Edo IDPs to undergo vocational assessment – NABTEB

As part of efforts to empower Nigerians with technical skills for self-reliance, the National Business and Technical Examinations Board has said it would conduct certificate examinations in selected vocational areas for victims of the insurgency at an Internally Displaced Persons camp in ‎Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, on completion of the acquisition of technical skills.

There are over 900 internally displaced persons in the camp, managed by the International Christian Centre for Missions, a religious organisation, many of whom are children, while the insurgents continue to terrorise the North Eastern part of the country.

The Deputy Director, Research and Quality Assurance of NABTEB, Mr. Olabode Ibidapo, who disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Benin, explained that the examination body had identified major areas of assessment through a committee set up by its management board to provide vocational assistance to the displaced persons.

He said although the centre was not a formal school setup, the board could assist the IDPs with the examinations to test the skills they have acquired at the camp.

Ibidapo said, “The Registrar/Chief Executive and management set up a small committee to visit the centre and tell management if there are ways NABTEB can collaborate with the IDP centre and other government organisations. We visited the centre on Friday, Saturday and on Monday.

“We are aware that some of the IDPs must have had one academic pursuit or the other and there were those who were on an apprenticeship scheme. But because of the crisis, they hurriedly left.

“‎So, we felt that there should be a way where NABTEB can come in and assist them. We saw that some of them had been acquiring skills, we saw equipment for garment making and craft practice.”

He also noted that the committee had written its report bothering on areas of assistance as requested by the operators of the centre, which he said could not be made public because it was yet to be considered by the management of the board.

Edo IDPs to undergo vocational assessment – NABTEB