Information Minister Hails NBTE For Creative Media Skills Development

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has applauded the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) for its tireless efforts successful advancing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) successful Nigeria, particularly forging the Creative Media Sector Skills Council.

The Minister made the remarks astatine his bureau successful Abuja connected Tuesday during a courtesy sojourn by the Executive Secretary of NBTE, Prof. Idris Bugaje, and members of the recently inaugurated Creative Media Sector Skills Council.

“I warmly invited you to the Ministry of Information and National Orientation. I commend the National Board for Technical Education for its tireless efforts successful advancing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) successful Nigeria, peculiarly done the Nigerian Skills Qualifications Framework.

“I americium arsenic delighted by the inauguration of the Creative Media Sector Skills Council, which brings unneurotic cardinal backstage assemblage players and nationalist institutions to code the skills spread successful 1 of the astir dynamic sectors of our economy,” said the Minister.

He described the Council arsenic a transparent strategy that empowers practitioners and enhances the prime of our media output. He added that the originative media assemblage is brimming with endowment but often lacks structured pathways for recognising skills, obtaining certification, and aligning with manufacture standards.

“For america successful the Ministry, the synergy is clear. Well-trained and certified media professionals volition rise the modular of our broadcast content, fortify media literacy, combat misinformation, and positively task Nigeria’s representation astatine location and abroad. Your enactment straight supports our mandate to guarantee the dissemination of credible, ethical, and nonrecreational information,” helium said.

He assured the NBTE and the Creative Media Sector Skills Council that the Ministry was acceptable to enactment intimately with them by designing pathways integrating occupational standards for integer services, originative media, photography, cinematography, and much into the mainstream of broadcast and accusation practice.

He highlighted the initiative’s alignment with President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. “Skills and exertion improvement are portion of the 8 Priority Areas of the Renewed Hope Agenda, and it is working, going by what the NBTE is implementing, and the efforts of different authorities agencies.”

The Minister besides buttressed that the President Tinubu medication places a precocious premium connected younker improvement and cited the National Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), which pays tuition fees and stipends to students of tertiary schools successful Nigeria, and has positively impacted much than 500,000 students, thereby bringing succour to parents crossed Nigeria.

According to the Minister, President Tinubu’s imaginativeness “is for a Nigeria wherever the originative and broadcast media workforce is globally competitive, nationally certified, and contributes meaningfully to occupation creation, economical growth, and nationalist cohesion.”

In his remarks, Professor Bugaje emphasised the value of the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) scheme, which helium said is intended to certify informally trained professionals, specified arsenic apprentices successful media and broadcasting, giving them nationally recognised NSQ certificates.

According to Hajiya Fatima, the Creative Media Sector Skills Council “has implicit 70% backstage assemblage participation, and is aligning with planetary champion practices to guarantee manufacture drives accomplishment development.”