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Abstract:
Lack of job opportunity is common amongst youth in Nigeria. Most youth lack even the pre-requisite skills in any engineering field such as automobile, building, electrical, metal (mechanical) and woodwork, etc. Meanwhile, the globe is dynamic and the need for self-reliance is almost obvious. It is based on this that the paper shall focus on the need for competency in metal work technology in Nigerian technical colleges. Technical education, being a functional and sound education plays a vital role in integrating sustainable development and in finding possible panacea for job opportunities. Metal work, being the embodiment of all engineering fields, has to be emphasized on practical skills acquisition. That is metal work practical skills, if fully acquired, will definitely limit (in a large quantity) the number of idle and unemployed youths in the world who may be vulnerable to crimes and social vices due to unemployment. Tools, equipment and machines could be relevantly used in construction such as; funnel, scoop, adjustable metallic drawing table stand, spanner, hand trowel, screw driver, hammer, rip saw, decorative aluminum pointed arrow, cooking pot, drilling, boring, taper turning, facing, knurling, cut threads (internal and external) etc.

Keywords: need, competency, metal work, technology and technical.

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