THE NEPU, FIRST POLITICAL PARTY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA 🇳🇬
Northern Element Progressive Union
8th August, 1950
8th August, 2021
Why was the NEPU established? Why did the NEPU generate such wide-spread and deep-rooted popular support in Northern Nigeria? Why, in spite of its apparent popularity, the NEPU failed to win elections and form the government in Northern Nigeria? Why did the Party become "a thorn", in the flesh of the colonial establishment, both black and white? Why did the NEPU Still inspire people decades after it!!!
8th August 1950 NEPU was launched in Kano, Sabon Gari No. 9 Ibadan Road at Bello Ijumu resident. The historic formidable eight were:
1. Mallam Abba Mai Kwaru
2. Bello Ijumu
3. Baballiya Manaja
4. Musa Kaula
5. Abdulkadir Danjaji
6. Garba Bida
7. Mudi Sipikin
8. Magaji Danbatta
The event that marked the emergence of NEPU came to assume a famous historical identity as Eight-Eight-Eight. It is a reference to the historical fact that the meeting that gave birth to the NEPU Movement took place on the 8th day of the 8th Month of the year and was attended by 8 men.
The aims and the objectives of meeting were spelt out, namely:
1. To raise the level of consciousness of the Talakawa to recognize their worth and fight for their human dignity and insist on their right to freedom of speech, of association, of movement, of assembly and of action within the law of which all citizens were ennoscriptd.
2. To fight against the system of indirect rule by bringing about its reform and ensuring the participation of the ordinary people in the decision making process in matters that affect them.
3. To wage a determined war against colonialism and for national independence.
4. To pursue the enhancement of democracy as a way of life; and
5. To set out the task of inculcating in the minds of the people the values of honesty, justice, hard-work, pursuit of knowledge, team work and devotion to religion.
Nigerian nationalism will remain incomplete without a through re-examination of the role and the real significance of the NEPU.
There was, in fact, no other political party in Nigeria with NEPU's vision. Also, no members of any political party or association suffered as much deprivation and brutal colonial and feudal repression as the NEPU members did during the independence struggle.
NEPU was the only political party to introduce and award Prison Graduate Certificate {PGC} to its political Activist in recognition of their being imprisoned due to their commitment and sacrifice for the liberation of Nigeria from British rule. These activities earned them harassment, victimisation, vilification and imprisonment. In a report to the NEPU national conference held at Bida in January 1953, the Secretary General of the party, Bello Ijumu, reported:
"The following are 31 names of NEPU Prison Graduates from 1951 to 1952:
KANO PROVINCE: 1. Mallam Sani Darma, 2. Mallam Illa Ringim, 3. Hussaini Ringim, 4. Mallam Tsirkiya Ringim, 5. Mallam Abdurra Abdurrahman Ringim, 6. Mallam Aminu Ringim, 7. Mallam Jingiri Ringim, 8. Mallam Ubale Ringim, 9. Muhammed Mustafa Danbatta (released after days), 10. Mallam Yau Sansan Danbatta.
KATSINA PROVINCE: 1. Mallam Sambon Barka, 2. Mallam Shehu faskari, 3. Mallam Jamo Funtua, 4. Alhaji Bauchi Funtua, 5. Umaru Dandam.
ZARIA PROVINCE: 1. Goshin ladi Kaya, 2. Akawu Kaya, 3. Danjuma (1) Kaya, 4. Danjuma (2) Kaya, 5. Danmori Kaya, 6. Mallam D. Fatika, 7. Mallam Alhassan Fatika, 8. Usman Soba Zaria, 9. Mathew O. Nsuebo.
BORNU PROVINCE: 1. Inuwa Baraji Nguru, 2. Baba Gure Gaidam (released after some days)
NIGER PROVINCE: 1. Mallam Abubakar Zukogi Bida, 2. Mallam Baba Dogo katcha.
BENUE PROVINCE: Mr. Ade Ahme Idoma (released after some days), 2. Mallam Abdu Tunga.
