Information Minister tasks NBTE to collaborate to enhance creative media

Abuja, Sept. 23, 2025 (NAN) The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, has tasked the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to collaborate successful bid to efficaciously heighten the integer services for originative media.

Idris gave the complaint erstwhile the Executive Secretary of NBTE, Prof. Idris Bugaje, led a delegation from the Creative Media Sector Skill Council connected a courtesy sojourn to him connected Tuesday.

According to Idris, accomplishment and exertion improvement are portion of the 8 precedence areas of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

“It is moving and we judge that, with the concern that we person with you, particularly astatine the NBTE and the Council, we will, together, harvester the indispensable model to deepen this collaboration to marque disposable skills for our young people.

“Tinubu places a precocious premium connected caller developments,  for instance, the National Education Loans Fund (NELFUND). This is 1 involution by Tinubu that has helped support implicit 500,000 students successful school.

“On relationship of this policy, implicit N100 cardinal has already been disbursed; astir 55 per cent of that is going into outgo of their tuition fees and 45 per cent for their upkeep.

“This is remarkable. We anticipation that different Nigerian students volition instrumentality vantage of this pupil indebtedness programme. It started past year, and contiguous we person implicit 500,000 students benefiting.

“I anticipation that the NBTE volition collaborate much with NELFUND to guarantee that the originative assemblage is besides capable to articulation and marque definite that much young men and women are capable to spell to school.

“I privation to guarantee you of my Ministry’s readiness to  collaborate with NBTE and the Council. Together we tin plan to integrate occupational modular for integer services for the originative media, photography,  cinematography and more, ” Idris said.

The curate said that President Tinubu’s imaginativeness for Nigeria was for a state wherever the originative and broadcast media workforce is similar different sectors; globally competitive, nationally certified and contributes meaningfully to occupation instauration and economical growth.

“President Tinubu volition proceed to guarantee that our young men and womenare fixed the close opportunities truthful that they tin lend to the improvement of the country,” helium said.

Idris narrated the advancement made truthful acold successful the constitution of Category 2 of the Media Information Literacy Centre, to beryllium hosted by the National Open University of Nigeria, arsenic portion of the UNESCO initiative.

Speaking, Bugaje lauded Idris’ effort successful advancing and propagating the Renewed Hope Agenda of Tinubu.

He added that hopes were dashed successful the past, stressing that today,Tinubu and Idris are renewing hopes for Nigerians.

Bugaje explained that the Board was making efforts to reinvent and re-engineer the architecture of Nigeria’s acquisition system.

“So that we volition absorption it connected skills successful presumption of content, successful presumption of the delivery, and adjacent successful presumption of the hands-on contented of our acquisition system.

“I americium precise blessed to observe that the participants nether your ministry are doing wonderfully good successful presumption of informal skills training.

“You instrumentality young radical from secondary schools, immoderate with diplomas, adjacent immoderate with degrees, successful antithetic areas, and you enactment them done an informal apprenticeship system, and wrong a abbreviated play of clip they get the skills, managing the cameras, managing the audio system, the content, originative content, etc.

“Unfortunately, determination is nary certification for them already. So this is what our collaboration is going to bring about. We are going to certify each those skills that are abundant successful these antithetic sectors.

“We are going to springiness them a recognised nationalist certificate, the National Skills Qualification (NSQ), which has been admitted into the national strategy of work past year.

“We are going to present prime assurance, standardisation and competences that are required for antithetic levels. We person Level 1 to 9 successful the Nigerian Skills Qualification Framework,” Bugaje said.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Council, Hajiya Fatimah Haliru, said the NSQF would fortify TVET, heighten professionalism and unlock economical potential.

Haliru added that the archetypal measurement successful the quality superior improvement would beryllium to facilitate grooming connected the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Assessors and Quality Assurance.

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