Presidency tasks graduates to acquire technical skills

The Presidency has admonished graduates of tertiary institutions to get technical, vocational and entrepreneurship skills to heighten their fortunes successful the country.

The Special Adviser to the President connected Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, who spoke during the graduation and assistance presumption ceremonial of TVEE trainees successful Abuja, remarked that it behooves graduates of tertiary institutions to spell beyond their certificates by acquiring skills that would heighten their chances of earning a decent surviving for themselves.

Acknowledging the situation of unemployment faced by the teeming colonisation of youths successful the country, helium reiterated the resoluteness of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led medication to supply the enabling situation to empower underprivileged Nigerians.

Onanuga described the TVEE inaugural of the Senior Special Assistant to the President connected Technical Vocational and Entrepreneurship Education, Abiola Arogundade, arsenic good thought out, stressing that it is successful tandem with the Renewed Hope Agenda of the Tinubu administration.

Arogundade, who presented N500,000 grants each to the beneficiaries, disclosed that 200 persons person truthful acold benefited from the grant, adding that 120 of them are freshers portion the remaining 80 are those already successful concern who needed fiscal enactment to boost their business.

She further stated that a full sum of N100 cardinal assistance has truthful acold been doled retired to beneficiaries of the programme.

She further stated that 120 winners with the champion concern plans were among 10,000 participants successful a 10-day intensive grooming league connected however to constitute and execute concern plans.

She added that during the programme, some online and carnal participants were trained connected the components of a bully concern program including enforcement summary, concern overview and selling strategies.

She assured the teeming colonisation of unemployed youths of amended days up nether the President Tinubu-led administration.

She noted: “I americium present to guarantee you that the President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is reasoning astir you, not conscionable due to the fact that of this programme but due to the fact that of the galore initiatives helium is creating crossed the state to beforehand TVET.

“An illustration of this is the inclusion of TVET successful the Students Loan, inauguration of Skills Council successful the Presidency, Human Capital Development Council, successful collaboration with the governors nether the National Economic Council, SUPA (Skill-Up Artisans), ITF and galore others. We erstwhile again congratulate the 120 winners of our TVET assistance and besides our 80 honorary winners who volition beryllium going location with our grants today.

“It is our content that the grants volition service arsenic incentives for advancement successful your businesses going forward. We would besides similar to accidental that this is 1 of our galore programmes successful supporting skills and endeavor and we mean to proceed to bash truthful successful our office. So, if you are not a victor today, delight proceed to use to enactment successful our aboriginal programmes.”

Among items distributed to the participants of the TVEE programme were Solar Kiosks to enactment the concern improvement of their TVET skills. They see 1 designed for hairsbreadth dressing, 1 designed for catering and nutrient vending and the different 2 for wide purposes. Aside from the mentioned nonrecreational uses, the kiosks are besides equipped with sockets for telephone charging and spaces for Point of Sale (PoS) and different businesses.

The lawsuit was graced by apical authorities functionaries including the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Ohanenye; the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo; the Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Nkeiruka Onyejiocha;  the Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu, among others.