FROM IKHILI EBALU, BENIN CITY
No fewer than 29,260 students enrolled for the 2025 nationwide Technical and Vocational Education and Training examination, TVET, into federal technical colleges.
The Registrar, National Business and Technical Examinations Board, NABTEB, Dr Mohammed Mohammed disclosed this on Saturday during the monitoring of the examination at the Federal Technical College, Uromi, Edo State.
Mohammed said the students going into Senior Secondary School, SSS, 1 from Junior Secondary School, JSS, 3 sat for the examination.
The NABTEB register, represented by the Director of Research and Quality Assurance, Mr Osaigbovo Pius, said the 2025 enrollment of 29,260 was more than the 2024 enrolment of 7,547.
He attributed the increase to the federal government’s incentives to students to boost technical and vocational education and training in the country.
He disclosed that the result of the examination would be released in three weeks.
He disclosed that the initiative was a flagship programme of the Federal Ministry of Education designed to equip young Nigerians with practical skills for employment and entrepreneurship.
Mohammed thanked President Bola Tinubu and the Minister for Education, Dr Olatunji Alausa
for this new TVET initiative which has brought life into technical colleges.
“It has boosted interest and awareness, leading to the large turnout of candidates writing the examination today,” he said.
He opined that the TVET initiative will equip and empower youths with the relevant skills geared towards filling the gap in the industry.
He said the incentives would be bankrolled by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND.
According to him, with this initiative, the federal government is phasing out junior secondary schools from technical colleges.
In her remarks, the Director of Education and Principal of the technical college, Mrs Igwe Amy Kalu commended the conduct of the candidates.
Kalu urged them to put in their best, noting that by the sitting arrangement and the presence of invigilators and supervisors, there is no room for malpractice.
