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SmartyPants:
It doesn't need to be - what they need to do is set the ball rolling and cause more people to realize that these vocations can be lucrative too. The bigger problem I foresee is that many people will use these qualifications to japa, as vocational trades ae in high demand in made western countries. This may have positive and negative effects.

Money sent back from japa contributes more than oil to the economy. No loss

italkdlonly:
Will it be sustainable? That's the big question

leave that thhing
learning handwork nobody pays you
you would be asked to pay before you even start learning....
so if the fgn decides to pay people to come and learn
its a good move.......

PARADIZEPRIEST:
Start with seyi

Lol omo una mouth bad for this forum

Metrofox:
Money sent back from japa contributes more than oil to the economy. No loss

The diaspora contributes about 20mn annually to our GDP. That is less than half of oil revenue.

But the point is, like I said, there are positives and negatives. The increased diaspora remittance is great, but is it great to send out all our most productive young people?

Justrite007:
Yes he's right but in the UK and us they earn more than a doctor I have a uncle that is a plumber in USA he told me

Don't believe everything your uncle says, do your own research. It's hardly possible what he's saying isn't a big time trash.

Use Google, Use cgpt... be enlightened and stop speaking rubbish like the minister

italkdlonly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_sPJralD1g



https://www.channelstv.com/2025/01/28/video-fg-to-pay-nigerians-to-attend-technical-vocational-schools/

Trump is now affecting so many people and countries. We can now start thinking well

italkdlonly:
Amazing

illicit:
Good

Amazingly good story from T-Pain who failed to deliver on free education for all Lagos children since 1999 despite forming progressive and increasing IGR from the masses umpteen times.

Why do you let yourselves be deceived so easily

anonimi:
Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner
September 4, 2022

The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.

The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/ratio-of-public-to-private-schools-in-lagos-state-is-one-to-22-%E2%80%95-commissioner/

Babasessy:
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

                                                                             http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

Trump is now affecting so many people and countries. We can now start thinking well

NewHe:
Which standard? Have you been to any of the vocational schools to know if they are of standard or not?
The government is trying to encourage technical and vocational skills with free education tuition, you are there saying standard!
Please, mentioned standard ones you know and how do you arrived at your submission?

Boy No debate about me on Standard.
You an i know that anything federal government is Zero.
Unless it is in partnership with the private sector.

If all the good news I read about Nigeria government are true and all put in place Nigeria for don better since but all nah we will we shall all nah story story let them just implement just one single out of there lies but they only say good things in news and in reality reversed is the case.

And some brainless folks will jump and shout for this.

Another scam from the staple of Balablu
and goons.

15 million jobs, unemployment benefits, $1 to #1 😂😂😂😂😂😂

And the goods believed.

Guess what?

They will believe this also.

This is good. Very good.
I'm hopeful that Nigeria will bounce back.

saintopus:
Equipments are the problem for these kind of programs. Another is manpower.
It's not the payment that is the issue.
Look at Introductory Technology in the Junior Secondary School, it was meant to achieve the same thing that the Hon Minister is saying. That program failed for the same reason.

Introductory technology and agricultural science practicals impacted those of us that schooled in semi urban environments.

I know of a guy that went into carpentry after secondary school. Another opened a fine art studio and even employed me and some other small children, before he got admission into a polytechnic institute.

saintopus:
Equipments are the problem for these kind of programs. Another is manpower.
It's not the payment that is the issue.

Can you explain what manpower means in your context pls

Have the engineering graduates in Nigeria gotten jobs? Talk talk no doings.

The idea is good, but equipments and electricity would be the major factor. If the government can subsidised equipments and fix the power sector, then there wouldn't even be a need to "bribe" us to do the needful. May our country succeed!

forgiveness:
Paying them is better because there poverty in the land and most youth don't want to learn hand work.

No, paying them is not better.
They could be paid. I'm not against that. I'm saying there are more important things to put in place.