THE SAWABA DECLARATION
1. That the shocking state of social order as it presesent existing in Northern Nigeria is due to nothing but the family compact rule of the so-called Native Administration in their present autocratic form.
Northern Element Progressive Union
8th August, 1950
8th August, 2021
Why was the NEPU established? Why did the NEPU generate such wide-spread and deep-rooted popular support in Northern Nigeria? Why, in spite of its apparent popularity, the NEPU failed to win elections and form the government in Northern Nigeria? Why did the Party become "a thorn", in the flesh of the colonial establishment, both black and white? Why did the NEPU Still inspire people decades after it!!!
8th August 1950 NEPU was launched in Kano, Sabon Gari No. 9 Ibadan Road at Bello Ijumu resident. The historic formidable eight were:
1. Mallam Abba Mai Kwaru
2. Bello Ijumu
3. Baballiya Manaja
4. Musa Kaula
5. Abdulkadir Danjaji
6. Garba Bida
7. Mudi Sipikin
8. Magaji Danbatta
The event that marked the emergence of NEPU came to assume a famous historical identity as Eight-Eight-Eight. It is a reference to the historical fact that the meeting that gave birth to the NEPU Movement took place on the 8th day of the 8th Month of the year and was attended by 8 men.
The aims and the objectives of meeting were spelt out, namely:
1. To raise the level of consciousness of the Talakawa to recognize their worth and fight for their human dignity and insist on their right to freedom of speech, of association, of movement, of assembly and of action within the law of which all citizens were ennoscriptd.
2. To fight against the system of indirect rule by bringing about its reform and ensuring the participation of the ordinary people in the decision making process in matters that affect them.
3. To wage a determined war against colonialism and for national independence.
4. To pursue the enhancement of democracy as a way of life; and
5. To set out the task of inculcating in the minds of the people the values of honesty, justice, hard-work, pursuit of knowledge, team work and devotion to religion.
Nigerian nationalism will remain incomplete without a through re-examination of the role and the real significance of the NEPU.
There was, in fact, no other political party in Nigeria with NEPU's vision. Also, no members of any political party or association suffered as much deprivation and brutal colonial and feudal repression as the NEPU members did during the independence struggle.
NEPU was the only political party to introduce and award Prison Graduate Certificate {PGC} to its political Activist in recognition of their being imprisoned due to their commitment and sacrifice for the liberation of Nigeria from British rule. These activities earned them harassment, victimisation, vilification and imprisonment. In a report to the NEPU national conference held at Bida in January 1953, the Secretary General of the party, Bello Ijumu, reported:
"The following are 31 names of NEPU Prison Graduates from 1951 to 1952:
KANO PROVINCE: 1. Mallam Sani Darma, 2. Mallam Illa Ringim, 3. Hussaini Ringim, 4. Mallam Tsirkiya Ringim, 5. Mallam Abdurra Abdurrahman Ringim, 6. Mallam Aminu Ringim, 7. Mallam Jingiri Ringim, 8. Mallam Ubale Ringim, 9. Muhammed Mustafa Danbatta (released after days), 10. Mallam Yau Sansan Danbatta.
KATSINA PROVINCE: 1. Mallam Sambon Barka, 2. Mallam Shehu faskari, 3. Mallam Jamo Funtua, 4. Alhaji Bauchi Funtua, 5. Umaru Dandam.
ZARIA PROVINCE: 1. Goshin ladi Kaya, 2. Akawu Kaya, 3. Danjuma (1) Kaya, 4. Danjuma (2) Kaya, 5. Danmori Kaya, 6. Mallam D. Fatika, 7. Mallam Alhassan Fatika, 8. Usman Soba Zaria, 9. Mathew O. Nsuebo.
BORNU PROVINCE: 1. Inuwa Baraji Nguru, 2. Baba Gure Gaidam (released after some days)
NIGER PROVINCE: 1. Mallam Abubakar Zukogi Bida, 2. Mallam Baba Dogo katcha.
