Haram, security has become the top priority for Margee Ensign, head of the American University of Nigeria. The institute is perhaps the only academic institute in the African continent which follows the western pattern. The university is situated Adamawa state in the troubled northeast region of Nigeria. Ensign is aware that the Islamist extremist group, responsible for numerous deaths in the area from 2009, is aggressively against Western influence, particularly in education. She recently said “Our primary responsibility is making sure the students and the community stay safe.”

Creating a platform

The American University of Nigeria now serves as the residence of 21 girls among the 250 schoolgirls who were abducted at the crack of dawn in April 2014 from a secondary school located in Chibok town near Borno state. Although dozens of the victims have successfully escaped, around 219 of the kidnapped girls still remain unaccounted for. After finding out about the keen interest of the escaped girls in education, Ensign set up a foundation which would offer scholarships to them and other students. However, at present the students do not take any regular classes. Regarding the focus of the girls on preparing for exams, she said “ They were taking their national exams the night they were kidnapped.”

The institute had introduced the Adamawa Peace Initiative back in 2012 in order to “foster peace through education, empowerment and community development.” Last spring, President Goodluck Jonathan instructed the army into Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states after a state of emergency was imposed by the government.

Before the presidential election last month, where former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari won the support of the voters, the government said it has been successful in eradicating the terrorists from Adamawa state and was focused on doing the same in other states.

Destruction and damages affecting education

Ensign, director of the peace initiative, recently informed that she had “just returned from a trip up north, where damage is horrible.” In the latest blog update for The Huffington Post, where she occasionally writes about Nigerian developments, Margee Ensign described numerous scenes of destruction in houses, mosques, churches, communications facilities and even health centers. According to her, in one town “most of the public buildings had been shelled or burned. … No farms were being cleared and prepared for the rainy season.”

She believes that NGOs “have been quite slow” in their response to the exceptional humanitarian needs in the region. Ensign admitted that the Nigerian Red Cross and some other groups were actively providing support. But she said that “over 200,000 young children are not in school,” and she wishes to establish “mobile education” training centres to help these students access education easily.

Making education accessible

The American University of Nigeria has already set up a literacy programme which is focused “to reach as many young people, boys and girls,” as possible. She believes that most Nigerian parents are interested in getting their girls educated. However, they lack the proper resources, access and security.

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