By Emmanuel Olorunsola
Adamawa State government has perfected the plan to renovate one school each in the 21 local government areas of the state.
The government is also set to train all its unemployed youths and empower them for self employment, in order to reduce the rate of unemployment in the state.
Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Dr Umar Pella and Commissioner of Entrepreneurship Development, Hon James Iliya, who disclosed this in Yola, said that government was serious about its human capital development agenda.
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The commissioners said, “We will by next week unveil a project to renovate one school to a very high standard in each local government area because we have done a needs assessment and concluded that such a project is necessary,”
They said the government had already done much to reposition education and the renovation project was part of the efforts.
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“We have remedied appalling situations we inherited when this government was inaugurated last year. We have passed the situation when students had to buy chalk to be taught in our schools. We’ve passed the era of our school labs not having reagents for practicals. We’ve addressed all that because we have invested and are investing in education delivery,” the commissioners explained.
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Iliya further said that his ministry had opened a portal for youths to register for a planned skills development and business start-up training.
“The portal will serve as a database for unemployed youths and we will use it for a selection process for our skills development programme. We want to bring all unemployed youths into the scheme,” he explained.
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He said unemployed youths between 18 and 45 were being targeted in the training and empowerment programme to ensure that even graduates who finished tertiary education long ago but could not get jobs could be helped.
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