Technology incubation centres in Ogun State in western Nigeria are failing to help students find employment.
This is according to the manager of the ‘Ogun State Technology Incubation Centre’, Dr. John Oni.
Oni has explained that several students at the centre had completed their course durations but that they have remained idle in the centre as they have not been employed.
He has further said that the situation has made it difficult for the centre to admit more people.
Oni advocated that as a way out of the situation, government should consider establishing post technology incubation centres where those who had passed through the incubation centres could be further engaged.
“Currently the Ogun State Technology Incubation centre is not taking in any new set of interested persons,” said Oni.
"Those at the centre have nowhere to go. They have since finished their programmes and because there is not adequate plan to accommodate them out there. They have simply remained at the centre.
"Presently, we cannot take more people into the centre because those already. They have nowhere to go," he said.
Regardless of his innovation centre’s challenges, Oni urged government to find ways to set up more technology incubation centres across the country.
He said that such centres could produce technologies to further revolutionise the country and set it on a path to economic progress.
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