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The Economic Community of West African States, in partnership with a technology firm, Skill ‘G’ Nigeria Limited , says it will train no fewer than 12,000 pupils in the sub-region on technical education and science annually. According to a statement from ECOWAS , in order to achieve this target, the organisation held a two-day stakeholders’ meeting on education on Thursday and Friday in Abuja to draw out a road map. The theme of the meeting was, “Better harmonisation of the educational system of the region and the development of the human capital based on knowledge economy.” The Managing Director, Skill ‘G’ Limited , Dr Gregory Ibe , told journalists after the meeting that the firm would “design the strategies for ECOWAS technical and vocational education as well as skills improvement for employability in the region.” He said, “ ECOWAS decided to partner with us in the delivery of specialised vocational education in 15 member countries. We started this with the United Nati