WorldStage Newsonline President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Mr Tasiu Gadari-Wudil, has called on the Federal Government to leverage the capacities of local engineers for quality project delivery.
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To limit dependency on foreign engineering products and manpower, engineers have called on government to initiate policies that would revive technical and vocational education in the country.
They said that building the future should be non-negotiable and driven through the use of technical, vocational education as well as industrial partnerships for local content development.
To them, despite government’s successes and efforts in the past through technical and vocational education to reduce poverty, hunger and unemployment, the challenge persists due to insufficient funding, poor state of facilities, brain drain/search for greener pastures, poor staff training and retention mechanism, static and parallel curriculum of technical education and dis-integrated educational value system.