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Academy set to train 100,000 graduates in Real Estate economy
By Oluwatope Lawanson
A Real Estate firm, Gtex Homes, on Tuesday said it was ready to lift no fewer than 100,000 graduates from the job market over a space of five years through its `Gtex Academy’.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Gtex Homes, Dr Stephen Akintayo, made the disclosure at the launch of the second batch of the Academy’s enrollees held at its office Gtex Homes, Babatunde Ladega, Omole Phase 11, Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gtex Homes is a subsidiary of Gtex Global, a conglomerate of Real Estate investment with offices United Arab Emirates (UAE), U.S., and U.K.
Akintayo said that the Real Estate Academy was a child of circumstance to help lift some Nigerians out of poverty through re-training and positioning them to contribute to the economy.
The Real Estate guru, while lamenting the rate of unemployment and how some of the available graduates were unemployable, said that the tide could be changed by giving adequate training.
“We need to give our graduates the necessary trainings that will position them to be either self-employed or meet the expectations of the modern day job market.
“Nigeria is in a complex situation where we are having hybrid challenges. We are having graduates coming out of the universities that are not actually well prepared for the emerging labour market demands.
“Aside this, we are not having enough jobs as well, we know that no society can grow with low productivity, but also some curriculum operated by higher institutions has not helped in solving the current problems.
“Those curriculum are not in tandem with the real life issues we need to solve as a nation, so our graduates will need to go through another process of unlearning what they have learned,” Akintayo said.
Akintayo, a Robert Schumann Prize of the City awardee, stated that it was time for all hands to be on deck to put a check on all the indices of insecurity of which unemployment had taken a larger percentage.
“Real Sector is one of the fastest growing economy and not the oil.
“In fact, the first sector to come out of recession according to the statistics provided by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is the real sector.
“The value chain in the real sector is much than any other, from civil to mechanical, to florists to architecture, surveying, artisans which are many, cabinet makers, and other jobs related to construction.
“Going through all these abundant opportunities in real sector, we need to take it seriously and make sure that the job opportunities that abound in this sector are fully accessed to reduce unemployment in Nigeria.
“The spate of insecurity we know is as a result of unemployment, so, we at the academy want to look at ways that we can mitigate this through trainings of our young ones to rightly put them on track, ”Akintayo said.
Akintayo revealed that his organisation, Gtex Academy, would seek to empower no fewer than 100, 000 people in the space of five years and better position them for income earners.
“We have a five-year plan to train about 100,000 people in real sector through virtual and physical classes, we already had the first batch which comprises of students even all way from Dubai on virtual class.
“The second phase of the training in the academy will have the virtual class starting as from Friday Aug. 27 to Sept. 10, 2021.
“The procedure on how to go about this is already on the company’s website: www.gtexjobs.com
“The physical class will take place later from Sept. 13 to Oct. 11, 2021 in our academy.
“For those who want to enjoy the academy’s scholarship, they can also log on to our website, www,gtexhomes.com and follow the instructions, ” he said.
NAN reports that a beneficiary of Gtex Homes Corporate Social Responsibility CSR project, Faith Adebisi, was presented with a cheque of one million naira as an outstanding student at the ceremony. (NAN)