The event, which was held in the newsroom, also featured a book presentation and award of cash prizes to winners of The Nation/Africanliberty.org essay contest.
Mentoring the participants included the president of Students For Liberty (SFL), Alexander McCobin, who came from the United States, The Nation’s Online Editor, Mr Lekan Otufodunrin and the Director of Outreach, African Liberty Organisation, Mr Adedayo Thomas.
Dignitaries at the seminar included the Education Secretary of Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area, Mr Adewale Alausa among others.
Welcoming the students, Wale Ajetunmobi, CAMPUSLIFE Editor, explained the activities of the organisation, urging the participants to use the opportunity to network with their peers from across the world to promote freedom and entrepreneurship.
Speaking on the core values of SFL and McCobin said groups are global network of youths promoting capacity free enterprise and economic liberty without border.
“We have the responsibility to promote the virtues of liberty and free enterprise via global and regional partnerships with students for a common goal of promoting and sustaining liberty. The libertarian spirit has been recognised and felt across the world through the Students For Liberty activities in Venezuela and Turkey. Through the active involvement of the libertarians, the status quo is being changed in Egypt,” he said.
Otufodunrin advised the students to make meaningful contribution to the society, advising that there was need for them to go a step further by harnessing the business part of using Facebook and Twitter for personal empowerment and development of the economy.
Presenting the book titled: Politicians, dependence, and the bubble that broke the world economy, Alexander said the aim of the work was to support free enterprise in Nigeria and change the belief of people about capitalism.
Edited by Tom Palmer, Vice President for International Programmes at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the 180 page book is divided into four sections, endnotes and featured essays by foremost political economists including David Betto, Piercamillo Falasca, David Green, Aristides Hatzis, Johan Norberg, Tom Palmer and Micheal Tanner.
Palmer, in his introductory essay, pointed out that the book was intended for those who preferred to ask hard questions and to pursue them with open minds, stressing that history, economics, sociology, political science and mathematics should be tools to understand welfare states rather than emotional responses or conspiracy theories.
The programme also featured one-on-one interaction, where Thomas said the platform was to share ideas, create policies on economic prosperity and engendering intellectual entrepreneurship among the youths and students.
He stressed the need for graduates to be creative and cultivate the habit of saving in order not to be perfect designers of curriculum vitae.
At the end of the seminar, cash prizes were presented to the winners of the essay competition. Yusuf Oguntoyinbo, a student of the Federal University of Technology, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), won $1,000 for coming first in the contest.
Also, Joseph Timothy, from Ekiti State University (EKSU) and Denis Eze, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), who were first and second runners up, were presented with $700 and $500 respectively.
The winners were also given full scholarship and return tickets to the Students and Young Professional African Liberty Academy (SYPALA) conference holding in Kenya next week.
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