{"id":78132,"date":"2025-11-05T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78132"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:45:23","slug":"fg-to-train-7-million-youths-in-vocational-digital-skills-olawande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/05\/fg-to-train-7-million-youths-in-vocational-digital-skills-olawande\/","title":{"rendered":"FG to Train 7 Million Youths in Vocational, Digital Skills -Olawande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government says it will empower seven million youths through vocational and digital skills training to boost innovation, self-reliance, and employability.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Youth Development, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, disclosed this while receiving a delegation from the IHK Giessen-Friedberg Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Germany, in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said the initiative, under the Nigerian Youth Academy (NIYA), aligns with President Bola Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope Agenda and seeks to produce \u201cinnovators and entrepreneurs, not just job seekers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olawande revealed plans to launch a digital learning platform similar to Coursera to make skill acquisition accessible nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Dr. Matthias Leder, CEO of IHK Giessen-Friedberg, reaffirmed Germany\u2019s support for Nigeria\u2019s youth development efforts and announced that 300 Nigerian youths will graduate from the Legal Labour Migration and Dual Vocational Training Project on November 12, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; The Federal Government says it will empower seven million youths through vocational and digital skills training to boost innovation, self-reliance, and employability. Minister of Youth Development, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, disclosed this while receiving a delegation from the IHK Giessen-Friedberg Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Germany, in Abuja. He said the initiative, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78134,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78132\/revisions\/78134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}