The Executive Vice chairman/Chief Executive of National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof, Mohammed Sani Haruna, yesterday, urged the Federal Government to overhaul and redesign of the curriculum of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF)

He said Nigeria could not continue to produce engineering, science and technology graduates without adequate hands-on.

He said the nation could catch up with the rest of the world, if it returned to prioritisation of crafts, technical and vocational schools and education.
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He said Nigerians were outsourcing occupational specialisation from Togo, Cameroun, even Niger and other West African states because “schools do not pay attention to skills acquisition.”

Haruna made the submissions in a keynote speech at the Annual General Meeting of the Relevant Technology Old Students’ Association (RETOSA) in Jos.

He said: “I, hereby, recommend the overhaul and redesign of the curriculum of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) to adopt the model and method of the Relevant Technology for a truly practically oriented workforce.
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