Abuja, March 21, 2024 – The Federal Government will soon begin the export of skilled workers, especially welders and technicians, to other African countries and the World in general.
Uba Maigari Ahmadu, the Minister of State for Steel Development, disclosed this in Abuja while playing host to the management of the welding federation committee.
He said skills could be exported and the nation earned foreign exchange when skills acquisition is well coordinated, it
The minster said the government was doing a lot along this line with the Renewed Hope Agenda and Nigerians could expect to start seeing results in a year or two.
“When we coordinate skills acquisition very well in the country, we can export skilled not only welders but also skilled technicians to Africa and the World, earn forex and bring it back home.
“We are doing a lot and in line with President Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda, by the time we aggregate all these together, I am sure Nigerians would begin to see results in a year or two.”
Ayo Ogidan, the Chief Executive of Welding Federation, said jobs would not always exist in Nigeria, so Nigerians must learn to integrate.
He said there is a “web way, a multiple-dimensional way where it starts starting up different areas of specialisation whenever the country integrates.
“Maybe a Nigerian would become a specialist in the pipeline. Some others would become specialists in ship construction. If you look at it, one of the key places where Africa has been robbed is in mineral development and mineral processing plants.
“A lot of the time, most of the plants are foreign because we have not been able to develop skills, Africa focuses on oil and gas. So, these are the multi-dimensional things which we are trying to solve.” (GBN)
