In Nasarawa, Governor Sule Is Bridging Employment Gaps Through Skills Acquisition

Dr. Daniel Ewuga Asele is obviously the kind of man who can hardly mask an emotion for a passion he believes in.

As he explains the charge and vision that produced the Wing Commander Abdullahi Ibrahim Vocational and Technology Institute located on Jos Road Lafia penultimate Wednesday, the glit in his eyes and accompanying intermittent grins betrayed the confident of a man who loves his job and proud of his achievements.

And he did regaled his guests with the numerous achievements of the institute set up to ground the sleeping employment gap through chops accession and entrepreneurial training within just three times of its establishment.

His appointment to head the institute which is said to be veritably dear to Governor Abdullahi Sule’s heart as its administrative director did n’t come to numerous as a surprise. “ It was indeed a square cut in an inversely square “ one of the guests to the institute and the LEADERSHIP Group Limited’s Project Champion to lift two million people out of poverty, Mr Abdulmumin Balogu, refocused out after an interactive session with Dr. Asele.

Balogun led two members of staff on visit to the installation following an appeal by Governor Sule to the LEADERSHIP Group operation platoon led by the organisation’s Administrative Vice Chairman, Mr. Okpere, who he( the governor) hosted before, to stop by the institute to assess the colorful training programmes going on there.

The administrative vice president also delegated Mr. Balogun and Mr Ezekiel Amkpita, the director conference and forum for the job.

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The platoon was marveled at the structures and state– of- the- art outfit at the institute which its superintendent director pride as the stylish in the country.

As a trained mastermind who has strong believe in education for tone– reliance, governor Sule’s vision for this specialized institute is all encompassing. First, this institute is anticipated to impact necessary specialized chops on the youths, as well as graduates of universities and polytechnics from other fields of study, who’ll be trained to come tone– reliant.

Secondly, the institute is anticipated to produce technicians that will be employed by manufactories that will spring up across the state. Thirdly, the institute will be a centre for inventions, manufacturing spare corridor to be used by diligence from within and outside the state.

Governor Sule’s experience while trying to eake a living and at the same time pursuing his academic programme abroad, must have fired his vision for accession of chops alongside formal education.
He’d told the Bukuru Old Students Association( BOSAT) who paid him a courtesy call occasionally in 2023 that he set up the institute in appreciation for what specialized education has done to him.
He reported how he rose from being a janitor to a famed mastermind and now governor.

He said when he came onboard as governor, he saw the establishment of the institute as an occasion to bring his knowledge and experience to bear towards impacting on the lives of the people of the state.
He said he do on education for the Indiana State University in the United States, explaining that his applying background made it possible for him to successfully graduate, rise in his career and to come what he’s moment.

“ I looked for a part time weilding job paying 2.75 USD an hour. I’ll now go an spend all the hours I could conceivably do carrying out weilding and I made a lot of plutocrat and I came richer than my musketeers.

“ I was suitable to graduate in 3 times with 4 times education. also the last one time I did my masters because I had a applying job.

“ On my return to Nigeria, I worked in Jos sword rolling company only for about three times and returned to Houston, Texas where because of the occasion in the area of weilding I was for the first time introduced into the oil painting and gas sector.

“ I was n’t an oil painting person firstly. I was trained a weilder and also I did mechanical technology. At the end of the day, I was using that knowledge to work on an oil painting and gas platform, because on the platform, weilders and fabulists are lords. I started taking the siesmic accession outfit on my reverse and going around to acquire seismic. ultimately they moved me into a weilding shop to do a CNC machine programming and operation. That’s where I learned about all the conversational programme in the CNC, ” he said.

He said his knowledge and experience informed the decision to set up the Wing Commander Abdullahi Ibrahim Vocational and Technical Institute in order to give back to the society.

“ That’s why I said when I come to Nigeria, in Nasarawa State, when I set up a specialized academy, there must be a CNC machine. I was a hot cutlet just like any CNC programmer.

“ It does n’t count what anyone says, I feel fulfilled. I feel I’ve been suitable to bring the knowledge, the gests I had in order to impact on our people locally, ” he added.

Like he promised, the institute does n’t only have a CNC machine but numerous others that impact chops to heretofore job campaigners, primary academy pupils, their secondary counterparts, and indeed graduates through its about 40 factors.

In establishing the institute, he’d to search for someone who participated his vision to drive the process. In near Jos, Plateau State at the Nigeria Industrial Training Fund, he picked Dr. Asele who agreed to take some leave of absence for the job.

Asele told our pressman that the institute has trained over 900 graduards who are formerly doing well in their area of trade.

He said the institute has three orders of trainees. There are those who have noway been in academy; those who are through with their secondary education as well as those who have attained their degrees, HND, Masters and indeed PhD. He said there’s another order especially for vulnerable women.
He said of special interest, is the occasion accorded to university graduates by the governor to acquire training in the areas of choice.

He said some first class graduates of the state– possessed university in Keffi and the Federal University of Lafia served from the training programes at the institute.

After the traning each of the pupil was given capital to start the trade and come employers of labour.

He said the recent gesture was the training of about 50 first class graduates of the FULAFIA who were given N500, 000 each to set up their bisonesses.

Speaking about the need for graduates to also acquire chops during the visit by the LEADERSHIP platoon, the governor said, having education without chops is imperfect, stressing that anyone without the needful skill will always find it delicate to serve singly.

Asele agreed that in the period of rising severance with numerous contending for many or non existent jobs, chops accession is the way to go.