FCTA intensives entrepreneurship dev’t drive for students

The Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCTA) has intensified its drive for students entrepreneurship development in secondary schools across the Territory.
FCTA noted that the initiative has become very necessary considering the growing rate of unemployment among the teeming youth.
Director, FCT Secondary Education Board, Dr. Mohammed Ladan who disclosed this during the 4th edition of the FCT-SEB Students Trade and Entrepreneurship Exhibition, Competition and Award Programme, organized in collaboration with the FCTA Department of Reform Coordination and Service Improvement.
Ladan revealed that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike had expressed interest in empowering secondary schools within the territory, to acquire relevant entrepreneurial skills that will make students self reliant.
According to him, the hunt for young minds with entrepreneurial innate ability at secondary school levels has become an annual event that will be sustained.
He also disclosed that the students drawn from 88 secondary schools across the territory, are groomed and also mentored to produce various goods that can be further improved on to contribute to the country’s GDP.
“This competition involves all the 88 schools that belongs 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 what they’ve produced doesn’t end here”, he stressed
In her speech, the Acting Director, Department of Reform Coordination and Service Improvement, Dr. Jumai Ahmadu, reiterated that developing entrepreneurship at secondary school levels requires collaboration.
Ahmadu, who was represented by Assistant director in the Department, Kate Allison noted that, “ this collaboration is a good initiative that will help promote entrepreneurship in the FCT Schools curriculum as a policy for young minds for the future of our capital and Nigeria at large.
She said: “ The aim of this project is to showcase some of the achievements that our student have been able to make in the field of entrepreneurship in the course of the year. So we’ve been doing this, it’s a yearly program, and this is the fourth edition.”
It was observed that the three days intensive competitive programme saw twelve secondary schools to the finals, as five of the twelve were picked for award recognition, among the schools recognized include Government Secondary School, Airport road that came fifth with fifty seven percent points.
Also, Government Secondary School Orozo, came forth, with fifty eight percent, the third position with 64 percent went to Government Girls Secondary School, Dutse Alhaji, while Government Secondary School, Gwagwalada with 84 percent clinched 2nd position. The Government Secondary School Kuduru Bwari got 90% to emerge the winner.