Dr Aliyu Shugaba
Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development (CEED)
The University of
Vision:
The vision of the Centre is to create an internationally recognized Centre of Excellence for spreading the spirit of enterprise through education, training and research using innovative and interdisciplinary approaches.
The mission of the programme is to enrich the knowledge horizon of students and staff in the field of entrepreneurship and nurture the development of high quality entrepreneurs with capabilities for creating employment through business venturing and planning.
Objectives:
The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development shall serve as the laboratory of the entrepreneurship programme and its objectives are to:
- Create and promote entrepreneurial awareness and opportunities.
- Nurture the talents and ideas of students to create and sustain businesses so that they emerge as business owners with professional skills.
- Enhance the capacity of potential and practising entrepreneurs who have the desire to learn practical entrepreneurial skills.
- Encourage the creative application of knowledge acquired in the University.
- Offer, through academic programmes, practical hands-on education in entrepreneurship and service-learning activities within the community and the region.
- Provide students with the necessary skills to think creatively, to successfully launch their own businesses, or to support an employer in launching and growing an entrepreneurial venture.
- Develop in the students the ability to take advantage of Venture Capital for ideas generated by them.
- Offer mentoring and consultancy services to small and medium scale enterprises within and outside the catchment area of the University.
- Transfer research efforts from the laboratory to the marketplace and thus, promote successful clusters of entrepreneurial businesses
- Stimulate the development and growth of entrepreneurship in the north east sub-region and Nigeria at large.
- Make University of Maiduguri the bedrock for developing, testing and actualising creative entrepreneurial skills within the nation’s socioeconomic environment.