By Miracle Ogunde
As part of efforts to diversify the economy and tackle the shortage of vocational skills, the Federal Government has announced plans to provide financial incentives for Nigerians enrolling in technical and vocational schools.
The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, made this known while speaking on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television, on Tuesday.
“You go to the UK, or the US today, a plumber earns more than a doctor. If an electrician in England earns more than a doctor, so what are you talking about here?” he said.
“So, we want to now bring this pool of workers back. So what we’re doing with technical and vocational education is that we’ve laid out a four-step approach here.
“We would pay students to go to those schools. We’ve modeled how much we’re going to pay them when we roll the programme out. We’ll be announcing that. We’ll pay them to go to school. That’s step one.”
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