The Federal Government has declared its readiness to establish over 24 skills and innovation centres across the country to boost productivity.

The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this during a visit to Innov8 Hub in Abuja on Wednesday, February 28, 2024.

Mamman, who noted that the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) would drive the process, said the skills and innovation centres would equal opportunities to all Nigerian children wherever they were.

TETFund is currently partnering with Innov8 Hub for practical training and mentorship for Nigerian youths and academics with a view to producing employable graduates and boosting research.

The minister commended TETFund and the Innov 8 hub for supplying the learners and the researchers from colleges of education, polytechnics, and universities the platform to undertake practical impactful research.

He said: “Now, what I see here is enough to provide the knowledge incubation to take Nigeria to the highest level.

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“What I have seeing here is a place that give hope to the young ones who have the ideas, who have a disposition to acquire basic skills that they need to move on and have a decent lively hood.

“What I have seeing here is a major source of inspiration and we are going to work with the sector as they are already doing with TETFund.

“We want to be grateful to TETFund for this relationship. This place is owned by a private person but working closely with one of the government agencies in the education sector that is supplying the learners and the researchers from colleges of education, polytechnics, and universities to come here and undertake very practical impactful researchers.

“I’m going to be the chief advocate in this regard. I’m going to bring in some of the big entrepreneurs to come and see this place and also ensure that some of our people in relevant ministry positions come here and see what this place is doing and the potential it provide to this country.

“We will also train our students and give them skills. We are going to work together to generate a lot of young Nigerians who are out there from IDPs and everywhere to give them the necessary trainings.”

The Star