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The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has approved the Katsina Youth Craft Village as a certified National Skills Qualifications (NSQ) Training provider.
This was contained in a letter signed by the NBTE Executive Secretary, Prof. Idris Bugaje, and addressed to the Coordinator of the Youth Craft Village, Mr. Kabir Abdullahi.
With this approval, the Katsina Youth Craft Village is authorized to train and certify young Nigerians in a variety of vocational trades such as automobile mechanics, carpentry and joinery, computer hardware maintenance and repairs, plumbing and welding.
Other vocational skills that would be provided by the centre include cosmetology, hospitality and catering, garment making, leather work, masonry, phone repairs and maintenance, photography and cinematography and satellite installation and maintenance.
The approval takes effect from June 24, 2025, but the centre is expected to operate within the guidelines of the Nigerian Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) and register with relevant awarding bodies for each of the approved trades.
Reacting to the development, Governor Dikko Umaru Radda described it as a bold step towards equipping young people with hands-on skills and unlocking economic opportunity at the grassroots.
Radda, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Ibrahim Kaula Mohammed, said: “This recognition is a proud moment for Katsina. It affirms our commitment to skills development and paves the way for a more self-reliant generation of youth.”
On his part, the Coordinator of the Katsina Youth Craft Village, Abdullahi, described the certification of the centre by NBTE as a historic leap forward in line with Governor Radda’s vision of empowering Katsina’s youth with practical skills for self-reliance and job creation.
“This is more than just a certification—it’s a doorway to opportunity. With this, young men and women across Katsina now have access to hands-on training that’s nationally recognized and truly transformative,” the coordinator added.
$48bn Deals Closed At Record-breaking Algiers IATF 2025
$48bn Deals Closed At Record-breaking Algiers IATF 2025
Bolaji Adebiyi in Algiers
The curtain fell on this year’s Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) in Algiers, Algeria, on Wednesday, with the biannual trade summit exceeding the organisers’ targets, recording deals worth a staggering $48.3 billion, $4 billion more than estimated.
“By all measures, including the number of buyers, visitors, exhibitors and countries, as well as the value of deals made, this has been the best we have seen,” an elated President of Afreximbank, Prof. Benedict Oramah, stated during the press conference at the end of the fair.
Conceived in 1963, the African Common Market idea did not come to fruition until 2018, when the first IATF was held in Cairo, Egypt, with an estimated 1,000 participants, resulting in the closure of $20 billion worth of deals.
Its growth has been remarkable, as the second edition, held in Durban, South Africa, in 2021, welcomed over 1,100 exhibitors from 59 countries and recorded deals worth US$42 billion. IATF returned to Cairo in 2023, featuring 1,600 exhibitors and trade and investment commitments exceeding US$43 billion.
Organised by Afreximbank in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC) and the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, 35,000 conference delegates, 75 exhibiting countries, and 2,000 exhibitors were expected to secure $44 billion worth of deals at this year’s fair.
Examining the latest figures, however, Afreximbank’s Director of Trade Facilitation & Investment Promotion, Dr. Gainmore Zanamwe, noted that the 2025 edition surpassed the key performance indicators set by the Advisory Council.
According to him, deals worth $48.3 billion were signed, while 2,148 exhibitors from 132 countries and 112,476 delegates attended the seven-day event. He added that 49 African countries and 21 non-African countries had exhibition pavilions, which attracted 958 buyers, instead of the estimated 750.
These figures were elating for Oramah, under whose watch the dream of the founding fathers of the African Union (AU) for an African Common Market was actualised.
“It sets the stage for what will happen going forward,” he stated, urging the bank and its promoters to raise the bar by ensuring that all the signed deals were followed through.
He stated: “In the future, the taste of the pudding is in the eating. It is the extent to which we implement the deals signed here that will count. So, as we have done in the past, Afreximbank will follow up on all the deals and make sure that by the time we get to Lagos in 2027, most of them are completed. We will finance where they need financing, and facilitate where they need facilitation.”
Saying the IATF had become an institution, Oramah urged that Afreximbank must be deliberate about mobilising African financial institutions to participate in the fair, explaining that apart from the challenge of trade information, the lack of capital to finance projects and trade, as well as the ability to manage the risks on the continent, are serious issues.
“So, we must find a way to get African financial institutions, including credit insurance companies, to start deliberately supporting the trade that is beginning to develop,” he said, expressing regret that Shelter Afrique was the only development bank that participated in the fair.
He urged that the IATF Headquarters, which was being established in Zimbabwe, commence operations, and thanked the Afreximbank Board of Directors for approving $28 billion as the initial capital for the project.
The next edition of the trade fair, which aims at promoting intra-African trade, will take place in Lagos in 2027.
Bolaji Adebiyi in Algiers The curtain fell on this year’s Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) in Algiers, Algeria, on Wednesday, with the biannual trade summit exceeding the organisers’ targets, recording deals
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Shettima Hails Uba Sani for Pioneering State Skills Council, Urges Others to Follow Kaduna’s Lead
Shettima Hails Uba Sani for Pioneering State Skills Council, Urges Others to Follow Kaduna’s Lead
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has applauded Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, for establishing and chairing Nigeria’s first State Council on Skills, describing the move as groundbreaking and urging other states to emulate Kaduna.
Speaking at the 7th meeting of the National Council on Skills (NCS) on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the vice-president said the skills revolution is central to the Bola Tinubu administration’s covenant with Nigerians and key to delivering on its human capital development promise.
Shettima stressed that building a future-ready workforce requires breaking down institutional barriers, strengthening collaboration and aligning government, private sector and academic efforts.
“The era of operating in silos is over. We must embed collaboration into curriculum development and funding. This is about the artisan in Kaura Namoda, the mid-career worker in Ebute-Metta, and the technical colleges that must become true centres of excellence,” the vice-president declared.
He commended Kaduna’s example, noting that Governor Sani’s leadership and the recent admission of over 30,000 students into the Kaduna Vocational and Skills Development Institute demonstrated a bold commitment to job creation and skills development.
Also speaking, the Minister of Education, Dr. Olatunji Alausa, lauded Governor Sani’s role in facilitating President Tinubu’s commissioning of the Institute of Vocational Training and Skills Development, noting that technical colleges nationwide are now being redirected to focus exclusively on relevant courses.
Shettima charged members of the NCS to unite behind a single framework for Nigeria’s skills revolution, warning that: “We can not build a future-ready workforce on a foundation of division.”
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has applauded Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, for establishing and chairing Nigeria’s first State Council on Skills, describing the move as groundbreaking and urging other states
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