The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has intensified its Skill Acquisition Training and Youth Empowerment (SATYE) programme to a really essential degree in Nigeria geared toward strengthening the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.
The Agency launched into this huge effort not too long ago in Kogi State the place it engaged and accomplished the coaching of 120 youths on October 23, 2026 within the state capital Lokoja, on sensible expertise on electrical set up and upkeep which can change into sustainable enterprises to spice up livelihoods, companies, and sources of financial independence.
Through this intervention, the 120 younger women and men of Lokoja, Kogi State ramped up their sensible expertise that may translate straight into financial alternative the place they’ll unlock their potentials.
During the opening ceremony, the Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of NASENI, Khalil Suleiman Halilu, who was represented by the Agency’s Research Director, Professor Ibrahim Onuwe Abdulmalik, urged the stakeholders to maneuver ahead with the understanding that it’s not nearly empowering demography however empowering the way forward for the whole Nigerian society.
And through the closing ceremony, the NASENI boss, who was represented by the Acting Coordinating Director, Finance and Accounts, Mr. Ibrahim Baba Dauda, famous that the programme coincided with the Agency’s imaginative and prescient for industrialization, which fits past factories and machines.
He stated industrial improvement should in the end create alternatives for extraordinary Nigerians. This is why SATYE takes sensible expertise, applied sciences and financial alternatives on to communities. He stated additional that “For our Electrical Installations and Maintenance trainees, your expertise place you inside one of many fastest-growing sectors of Nigeria’s financial system, the constructing and development business.
“Across the size and breadth of the nation, new properties, places of work, companies, factories, farms, colleges and public establishments are more and more bobbing up and so they want your companies. NASENI itself is supporting the event of Nigeria’s home constructing and development business.
“This is consistent with the vision of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, under the Renewed Hope Agenda, to expand economic opportunities, strengthen human capital and build a more productive and inclusive Nigerian economy.”
The 120 youths of Lokoja who participated within the programme expressed immense delight that they had been geared up with the mandatory competencies required to satisfy the rising demand for expert electrical and upkeep personnel within the Nigerian financial system. With this coaching, they haven’t solely been impacted by data; however have additionally been supplied with starter packs and money token of N50,000 every designed to assist them start their journey instantly.
Through this coaching and empowerment the youth have gained priceless asset, coupled with the truth that the starter packs will help them as instruments for transformation as this can improve their diligent apply and increase their dedication to excellence.
With the completion of this weeklong train, NASENI has demonstrated its dedication to bringing science, know-how, and engineering nearer to the folks simply as it’s assured that this initiative will contribute meaningfully to youth empowerment in Lokoja and past with profound hope at sustaining this partnership within the curiosity of the prosperity of Lokoja, Kogi State and the nation usually.
The five-day intensive coaching was a part of NASENI’s dedication to human capability improvement and a direct response to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Renewed Hope Agenda, which prioritises youth empowerment and financial inclusion.
NASENI’s imaginative and prescient on this case is to take science, know-how and engineering out of laboratories and into Nigerian properties, companies and communities and make sure the true measure of the impression of the programme. This empowerment in Lokoja is direct proof. Under NASENI’s 3Cs-Creation, Collaboration and Commercialisation, the Agency has continued to deploy sensible applied sciences and expertise that create jobs, develop companies, and strengthen communities.
The NASENI boss equally expressed his profound appreciation to the Maigari of Lokoja, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Ibrahim Gambo Kabir Maikarfi IV, his chiefs, non secular leaders and political management of Lokoja for his or her help and partnership all through this initiative.
“At NASENI, our imaginative and prescient of industrialisation goes past factories and machines. Industrial improvement should in the end create alternatives for extraordinary Nigerians. This is why SATYE takes sensible expertise, applied sciences and financial alternatives on to communities throughout the size and breadth of the nation, new properties, places of work, companies, factories, farms, colleges and public establishments are more and more bobbing up and so they want your companies.
“NASENI is supporting the development of Nigeria’s domestic building and construction industry. This is consistent with the vision of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, under the Renewed Hope Agenda, to expand economic opportunities, strengthen human capital and build a more productive and inclusive Nigerian economy,” he stated.
In his keynote tackle, the Maigari of Lokoja, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Ibrahim Gambo Kabir Maikarfi IV, learn on his behalf by the Maitawalle of Lokoja, Alhaji Adamu Muhammed Alabi, lauded NASENI for bringing the ability acquisition programme to his area and equipping the youths with related sensible expertise that can contribute to the financial improvement of town.
Goodwill message additionally got here from the Maiyaki of Lokoja, Alhaji Ali Lawal Jiya, who urged the 120 beneficiaries to make the perfect use of the abilities acquired on the intensive coaching to higher their lives and enhance high quality {of electrical} installations and upkeep within the housing, oil and gasoline and development sectors.
Consequently, he charged the beneficiaries to make the perfect of the chance, saying the coaching has offered them with a platform to enhance their skilled competence, study higher working strategies and strengthen their capability to ship high quality companies.
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