The Federal Government has partnered the Ogun government to empower 2,000 youths through technical and vocational training in 16 different skills through the project Team Maximization (T-Max) across seven states in Nigeria
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the training programme under the Project T-Max, domiciled in the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on Education Intervention, would see youths in the state trained in different vocations and trades for three months.
Gov. Dapo Abiodun said the programme which would see youths trained and empowered in 16 trades, was in tandem with his administration’s agenda on skills acquisition.
The governor made this known while receiving the delegation of Project T-Max, led by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Education Intervention, Mr Fela Bank-Olemoh on Wednesday, in Abeokuta.
Represented by his deputy, Mrs Noimot Salako-Oyedele, Abiodun disclosed that his administration’s efforts at ensuring that youths in the state were adequately equipped with appropriate skills led to the creation of the Ogun State Youth Empowerment Scheme.
He added that the extra steps from the Federal Government would provide the opportunities for more youths to acquire the needed skills.
The governor further noted that emphasis has been placed on technical education for specific training that would meet the needs of the industries operating in the state.
“Without a doubt, this intervention programme from the Federal Government is a welcome development as it will complement the efforts we have put in place.
“This is an extra step for us; we are happy and pleased as we have been chosen as one of the pilot states to carry out this project.
“And you can be sure that you will get all the support from this government to ensure that the three months scheme is a success.
“I use this opportunity to urge our youths in the state who are desirous of learning any of these 16 trades to be part of this scheme, to register so that they can have the opportunity to be one of the 2,000 lucky beneficiaries who will train under the scheme,” he said.
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Abiodun, however, disclosed that 27 places had been screened as potential training centres in addition to all government technical colleges, insisting that youths in the state should take advantage of the programme to acquire skills of their choice.
He appealed to the organisers of the training to extend the starter packs to every participant, saying “there is no point training them without a starter pack”.
Earlier in his remarks, Bank-Olemoh said that about 15,000 people from Ogun, Lagos, Edo, Enugu, Nassarawa, Gombe and Kaduna states, would be trained in various skills ranging from ICT, fashion designing, building and construction, engineering services, among others, in the next three months.
He said the Project T-MAX is a Technical and Vocational Committee on National Poverty Reduction, whose goal remained to lift 100 million people out of poverty.
He assured that the team would work with the state to see that the training and skills that would be given to the youths were relevant to the state based on industries and skill guides.
(NAN)
