Uba Sani: Re-seeding Nigeria with artisans

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
—Abraham Lincoln
 
By Enyeribe Ejiogu
For four decades, Nigeria has been witnessing a depletion of the pool of skilled and experienced artisans. Largely, this has been due to a combination of factors ranging from bad educational policies that emphasised academic knowledge while discouraging practical hands-on trade skills, to non-existent, dilapidated or few trade schools that were just that in name without the requisite technical tools and technology as well as inadequate number of appropriately incentivised teaching staff.
The result is that on a national basis, Nigeria is severely contending with a shortage of skilled art...