29,260 seat for NABTEB’s TVET examination in federal technical colleges

By Jethro Ibileke 

 

A total of 29,260 JSS 3 students on Saturday sat for the 2025 Technical and Vocational Education and Training examination into Federal Technical Colleges.

The examination, which took place at designated centers across the country, was conducted by the National Business and Technical Education Board (NABTEB).

Speaking at the Federal Science and Technical College, Uromi, one of the two centers in Edo State, NABTEB’s Registrar/CEO, Dr. Mohammed Aminu Mohammed, commended the federal government and the Federal Ministry of Education for the TVET initiative, which he said has brought attractiveness to Nigeria’s Technical Colleges.

Mohammed, who was represented by NABTEB’s Director of Research and Quality Assurance, Pius Osaigbovo, said that the examination was held seamlessly across centres nationwide.

He explained that no hitches were, adding that only candidates who registered online were allowed to write the examination, as the portal had been closed since June 12, 2025.

He attributed the high number of students who took the examination to the incentives recently introduced to the TVET by the federal government, as against the low turnout of students writing the technical school examination in previous years.

He said: “The total candidates for this year’s examination is 29,260. Last year we had 7,547, you can see the leap, because of the incentives the federal ministry of education has introduced into it.

The federal government wants to give individuals survival skills, relevant skills, skills that make them employers of labour and useful to themselves and society.

“At the end of the training, the candidates would be given a dual certificate by NABTEB, the usual NTC/NBTC technical school, and NSQ certificate, a skill-based on competency, and this is the drive of the federal government.

“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 percent technical and 20 percent theory,” he added.

Mohammed expressed optimism that Nigerians are beginning to embrace technical and vocational education, going by the massive enrollment of students seeking placements in federal government science and technical colleges nationwide.