BENUE PROVINCE: Mr. Ade Ahme Idoma (released after some days), 2. Mallam Abdu Tunga.
THE SAWABA DECLARATION
1. That the shocking state of social order as it presesent existing in Northern Nigeria is due to nothing but the family compact rule of the so-called Native Administration in their present autocratic form.
2. That owing to this unscrupulous and vicious system of administration by the family compact rulers and which has been established and fully supported by the British imperialist government, there is today in our society an antagonism of interest, manifesting itself as a class struggle, between the members of the vicious circle of Native Administration on the one hand that the ordinary "Talakawa" on the other.
3. That this antagonism can be abolished only by the emapacipation of the Talakawa from the domination of these privileged few and by the reform of the present autocratic political institutions into Democratic institutions and placing their democratic control in the hands of the Talakawa for whom alone they EXIST.
4. That this emancipation must be the work of the Talakawa themselves.
5. That as at present, the machinery of government, including the armed forces of the nation, exist only to conserve the privilege of this selfish minority group, the Talakawa must organize consciously and politically for the conquest of the powers of government both nationally and locally in order that this machinery of government, including these forces, may be converted from an instrument of oppression into the agent of emancipation and the overthrow of bureaucracy and autocratic privilege.
6. That all political parties are but the expression of class interest, and as the interest of the Talakawa diametrically opposed to the interest of all sections of the master class, both white and black, the party seeking the emancipation of the Talakawa must naturally be hostile to the party of the oppressors.
7. The Northern Elements Progressive Union of Northern Nigeria, therefore, being the only political party of the Talakawa, enters the field of political action determined to reduce to nonentity and party of hypocrites and traitors to our mother country, and calls upon all the sons and daughters of Northern Nigeria to muster under its banner to the end, that a speedy termination may be wrought to this vicious system of administration which deprives them of the fruits of their labour, and that POVERTY may give place to COMFORT, PRIVILEGE to EQUALITY, and political, economic and social SLAVERY to FREEDOM.
Indeed, NEPU was undoubtedly a unique political party. Nigeria would have been different without NEPU.
SOURCE: The Politics of Mallam Aminu KANO, The Example of The NEPU, and the fulfate of late Prof. Magaji Danbatta.
Mukhtar ABDULLAHI COMA'
Director Strategy and Intelligence
Arewa Youth Consultative Council,
Kano State.
3. That this antagonism can be abolished only by the emapacipation of the Talakawa from the domination of these privileged few and by the reform of the present autocratic political institutions into Democratic institutions and placing their democratic control in the hands of the Talakawa for whom alone they EXIST.
4. That this emancipation must be the work of the Talakawa themselves.
5. That as at present, the machinery of government, including the armed forces of the nation, exist only to conserve the privilege of this selfish minority group, the Talakawa must organize consciously and politically for the conquest of the powers of government both nationally and locally in order that this machinery of government, including these forces, may be converted from an instrument of oppression into the agent of emancipation and the overthrow of bureaucracy and autocratic privilege.
6. That all political parties are but the expression of class interest, and as the interest of the Talakawa diametrically opposed to the interest of all sections of the master class, both white and black, the party seeking the emancipation of the Talakawa must naturally be hostile to the party of the oppressors.
7. The Northern Elements Progressive Union of Northern Nigeria, therefore, being the only political party of the Talakawa, enters the field of political action determined to reduce to nonentity and party of hypocrites and traitors to our mother country, and calls upon all the sons and daughters of Northern Nigeria to muster under its banner to the end, that a speedy termination may be wrought to this vicious system of administration which deprives them of the fruits of their labour, and that POVERTY may give place to COMFORT, PRIVILEGE to EQUALITY, and political, economic and social SLAVERY to FREEDOM.
Indeed, NEPU was undoubtedly a unique political party. Nigeria would have been different without NEPU.
