Two schools at the weekend qualified to represent Nigeria at the Student for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) 2018 World Cup billed for Durban, South Africa from August 8th to 14th.
The winning schools out of 24 are Government Secondary School, Garki, Abuja and the Government Girls Secondary School, Abaji.
The winners were unveiled at the 2018 National School Entrepreneurship Exhibition and Award at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja.
The event was also used to officially launch the National School Entrepreneurship Programme (N-SEP).
The Garki school came first on the Socially Responsible Business category. The Abaji school came first on the Social Enterprise Business Category.
Apart from heading to South Africa to represent Nigeria, the two schools also got N500,000 prize money from the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN).
According to Osinbajo at the occasion, the increasing influence of globalisation and emergence of knowledge-based economy have led to the adoption of entrepreneurship education as a means of linking knowledge and skill with learning for developing critical human capital and mitigate social consequences of unemployment.
He said socio-economic implications of entrepreneurship and human capital development all over the world was seen as booster for wealth creation, employment generation, living standard, poverty and crime reduction.