Two young Nigerian entrepreneurs have stressed the need for Entrepreneurship courses to be added in the curriculum of studies in Nigeria from secondary school level.

On a Channels Television’s programme, ‘Rubbin’ Minds’, on Sunday, Mojisola Somolu of ‘Mo Make Overs’ and Adetunji Ife-Adebiyi of Tunji Robes were of the opinion that an addition of such courses would help change the orientation of young Nigerians and would enable them get the necessary knowledge about how to start their personal businesses.

Somolu, a Make-Up Artiste, said that the knowledge she got in extra-curricular activities while in secondary school helped her in her field.

Desirous of being independent while she makes her own money, she established her outfit, which she said was doing very well.

“I wanted to be independent, make my own money and not have anyone holding me to ransom.

“I started doing make-up with very little sum of money.

“When I had my first client, I had to go to the market with her to buy the make-up kits we used for her,” she said.

For Ife-Adebiyi, being self-employed is fulfilling, as he had time for himself and also controls his finance.

He said he had always wanted to control his life and decide when to do things and when not to.

He is into fashion and he said that his resolve never to work like his parents, who were civil servants and depended on a monthly pay, motivated him.

“It is not about the fact that somebody is controlling your finance. You do things on your own time and no one controls your life.

“I do not want to work like my parents, a situation where you have to wait till the end of the month to get some things done. When you are self-employed, you make money on a daily basis and nobody is telling you how to dress.

“It was more about living my life on my terms and not about the fact that I just wanted to be my own boss,” he said.

Ife-Adebiyi said that working for someone places a limit to how far one can go in life.

“At some point, I realised that a couple of people who have been in paid employment were not going higher. They have a limit that they can go.

“People take up some jobs because they feel there is job security. When there is economic shakeup that the company has to downsize, what happens?

For him, the job security issue is “more like a trap and not security”.

“They hold you down for so long a time and when you retire, they pay you a small amount of money and you leave. If you set up something at that age and something goes wrong, what will you do? He questioned.

They advised young Nigerian job seekers to look for problems that they could solve and establish a service along that line.

Their advice is coming barely one month after some job seekers lost their lives during a recruitment exercise of the Nigeria Immigration Service, which was marred by stampedes.

They identified taxation as one of the challenges they had, stressing the need for the government to reform the tax system in Nigeria for Small and medium Scale Businesses to grow faster.