The president further harped on the need to provide early career guidance for secondary School students to avert the menace of graduating without being employed
By Victor Nwegede, Abakaliki
National Association of Ebonyi State Students, NAESS, Worldwide has begun a week long sensitization programme for students of secondary schools in the three senatorial zones of Ebonyi State aimed at offering guidance and counseling to students on how to make the right choice of courses of study in the university and to reduce brain drain in the society.
The sensitization programme was flagged off, Wednesday, by Special Adviser to the Ebonyi State Governor on Student Affairs, Comrade Joshua Nwafor alongside his counterpart on Student Mobilization, Princess Angel Odono.
The duo emphasized the need for career guidance among the secondary School students and commended Governor Francis Nwifuru for his student-friendly programmes and supports to education sector in the state.
In his remarks at Ezetugbala Memorial Secondary School Amudo in Ezza South local government area; Iboko Secondary School and Station Community Vocational Secondary School Ndiogbu in Izzi local government area, among other schools cutting across the three senatorial districts in the state.
The NAESS National President, Comrade Collins Ogbonna said the association embarked on the programme to nurture the future of Ebonyi students, in line with the administration agenda of Governor Francis Nwifuru anchored on the People’s Charted of Needs.
The president further harped on the need to provide early career guidance for secondary School students to avert the menace of graduating without being employed.
A Guest Lecturer and former President of Students Union Government in Ebonyi State University, Dr Olisaemeka Nwuruku, advised the secondary students to choose self employed courses, noting that over 90 per cent of graduates remain job seekers for studying courses that could not make them self reliant after schools.
Nwuruku recommended that the secondary students should start early to pick interest to study courses such as medicine and surgery, nursing, pharmacy, medical laboratory, pharmacy, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, architecture, computer science, law, and other ones that would make them self reliant after graduating from the territory institution.