FOCUS on Entrepreneurship for Community Development as KWASU marks Global Entrepreneurship Week.

The Vice - Chancellor of the Kwara State University, Professor AbdulRasheed Na'Allah, has reiterated that it is the determination of the University to produce graduates who will be job creators and not job - seekers.

Professor Na'Allah stated this at the Opening ceremony of the global Entrepreneurship Week Celebration of the Kwara State University, Centre for Entrepreneurship. He explained that to this end all students of KWASU, offer entrepreneurship courses every semester from their second to final year irrespective of their course of study. According to the VC the Institution also has a Department of Career Services which handles the Students employment scheme on campus.

KWASU, he says, has an entrepreneurship fund, which is kept for investment as a counterpart funding for KWASU graduates who need financial assistance to set up their own businesses.

Earlier in his address, the Director Centre for Entrepreneurship ,Dr Muritala Awodun said the Global Entrepreneurship Celebration was an idea of the KUFFMAN FOUNDATION of Entrepreneurship in the United States of America. This occasion he said was the third year KWASU would join others globally to mark the global entrepreneurship week.

The representative of the Kwara State Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, Alhaji Muhammed Aliyu Lade, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Alhaji JAB Haruna commended KWASU for its efforts at producing future global business leaders at this time, especially with the celebration of the global entrepreneurship week annually.

The local theme of this year's celebration "Entrepreneurship for Community Development" he said was apt considering the high rate of unemployment and poverty ratio especially among the youths today.

The President, African University of science and Technology, Abuja, Professor Wole Soboyejo, who was the guest speaker presented a paper titled "Entrepreneurship for Community Development."