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Sanwo-Olu earmarks N.1m annual scholarship for 1,200 technical students

…to expose them to foreign training

In a bid to assist the indigent students in the state’s technical schools, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has earmarked N100,000 scholarship annually to each of the students in all the state’s technical schools.
This was even as there are indications that his administration might consider exposing the students of technical colleges in the state to foreign trainings as part of the moves to check dearth of requisite vocational skills among Nigerian artisans and avert disaster arising from building collapse resulting from skill gap.
The Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Scholarship Board, Mr Omotayo Fakolujo, who disclosed this, said that foreign exposure which is being considered by the board would expose the artisans in the state technical schools to the basic technical skills to enable them to favourably compete with their counterparts across the globe.
He said that about 300 students had been captured in Epe already while about 1,200 across the state would be in the scheme.
Fakolujo said that exposure to foreign training would help the state address the issue of building collapse and other challenges in the built and engineering sector.
He said: “By so doing, we will be able to increase the skills in the automech, engineering, electronic and other areas, we will also seek approval from Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to also give them international exposure. Some of their teachers just came back from Germany. That’s basic thing needs, they will be able to have self-confident in themselves if they are taken to countries like Russia, Ukraine, Germany the problem of unqualified plumber, unqualified electricians and other artisans.”
Meanwhile, Chairman and Trustee RETECH Foundation Ronye Egborge, which presented N50,000 each of the 10 best students, explained that the scholarship awards were offered to the top 10 students in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the entire state in recognition of their outstanding academic performance. He added that there were other 103 scholars from across the Country comprising the top 10 in Anambra, Ebonyi, Edo, Enugu, Delta, Ondo, and Niger states as well as the top student in 33 unity schools across the country.

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