The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) entrance examinations have recorded a significant surge in enrollment, with 30,000 candidates participating in 2025, up from 7,547 in 2024.
This represents a 300% increase in enrollment, attributed to the incentives recently introduced by the federal government to boost TVET.
Dr Mohammed Mohammed, Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) disclosed this, while monitoring the examination at Federal Science and Technical College (FSTC), Uromi, in Edo.
Mohammed, who was represented by NABTEB Director of Research and Quality Assurance, Mr Pius Osaigbovo, attributed the 300 per cent surge in the examination enrolment to the incentives recently introduced to the TVET by the federal government,
The Federal Government is offering several incentives to boost TVET, including a monthly stipend of N30,000 for technical college students, free tuition, accommodation, and feeding in some cases.
The government is also providing startup grants and access to business loans to encourage entrepreneurship among TVET graduates.
“Federal government wants to give individuals a survival 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 certificates by NABTEB; the usual National Technical or Business Certificate (NTC/NBC) and the National Skills Qualification (NSQ), which is competency-based.
“The drive of the federal government is that of a skill-based education.
“In the TVET, we are going to have a three year programme and it is going to be 80 per cent technical and 20 percent theory,” Mohammed said.
He expressed the satisfaction that Nigerians were beginning to embrace technical and vocational education going by the massive enrolment by students seeking placements nationwide.
Mohammed, said the examination was seamless and hitch-free adding that, only candidates who completed their registration online before the portal closed on June 12, were allowed to sit for the examinations
