29,260 JSS 3 Students Write 2025 TVET Examination Nationwide, As NABTEB Supervises Exercise
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BENIN – No fewer than 29, 260 JSS 3 students on Saturday sat for the 2025 Technical and Vocational Education and Training, TVET, examination into Federal Technical Colleges across the country.
The astronomical increase in the students enrollment from the 7,547 in 2024 to 29, 260 this year, which is over 300%, according to findings, may not be unconnected with the incentives, recently introduced to the TVET programme by the federal government.
The examination which took place at designated centers nationwide, was supervised by the National Business and Technical Education Board (NABTEB).
NABTEB Registrar/CEO, Dr. Mohammed Aminu Mohammed, while speaking to newsmen at the Federal Science and Technical College Uromi, one of the two centers in Edo State, commended the federal government and the Federal Ministry of Education for the TVET initiative, which he said has brought attractiveness to Nigeria’s Technical Colleges.
Mohammed who was represented by Pius Osaigbovo, NABTEB Director of Research and Quality Assurance, said that the examination held seamless across centres nationwide.
He explained that there were no hitches adding that only candidates who registered online were allowed to write the examination, as the portal had been closed since June 12, 2025.
According to him, the high number of the students who took the examination this year could be as a result of the incentives recently introduced to the TVET by the federal government, as against the low turnout of students writing the technical school examination in previous years.
“The total candidates for this years examination is 29,260. Last year we had 7,547, you can see the leap, and this is as a result of the incentives the federal ministry of education has introduced into it.
“Federal government want to give individual a surviving skill, a skill that is relevant, a skill that makes them employers of labour and be useful to themselves and the society.
“At the end of the training, the candidates would be given dual certificate by NABTEB, the usual NTC/NBTC technical school and NSQ certificate, a skill-based on competency and this is the drive of the federal government.
“The drive of the federal government is that of a skill-based education. In the TVET, we are going to have three years programme and it is going to be 80 percent technical and 20 percent theory,” he added.
Mohammed however expressed optimism that Nigerians are beginning to embrace technical and vocational education going by the massive enrolment by students seeking placements in federal government science and technical colleges nationwide.
He also assured that with time, the TVET examination would go digital like UTME examinations, adding that this year’s enrollment was done online which was a step forward from the previous enrollments.
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