FG announces plan to start paying Nigerians to learn vocational skills

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  • The federal government will pay students to enroll in vocational schools and provide financial incentives to master craftspersons for hands-on training
  • A nationwide monitoring system will ensure quality training, while trainees will receive entrepreneurial grants to support self-sufficiency
  • President Bola Tinubu has directed collaboration with the Bank of Industry to provide single-digit credit loans for vocational trainees

FG is taking steps to curb the spiralling numbers of Nigerians emigrating from the country. Image: GettySource: Getty ImagesTraining aims to reduce unemploymentTrainees to be financially rewardedIn the UK or the US today, a plumber earns more than a doctor, Alausa noted.Detailing the governments approach, Alausa stated, We would pay students to go to those schools. Weve modelled how much were going to pay them when we roll the programme out. Well be announcing that soon. What we will be doing with technical education will be 20% didactic and 80% hands-on training. Were pre-qualifying the master craft persons from large industries to medium-sized industries and small industries.Well ask you how many students can you train, 10 students? Well give you 10 students, and well pay you for each of them every month. We will also implement a nationwide monitoring system to ensure quality training and positive learning outcomes, the minister added.Local supervisors to be assigned to each LGYoull have six months of training there, and weve been very careful and deliberate in the kind of skills we will be training at these schools. Weve done a labour gap analysis to see what skills are needed. Were also incorporating new emerging skill sets, Alausa said.FG announces Next GEN RESCO programme to train youths

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