ENHANCING TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN A PERIOD OF SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY

The attainment of lofty objectives of technical, vocational education and training (TVET) has become a serious concern to technology experts. This is because, a well-established TVET is pivotal to sustainable development since it guarantees the acquisition and entrenchment of technological skills, creative and entrepreneurial ingenuities for individuals? sustenance and national development. This is what Nigeria requires to resolve its domestic issues. Regrettably, Nigeria has not holistically embraced TVET in order to progress in this trajectory. Despite the enormous resources bestowed in its land, the country has been bedeviled by endemic corruption and bad governance that had fueled insecurity, moral decadence, ethno-religious bigotry, institutional failure, fraudulent practices, unpatriotic zealotry, and economic sabotage of all sorts among others. Suffice that, no nation develops by proxy or on the foundation built by another country, instead, on its own platform, prudently tailored to provide the needs of the society by optimization of local contents. This could be achieved when the leadership is purpose- driven, and ready to leverage on advanced economies to transform its own. Unfortunately, Nigerian leaders only cling to foreign oligarch, who milk their resources and lure them into unpopular policies that entrench hardship, truncated education system, miscarriage of justice and feeble economy. Consequently, virtually all the sectors of the nation?s economy have been crippled including TVET, which has been globally reckoned as the bedrock of technological advances. Against this backdrop, the paper unequivocally recounted the sordid state of the polity as orchestrated by the insensitivity and irresponsibility that characterize Nigerian leadership, underscored the place of TVET in national development as well as recommended plausible ways to entrench TVET in order to mitigate the apparent socio-political and economic uncertainty ravaging the nation.

Enhancing, Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Sustainable Development, Socio-Political, Economic Uncertainty,

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