INDIGO DYE SKILL ACQUISITION AND YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AMONG VOCATIONAL STUDENTS OF COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN SOUTH - WEST NIGERIA AS A SPRINGBOARD FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The youths in Nigerian society today, are experiencing serious unemployment problem and this has made them to be involved in all sorts of vices. These youths attend different tertiary institutions with the hope that qualifications obtained, would be like magic winds that would enable them secure employments. Generally, the reason for this mass unemployment is the global recession, which has made it almost impossible to access office jobs. Other reasons could be poverty caused by search for real wage that is commensurate with their expected life style, underground economy which encourages unofficial jobs such as drug peddling, robbery and kidnapping. However, indigo dye skill acquisition performs an important function in the effectiveness of acquiring the psychomotor skills and growth empowerment guidance for students in Colleges of Education in South-West Nigeria will be the springboard for sustainable economic development. Today in Nigeria, skill acquisition and youth empowerment are becoming the most viable and effective panacea for economic problems faced by the country. The implication being that every youth empowered will be self-reliant and in some cases become employer of labour. Education enhances lives, thus ends generational poverty and provides a sustainable groundwork for our nation's progress.