Author: Optimal Times

…Urges Govt to enhance entrepreneurship education A professor of Entrepreneurship and Management Strategy, Mrs Olajumoke Familoni, has said Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) sector is pivotal to economic growth and job creation in the country. Familoni, in a statement made available to The Guardian, said small and medium enterprises often faced challenges in accessing domestic and international markets. She therefore called on governments to support SMEs by organizing trade fairs, exhibitions, and matchmaking events to connect SMEs with potential buyers and partners. “Creating a supportive ecosystem for SMEs involves collaboration betweengovernment, industry associations, academia, and financial institutions. Thisincludes establishing business…

..NANS, activists commend govt’s ‘magnanimity’ A former Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities {ASUU} at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Omotoye Olorode, and a Dean at the University of Ibadan, Prof. Godson Ana, over the weekend, berated the Federal Government’s plan payment of four months out of eight months salaries of university lecturers withheld by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. University lecturers went on strike for eight months last year. The development made the Buhari government to impose no-work-no-pay policies on them. However, the Bola Tinubu government, on Friday,hinted on the payment of four months out of the…

… Says Oyo ready for outbreak of Diphtheria The Nigerian Medical Association {NMA}, Monday, called on the Federal Government and all state governments to increase budgetary allocation to the health sector to 15 per cent and more in order to revamp the sector. The President of NMA, Dr. Uche Rowland Ojinmah, stated this while addressing journalists on the 2023 Physicians’ Week, The week has the theme: ‘’This is our chance: To get it right in the health sector”, while a former Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, a former member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Ibrahim Olaifa and others…

The Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, has urged Nigerian youths and graduates not to put themselves under pressure of living above their means but start small and add values anywhere they find themselves. Oyedepo made the call ,over the weekend, during the maiden convocation of Dominion University, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, emphasizing that they must not despise little beginning. The Christian leader, who prayed for the Dominion University graduates, specifically charged them to stay connected with the Lord. The cleric stressed the need for the 96 graduates of the faith-based university to manifest their…