Vice President Kashim Shettima has flagged off a nationwide community empowerment programme in science, technology, skills acquisition, and renewable energy for youths and women, a programme championed by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) in Kano State.
The programme, which will commence on July 27, 2026, will see over 160 participants trained in solar installation and maintenance, mobile phone hardware repairs, electrical appliances and electronics repairs and maintenance across the six geopolitical zones of the country.
Shettima, represented by the Personal Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Subnational Infrastructure, Office of the Vice President, Musaddiq Mustapha Adamu, praised NASENI for implementing one of the key priority areas of the Renewed Hope Agenda, which focuses on job creation and equipping Nigerians with entrepreneurial skills.
He said: “Today, NASENI is opening one of those doors. And I want you—every young person in this room—to walk through it with everything you have. To the young men and women here today, learn and apply what you’ve learnt. The government is not doing you a favour. It is making an investment in you because it believes the return is worth it. Do not prove that belief wrong.”
