NASENI trains youths in shoemaking, tailoring in Osun

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has launched a skills acquisition programme on modern shoemaking and tailoring for youths in Ife, Osun State.

In a statement, the Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of NASENI, Mr Khalil Suleiman Halilu, represented by the Director of Manufacturing Services, Engineering Infrastructure Directorate, Engr Olayode Adesola Olasupo, said it would equip participants with hands-on experience in modern tailoring and shoemaking techniques.

He explained that NASENI had the mandate to nurture an appropriate and dynamic science and engineering infrastructure base for achieving home-initiated and home-sustained industrialisation for Nigeria.

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He said, “To achieve this mandate, critical skills development of personnel is required. It is in this direction that we embarked on development of NASENI Skills Acquisition Centres across Nigeria. I am delighted to inform you that this NASENI Skills Acquisition Centre, Ife Federal Constituency, where we are today, is the first of its kind in Osun State.”