Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu, has vowed that the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President Bola Tinubu administration would demystify the ‘education is a scam’ narrative among Nigerian youths by gainfully engaging graduates.

Speaking at the national stakeholders’ workshop on the roadmap for the Nigerian Education Sector (2023 – 2027) in Abuja, yesterday, he stated that the only way to weaken the promoters is to employ youngsters with formal education.

The minister lamented that appreciation of the education sector was yet to translate to tangible results, where an educated person stands a better chance of living a fulfilled life.

He said: “This disconnect between purpose and reality could be said to be responsible for inadequate attention to the sector, wrong perceptions of the relative importance of the different forms and types of education.”

Indeed, I must also say that the inability of our youths to gain employment after going through the rigours of academics may be responsible for the gradual disinterest in the pursuit of education.

“To curtail this trend and make Nigerian education responsive to realities and beneficial to the individual, as well as the nation, is what the Renewed Hope Agenda for the education sector is all about.”

Sununu, while appealing to stakeholders to come up with concrete solutions, stressed the need for them to align with the 23 deliverables assigned to the ministry in the eight-point agenda of the current administration.