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The Federal Government has verified implicit 960,000 Nigerian youths for method and vocational skills grooming nether the Federal Ministry of Education’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) initiative.
The Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Tunji Alausa, disclosed this during an inspection sojourn to selected TVET spouse centres successful Abuja connected Thursday.
During the inspection, the Minister visited AFS Vocational Hub successful Garki and Golden Finger Farms and Ranches Limited on the Kubwa-Zuba Expressway, Dei-Dei successful Abuja.
Speaking aft the tour, Dr Alausa described the programme arsenic a wide objection of the powerfulness of governmental volition down authorities intervention.
He disclosed that implicit 250,000 trainees are presently enrolled successful the archetypal cohort, undergoing hands-on grooming crossed 2,600 centres nationwide.
He said, “From erstwhile we started conceiving this TVET inaugural 8 months ago, to present seeing the archetypal 4th of students being trained, it shows what is imaginable erstwhile there’s commitment. We took our clip to curate the mode this vocational grooming would beryllium done.”
According to him, the Ministry identified astir 86 trades crossed the state but narrowed them down to 28 cardinal accomplishment areas, including manner and garment making, livestock production, GSM repair, plumbing, tiling, and farming.
“We created a program that is 90 per cent applicable and 10 per cent theoretical. After processing it, we opened the portal to the nation. Within the archetypal 10 days, astir 1.3 cardinal radical applied. We had to adjacent it quickly. Out of the 1.3 cardinal applicants, 960,000 youths were verified connected the portal.
Dr Alausa noted that the inaugural reflects President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s content successful empowering young Nigerians with employable skills.
“This president believes that the younker are the heartbeat of this nation. He is determined to springiness them the skills and opportunities they request to thrive. When helium makes promises, helium ensures those promises are fulfilled.”
The Minister emphasised that the verification process was designed to forestall fraud. “We didn’t privation this to beryllium different epoch of scams. Every azygous 1 of the 960,000 youths was verified utilizing their NIN and BVN. We are paying the grooming centres and the vocational institutes directly,” helium stated.
He added that beyond skills acquisition, trainees would person starter packs and grants to enactment their entrepreneurial journey.
“We don’t privation them to stay occupation seekers; we privation them to go employers of labour. Many of these trainees are graduates from universities and polytechnics, but present they’re getting real-life skills that volition marque them utile to themselves, their communities, and the nation.”
He further disclosed that the grooming volition tally for six months astatine skills centres, 12 months astatine Vocational Enterprise Institutes, and up to 3 years successful national and authorities method colleges.
He reaffirmed that the TVET programme is operational successful each 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
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