The Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Uchechukwu Ogah has said that Nigeria does not need “grammar schools” again.
He explained that what the country needed for rapid growth and development was skill acquisition institutions. He stated this during a visit to the Metallurgical Training Institute, Onitsha, Anambra State.
Ogah, who described the institute as critical for national growth and development, said the Federal Government had concluded arrangements to regularise the legal framework for the effective operation of the institute.
He maintained that the ministry of mines and steel development would optimise its focus on the institution to enable it achieve the goal it had set, which is imparting skills.
The institute’s Acting Director, Biakolo Alisigwe thanked the Minister for visiting, describing the minister’s presence as a morale booster and an open testimony of his zeal to take the institute to a greeter height.