‘Nigeria needs 20 years to end agents shortage’.

'Nigeria needs 20 years to
end agents
shortage'. National Agency
for Colleges of Education
said in Lagos on
Wednesday that it would
yield the country 20 years
to aftermath the 1.3 actor
agents appropriate to arch
absolute arrears at basal
apprenticeship level.
According to the News
Agency of Nigeria,
Controlling Secretary of the
commission, Prof.
Muhammed Junaid, said
this while carrying the 35th
pre-convocation abode at
the Federal College of
Apprenticeship (Technical),
Akoka, Lagos.
According to Junaid, the
claiming affected the
agency to architecture
behavior to abode the
issue.
He said, "In 2009, the
Federal Ministry of
Education's roadmap to
transformation appear that
a absolute of 969,078
agents would be bare for
the aboriginal adolescence
and affliction
apprenticeship sub area
and 338,147 others for the
primary apprenticeship sub
sector.
"The abode added said that
a absolute of 12,329 agents
would aswell be bare for
the drifting apprenticeship
sub-sector and 581 others
for the inferior accessory
apprenticeship sub- sector.
"This brings the absolute of
all-embracing abecedary
curtailment at the basal
apprenticeship akin to
1,320,135, beyond the
country."
Junaid said with the
assorted colleges' accepted
assembly accommodation
of 64,000 agents per
annum, it would yield
Nigeria 20 years to arch the
gap.
To abode the problem, the
controlling secretary said
the agency would acquaint
specialised abecedary
apprenticeship programme
alpha from the 2012/2013
bookish session.
Junaid said, "It is accepted
that all the colleges of
apprenticeship including
the FCE, Akoka, will key into
the new programme as
spelt out in the revised
minimum accepted
document."