Shettima to Gov Sani: Pioneering State Skills Council is groundbreaking

…Tasks different states to travel Kaduna’s lead

By Dapo Akinrefon

Vice President Kashim Shettima has praised Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, for establishing and chairing Nigeria’s archetypal State Council connected Skills, describing the inaugural arsenic groundbreaking and urging different states to emulate Kaduna.

Speaking astatine the 7th gathering of the National Council connected Skills (NCS) connected Tuesday astatine the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Shettima said the skills gyration is cardinal to the Tinubu administration’s covenant with Nigerians and indispensable to advancing quality superior development.

The Vice President stressed that gathering a future-ready workforce requires dismantling organization barriers, strengthening collaboration, and aligning the efforts of government, the backstage sector, and academia.

“The epoch of operating successful silos is over. We indispensable embed collaboration into program improvement and funding. This is astir the artisan successful Kaura Namoda, the mid-career idiosyncratic successful Ebute-Metta, and the method colleges that indispensable go existent centres of excellence,” Shettima said.

He commended Kaduna’s example, citing Governor Sani’s enactment and the caller admittance of implicit 30,000 students into the Kaduna Vocational and Skills Development Institute arsenic bold steps toward occupation instauration and skills development.

Also speaking, Minister of Education, Dr. Olatunji Alausa, applauded Governor Sani’s relation successful facilitating President Tinubu’s commissioning of the Institute of Vocational Training and Skills Development. He noted that method colleges nationwide are present being redirected to absorption exclusively connected relevant, career-driven courses.

Shettima charged members of the NCS to rally down a unified model for Nigeria’s skills revolution, warning: “We cannot physique a future-ready workforce connected a instauration of division.”

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