President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministries of Works and Lands, Housing and Urban Development to urgently prepare action plan for speedy revitalisation of the nation’s vocational training centres.
A statement by the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said Buhari gave the directive at a meeting with the Board of Directors of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc.
It said that the president was told that, because of shortage of competent construction workers and artisans in the country, construction companies were forced to bring in skilled expatriates.
The statement quoted the president as observing that the practice was very detrimental to his administration’s commitment to boost employment opportunities for young Nigerians.
“Buhari, therefore, pledged that his administration would move quickly to address the shortage of skilled construction workers in the country.
“He demanded for a comprehensive report on the current status of existing vocational training centres established by the Federal Government across the country.
“He said that his administration would take necessary action to reposition the centres as efficient producers of skilled workers for Nigeria’s building and construction industry,” it said.
According to the statement, the president assured that his administration would ensure that the Building Craft Training School and Skill Improvement Centre in Lagos were fully revamped, staffed and equipped to produce more skilled artisans.
Technicians expected to be trained at the centres, it said, included electricians, brick and block layers, carpenters, painters, welders, fabricators and plumbers.
Buhari reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to the proper education and training of Nigerian youths for the current demands of the labour market.
He said that the Federal Government would act expeditiously to remove all impediments to the fulfillment of its promise of more jobs for unemployed Nigerians.
He also assured that in spite of present funding challenges, the government would continue to do everything possible to settle genuine outstanding payments due to contractors. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Governments in the past didn't understand themselves how much damage the multinationals are contributing to our unemployment situation in Nigeria. These companies bring large numbers of foreigners called experts without reasonable considerations for our citizens, Moreover, they casualize our citizens and government close his eyes to that. Also, i don't think we have proper records of these foreigners.
ReplyDeleteWhat this new administration needs is supports of Nigerians in fighting corruption. At the same time, the FG must take its elections campaigns promises seriously. Else, born losers will be given chances to talk. Even if they were unable to develop the country before being flushed out through elections.
ReplyDelete"Technicians expected to be trained at the centres, it said, included electricians, brick and block layers, carpenters, painters, welders, fabricators and plumbers."
This quotation is from the above article. We will be wasting time, money and energy if ELECTRICITY is not given priority. This is because there can never be any changes without POWER.
Fix Power and see what Nigerians can do.
This is responsible and responsive leadership
ReplyDeleteMost of the foreigners are not supper experts. They use our greedy nationals to take money out of the country through their criminal and unpatriotic minds.
ReplyDeleteYou are very right my dear.see what they do to us outside Nigeria. We are left with the oddest jobs in their country and they take the best in ours.you can imagine an Indian man who doesn't speak an audible English works with Samsung in lagos on a million naira monthly salary with driver and living in lekki with his family and his wife being paid a thousand dollars monthly while a fellow Nigeria does better than him in the same office but earns 80k monthly.this madness should stop otherwise our children wouldn't see food to eat in future .who said we don't have workmen and trained handy men in Nigeria? We do,it's just that no one has given them the opportunity
DeleteIt pains me when people say we don't have capable hands or workers in Nigeria. Where are all the Engineering graduates that Nigeria doll out every year from our universities? Are they not good enough? It is pertinent to say that all the purported construction work going on everywhere in Nigeria are virtually done by Nigerians . The so called expertraits are not expert in any thing, they disguise themselves in connivance of some unpatriotic Nigerians towork as expert. It is same Migerian worker that teach them how to workwhile they supervise what they don't know anything about . They impose them on us.The Nigerian immigration is not even helping matters. A lot of Indians, Labaniese, Chinese who cannot function as road side mechanics in their countries will come to Nigeria and start claiming expertraits Nigerians should Ope their eyes .
ReplyDeleteMr president, the truth of the matter is that these foreign nationals (lebanese, Indians and chinese) practice daylight racism. Having bought over the labour unions and immigration officers that pay visits occasionally ( these visits are purely monetary and not in anyway official), they practically run a slave market in our own mother land, something that can never happen in their own country. It is true that many graduates are not employable which is largely due to poor standard of our educational system which produces graduates without the knowledge required to function effectively in these industries; however the influx of these nationals is not really to fill these void as most of these guys are not really there skilfully but the truth of the matter is that a typical lebanese man will prefer to invest in his brother than a black man. They will prefer to bring in their brother or sister in the guise of an expert, send him or her on trainings that Nigerians here have been denied of and even shamelessly ask these Nigerians to help integrate him into the system by teaching him or her how things are done, after all these, just in a year a superstar is made and this process is being repeated again and again hence Nigeria to them is like Europe or USA to them. Such processes they know can never fly in developed countries hence Nigeria especially is has become a land of Gold for them and these influx will not stop until these recommendations are put in place. 1- the human resources dept of such companies must have Nigerians as leads and this has to be enforced. I know there is somewhere in th labour law that supports such appointments but I have witnessed a scenario where the company employs a nigerian that reports to a chinese HR only to this chinese man to disappear once the immigration guys show up. 2 our educational system has to be upgraded to meet up with the demands of these industries. It's painful when a computer engineering graduate cannot even couple a computer system. 3- unions must be enforced in every company owned by foreigners, this is being deliberately killed by these companies. 4 complaint bodies must established to receive maltreatment being done on Nigerians by the foreigners and matters as such should be taken up without being biased. Mr president, right in our very eyes, the future of our children is being stolen by these nationals and given to their own children.
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