Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Job Creation and Youth Employment, at the flag-off of the Construction Skills Training and Empowerment Programme (C-STEMP), in Abuja early last week said the Federal Government plans to train 370,000 artisans this year to boost skills development and employment generation.

“The Federal Government has plans to train 370,000 artisans this year…It has already been decided. We have had a fruitful discussion on it with the Vice President and relevant ministers and we are looking forward to working with the C-STEMP to achieve the goal,” Imoukhuede stated.

C-STEMP is an initiative of J.Hausen Nigeria, a construction management consultancy firm that is aimed at training qualified manpower and artisans in the construction industry.

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing reiterated the Federal Government’s promise to address the shortage of indigenous artisans as foreigners are being shipped in to do the job.

According to Fashola, the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing would benefit from the skill acquisition training as it already had training centres in Lagos and Imo State.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB) in collaboration with Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON) is set to train and certify 200,000 artisans this year.

Tijani Shuaib the President of the NIOB said the empowerment programme was aimed at developing a pool of well trained and qualified manpower for the housing and construction industry, and that the training is targeting 2 million artisans over the next 5 years.

“NIOB is ready to commence training, assessment and certification of the Building Craftsmen and Artisans in collaboration with CORBON and the DFID sponsored C-STEMP. We have developed and validated a National Occupational Standards for the key building construction trades, Masonry, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical installation, Painting and Decoration among others,” he said.

He said the lack of skills in the Nigerian construction sector has become a trend in Nigeria that is worrying the regulatory bodies and stressed the need to train building artisans and craftsmen.

https://techpoint.ng/2016/02/01/fg-and-c-stemp-to-train-370000-artisans-in-2016/

hnmmm

good news

good

Good one

Bad news for wailers. Ride on my president. God bless you

When.

this FG self too dey make mouth




370,000 artisans toh

Amazing

- important areas such as language and speaking skills,
- certificate
- scalability
- business terms, invoicing, receipts
- use of computer, tablet and email

Commendable!

Govt plans to, govt ll do, we shall. future tense no de tire dis govt? Pls wake me up wen it is done.

Government of "WILL" and "SHALL" that is yet to fulfil a single campaign promise but still has the guts to add more. We are in a very pathetic situation.

I think it's not an Election year.. What are we still campaigning for..?

perfectcato:
When.

tomorrow

We will...
We shall...
We are going to...

When are they going to use words like
We have..
We had..

Good one. We need skilled construction workers in Nigeria. I also hope these certifying bodies will ensure that no construction work is carried out without skilled personnel.

V

Ok

Na only starting dem get. Wont b surprised if by december dem say dem don train d 370k meanwhile dem never even get workshop! Not a wailer though!

2sex:
Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Job Creation and Youth Employment, at the flag-off of the Construction Skills Training and Empowerment Programme (C-STEMP), in Abuja early last week said the Federal Government plans to train 370,000 artisans this year to boost skills development and employment generation.

“The Federal Government has plans to train 370,000 artisans this year…It has already been decided. We have had a fruitful discussion on it with the Vice President and relevant ministers and we are looking forward to working with the C-STEMP to achieve the goal,” Imoukhuede stated.

C-STEMP is an initiative of J.Hausen Nigeria, a construction management consultancy firm that is aimed at training qualified manpower and artisans in the construction industry.

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing reiterated the Federal Government’s promise to address the shortage of indigenous artisans as foreigners are being shipped in to do the job.

According to Fashola, the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing would benefit from the skill acquisition training as it already had training centres in Lagos and Imo State.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB) in collaboration with Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON) is set to train and certify 200,000 artisans this year.

Tijani Shuaib the President of the NIOB said the empowerment programme was aimed at developing a pool of well trained and qualified manpower for the housing and construction industry, and that the training is targeting 2 million artisans over the next 5 years.

“NIOB is ready to commence training, assessment and certification of the Building Craftsmen and Artisans in collaboration with CORBON and the DFID sponsored C-STEMP. We have developed and validated a National Occupational Standards for the key building construction trades, Masonry, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical installation, Painting and Decoration among others,” he said.

He said the lack of skills in the Nigerian construction sector has become a trend in Nigeria that is worrying the regulatory bodies and stressed the need to train building artisans and craftsmen.

https://techpoint.ng/2016/02/01/fg-and-c-stemp-to-train-370000-artisans-in-2016/

Set to train, set to create, plan to create jobs. Please when are we going to hear that FG commences employment of unemployed graduate. We are tired of all this opium phrase abeg.

TheGoodJoe:
We need more projects like this instead of the N5000 monthly. We need Nigerians working to develop the Nation. Not sitting around and waiting for the government to put money in the hands of Nigerian youths.

Very Commendable.

PMB, ride on.

God bless you for this, this is thesame thing I posted on my fb some weeks ago. Give us work and not stipend, though I think APC govt got it wrong to have made such promise. As an artisan, I'm waiting to see this happen

LastSurvivor:
We will...
We shall...
We are going to...

When are they going to use words like
We have..
We had..

Na lie o, you are not last survivor, there are even more wailers like me out there now than in March last year.

This government like future tense o. Especially "future impossible tense".

Abeg, what were polytechnics and mono-technics supposed to be doing? All the "skill acquisition centres" set up by first ladies at all govt tiers/ levels and charities do exactly what?

With the current stifled economy, who get food for belle to even learn work sef?

promises here and thr

A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted that day it hatches...APC are still campaigning, can someone please help me tell them that campaign has finished.

goshen26:
promises here and thr

..yet some zombies will believe them. ..smh

LionInZion:
God bless you for this, this is thesame thing I posted on my fb some weeks ago. Give us work and not stipend, though I think APC govt got it wrong to have made such promise. As an artisan, I'm waiting to see this happen

A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted that day it hatches...APC are still campaigning, can someone please help me tell them that campaign has finished.

This another waste right there! FG investing on training bricklayers, thats NO GOOD. FG want to take away the job of Baba Sikiru the bricklayer. Baba Sikiru trained over 20 bricklayers in the past 20 years without the involvement of FG. he award certificate upon completion too.

AreaFada2:

Na lie o, you are not last survivor, there are even more wailers like me out there now than in March last year.

This government like future tense o. Especially "future impossible tense".

Abeg, what were polytechnics and mono-technics supposed to be doing? All the "skill acquisition centres" set up by first ladies at all govt tiers/ levels and charities do exactly what?

With the current stifled economy, who get food for belle to even learn work sef?

Lol..
I tink say na only me survive..