Audit the TVET Gap in Rivers State and Pitch a Fix

Port Harcourt is one of Nigeria's wealthiest cities on paper, built on oil revenue, yet unemployment among young people aged 18 to 30 runs high. The city has a large informal economy in fabrication, welding, electrical installation, and logistics, sectors that require specific technical skills that secondary school does not provide and that formal TVET institutions in the state largely fail to deliver in current, employer-relevant form. The federal government has TVET policy frameworks on paper, and Rivers State has vocational schools. The gap is between what those schools teach and what employers in the oil services supply chain, the port, and the construction sector actually need. Nobody has mapped this clearly at a granular level. Your task is to conduct a mini audit using a combination of public data (National Bureau of Statistics, the Rivers State Ministry of Education budget documents, and any available TVET enrolment data) and at least three short interviews or surveys with either employers, TVET graduates, or youth in relevant trades. From this, produce a two-page audit summary identifying the single most significant gap, and a pitch deck of no more than ten slides addressed to the Rivers State Commissioner for Education. The pitch should propose one specific, costed intervention: not a system overhaul, but something that could be piloted in two or three schools within 18 months on a realistic state budget. Good work will be honest about what you could not find out and will make a specific recommendation, not a menu of options.