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A radio station, Voice of the People (VOP), 90.3 FM, Lagos, in partnership with Lagos Aviation and Maritime Business Academy, has offered scholarships to 500 Nigerians.
The scholarship is to train the recipients on health, safety, and environmental security, project management, logistics, cargo handling, ticketing and reservation, air hostess, export management, freight forwarding, ship chattering, and brokerage.
While announcing the scholarship, the Rector of the institution, Dr. Emeka Udowu, said the gesture was his own way of contributing to the manpower development in the country.
He said that the training was for three months, adding that prospective candidates must have five O’level credits, including English language and mathematics to quality.
In his contribution, the Dean of VOP Business School, Peter Anosike, said that the scholarship was in line with the VOP Business School’s philosophy of making Nigeria a skilled country.
According to him, the discussion is ongoing with some financial institutions that would assist the recipients with soft loans to start their own individual businesses after their training.
“There is no denying the obvious fact that our economy is in tatters and the main reason is that we are more of an academic rather than a skilled country. And in order to change the narrative, VOP Business School in partnership with other relevant organizations and agencies decided to embark on massive skill/vocational training. We don’t just want to train and leave them to roam the streets. Rather, we want to empower them with the entrepreneurial knowledge and finance to start and run their own businesses successfully,” Anosike said.
