Dearth of Technical Colleges in Nigeria - By Titilope Gafar
The Government's tale of a technical education as a recipe for the creation of jobs for the youth of this country is a good idea, however good this sounds, it all ends on the back pages of the newspaper albeit lacking in sincerity. In lieu of this, I am prompted to ask some mind boggling questions; 1. How many technical schools do we have in Nigeria altogether? For instance, In Ogun State, we have a meagre five Technical Schools which is barely enough to start with. Out of those five, four is owned by the state government and one is owned by the Federal Government. Currently, Ogun State has a population of over 3 million people, the few colleges we have is far below the minimum requirement of the Millenium Development Goals , MDG’s Vision 2020. 2. Was Technical Education even structured in our educational policy? I don’t think so. From inception, technical education was never structured in our education policy. Right from the time of Prof. Babs Fafunwa, as the minister