SOURCE: The Politics of Mallam Aminu KANO, The Example of The NEPU, and the fulfate of late Prof. Magaji Danbatta.
Mukhtar ABDULLAHI COMA'
Director Strategy and Intelligence
Arewa Youth Consultative Council,
Kano State.
SIYASA MUGUN WASA
(*) Idan ka yarda cewar itace arzikinka sunanka Wawa.
(*) Idan ka daina Sana'a ka rungumeta kayi babbar wauta.
(*) Cikakkiyar makauniya ce batasan Mai wahala da ita ba da murya take amfani.
(*) Idan ta tashi yi maka tutsu Sai ka zaɓi maƙiyinka da hannunka.
(*) Idan kaci mutuncin wani saboda ita kayi babbar wauta domin zata kunyataka.
(*) Ba kasafai take riƙe amanar daka bata ba, tafi komai cin Amana.
(*) Idan ka biye Mata kaci mutuncin Ɗan uwanka Sai kayi Dana sani wata rana.
(*) Tafi ƙwaya da sholisho kashe zuciya, kada kayarda ta kashe maka zuciya.
(*) Yadda kaga Ɗan jaki haka take, duk sanda ta tashi yin harbi yi zatayi. Kayi takatsantsan.
(*) Duk runtsi kada ka sake ka manta da Wanda ya mutuntaka acikinta Koda ya munana maka daga baya.
(*) Tafi chacha kwaɗaita maka igiyar zato kayi ƙoƙarin saninta.
(*) Tana da mugwaye da nagartattun 'ya'yaye, kasan da Wanda zakayi mu'amala
(*) Shaiɗaniya ce ta gaske, yadda ka san shaiɗan haka take da zuga. Idan ta wullaka wani ramin, Sai an rasa mai tsamoka.
(*)Ka bita sannu a HANKALI kada kayi Mata GARAJE. Akwai wawaye acikinta Sai suyi maka wauta, Amman akwai nagartattun mutane acikinta ka daure ka raɓesu.
(*)Kada ka sake ka bata dukkan ƙarfinka, domin idan ƙarfinka ya ƙare ba zata iya tagaza makaba.
(*) KADA ka rama dukkan zagin da za ayi maka acikinta, sannan kada ka sake ka kalli Wanda ya ƙulla maka sharri acikinta domin sharri ɗan aikene, komai tsawon zamani.
(*) kada kaji tsoro ko Shakkar wani ɗanta, arzikinka da lafiyarka da rayuwarka duk suna hannun Allah.
(*) Idan ka yarda cewar itace arzikinka sunanka Wawa.
(*) Idan ka daina Sana'a ka rungumeta kayi babbar wauta.
(*) Cikakkiyar makauniya ce batasan Mai wahala da ita ba da murya take amfani.
(*) Idan ta tashi yi maka tutsu Sai ka zaɓi maƙiyinka da hannunka.
(*) Idan kaci mutuncin wani saboda ita kayi babbar wauta domin zata kunyataka.
(*) Ba kasafai take riƙe amanar daka bata ba, tafi komai cin Amana.
(*) Idan ka biye Mata kaci mutuncin Ɗan uwanka Sai kayi Dana sani wata rana.
(*) Tafi ƙwaya da sholisho kashe zuciya, kada kayarda ta kashe maka zuciya.
(*) Yadda kaga Ɗan jaki haka take, duk sanda ta tashi yin harbi yi zatayi. Kayi takatsantsan.
(*) Duk runtsi kada ka sake ka manta da Wanda ya mutuntaka acikinta Koda ya munana maka daga baya.
(*) Tafi chacha kwaɗaita maka igiyar zato kayi ƙoƙarin saninta.
(*) Tana da mugwaye da nagartattun 'ya'yaye, kasan da Wanda zakayi mu'amala
(*) Shaiɗaniya ce ta gaske, yadda ka san shaiɗan haka take da zuga. Idan ta wullaka wani ramin, Sai an rasa mai tsamoka.
