Commission Distributes Vocational Tools To North East Women, Youths

The National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NMEC) has distributed vocational tools and instrumentality to women and youths successful the North East region.

The initiative, designed to empower susceptible groups with applicable skills, is portion of the commission’s ongoing efforts to nexus literacy with economical empowerment.

At the presumption of the tools to the beneficiaries successful Bauchi, the enforcement caput of NMEC, Prof. Musa Maitafsir, described the lawsuit arsenic a large measurement towards eradicating illiteracy and promoting lifelong learning.

Maitafsir reiterated the commission’s imaginativeness to supply non-formal and continuing acquisition wrong the discourse of lifelong learning for sustainable development.

He said education, careless of age, is simply a cardinal quality close that indispensable beryllium accessible to all. “Many youths and adults of contiguous were denied this close astatine the alleged ‘proper age.’ To contradict them a 2nd accidental aboriginal successful beingness is to contradict them their close to acquisition again,” helium added.

The enforcement caput noted the challenges facing Nigeria’s literacy scenery arsenic a rising fig of out-of-school children, younker unemployment, sex inequality, mediocre entree to acquisition and the increasing contented of “schooling without learning.”

He said these challenges were exacerbating the country’s socio-economic disparities and threatening nationalist information and stability.

“As our state strives to vie successful today’s rapidly changing society, each national indispensable person knowledge, skills, and competencies—including literacy, numeracy, and integer proficiency—to enactment afloat successful social, economic, cultural, and civic life,” Maitafsir explained.

He commended the governments and agencies successful the North-East for their committedness to big and non-formal acquisition contempt challenges specified arsenic irregular facilitator payments, inadequate learning materials, and debased governmental will. He besides lauded the national authorities for its efforts to code these obstacles and beforehand lifelong learning nationwide.

Our analogous reports that beneficiaries, drawn from the six northeastern states, commended the committee for supporting their means of livelihood. They besides displayed assorted trades and arts astatine the event.