Enugu STVSMB Boss Harps On New Generation Youths With Skills

Chairman of the Science Technical and Vocational Schools Management Board (STVSMB), Enugu State, Dr. Amaka Ngene, has emphasised the need for Nigeria to focus on producing new generation youths who are skilful and technologically driven for the advancement of the nation’s economy.

She emphasised that no nation in the 21st century could advance, or make any meaningful headway in any sector of her economy without the contribution of technological and skilled Youths.

The STVSMB chairman spoke yesterday when she received the Good Governance Class Post Graduate students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) from the Institute for Peace, Conflict and Development Studies (IPCDS), of the university, who were at the remodelled Government Technical College (GTC) Enugu on an internship visit.

The new GTC, Science and Vocational Education Centre Enugu was recently commissioned by the wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu during her visit to Enugu State.

Dr. Ngene said, it’s against the backdrop of ensuring that Enugu state realizes her dream of producing youths that are self reliance and technological driven and that could help in driving the state economy in the nearest future that the governor of the state, Dr. Peter Mbah, on assumption of office Priorities education.

She disclosed that the administration allocated 33.3 percent of the state annual budget to the all Important sector, adding that the administration has committed about 2 billion naira in the remodelling project.

She explains that the concept of the Center was to “grow new generation of the state skilled youths that would be empowered and technically driven who upon graduation could earn a living as well as contribute to the society.”

Dr. Ngene who conducted the students round various departments of the Centre disclosed that over one hundred science and vocational education teachers were currently undergoing training in the state to bridge the gap between technical and vocational education.

She narrated to the students how the current administration met a dilapidated GTC and how the school was transformed within a short period by the state government.

Speaking with newsmen, a post graduate lecturer on Peace and National Cohesion at the IPCDS, who led the students,  Dr Ben Nwoye, explained that the essence of the visit was to enable the students evaluate good governance as demonstrated by the state governor who allocated 33 percent of the state budget to education.

The visit he added, would also afford the students the opportunity of seeing how good governance had translated to revamping technical and vocational education at the Government Technical College Enugu GTC.

Nwoye, who was accompanied on the visit by the Institute’s Academic Coordinator, Dr. Chiedozie Nwafor, who stood in for the IPCDS Director, professor Felix Asogwa, said: “I teach governance, and to me governance is not just theoretical.