Management of Doregos Private Academy, Lagos State, has rewarded students with exceptional skills in the six core trade subjects – fashion and design, event and decoration, grooming (hair barbing), photography, aluminum fabrication and bead making – in which they trained, as a way of encouraging young people to develop interest in entrepreneurship and skills acquisition.
This was at the inaugural edition of the school’s Young Entrepreneur Fair (YEF) and Exhibition programme, which also featured competition among students in the six trade subjects.
For their efforts, which were adjudged commendable at the end of the competition, Success Oke, who sewed the best dress got a sewing machine; Samuel Abba won a camera for coming first in the photography session; while Blessing Akakpo, who finished tops in the event and decoration category got decoration tools. Azeem Arowosaye and Ibukun Olanipekun were rewarded in the respective categories.
The Executive Director of the school, Mr. Bernardino Olatokunbo Doregos, commented that entrepreneurship remains critical to economic success, thus the need to groom endowed students in their youth and prepare them for the future.
There is need to acknowledge youths who out of their own decision and innate abilities have become entrepreneurs to reckon with.
Proprietress of the school, Mrs. Clementina Doregos, who said the school understands the benefits of implementing the trade subjects’ component of the senior secondary school curriculum which was the reason it engaged experts in the six fields to offer practical training to students on Saturdays.
In her remarks, Chairperson of the occasion, Mrs. Josephine Onwuegbuzie, stressed that skills acquisition and entrepreneurship were of vital importance if Nigeria must achieve vision 20:2020. While encouraging schools and parents to support children’s dreams should they seek to embrace entrepreneurship.
