The federal government has vowed to re- engineer the technical vocational sector with the aim of curbing the menace of unemployment.
The executive secretary of the national board for technical education NBTE Professor Idris Mohammad Bugaje stated this during the national skills qualification sensitization workshop held in Kano.
He said the purpose of the project was to re-engineer the technical vocational sector, especially the technical vocational colleges which have been abandoned for a long time, and to bring infrastructural intervention aimed at providing more job opportunities.
Professor Idris Muhammad Bugaje said the board was working assiduously in ensuring that every polytechnic in the country runs certified skills training under NSQF , stressing that each polytechnic should look at their environment and institutes a skills training that would fit into their Environment .
” The future of this nation lies on skills, it provides employment , export of skills labour and many more would be generated if skills labour was well provided in the country.”
He said in a popular known market in kaduna named fanteka 38,000 artisans were undergoing various skills training, hence NBTE had collaborated with the panteka market in the aspect of training artisans so that they will be issued with a certificate which will be recognized globally.
“In fanteka, there were thirty-eight thousand artisans, while we have only thirty thousand in Kaduna polytechnic,now we have started training between kaduna polytechnic and the fanteka market in at least seven traits, and gradually we will expand to the remaining fourty traits in the market”
The executive secretary added that NBTE would not relent in ensuring that skills training received the needed attention, aimed at transforming the entire nation.
Over one hundred artisans attended the workshop.
Abdullahi Jalaluddeen/Kano.