haftob:

Oyo state

Who recommended that he should go to aba?

ProfCorruption:


That's your opinion, not a fact. If you serious, you should supply facts.

you don't need fact to prove the obvious.

Mtcheewww*** Fayose abeg pay us state alawi. Nonsense man

Macelliot:

Apart from the Igbos doing trade in Ekiti.. The state is dead economically...

And what trade are they doing that sustain the state economically? What are they trading in Ekiti?

There is this yoloba boy that spent 7 yrs in Aba learning how to sew trousers, suits, shirts and all kindS of native wears, now the boy lives in surulere (lawanson) making cool cash. That boy sabi sow wella, he really learnt the the stuff.


#Aba#Creativity

Abagworo:
Imo State equally needs this. I think we do have a lot in common with Ekiti. Imo lies between Anambra and Abia which both have lowest unemployment rate but we are completely different. It pains me when youths wait for Government or other firms to employ them without knowing they vould be self reliant. At the early stage of Okorocha he once proposed bringing Imolites based in Aba back home to help train and produce skilled youths.

Hmmmm. ..... Conffessions from all angles. Next Hausa/Fulani will start giving out their daughters to Ndi Anambra and Abia for trade and commerce formalization. Igbos " ever" know, that they are great, and they also "ever" know, that the greatness will manifest itself in Biafra.

Omat4real:
mumu so y is anambra aba nd other state east state is not d richest in niqeria

How do you measure wealth from entrepreneurial stands? u don't use state location or IGR. Toad! look at the standard of living of its occupants, they live above poverty line. Ibeg try check dea skin, recall any Igbo man close to u, check dea baff-up nd draw ur inference.

customized13:
you don't need fact to prove the obvious.

I am not interested in an argument that leads to no where. if you have facts, supply them. The richest nigerians that I know are Dangote, Otedola, Adenuga, Jim Ovia, etc. Those are pretty much obvious to everyone.

1.What's unemployment rate in Abia and Anambra vs the rest of Nigeria?
2.What's percapita income in the two states versus the rest of Nigeria?

I can also say it's pretty much obvious the richest Nigerians are from kano. However, that doesn't prove anything.

Talk facts, not your worthless opinion.

He is sending his unemployed thugs to go and acquire professionalism in thuggery, "thiefry" and kidnapping. Y can't Mr. Fayose establish a Technical and Vocational school/college. Anyway, wat u don't av u can't give. 'COMMON SENSE'

Aigbofa:
Another laughable stunt to deceive the people if this is true. What a great insult to all the parents in Ekiti that their wards have to be sent to Aba to learn self reliance!

What responsible government will neglect technical education and vocational studies in proper schools and then send kids to understudy people who themselves are in dire need for proper education?
Somebody should please impeach this buffoon in Ekiti state house.

ekiti is the most educated and poorest state in nigeria. education alone does not provide finacial stability to de society.

u see dangote de richest black man on earth, what's his educational qualification??

if u're educated without a job, a financia stable trader is better than u

Which institutions will handle this training?
Good idea, if they will eventually be awarded certificates of competence the same government will recognize in future.
The government should provide some part time basic classes on the side.
I am sure the state would not want to end up with illiterate craftsmen and traders.

ProfCorruption:


That's your opinion, not a fact. If you're serious, you should supply facts.

Travel out of Ur enclave once in a while so U'll see.
Ask Ur brothers who live or work in d east and they'll tell U how it is.

A good and a competent governor should be thinking how to adopt good points enunciated in this piece.

[size=14pt]Why Germany Is So Much Better at Training Its Workers[/size]

At last, unemployment is easing. But the latest low rate—hovering below 6 percent–obscures a deeper, longer-term problem: “skills mismatches” in the labor force, which will only worsen in years to come. According to the most recent figures, 9.3 million Americans are unemployed, but 4.8 million jobs stand empty because employers can’t find people to fill them. With new technology transforming work across a range of sectors, more and more businesses are struggling to find workers with the skills to man new machines and manage new processes.

One solution has enchanted employers, educators, and policymakers on both sides of the aisle: European-style apprenticeship. The Obama administration is about to announce $100 million worth of apprenticeship grants—and wants to spend another $6 billion over the next four years. Meanwhile, lawmakers as different as Democratic Senator Cory Booker and Republican Senator Marco Rubio have expressed interest in the idea.

Americans should proceed with caution.

I’ve just come back from Germany, where I visited some half dozen apprenticeship programs at brand-name companies like Daimler, Siemens, and Bosch, and the metaphor I came away with is a native tree—flourishing, productive, highly adapted to its local climate zone, but unlikely to take root or grow in a climate as different as the America's. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t adapt the German model. But it’s not going to be quick or easy.

