Tag: Skills
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100 youths in Katsina state receive training-upgrade in fashion design & business expansion skills
The on-going nationwide youth empowerment and training programme by the Federal Government through the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure(NASENI) moved to Katsina State as about 100 youths including women were given new skills in modern methods of tailoring and fashion design and its applications. Advanced sewing machines including modern equipment used for tailoring,…
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Prof. Haruna urges youths to prepare for industrial revolution
The Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Engr. Prof. Mohammed Sani Haruna has disclosed that the ongoing nationwide upgrade of skills of Nigerian youths in various fields and occupations is aimed at Nigeria’s participation in the fourth Industrial revolution. Prof Haruna at the occasion of the training…
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Nigeria education system producing unemployable persons – FG
The Federal Government has said the country’s education system, over the years, produced graduates with no generic and essential skills needed for global opportunities and responsibilities. It blamed the curricula used in teaching in schools, particularly at tertiary institutions, and students’ poor interest in marketable skills and other requirements of the workplace as largely responsible…
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Skills, collaboration needed to overcome growing water challenges
Capacity development and closer collaboration between public and private sector stakeholders will be necessary if South Africa is to halt its declining water security challenge. This is according to industry experts and advisors to the IFAT Africa trade show and forum, who were speaking to mark South Africa’s National Water Week 2021, from 15 to…
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ASUU to students: We hope 8-month strike afforded you opportunities to aquire new skills
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU on Tuesday briefed students on updates as regards the ongoing nationwide strike by the union. The union in a Twitter post hoped student had aquired skills in the course of the strike while urging them not to relax any longer as exam can commence anytime upon school resumption.…
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Skills more preferable to qualifications – Pantami
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami has advocated the preference of skills over qualifications, stressing that that individuals with proven skills remained more valuable than those with mere qualifications. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Dr Pantami stated this while delivering an address as the guest lecturer at the Course 82 graduation ceremony of…
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ICYMI: Nigerian youths lack skills for available jobs – Tinubu
The Senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, has said that Nigerian youths lack the skill-set for available jobs in the country, thereby making them unemployable. Tinubu, who spoke at a workshop organised by her senatorial office for 260 interns in Lagos yesterday, said several of those who are able to secure jobs…
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Acquire skills for self-reliance, Buhari’s wife tells Nigerian women
The wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has urged Nigerian women to acquire skills that would facilitate their financial independence and contribute to the welfare of their families. Mrs. Buhari said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday by her Director, Information, Mr. Suleiman Haruna in Abuja. According to the statement,…