Reno Omokri, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has listed some courses offered in Nigerian higher institutions that are no longer relevant, particularly in the year 2025 and beyond....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE➤
Omokri, a former presidential aide, posited that these courses are not relevant because employers would not employ graduates from such fields. According to him, employers would have nothing to do with such courses, and they provide no skills.
The PDP chieftain cited the recent opening at Elon Musk’s company, saying that the richest man in the world did not ask for candidates’ certificates but skills. He stressed that the billionaire just wants a coder; he did not care if you have been to school or not.
In a tweet on Saturday, January 18, the former presidential aide urged Nigerians to learn one relevant skill or the other, adding that it is the way to go. His tweet reads in part:
“If you know something but cannot do anything with what you know, you are functionally illiterate in this day and age. Learn a skill that you can do with your hands.”
According to Omokri, some of the relevant skills in 2025 and beyond are blockchain, coding, building, marketing, real estate, nursing, tailoring, gardening and appraising.
He stressed that these skills are self-development skills that can be used by individuals or as a job. He emphasised that getting the skills would save one from unemployment struggle.
Omokri then went further to list courses in Nigerian universities that would not be relevant in 2025 and beyond. According to Omokri, the courses are political science, philosophy, library science, international relations, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, public administration, and religious study.
The former presidential aides maintained that those courses are not skills but mere academic information that can be easily replaced with the growing development of artificial intelligence.
He said:
“They are just academic information with reducing relevance to the world of 2025 and beyond, where AI is improving. Every academic knowledge that does not lead to automatic skill is a relic and belongs in a museum.”
See his tweet here:
Future employers will ask you what you can do with your hands or mind instead of what you read or where you went to school. It is already happening. Look at Elon Musk’s recent job advert. He just wants coders. He does not care where, when, or if you even went to school. So, what…
— Reno Omokri (@renoomokri) January 18, 2025
Omokri shared the video while kicking Peter Obi’s condemnation of the Lagos state government’s demolition of some illegal buildings. Odumeje was allegedly slapped last year during the demolition of some parts of his church by the Anambra government, as they were allegedly built on waterways. ...CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE➤
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