Governor Fintiri Reopens Technical And Vocational Centres

Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri says government has concluded plans to resuscitate all the Technical and Vocational Training Centres across the state to provide skills and talents required by manufacturing and services industries within the state and beyond.

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He revealed this on monday at General Murtala Muhammad College GMMC Yola while declaring open training of five hundred youths under phase one in Adamawa organized by Poverty Alleviation and Wealth Creation Agency PAWECA.

The Governor said government has also embarked on earmarking one hundred hectares of land in each local government to be shared to youths across the state to make them channel their potential for the benefit of the state.

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He revealed that his administration has minimised activities of urban criminals like the Shilla Cult Group, Kidnapping, and Violent Crime as the product of careful planning and creating the enabling environment to discourage criminality.

He added that government has also provided free and compulsory education, free feeding and payment of scholarships in Higher Institutions, massive renovations and provision of new classroom blocks which boosted enrollment and back to school initiative.

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In their separate remarks, the Chairman House Standing Committee on Information, PAWECO and Sustainable Development Goals, Mr Japhet Kefas and Commissioner of Entrepreneurship Development Mr Iliya James saluted the Governor for giving youths priority.

Earlier in her remarks, the Head of PAWECA, Hajiya Aishatu Bawa Bello said the actual beneficiaries of the training programme are two thousand but due to covid-19, the youths will be trained in phases adding that the agency has recently trained four hundred and twenty youths in the state.

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On their parts, Lead of the British Council Yola office, Mr Abdulkadir Bello Ahmed, Bishop Douglas Kanatapwa among others expressed appreciation to the state government for creating avenues where youths will engage into meaningful ventures.

The five hundred youths will be trained on barbing, fish farming, poultry, food processing and
preservation, makeup, photography, soap making, solar installation and website design.

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