To Create Wealth In Nigeria We Need To Empower Our People - Osinbajo

Nigeria's Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says that the country's wealth is not in its oil but in its people.

The vice president was quoted by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, in a statement given at the 11th Founders' Day Lecture at King's College in Lagos.

The statement titled, ‘Teaching young people integrity, innovation and hard work is the foundation of a good society,’ stressed on how best the government can make use of the country's human capital to generate wealth.

Osinbajo was quoted as saying that there is a need to “change both the substance of education and the methods of educating our children.”

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“When people are nurtured in the notion that rent seeking or the prebendal capture of wealth or benefit by access to power is the path to success, then the society will not prosper," he said.

“A few will capture all the resources, everyone else will be poor or on their way there."