Roland Bayode

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Student entrepreneurship has become a common thing among Nigerian students today which majority said became necessary to meet some financial obligations since their parents can not make everything available for them.
However, combining academics with entrepreneurship has been the issue that they have to cope with.
Some students entrepreneurs who spoke with The Hope narrated their experiences on how they manage businesses with their academic activities.
A student of Mass Communication at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko; Abosede Christiana who spoke with The Hope noted that she delved into entrepreneurship to support her schooling and also to fend for herself.
Abosede who is into baking, opined that every student of any Nigerian university should acquire one skill or the other to help them.
“It has not been easy. The contest on campus is that we think of how to struggle with academic grades and for me as an entrepreneur, I need to survive with my business. I would have stopped but when I remember that I need to pay my school fees, I can not.”
Another student from Lagos State University, LASU, Abdulsemiu Monsuroh stated that being an undergraduate and an entrepreneur is very tasking, exhausting, and sometimes depressing especially for startups.
She explained that she was able to manage academic activities with business because she adjusted her working hours. “I have programmed my mind that schooling and studying are my primary assignments in the university, so I will never allow anything to come between that, not even money.”
A 300 level student of Economics from Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State; Idiaghe Osaro also explained that the challenge she encountered as an entrepreneur is managing business as well as trying to keep up with school work.
A Mass Communication student of Rufus Giwa polytechnic Owo, Imani Orowole, said she started an entrepreneur after her father remarried to support herself in school.
She affirmed that combining the two is not an easy task as she said that leaving classes to go and collect goods from drivers for delivery is a hard-ass.
A 400 level Human Kinetics and Health Education Student of Ekiti State University (EKSU); Mofiyinfoluwa Aderonke also noted that managing academics with business is quite challenging for her because it requires time and dedication.
“There is no not enough time to implement all entrepreneurial skills like practicing some high marketing skills. Managing academics with studies is not easy. Honestly, there are days, even weeks I go without posting my items.”