I hope you will set a laudable example by enrolling your children first. The ones abroad should be called back immediately

italkdlonly:
Amazing

Please do so let no northern slowpoke spear up there ugly head for presidential election again

have always said this the theoretical aspect of study in nigeria is too much, intro tech classes was boring back in the days because na so so note you go write instead of practical's. our educational system is jus to speck english and solve the hardest equations, a lot of brilliant minds were pushed aside because of this two subject. in fact this country gat a long way to go

Simply Make the school free to attend .

And assure theyre gainfully employed after they graduate

This a good and very commendable initiative theoretical university education has not helped us much in Nigeria. If people are being paid it will encourage many of our youths to go for technical education.

If you think deeply about Tinubu’s policies in this recent time, I think he has very much good to give Nigeria… these are positive policies that can transform the lives of ordinary citizens!

Kaiser20:
Boy No debate about me on Standard.
You an i know that anything federal government is Zero.
Unless it is in partnership with the private sector.

Yes, oga sir!
Yet, other countries have been coming here
to copy our model! Nigeria 🇳🇬 is a not worst as you guys portrays it!

SmartyPants:
The diaspora contributes about 20mn annually to our GDP. That is less than half of oil revenue.

But the point is, like I said, there are positives and negatives. The increased diaspora remittance is great, but is it great to send out all our most productive young people?

Correction 20 - 25 Billion dollars ,oil is 9% of gdp

Metrofox:
Correction 20 - 25 Billion dollars ,oil is 9% of gdp

Mn was a typo. Meant Bn. Why are you referencing oil as a percentage of GDP? Compare both items in the same terms.

In any case, all of this is quite tangential to the point I was making, and to the topic of the thread.

SmartyPants:
Mn was a typo. Meant Bn. Why are you referencing oil as a percentage of GDP? Compare both items in the same terms.

In any case, all of this is quite tangential to the point I was making, and to the topic of the thread.

$20bn from thin air is significant either way and cannot be brushed aside. There's also the knowledge and technology transfer that happens. The US was built by migrants who were in japa mode. We have a very insignificant number of people leaving as well and when they do they eventually return with the wealth and knowledge , win win

Don't even know why am laughing though but.... Make them pay people salaries first..



Honestly and truthfully speaking, no country's leaders takes their citizens to be so daft and foolish like Nigerian leaders

😂😂😂

olawonder:
If you think deeply about Tinubu’s policies in this recent time, I think he has very much good to give Nigeria… these are positive policies that can transform the lives of ordinary citizens!

You know a leader not by how many policies he has, but how many he has effected and yielding result.

Even a baby can come up with 100 good policies that cannot be implemented...

Manifestos are not heard to pen down, it's the time to act that we know who and who was really holding a manifesto.

Trump executed 50-60% of his manifestos in less than 72 hours of inauguration.

Our leaders is SAY AS YOU GO kind of policies.

Minimum wage is still a matter of debate

salem1996:
You know a leader not by how many policies he has, but how many he has effected and yielding result.

Even a baby can come up with 100 good policies that cannot be implemented...

Manifestos are not heard to pen down, it's the time to act that we know who and who was really holding a manifesto.

Trump executed 50-60% of his manifestos in less than 72 hours of inauguration.

Our leaders is SAY AS YOU GO kind of policies.

Minimum wage is still a matter of debate

You guys need to stop making these comparisons btw Nigeria and the US. Having an unlimited resources to execute an idea or policy and then signing an order to implement it straight away is not the same as having the barest minimum in resources and with many obstacles (corrupt bureaucrats) in the way to execute it… are two different levels! But at least we can see intents and the willingness to change things for the better.

You go to the UK, or the US today, a plumber earns more than a doctor.



When a liar speaks, you will know by their statements

JuanDeDios:
No, paying them is not better.
They could be paid. I'm not against that. I'm saying there are more important things to put in place.

Which more important thing than equipping the battalions of Youth without job and skills as result joining Boko Haram and Kidnapping? You don't anything.