Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Youth Empowerment in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects

technical and vocational education and training are geared towards preparing the youth for the world of work through the aquisition of scientific techniques and skills needed in the labour market. The current high rate of worldwide especially among the youth has made it imperative for governments all over the world to rethink their policies and strategies for the creation of the necessary macro-economic environment that would promote mass employment the army of unemployed youth feel totally disconnected from the society and there constituting themselves in social menace to the larger society which helped to create the problems that have denied the youth from participation in the economic prosperity while it lasted. In this regard, in Africa, for instance, the AU has identified TVTET as a veritable instrummat for the tackling unemployment in agriculture, mining and other sector of the economy. However, the implementation of TVET system in Africa has been very defective as the sector is bedeviled by so many challenges and problems such as inadequate funding, obsolete and disfunctional equipment, ill-trained and incompetent intructors and teachers, poor remuneration for instructors and teachers, poor regulation and