Tag: SKILLS

Kaduna: ‘Govt. partnering with NBTE on skills-acquisition’ – Commissioner

Aminu Imam
Uba Sani on NBTE

Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani, is committed to transforming the State into the nation’s skills hub,  by providing institutions that will give artisans the requisite training and certification. The Commissioner of Business Innovation and Technology, Mrs. Patience Fakai, who reiterated this in a press statement issued yesterday, said that the effort is part of the Governor’s policy of Human Capital Development. She also pointed out that the Governor established the Skills Development Council which comprises her ministry, Ministry of Sports Development, Ministry of Local Government Affairs as well as Ministry…

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Digital gadgets, virtual learning skills: EWEI empowers 50 girls in Kaduna

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

A Kaduna-based NGO, Empowering Women for Excellence Initiative (EWEI) has empowered 50 adolescent girls with digital skills and access to virtual learning as supplementary education platform in Kaduna state. The founder and Programme Director, EWEI, Safiya Ibn-Garba said that the girls were empowered under the NGO’s Learning without Limit (LWL) project. Ibn-Garba said at the project’s closeout in Kaduna on Tuesday, that the 50 teenage girls were selected from eight public secondary schools in the state. She identified the schools as Government Girls Secondary (GSS) Kabala-Costain, GSS Babban Saura, GSS Rigachikun, GSS Television, GSS…

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Gombe: Gov. Inuwa Yahaya inaugurates Amina Mohammed Skills Acquisition Centre

Aminu Imam

…Says his administration will continue to champion human capital development, work in line with SDGs…As UN DSG, SSAP- SDGs hail Governor’s purposeful leadership, inclusive governance From Umar Kaltungo Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, says his administration’s campaign manifesto falls in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs), which place emphasis on human capital development for social and economic emancipation of the people. The Governor stated this at the commissioning ceremony of the Amina Mohammed Skills Acquisition Centre, located along Gombe bye-pass, constructed by the SDGs in partnership with the…

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Minister urges Air Force War College graduates to apply skills to deal with security challenges

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi, has urged the 17 graduating participants of the Air Force War College course 6, Makurdi, to apply the skills they acquired during the training in dealing with the new wave of insecurities in the country. Gen. Magashi made the call at the graduation ceremony of the participants at the college premises in Makurdi on Friday. Of the 17 participants, 14 were from the Air Force, one from the Army and two from the Navy. The minister, who was represented by the Chief of…

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