The age long traditional focus by Nigerian schools on producing job seekers, rather than preparing job creators at a time when the employment environment has continued to shrink steadily, compels a fundamental reorientation of educational curricular in all institutions. Modern technology, which has created thousands of jobs has also consumed millions of these jobs. This is indeed a curious irony, which needs to be queried. Many traditional jobs, which used to be manned by several people, are today being handled by either one person, or by artificial intelligence because, of the impact of technology on our lives. Nowadays, robotics will continue to take over more and more jobs in the years ahead. And if more on~the~job workforce stand the risk of losing their employment, the future of fresh graduates being trained to only seek for the hardly available or adequate jobs, will become bleaker. The practical solution lies in reordering school curricular by deliberately injecting a career mentoring component into academic programs. This career~orientation would enable students to graduate as prepared statesmen, career professionals and business leaders, with the relevant skills and competencies to become independent. In this regard, future graduates would henceforth avoid having to wait for years to aspire to work for someone, for some company or for some government bureaucracy. Today, the competitive world needs broadly educated, career~oriented and independent minded graduates, who are prepared to create jobs by themselves. To propel this dream of broad and career~oriented education; the elements of critical thinking, community engagement and service learning are fundamental. This is the dream upon which Prime University is anchored. And with a strong trilateral feeder schools base in the Federal Capital Territory, Prime University is positioned enough to define the employability path, and set the career pace for Nigerian schools and communities.

Therefore,  by envisioning to fill the career gap prevalent in Nigeria’s educational system, Prime University is indeed not only setting the pace for innovative learning, but also concretely helping to incubate the bright future of Nigerian youth, that has long been lying fallow, unfertilized, and hardly every adequately irrigated. In a nutshell, Prime University has been established to share the Chinese philosophy of teaching humanity the fundamental techniques of fishing, in order to feed for life. This is instead of merely offering man a daylong plate of fish, which can only feed him once. Therefore, Prime University will lead its students on a strategic lifelong journey to the riverbank, in order to continually live by the waters, learn and master the lifelong fishing trade and feed the world for life.