The Olowu of Owu Kingdom, Oba Saka Matemilola, on Thursday lamented the declining relevance of graduates produced by Nigerian tertiary institutions, saying many lack the knowledge and practical skills required to meet industry needs.
The monarch attributed the development to a widening disconnect between academia and industry, warning that employers had, for decades, struggled to recruit graduates who could seamlessly fit into the workplace.
Oba Matemilola said this in Abeokuta during the unveiling of a 10 Gigabits-per-second fibre optic infrastructure and smart campus initiative at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic in partnership with the Advanced Technological Incubation and Research Centre.
According to him, the project is designed to bridge the gap between the classroom and industry through practical learning, research, innovation and commercialisation.
He said, “One of the key problems we have, particularly in Nigeria, is that our institutions are not properly equipped to carry out research the way it should be
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