Abstract
The study was carried out to determine low end mobile phone maintenance competencies required for
youth empowerment at skill acquisition centres in Enugu State. Three research questions guided the
study while three null hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significance. A descriptive
research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study comprised all the 69 lecturers
of electrical/electronic technology in two government established universities and roadside cell phone
technicians. A structured questionnaire was used for collecting data from the respondents. The
instrument was validated by three experts; two in the Department of Industrial Technical Education,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka and one cell phone technician. Cronbach alpha reliability method was
employed to determine the internal consistency of the questionnaire item; a cronbach alpha coefficient
of 0.83 was obtained. Sixty nine copies of the instrument were administered while sixty five copies of
the instrument were retrieved and analyzed using mean to answer research questions while t-test was
used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found out that the 21
competencies were required for servicing low end mobile phone, 22 competencies for servicing low
end phones and 20 safety competencies were required for maintenance of low end mobile phones.
Recommendations include that all the low end mobile phone maintenance competencies should be
packaged and used to train youths at skill acquisition centres in Enugu State.
Keywords: low end mobile, empowerment, youths, maintenance, unemployment
Publication Date: 2018-12-06