Mrs. Bateren Nofisat Yinka, 50, is one of the six artisans honoured by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the Best Graduating Tradesmen in the just-concluded up-skilling programme taken across the Lagos State Skill Acquisition Centres. The trader, nominated for the course by Bamboo Marketers Association, was one of the 1,200 artisans and tradesmen across Lagos who took the intensive eight-week vocational …

Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Kano State, has introduced skills acquisition as part of measures to make students become self-reliant. The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Musa Yakasai, disclosed this while speaking to newsmen in Wudil on Wednesday. He said that the students were being trained in artisanal skills, such as tailoring, hairdressing, soap making, and …

The Federal Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the World Bank, has trained no fewer than 300 students of the Federal Science and Technical College in the Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, in skill acquisition. The training which was done under the World Bank’s Innovation Development and Effectiveness in Acquisition of Skills (IDEAS) Project, was aimed at addressing …