The U.S. has its own tradition of apprenticeship going back many years. But like most kinds of vocational education, it fell out of fashion in recent decades—a victim of our obsession with college and concern to avoid anything that resembles tracking. Today in America, fewer than 5 percent of young people train as apprentices, the overwhelming majority in the construction trades. In Germany, the number is closer to 60 percent—in fields as diverse as advanced manufacturing, IT, banking, and hospitality. And in Europe, what’s often called “dual training” is a highly respected career path.

Chiwude:
You have what in common with who? Why must you bring Imo into this nonsense. If you are truly from Imo as you claimed then you should know that Imolites makes up the bulk of artisans and business men you find in Onitsha, Aba, Lagos and Kano. My own part of Orlu is more of an entrepreneurship heaven, don't know of your supposed Oguta. How many times have I warned you to refrain from bringinging Imo state out for public ridicule. I don't mind you discuss Ikwerreland (your maternal side) with Chino, but never you talk trash on issues you are less informed about.

You sound so emotional and that is one trait inherent among Igbos. It is true that Orlu part of Imo State has low unemployment level but what about others? Even in the Imo thread you will still see people lamenting about unemployment after graduation and even Masters. Some are calling for Government to build factories or create 20k per month employment programs. The 1st key to solving a problem is idetinfying and accepting it exists.

"Dual training" captures the idea at the heart of every apprenticeship: Trainees split their days between classroom instruction at a vocational school and on-the-job time at a company. The theory they learn in class is reinforced by the practice at work. They also learn work habits and responsibility and, if all goes well, absorb the culture of the company. Trainees are paid for their time, including in class. The arrangement lasts for two to four years, depending on the sector. And both employer and employee generally hope it will lead to a permanent job—for employers, apprentices are a crucial talent pool.

The first thing you notice about German apprenticeships: The employer and the employee still respect practical work. German firms don’t view dual training as something for struggling students or at-risk youth. “This has nothing to do with corporate social responsibility,” an HR manager at Deutsche Bank told the group I was with, organized by an offshoot of the Goethe Institute. “I do this because I need talent.” So too at Bosch.

“Building world-class diesel parts is hard,” the executive in charge of the program explained. “We’re very careful about who we hire. We’re looking for quality.” As for trainees, they learn quickly enough: A mistake on the factory floor is a million-dollar mistake—and they grow up fast, learning not just skills but responsibility. No wonder the apprenticeships are popular: At the John Deere plant in Mannheim, 3,100 young people apply each year for 60 slots, at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, it’s 22,000 applicants for 425 places.

The second thing you notice: Both employers and employees want more from an apprenticeship than short-term training. Our group heard the same thing in plant after plant: We’re teaching more than skills. “In the future, there will be robots to turn the screws,” one educator told us. “We don’t need workers for that. What we need are people who can solve problems”—skilled, thoughtful, self-reliant employees who understand the company’s goals and methods and can improvise when things go wrong or when they see an opportunity to make something work better.

A final virtue of the German system: its surprising flexibility. Skeptical Americans worry that the European model requires tracking, and it’s true, German children choose at age 10 among an academic high school, a vocational track, or something in between. But it turns out there’s a lot of opportunity for trainees to switch tracks later on. They can go back to school to specialize further or earn a master craftsman’s certificate or train as a trainer in the company’s apprenticeship program—and many do. What education reformers call “lifelong learning” is still a distant dream for most Americans. In Germany, it’s a reality.

So where’s the rub? Why is it likely to be hard for Americans to transplant the German model? It starts with cost. Each German company has a different way of calculating the bill, but the figures range from $25,000 per apprentice to more than $80,000. It’s likely to be more expensive still in the U.S., where firms will have to build programs from scratch, pay school tuition (in Germany, the state pays), and in many cases funnel money into local high schools and community colleges to transform them into effective training partners.

The apprenticeship program at the Siemens USA plant in Charlotte, North Carolina reportedly spends some $170,000 per apprentice. And even the most generous policy proposals on the table in Washington would cover only a fraction of these costs. In the U.S. as in Germany, the lion’s share will fall to business.

This issue came up at nearly every stop on the tour, we Americans asking about what costs mean for ROI and the Germans telling us to look beyond ROI to the longer-term benefits, for the company and society. Ultimately, of course, they’re right. But it’s hard to imagine many American firms, generally focused on short-term financial gain, building the kind of in-house training centers we saw at every German plant: immaculate, state-the-art facilities, complete with robots, the latest computerized machining tools, and a raft of uniformed instructors overseeing busy trainees.

Another challenge, if anything a more difficult one, has to do with the centralization of the German system and the role the state plays in regulating what happens in private companies. What makes dual training work, every manager told us, are the standardized occupational profiles, or curricula, developed by the federal government in collaboration with employers, educators, and union representatives. Every young machinist training anywhere in Germany learns the same skills in the same order on the same timetable as every other machinist. This is good for apprentices: It guarantees high-quality programs where trainees learn more than one company’s methods, making it possible for those who wish to switch jobs later on. But it’s hard to imagine this level of state control or business-labor cooperation in the U.S.

