University of Lagos has one of the oldest Business Faculties in Africa established in 1962 and has produced numerous Entrepreneurs who are captains of industries in many sectors of the Nigerian economy and Africa. In ensuring the continuous development of the Nigerian economy, University of Lagos, strategically located in the Centre of Lagos State the economic hub of Nigeria, established the Entrepreneurship and Skills Development Centre (ESDC) as a dedicated center focusing on promoting entrepreneurship among its students, staff, alumni, and the society. This is in line with Objective 4 (Section-2: Student matters) on page 55 of the Medium Term Goals of the 25-Year Strategic Plan of the University of Lagos which states:
“To promote Self-reliance, Entrepreneurship and Exemplary Leadership skills and Capacity in our students”
This Entrepreneurship Skills and Development Centre aim to promote the entrepreneurial spirit and will support students to set up profitable business ventures along their chosen professions before graduation. They will be encouraged to acquire skills required to develop new ventures and start-ups, such as innovative thinking, business creativity, business planning, proposal writing, risk taking abilities, and business management skills. This is targeted towards developing the real sector of the Nigeria economy and making our graduates potential employers of labour rather than seekers of employment.
The University seeks to achieve these goals by partnering with several organizations for sponsorship of programs that have the capacity to motivate and ignite the latent creativity, entrepreneurial interests as well as develop the relevant business skills in our students, alumni and staff in particular and the Nigerian society and Africa in general.
Jointly sponsored by Eko-Konnect and WACREN for Faculty of Engineering Staff and students (Women Lecturers and Female Students from faculty of Engineering and other Institutions in West Africa are the participants). Monday, January 22 to Saturday, January 27, 2018.
(Wednesday, January 31 to Friday, March 2, 2018). The programme was about managing a company without running real-world risks and taking top management decisions. The sponsored trained 80 students of this University while four (4) out of the 80 students emerged as National winner of the programme, they also represent the Country in the international contest from Monday, April 16 to Thursday, April 19, 2018 in Dubai UAE.
(Saturday, July 14 to Saturday October 13, 2018), the programme is a yearly training which has been designed to train and equip final year students of various tertiary institutions in Lagos State with employability and Entrepreneurship Skills for 13 consecutive Saturdays. In addition, the initiative is believed to provide the final year students with a brighter future and make them more competitive and employable in the labor market after graduation. Some of the participants were able to get an internship with various companies after interview and conclusion of the programme in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
Programme on capacity building in the area of Quality Assurance and Software Testing sponsored by the company’s CEO (Olarewaju O. Oludare) alumnae of our great University who partnered with the ESDC to train 50 students. The participants were selected from Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science. The training was held at the ESDC from Monday, June 4 to Saturday, June 9, 2018.
The programme which was targeted at raising technology capacity among Africa’s youth in the following areas: Transport Networks (Ethernet, Optics & Microwave); Access Networks (Radio- 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, WIFI, Copper, Fiber Optics); Telecom Application Suite (Core Networks, etc.); Virtualization, Cloud, Data & analytics, IOT; Software Applications (Mobile, Web, Back-end, Front-end); Robotics Automation & Computer Hardware; The Internet, Network/Application security; Communication Systems; Software Development Framework and Business side of Software was held at the Centre from Friday, June 29 to Saturday, June 30, 2018 and 50 students from Faculties of Engineering and Science benefitted from this.
(from August 2-4, 2018). This was a Skills acquisition programme on Technology Design and Prototype Challenge aimed at empowering the next generation of leaders to enter the workforce with the skills they need to access employment or create their own entrepreneurial opportunities in the fourth industrial revolution. 50 students across Nigeria Universities participated in the gainful programme of which 20 slots were given to the University of Lagos being a hosting Institution. UNILAG students won different prizes ranging from Laptops to Phones among other gifts and some of them got investors among the panel of Judges to invest in their businesses.
Programme on capacity building in the area of Quality Assurance and Software Testing sponsored by the company’s CEO (Olarewaju O. Oludare) alumnae of our great University who partnered with the ESDC to train 50 students. The participants were selected from Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science. The training was held at the ESDC from Monday, June 4 to Saturday, June 9, 2018.
The programme is sponsored by Lufthanza German Airlines to train the University Staff and Students in one of the hottest and highly demanding knowledge skill today in the World “Design Thinking” while the Impact Week is meant to teach young people on how to create business models out of the existing problems by giving them the tools and knowledge to be creative, innovative and to make their own living by establishing businesses that will help them become employers of labours.
1The 1st edition of the programme was held in October 2017 where about 16 prototypes of different businesses were generated and the best three businesses got Two Million one hundred Thousand as start-up grant.
The 2nd Edition was in November 2018, twenty four viable business ideas prototypes were generated, the Vice Chancellor also promised Five Million start-up grants for the first three teams. Some of the teams have gone through second level of pitching where the Centre invited private sector investors to invest into the businesses and we have writing for approval to register the businesses to enable them commence operation in earnest.
One Hundred and fifty six (156) students were trained across the University in the 1st and 2nd edition of the Impact Week.
The programme is sponsored by Lufthanza German Airlines to train the University Staff and Students in one of the hottest and highly demanding knowledge skill today in the World “Design Thinking” while the Impact Week is meant to teach young people on how to create business models out of the existing problems by giving them the tools and knowledge to be creative, innovative and to make their own living by establishing businesses that will help them become employers of labours.
Team Tetra who represented the University of Lagos won the first place position in the national finals of the second edition of the Global Management Challenge (GMC)
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