(*)Ka bita sannu a HANKALI kada kayi Mata GARAJE. Akwai wawaye acikinta Sai suyi maka wauta, Amman akwai nagartattun mutane acikinta ka daure ka raɓesu.
(*)Kada ka sake ka bata dukkan ƙarfinka, domin idan ƙarfinka ya ƙare ba zata iya tagaza makaba.
(*) KADA ka rama dukkan zagin da za ayi maka acikinta, sannan kada ka sake ka kalli Wanda ya ƙulla maka sharri acikinta domin sharri ɗan aikene, komai tsawon zamani.
(*) kada kaji tsoro ko Shakkar wani ɗanta, arzikinka da lafiyarka da rayuwarka duk suna hannun Allah.
Dear Nigerian Youth,
Attend Conferences/Meetings as much as you can, mingle with people within and outside your domain if possible. Read Books, get a mentor consult him all the time, be a connecter in connecting with people, listen to scholars ask them relevant questions, know your country very well and be retentive in storing currents happenings situations in the country (be currently about global and national Matters/issues).
Because ahead of 2023 we need productive problem solvers, knowledgeable and experience leaders in the future.
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
Attend Conferences/Meetings as much as you can, mingle with people within and outside your domain if possible. Read Books, get a mentor consult him all the time, be a connecter in connecting with people, listen to scholars ask them relevant questions, know your country very well and be retentive in storing currents happenings situations in the country (be currently about global and national Matters/issues).
Because ahead of 2023 we need productive problem solvers, knowledgeable and experience leaders in the future.
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
INEC announced Saturday, February 18, as the date for the 2023 general election.
After holding the first and successful Kano Social Influencers Summit, CITAD is again prepared to convene the second symposium in October 2021. This symposium will bring experts in the use of social media for marketing, advocacy, transparency, societal development and other life touching areas to practically showcase how social media can be used positively. Register here to attend the event.
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International Youth Day
12th August, 2021
"Our Youth need to build with a SOLUTION-ORIENTED MINSET. Where they can easily look beyond the contemporary challenges, and think OUTSIDE-THE-BOX to conceive INNOVATIVE Solutions for our succeeding generations to thrive in coming years to come"
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
12th August, 2021
"Our Youth need to build with a SOLUTION-ORIENTED MINSET. Where they can easily look beyond the contemporary challenges, and think OUTSIDE-THE-BOX to conceive INNOVATIVE Solutions for our succeeding generations to thrive in coming years to come"
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
Put it in your mind that "Nothing worth having comes easy" be ready to struggle for a better life, engaged yourself in something you believe in and contribute your quota for the betterment of humanity.
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
On Duty!
Director Strategy and Protocols
Arewa Youth Consultative Council Kano State
Stronger We Go 💪💪💪
Director Strategy and Protocols
Arewa Youth Consultative Council Kano State
Stronger We Go 💪💪💪
If only because some people doesn't belongs to your groups or Religious beliefs could be a reason to be attacked and got killed while passing through your vicinities, remember those ones you call family doesn't only move through others communities, rather, resides in the various communities of your victims and in peace and love for one another.
My brother, do you think you protect them from reprisal attacks if the others deemed it fit?
This doesn't helps or add any value to our cultures neither our religions, grow up weak-minded Nigerian Youths
My brother, do you think you protect them from reprisal attacks if the others deemed it fit?
This doesn't helps or add any value to our cultures neither our religions, grow up weak-minded Nigerian Youths
It's a pity that some people keep fanning the flames of war without considering the innocent people that will lose their lives in the warring regions.
🛑COMA' PROJECT
🛑COMA' PROJECT
Be cautious of decisions in politics, the past has many ways of catching up with the present.
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
FUNDAMENTAL MATTERS AND QUERIES.
🛑How far out does the universe go? Did it have a beginning and will it have an end? {COSMOLOGY}.
