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Executive caput of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris Muhammad Bugaje, has said 960,000 youths person been screened for enrolment into the national government’s caller skills improvement inaugural nether the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programme.
Bugaje said astir 1.3 cardinal youths initially applied for the programme but 960,000 of them were screened.
NBTE enforcement caput who revealed the figures successful a caller interrogation with RFI Hausa Radio, emphasised the standard and value of the caller authorities effort.
Bugaje said the skills improvement programme marks the opening of a nationwide displacement toward empowering youths with hands-on, job-ready skills.
NBTE brag criticised the accepted absorption connected world qualifications that bash not pb to employment, advocating alternatively for skill-based acquisition that reflects the realities of Nigeria’s labour market.
He further argued that vocational learning is not constricted to classrooms oregon ceremonial institutions, but tin beryllium recovered successful section workshops, artisan hubs, and informal learning centers similar Panteka successful Kaduna.
“Right present successful Nigeria, artisans from Benin and Togo are the ones doing our POP work, adjacent successful Abuja – which is shameful. Meanwhile, our younker are idle, roaming neighborhoods with nary jobs,” Bugaje said.
Bugaje added, “So far, astir 1.3 cardinal younker person applied, and 960,000 person been screened. Just past week, the Minister of Education launched grooming for the archetypal batch of 58,000. You mightiness accidental this is simply a tiny number, but it’s lone the beginning.” helium stated.
The TVET programme, launched by the Ministry of Education, aims to supply practical, employment-focused grooming for Nigeria’s rapidly increasing younker population. With 70% of Nigerians nether the property of 30, the state is astatine a demographic crossroads.
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