{"id":173520,"date":"2025-08-11T21:59:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:12:03","slug":"nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres","title":{"rendered":"NBTE accredits Adamawa skills centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, has formally approved the Adamawa State Technical Training Skills Centres to offer the National Certificate in Technology, NCT.<\/p>\n<p>The approval means that holders of certificates from the centres will be recognised by employers anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Adamawa State\u2019s Poverty Alleviation and Wealth Creation Agency, PAWECA, which manages the centres, disclosed this on Monday, announcing plans for the centres to resume academic activities soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General of PAWECA, Dr Michael Zira, told newsmen during a briefing in Yola that the 10 technical skills centres spread across Adamawa\u2019s three senatorial zones would now be required to deliver technical skills strictly in accordance with NBTE standards.<\/p>\n<p>Zira urged candidates who sat the entrance examination for the centres two months ago to check their names on the admission lists posted at the respective local government secretariats.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the state government is determined to make Adamawa a business hub, moving away from its current status as a civil servant state, through youth empowerment enabled by skills acquired from the technical training centres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, has formally approved the Adamawa State Technical Training Skills Centres to offer the National Certificate in Technology, NCT. The approval means that holders of certificates from the centres will be recognised by employers anywhere in the world. Adamawa State\u2019s Poverty Alleviation and Wealth Creation Agency, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1092,14160,254],"class_list":["post-173520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adamawa","tag-nbte","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NBTE accredits Adamawa skills centres - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, has formally approved the Adamawa State Technical Training Skills Cent ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NBTE accredits Adamawa skills centres\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, has formally approved the Adamawa State Technical Training Skills Cent ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-11T20:59:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-11T22:12:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754937880.006675.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1047\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1107\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NBTE accredits Adamawa skills centres\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-11T20:59:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-11T22:12:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres\"},\"wordCount\":195,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754937880.006675.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adamawa\",\"NBTE\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nbte-accredits-adamawa-skills-centres\",\"name\":\"NBTE accredits Adamawa skills centres - 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