🛑How it that we humans came about here on earth? {ANTHROPOLOGY}
🛑Does life have a purpose? If it does, what can give meaning to my life? {TELEOLOGY}
🛑Does my daily conduct matter in the long run? Purpose, goal. {TELEOLOGY}
🛑What happens to me at my death? {ESCHATOLOGY}
🛑Existing and conception of God? {THEOLOGY}
🛑What is good and what is bad? How can I know the good and the bad? {AXIOLOGY}
🛑How should I be treating others? Being, becoming, existence, reality, and their relations. {ONTOLOGY}
🛑How can I know? {EPISTEMOLOGY}
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
🛑How far out does the universe go? Did it have a beginning and will it have an end? {COSMOLOGY}.
🛑How it that we humans came about here on earth? {ANTHROPOLOGY}
🛑Does life have a purpose? If it does, what can give meaning to my life? {TELEOLOGY}
🛑Does my daily conduct matter in the long run? Purpose, goal. {TELEOLOGY}
🛑What happens to me at my death? {ESCHATOLOGY}
🛑Existing and conception of God? {THEOLOGY}
🛑What is good and what is bad? How can I know the good and the bad? {AXIOLOGY}
🛑How should I be treating others? Being, becoming, existence, reality, and their relations. {ONTOLOGY}
🛑How can I know? {EPISTEMOLOGY}
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
If you don't start somewhere, you'll never get anywhere. If don't step forward you will always be in the same place. If you don't ask for the answer, then answer will be always no. If you don't go after what you want you'll never get it.
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
No matter how much the world tries to hold you back.....🌀
Continue with the BELIEF that what you want to achieve is possible!
Believing you can become successful is the most crucial step in actually achieving it.
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
Continue with the BELIEF that what you want to achieve is possible!
Believing you can become successful is the most crucial step in actually achieving it.
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
Leadership change, from country that works for all , to country that works for few. To get back, we need to start thinking as people not individual or put sentiments above competence.
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
🛑COMA' PROJECT 📽
ROAD MAP TO:
VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
In Nigeria today, the Increasing rate of poverty, unemployment, corruption and so many other social problems had become worrisome to the government and to every well meaning citizen. The Incidence of poverty in Nigeria is on the high side {about 70% of the total population has been classified as poor {Nigerian Entrepreneurship Initiative, 2009; ewhrudjakpor, 2008}. The problem of unemployment is particularly pathetic as the number of those coming out from various institutions looking for employment opportunity is increasing day by day.
Unfortunately, Nigeria has not been able to enact similar feats owing to poor linkage between knowledge and development and between the private and public sector of the economy. This may have been due to lack of appropriate skills and sufficient entrepreneurial culture in the educational system.
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ON VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS EDUCATION.
Development Generally means the improvement in people's lifestyle through improved education, incomes, skills, development and employment. For National Development to take place, people must get a good education that improves all aspects their lives. Stiglitz in Ezra {2008} asserts that "Development is the transformation of society, a movement from traditional relations, traditional ways of thinking, traditional methods of productions to more modern ways". Development is determined by how countries are able to leap frog stage of economic growth by being able to modernize their production system and increase their competitiveness faster than in the past.
Vocational Education Programme {Vocational Skills} should be incorporated into our educational programmes and this should be collaborated with Entrepreneurship Education Programme. At every level {Primary, Secondary, and Tetiary} of our educational system, students should be made to offer at least one Vocational Course from the areas of technical education: {Motor Mechanic, plumbing, painting and decorations, welding, furniture makings e.t.c}; Business Education: {Typing, accounting, marketing e.t.c}; Home Economic: {Child Development, food and nutrition, catering, hair dressing, tailoring e.t.c}; Agricultural Education: {Agric Production, agric mechanization, horticulture e.t.c}, Automobile Tech: {Electric Mobility, manufacturing tech, vehicle maintainance e.t.c}, Electrical & Electronics Tech: {Motor Control, computer programming, digital electronics e.t.c}, Building Tech: {Wall Framing, floors, and ceiling finishing, construction drawing e.t.c} Wood Work Tech: {Customising workspace, wood architectural technology e.t.c} Along with the vocational courses, a course in entrepreneurship education should include: Business Plan, organizing and selecting the legal form of operation, inventory control/operations managements, accounting/financial management, record keeping, financial analysis, {Cash Flow, planning profit}; location, human resources management and marketing plan. The depth {extent} of teaching this course will depend on the level at which it is provided, be it at primary, secondary or tertiary.
