The member representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency of Osun state, Hon. Oluwole Oke, has expanded his technical training scholarship scheme with the enrolment of 420 new beneficiaries throughout the state’s 9 Authorities Technical Schools.
The newest consumption deepened the five-year-old programme, which started as a pilot initiative on the Ijebu-Jesa Authorities Technical Faculty earlier than its statewide rollout two years in the past.
Talking with journalists on the programme over the weekend, the lawmaker, said that the brand new beneficiaries included principally yr 1 college students, alongside yr 2 intakes in eight schools and college students from yr 1 to yr 3 on the Ijebu-Jesa centre.
He defined that with this addition, the full variety of college students sponsored beneath the scheme has risen to about 1,500 — a outstanding determine for a programme run solely from the lawmaker’s private sources.
Oke dedicated roughly N15 million per time period, amounting to about N40 million per tutorial session, because the scholarship lined faculty charges, enrolment costs, lesson charges and associated bills.
The lawmaker’s long-running advocacy for stronger funding in vocational training additionally aligned with the Federal Authorities’s current resolution to introduce free tuition in all Federal Technical Schools nationwide.
Oke described the scholarship as a deliberate response to Nigeria’s widening abilities hole, rising youth unemployment and the rising want for hands-on, innovation-driven competencies.
“Technical and vocational training stays one of the crucial dependable pathways to empowering younger folks.
“By equipping them with sensible talents and creativity-driven coaching, we aren’t solely lowering unemployment but in addition constructing a brand new era of self-reliant Nigerians,” he mentioned.
Oke urged college students throughout the state to benefit from the chance, describing the funding as a dedication to constructing “a greater, brighter and extra empowered era.”
The directors of the assorted technical schools in Osun, mentioned the impression of the scheme is already seen, with elevated enrolment and commencement charges attributed partly to Oke’s intervention.
Stakeholders mentioned that the initiative had turn into a mannequin for community-driven help in technical and vocational coaching, with some state actors and personal people learning its construction for doable replication.
