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ABSTRACT
This study investigated the impact of skill acquisition programmes on the socio-economic empowerment of youths in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. Skill Acquisition is not a strange phenomenon today. Due to the insight of empowering youths and adults alike with useful skills to make them useful in their various localities, skill acquisition centres were opened and till today, it has been in use. It is observed that students don’t show too much interest to learning new things. They rather spend their time in things that is of no economic importance. Very few students partake in skill acquisition programmes in virtually all localities. Therefore, due to the expansiveness of the geographical area and time-consuming factor of area coverage, the researcher made a step forward to investigating the impact of skill acquisition programmes in the socio-economic empowerment of Egor Local Government Youths in Edo State.
The design adopted for this study was the descriptive survey research. It was considered suitable for the study since a structured questionnaire was used as the research instrument to seek for the opinion of people already marked out for this study. Furthermore, the data collected was collated and analyzed. The population of this study was a total number of some skill acquisition centres in Egor Local Government Area. The raw data collected from these centres after collation and analysis, were thoroughly checked for consistency and correctness. Data was analyzed by the use of simple percentages and frequency tables.
Based on the findings of this study, major recommendations revealed that the government should carry out public enlightenment programmes which would encourage the youths to know their needs for active participation in skills acquisition or vocational education programmes. Also, it was recommended that the government should establish skill acquisition centres in various communities across the federation and also equip it with various programmes to capture the learning needs of virtually all the members of that community, especially the youth population in order for them to participate.