It is pertinent to note that education can be a means to an end. It can simply be a tool for securing employment and emancipation of people through the provision and acquiring of necessary knowledge and skills to make lives more flourishing. One practical strategy towards reducing rate of unemployment and eradicating poverty is by scaling up investment in infrastructure and human capital. Human capital development is further faciliated through a well structured academic curriculum that is entrepreneurial focused. A nation with increased numbers of self sustained and self dependent graduates will less numbers of unemployed graduates.
VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
In Nigeria today, the Increasing rate of poverty, unemployment, corruption and so many other social problems had become worrisome to the government and to every well meaning citizen. The Incidence of poverty in Nigeria is on the high side {about 70% of the total population has been classified as poor {Nigerian Entrepreneurship Initiative, 2009; ewhrudjakpor, 2008}. The problem of unemployment is particularly pathetic as the number of those coming out from various institutions looking for employment opportunity is increasing day by day.
Unfortunately, Nigeria has not been able to enact similar feats owing to poor linkage between knowledge and development and between the private and public sector of the economy. This may have been due to lack of appropriate skills and sufficient entrepreneurial culture in the educational system.
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ON VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS EDUCATION.
Development Generally means the improvement in people's lifestyle through improved education, incomes, skills, development and employment. For National Development to take place, people must get a good education that improves all aspects their lives. Stiglitz in Ezra {2008} asserts that "Development is the transformation of society, a movement from traditional relations, traditional ways of thinking, traditional methods of productions to more modern ways". Development is determined by how countries are able to leap frog stage of economic growth by being able to modernize their production system and increase their competitiveness faster than in the past.
Vocational Education Programme {Vocational Skills} should be incorporated into our educational programmes and this should be collaborated with Entrepreneurship Education Programme. At every level {Primary, Secondary, and Tetiary} of our educational system, students should be made to offer at least one Vocational Course from the areas of technical education: {Motor Mechanic, plumbing, painting and decorations, welding, furniture makings e.t.c}; Business Education: {Typing, accounting, marketing e.t.c}; Home Economic: {Child Development, food and nutrition, catering, hair dressing, tailoring e.t.c}; Agricultural Education: {Agric Production, agric mechanization, horticulture e.t.c}, Automobile Tech: {Electric Mobility, manufacturing tech, vehicle maintainance e.t.c}, Electrical & Electronics Tech: {Motor Control, computer programming, digital electronics e.t.c}, Building Tech: {Wall Framing, floors, and ceiling finishing, construction drawing e.t.c} Wood Work Tech: {Customising workspace, wood architectural technology e.t.c} Along with the vocational courses, a course in entrepreneurship education should include: Business Plan, organizing and selecting the legal form of operation, inventory control/operations managements, accounting/financial management, record keeping, financial analysis, {Cash Flow, planning profit}; location, human resources management and marketing plan. The depth {extent} of teaching this course will depend on the level at which it is provided, be it at primary, secondary or tertiary.
It is pertinent to note that education can be a means to an end. It can simply be a tool for securing employment and emancipation of people through the provision and acquiring of necessary knowledge and skills to make lives more flourishing. One practical strategy towards reducing rate of unemployment and eradicating poverty is by scaling up investment in infrastructure and human capital. Human capital development is further faciliated through a well structured academic curriculum that is entrepreneurial focused. A nation with increased numbers of self sustained and self dependent graduates will less numbers of unemployed graduates.
