Mrs Pamela Latunji-Bello, the Chief Executive Officer,
Spectrum Beauty Academy, Lagos, on Saturday called on
the government to make vocational skills acquisition
compulsory under the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC).
Latunji-Bello told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that
vocational training would equip young graduates to be self-
employed instead of depending on elusive white-collar
jobs.
“If the Federal Government should use part of the money
paid to NYSC members in training them in the various
vocations, it will go a long way in reducing unemployment
in the country.
“Skills acquisition should be mandatory for NYSC members
during the one year service; they must learn a trade or the
other and use their monthly stipends as training fee.
“Because the vocations are where the money is,’’she said.
The entrepreneur stressed the need for compulsory
capacity building for NYSC members
“The future of Nigeria lies in the skills of its workforce.
“If we do not train them, we are just giving money to
people who will probably misuse it.’’
Latunji-Bello urged the nation’s policy makers to place
more emphasis skills acquisition at all levels of the
nation’s educational system.
“Let people stop seeing it as the pet project of wives of
state governors that should be done at their spare time.
“It should be re-integrated into the school curriculum, every
university should give it a push.
“Every Nigerian graduate should start thinking of having
another profession or career,’’ she said.

Source: www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/07/fg-urged-to-make-skills-acquisition-compulsory-for-nysc-members/

who supports this?

dey should also be given 500k each @ d end of dia service year to start a trade wit d skill dey've aquired.

.at least a stipulated sum of money should be made readily available to start a business after the service year.

How can she suggest that the federal govt should use some money out of the meagre monthly allowance paid to corps members in the sponsoring of one skill like that. Well, her suggestion would be welcomed and supported on two conditions;
1. Skill acquisition programs would be sponsored by federal govts.
2. A stipulated amount of money would be paid to youth corps members @ the end of their service year enough to help them actualize their skills.

If its made compusory, is gov ready to provide resource to start d business

SAED has been introduced already,what need to be done is to bring it to each local govt instead of capital of each state

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