FG to Renovate Technical Colleges

The Federal Government of Nigeria, on Tuesday, announced that it had resuscitated technical colleges in the country in order to aid engineering practice.

This was made known by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works, Abubakar Mohammed who spoke at the opening ceremony of the 22nd Engineering Assembly of the Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria (COREN), in Abuja.

 He was quoted by This Day as saying; "As rightly observed, engineers cannot successfully deliver their projects without the contribution of engineering technicians and craftsmen. I commend COREN for all the effort to bring this challenge to the fore.The federal government has already taken precise steps to resuscitate its technical colleges and training institutions."

However, he called on state governments and private owners of such institutions to follow suit and bring them back to life so that technicians and other workers with vocational skills, who are crucial to the implementation of engineering projects can be formally trained before being unleashed on the system.

According to him, these training schools will soon become fully operational and will be optimally used for training and retraining of engineering personnel. The federal government was however advised to resume the culture of maintenance of all existing infrastructure through the provision of adequate funding.