Education particularly, an entrepreneurial focused tertiary education therefore plays a very vital role in the development of economy of any nation because the more the number of young graduates that are able to be self dependent and self employed the more the poverty and unemployment is eradicated and the faster the nation moves towards self sufficiency. The development of the economy and the crave for self reliance and self sustainability is the driving force of any nation. Technical and Vocational Education is understood to be:
■An integral part of General education.
■A means of preparing for occupational fields and for effective participation in the world of work.
■An aspect of life long learning and preparation for responsible citizenship.
■An instrument for promoting environmentally sound and sustainable development.
■A method of alleviating poverty. {Obanya, 2005}
CONCLUSION:
●Government and private sectors should increases massive investment in VTE in order to ensure diversification through the creation of more functioning technical industries. If industries were created to process our raw materials such as crude oil, cocoa, rubber, coal and many others locally, the hope for economic recovery is not farfetched. More so, there will be more employment opportunities and people will be able overcome the plague of poverty which has hitherto resulted in other problems in the country.
●There is need for the development of renewable energy sources to cope with the inadequate power supply in the country. This is addition to a comprehensive development of Vocational trainees Centre and infrastructure which will act as a stimulus for economic development.
●Government as a matter of urgent need to embark on aggressive maintenance and proper equipment of all the government owned technical and Technology colleges and institutions nationwide, and even creation of least one vocation and technical school or institute in each state of the federation. This will in turn produce in to the society more graduates with vocational and technical skills, which will see Nigeria in the near future turn into a producing economy rather than being a consuming economy, thereby cautioning the effect of recession in the near future.
●The government should come out with clear cut policy on what is the role of technical and Vocational institutions in terms of human capital development.
●Government should make available incentives such as provisions of affordable loan or credit facilities and tax reliefs to all companies who are engaged primarily in vocation and technical trainings, as a way of encouraging those who are presently in the industry and also as a way of encouraging others who are skeptical.
Amb. ABDULLAHI Mukhtar COMA'
Agric-Education Student, Vocational and Technical Education Department.
Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil.
+2349034551232
mukhtarabdullahi555@gmail.com
■An integral part of General education.
■A means of preparing for occupational fields and for effective participation in the world of work.
■An aspect of life long learning and preparation for responsible citizenship.
■An instrument for promoting environmentally sound and sustainable development.
■A method of alleviating poverty. {Obanya, 2005}
CONCLUSION:
●Government and private sectors should increases massive investment in VTE in order to ensure diversification through the creation of more functioning technical industries. If industries were created to process our raw materials such as crude oil, cocoa, rubber, coal and many others locally, the hope for economic recovery is not farfetched. More so, there will be more employment opportunities and people will be able overcome the plague of poverty which has hitherto resulted in other problems in the country.
●There is need for the development of renewable energy sources to cope with the inadequate power supply in the country. This is addition to a comprehensive development of Vocational trainees Centre and infrastructure which will act as a stimulus for economic development.
●Government as a matter of urgent need to embark on aggressive maintenance and proper equipment of all the government owned technical and Technology colleges and institutions nationwide, and even creation of least one vocation and technical school or institute in each state of the federation. This will in turn produce in to the society more graduates with vocational and technical skills, which will see Nigeria in the near future turn into a producing economy rather than being a consuming economy, thereby cautioning the effect of recession in the near future.
●The government should come out with clear cut policy on what is the role of technical and Vocational institutions in terms of human capital development.
●Government should make available incentives such as provisions of affordable loan or credit facilities and tax reliefs to all companies who are engaged primarily in vocation and technical trainings, as a way of encouraging those who are presently in the industry and also as a way of encouraging others who are skeptical.
Amb. ABDULLAHI Mukhtar COMA'
Agric-Education Student, Vocational and Technical Education Department.
Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil.
+2349034551232
mukhtarabdullahi555@gmail.com