Education
FG To Construct Vocational Training Centres Nationwide
The Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, said the Federal Government has mapped out plans to construct functional vocational training centres in all the 36 states of the federation to generate mass employment for Nigerian youths.
Wike stated this after his official visit to a vocational institute in South Korea. Our correspondent reports that the Minister of State for education, who led the Nigerian delegation to South Korea visited the vocational institute where the youths were trained in mechanical and woodworks including designing as well as Child Care Centre that cater for the less priviledge children in the society.
To emulate Korea’s experience in employment generation for the youths, Wike said Nigeria would co-operate with South Korea to tackle unemployment through vocational trade.
According to him, “With this kind of training, you cannot talk about crime or unemployment, because at the end of the day when you finish with this training, you would be come self employed.
“That is what any nation is talking about and what we are trying to do at the Ministry of Education is to ensure that each of the Vocational institutes would have something to say, it has gotten departments and facilities”.
The Vice President of the Korean Vocational institute, Jang Hong expressed the Institute’s readiness to partner with Nigeria through exchange of ideas.
Our correspondent also reported that the Nigeria’s Ambassador to South Korea, Desmond Akanwor commended Nigeria for initiating policies that would drive the nation’s economy.
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
