Governor PETER MBAH of Enugu State has said that Nigerian graduates are not innovative and inventive because they are not exposed to productive skills and competencies in discovering new things through experiential learning.

The governor stated this while delivering the 1st Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Distinguished Personalities Lecture Series entitled “Experiential Learning: Building the Wealth of the Nation, yesterday in Enugu.

He said the Nigeria’s current education model and spending could not deliver the much-needed speedy development and economic transformation.

However, MBAHpushed for an urgent paradigm shift from memorisation to experiential learning, describing the method as the missing link among education, industrialisation, and Gross domestic product growth.