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After FG’s proposed N30,000 monthly stipend, technical college enrollment rises from 7,547 to 30,000

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Last updated: June 15, 2025 7:11 pm
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Candidates for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, TVET, entrance examinations has recorded unprecedented increase from 7,547 in 2024 to 30,000 in 2025.

Dr Mohammed Mohammed, Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, National Business and Technical Examinations Board, NABTEB, disclosed this, while monitoring the examination at Federal Science and Technical College, FSTC, Uromi, in Edo.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports the examination, supervised by NABTEB were held at designated centres nationwide, including the FSTC, Uromi.

Mr Mohammed, who was represented by NABTEB Director of Research and Quality Assurance, Pius Osaigbovo, attributed the 300 per cent surge in the examination enrolment to the incentives recently introduced to the TVET by the federal government,

NAN reports that the Federal Government is offering several incentives to boost TVET, including a monthly stipend of N30,000 for technical college students, free tuition, accommodation, and feeding in some cases.

The government is also providing startup grants and access to business loans to encourage entrepreneurship among TVET graduates.

“Federal government wants to give individuals a survival skill, a skill that is relevant, a skill that makes them employers of labour and be useful to themselves and the society.

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“At the end of the training, the candidates would be given dual certificates by NABTEB; the usual National Technical or Business Certificate (NTC/NBC) and the National Skills Qualification (NSQ), which is competency-based.

“The drive of the federal government is that of a skill-based education.

“In the TVET, we are going to have a three year programme and it is going to be 80 per cent technical and 20 percent theory,” Mr Mohammed said.

He expressed the satisfaction that Nigerians were beginning to embrace technical and vocational education going by the massive enrolment by students seeking placements nationwide.

Mr Mohammed, said the examination was seamless and hitch-free adding that, only candidates who completed their registration online before the portal closed on June 12, were allowed to sit for the examinations

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