‘Nigeria must overhaul technical, engineering education’

GOVERNMENT must reform technical and engineering education in order to transform the nation from a consumer to a manufacturing economy, the Managing Director, Coscharis Technologies, Mr. Sunday Mukoro, has said.

Mukoro, who noted that the pace of global technological development is so fast that it has rendered Nigeria’s yearly meagre budgetary allocation to Information Communication Technology (ICT) insignificant, said government has continually spent less than one percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on the entire education sector.

While identifying with the change mantra of the present administration, he advised that technical education should be radically and generously funded.

He said, “There are persistent complaints that products of the Nigerian educational system are unable to meet expectations of corporate Nigeria. Industries and commercial institutions have vacancies that educated Nigerians are not equipped to occupy, especially in the areas of technical/engineering and technologies.