The age-long Igbo apprenticeship scheme has had its ups and downs. Without a doubt, one of the demerits includes its ability to make school dropouts of male students in the South East. They are either forced by their parents to get apprenticed to merchants or are lured into the business world in their search for greener pastures. Due to the vicissitude of fortunes, some survive the tutelage and end up as success stories, while others end up being exploited, defamed or frustrated by their masters. Ultimately, a good number of them end up being uneducated. Its massive capacity to bolster entrepreneurial development notwithstanding, FELICITAS OFFORJAMAH reports that the steadily rising number of male school dropouts in the zone is becoming worrisome, just as the need to rejig the traditional scheme and make it fair and just for all involved.
Ndubuisi Okeke, 15, at the insistence of his…
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