TVET and Nigeria’s Digital Economy

Abstract

The article reviews TVET and Digital economy in Nigeria with focus on how TVET has fared in countries such as USA, Germany, Japan, Singapore, United States of America. Additionally. the article adopted the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Theory of Planned Behaviour to dissect the topic in an attempt to discuss the Digital Economy and TVET. The study established that the major challenges to include; lack of adequate manpower, teaching and learning infrastructure driven by ICT, Nigeria’s digital economy project may suffer slow actualisation because of the limited ICT infrastructure and manpower to realise same, various sectors of the Nigerian economy especially, the financial sector have embraced ICT in providing services to citizens, though the quality of these services could be improved, amongst other. The also proffered recommendations which include; Federal Government of Nigeria should increase the funding for TVET institutions, the Federal Government of Nigeria should collaborate with German Government or Singaporean Government to identify, adopt and domesticate TVET policies of these countries into the Nigerian TVET system, the Federal Civil Service of Nigeria should upskill civil servants, for a seamless adoption and implementation of the Nigeria’s Digital Economy amongst others.