The Federal Government restated its commitment to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030, following the ongoing launch of its Project T-MAX initiative in seven states in the country.
Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Education Interventions, Fela Bank-Olemoh, stated this in Lagos.
He spoke when he paid a courtesy visit to the Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Folashade Adefisayo, to intimate her with the proposed training which would start from next month till the end of the year.
According to him, the Project T-MAX is a Technical and Vocational Education and Training programme, approved by the National Steering Committee on National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy.
Bank-Olemoh said that the key objective of the initiative was to deploy a transparent, functional and sustainable TVET framework that would equip 15,000 people across seven pilot states.
It is expected to equip them with technical and vocational skills, needed to be self- employed and reliant.
He listed Kaduna and Lagos as pilot states where the programme had been launched, noting that the team planned to be in Ogun on Wednesday and Nasarawa and other remaining states by next week.
