FCTA Scales Up Secondary School Entrepreneurship Development Drive

By: Wisdom Acka

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has stepped up efforts at students entrepreneurship development for Secondary Schools in the Territory.

Director, FCT Secondary Education Board, Dr. Mohammed Ladan, who disclosed this Friday, during the 4th edition of the FCT-SEB Students Trade and Entrepreneurship Exhibition, Competition and Award Programme, said that it is aimed at tackling the growing rates of unemployment in the country.

Ladan noted that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, was committed to empowering Secondary Schools within the Territory with relevant entrepreneurial skills for self-sufficiency.

According to him, the hunt for young minds with inherent entrepreneurial abilities at Secondary School levels would be stained.

The Director disclosed that the students, drawn from 88 Secondary Schools in the FCT, were groomed and mentored to produce various goods that could be improved upon for contribution to Nigeria’s GDP.

His words: “This competition involves all the 88 schools that belong to the Secondary Education Board. All of them participated. We did the zonal elimination, we did the Area Council elimination, and we are now at the Grand Finale.”

“Out of the 12 schools that participated in the finals, five will emerge as the winners. The five schools that will emerge as winners: What plans do you have to further develop the students and ensure that what they’ve produced doesn’t end here,” he added.

Also speaking at the event, the Acting Director, Department of Reform Coordination and Service Improvement, Dr. Jumai Ahmadu, noted that developing entrepreneurship at Secondary School level required collaboration.

Abuja Digest reports that the three-day intensive competitive programme saw twelve Secondary Schools to the finals, as five of the twelve were picked for award recognitions, including Government Secondary School, Airport Road that came fifth with fifty seven percent points.

Abuja Digest further reports that Government Secondary School, Orozo, came forth, with fifty eight percent; Government Girls Secondary School, Dutse-Alhaji placed third with 64, while Government Secondary School, Gwagwalada, which got 84 percent clinched 2nd position, the over all winner of the competition, Government Secondary School, Kuduru, Bwari, clinched the pot position with 90 percent.