The final obstacle is arguably the biggest: American attitudes toward practical skills and what Germans still unabashedly call “blue-collar” work. Attitudes are changing in Germany too. Globalization has brought the bachelor’s degree, unknown until recently, and with it, a new, broader interest in attending college. But there’s little sign that the growth in BAs is undermining apprenticeships. And in both settings, university and dual training, it’s agreed that the purpose of education is to prepare people for jobs. In America, we’re not sure. We’re committed to the idea of education that prepares people for life and suspicious of anything that smacks of training.

Many German educators we met on the tour had advice for Americans interested in importing apprenticeship. “You don’t have to take the whole bouquet,” one vocational education teacher told us. “Make sure the first experiments succeed,” someone else advised. But ultimately, no German expert is likely to have the answer for the United States. The adaptations and adjustments are going to have to come from within, and they aren’t as simple as it sometimes seemed in the heady discussions on our trip. Americans aren’t simply going to jettison old attitudes and decide, for example, that long-term gains, however broad, should trump short-term ROI.

This doesn’t mean the system can’t be adapted if we start with our eyes open and a full understanding of the differences between the two countries. What’s likely to drive programs, in the U.S. as in Germany, is the need for talent. “German companies want to train,” one trade association executive told us, “because they know the schools can’t do it. Especially in today’s tech economy, vocational schools alone can’t prepare the workers we need.” The American HR managers in our group nodded grimly. This was something they understood from experience. It wasn’t what they wanted to hear, but no one could deny it—or what it implies for the future of training.

tonychristopher:

That is my fear ..they should be quarantined

Bros you wicked

teebaxy:
Could you please forget what you thought you heard and lets embrace the development and move as a nation. sentiments is bad for us now.

Aiite sir.. correction accepted!!!

mekano1980:

Niger delta doesn't have a meaning

Is dat so?

Fayose should ask for help if he needs one rather than send Ekiti people to Ariara market. Don't learn how to navigate from people who are blind themselves. I am not being harsh, just stating the obvious. Lol

crixtex:
Aiite sir.. correction accepted!!!

You are welcome sir

dokyOloye:
Travel out of Ur enclave once in a while so U'll see.
Ask Ur brothers who live or work in d east and they'll tell U how it is.

Why should I need to ask?

What's the unemployment rate in those states vs the rest of Nigeria?
Also, what's their percapita income?

In other words, how successful are these two states for us to learn from them?

Aigbofa:

Fayose is a dolt. Did he learn self reliance in iboland?

What is your problem with ibo (sic) land please?

olabukola:
I think this is a good move, hope they will not learn the other side of these people.

U no well. Na just Fayose wey I dey respect now ...

peedeeasobie:






What is your problem with ibo (sic) land please?

Ibo is as correct as Igbo.

ProfCorruption:
Fayose should ask for help if he needs one rather than send Ekiti people to Ariara market. Don't learn how to navigate from people who are blind themselves. I am not being harsh, just stating the obvious. Lol

after your copy and paste post you just had to chip in this..blind indeed

OK send dem to kano make bomb kill dem.simbi like u mcheew

franchizy:
Lies from the pit of hell. Yoruba's can never send their sons to Biafra
Lagos or kano or Rivers state can serve them better.
I condemn this news by fire.

ProfCorruption:


I am not interested in an argument that leads to no where. if you have facts, supply them. They richest nigerians that I know are Dangote, Otedola, Adenuga, Jim Ovia, etc. Those are pretty much obvious to everyone.

1.What's unemployment rate in Abia and Anambra vs the rest of Nigeria?
2.What's percapita income in the two states versus the rest of Nigeria?

I can also say it's pretty much obvious the richest Nigerians are from kano. However, that doesn't prove anything.

Talk facts, not your worthless opinion.

rubbish, abians and anambrarians are averagely the richest people in Nigeria. Die

Igbo Kwenu! My yoruba people are going to learn 'work' from the flat heads.

asha80:
after your copy and paste post you just had to chip in this..blind indeed

Lol. I didn't write the piece, it was wriiten by an American. So, there nothing else to do but to cope it for educated illiterates who don't read, and are applauding Fayose's meretricious mediocrity. Yes, they are blind. Don't learn how to walk from the blind.

i like fayose but i no support ds one.u wan make ibo ppl come dy use yoruba dy shine.i be umuhia guy.i sabi wetin ibos go dy feel like.

ProfCorruption:

Ibo is as correct as Igbo.

Are you igbo pls? Is yoloba as correct yoruba?