The Federal Government (FG) has said that it is targeting no fewer than five million youths in its annual skill acquisition programme.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Technical, Vocational, and Entrepreneurship Education, Abiola Arogundade, said this on Thursday on behalf of the FG.
Arogundade made the announcement while donating tablets to 50 Junior Secondary School students of Governor Secondary School, Tudun Wada in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
“The gesture to the institution is in tandem with President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to promote skills training among the upcoming generation of Nigerians,” Arogundade explained.
According to her, the training of Nigerians, especially the youths to acquire diverse skills, will make them employable.
Arogundade said this will also enable them to become self-employed after graduation from educational institutions in Nigeria.
“The donation of tablets is therefore, aimed at empowering the students to develop their technical and vocational skills in line with Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda,” she stated.
“The gesture is the second in a series which began last July and is aimed at stimulating innovation in technical, vocational and entrepreneurship education among the youths.
“The overall objective is to change our education system from high percentage theory to high percentage practical, therefore, we must do this to remain competitive in the fast-changing global technology-based economy.
“We decided to start with carefully selected Junior Secondary School students of this institution in order to encourage high performance.
“Let me, however, assure the others who will not benefit today that we will return in the near future to encourage them as well in line with the same mandate of the President that no one should be left behind.”
