29,260 students sit NABTEB’s 2025 TVET examination

By Jethro Ibileke

A total of 29, 260 JSS 3 students on Saturday sat  the 2025 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) examination into Federal Technical Colleges.

The examination which took place at designated centres across the country, was conducted by the National Business and Technical Education Board (NABTEB).

Speaking at the Federal Science and Technical College Uromi, one of the two centres in Edo State, NABTEB’s Registrar/CEO, Dr. Mohammed Aminu Mohammed, commended the federal government and the Federal Ministry of Education for the TVET initiative, which he said has brought attractiveness to Nigeria’s Technical Colleges.

Mohammed who was represented by NABTEB’s Director of Research and Quality Assurance, Pius Osaigbovo, said that the examination held seamless across centres nationwide.

He explained that there were no hitches adding that only candidates who registered online were allowed to sit the examination, as the portal had been closed since June 12, 2025.

He attributed the high number of the students who took the examination to the incentives recently introduced to the TVET by the federal government, as against the low turnout of students writing the technical school examination in previous years.

He said: “The total candidates for this years examination is 29,260. Last year we have 7,547, you can see the leap, because of the incentives the federal ministry of education has introduced into it.

“Federal government want to give individual a surviving skill, a skill that is relevant, a skill that makes them employers of labour and be useful to themselves and the society.

“At the end of the training, the candidates would be given dual certificate by NABTEB, the usual NTC/NBTC technical school and NSQ certificate, a skill-based on competency and this is the drive of the federal government.

“The drive of the federal government is that of a skill-based education. In the TVET, we are going to have three years programme and it is going to be 80 percent technical and 20 percent theory,” he added.

Mohammed expressed optimism that Nigerians are beginning to embrace technical and vocational education going by the massive enrolment by students seeking placements in federal government science and technical colleges nationwide.