In the past, when a child reached the first stage of school enrollment that’s provisionally five to six years old, there were wrong perceptions instilled in his mind that he could affluently be a breadwinner for his family when obtaining educational qualifications. Instead of, at the same time, being fully furnished with the positive impact of skill acquisition. So that if he unfortunately doesn’t get a white-collar job after graduation from school, he may situationally turn to the other side so as to become self-reliant driven by self-bouyancy.
Nowadays, parents’ failure to engage their children in varied forms of skill acquisition training is seemingly revealing and mulling over the disturbing rate of crimes being perpetrated in the country, which could be attributed to unemployment as the majority of the countrymen didn’t learn any skills or hold reliable small-scale businesses rather than depending on educational qualifications which do not guarantee one’s life success.
This mistaken belief has to be timely and utterly changed by exposing their children to a variety of productive and creative skills that can help them meet all of their needs after learning the skills professionally. However, relying heavily on government, specifically the Nigerian government, jobs as a source of income is a very huge mistake that yields nothing but disappointment!
Let us learn from developed countries such as China, South Korea, and Malaysian citizens who have become productive as a result of engaging their youth in various aspects of skill training schemes with the support of their serious governments. And they were successful in channelling them further to where they are now in terms of development.
In a nutshell, I urge Nigerian governments at all levels to replicate China’s Green Business Option (GBO) at both secondary and tertiary levels, which can feasibly pave way for their products to acquire skills to develop themselves by becoming self-reliant even if they fail to be employed by the government and other related agencies.
Mallam Musbahu Magayaki
Sabon Fegi, Azare, Bauchi state
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