The former president who spoke at the 10th anniversary and 6th and 7th convocation ceremonies of Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED, Ijagun, Ijebu Ode, warned: "If there is no job for the unemployed to feed themselves and also to contribute to the development of the country, then, we will all be sitting on gun powder.
"If university education was not for development then, it was not serving any useful purpose. It must be for development, personal, local, national and even global and that is very important."
He stated that education is a meal ticket for anybody that has it, adding that it is also a means of breaking the poverty cycle.
Obasanjo advised: "I believe in lifelong education. Nobody should stop learning until he or she die."
He said that he accepted the award because of the personality the school was named after, saying that Tai Solarin was one of the greatest educationists the country has ever produced.
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