The Minister of Education, Dr. Mauruf Alausa, says the Federal Government has henceforth, cancelled foreign trainings for scholars.
Alausa who said this at the opening ceremony of a three-day conference organised by the British Council on Tuesday in Abuja, said that scholars would now be trained within Nigeria.
The theme of the conference is “Building Sustainable and Relevant Tertiary Institutions and Systems in Africa.”
The minister said that the Federal Government would be spending substantial money in building simulation lab, as well as building and developing the country’s universities.
“We have just decided to cancel foreign training for scholars. The amount of money we are spending to train one scholar abroad, we could use it to train 20 people here. We will be training everybody here.
“We will unleash capacity in our universities. We are going to be spending more money now on research, innovation, and also on welfare, both on our academics and non-academics,” he said.
The minister said that the Federal Government was poised to use education to empower the youths.
“I have just spoken about the first component of our six-pillar agenda. The second component will be focusing heavily on technical, vocational and educational training,” he said.
He said that young Nigerians would be incentivise to go to technical college and acquire technical knowledge.
“We will pay for their tuition as a second step, and as a third step, a master craft person, when they will get their practical training, we will pay them as well.
