Industrial Training Fund, ITF, says it has trained 4,000 Nigerian youths in various skills i 2024.
The training was carried out in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Budgeting and Economic Planning under the ITF’s National Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, NERGP.
Director-general of ITF, Dr Afiz Oluwatoyin Ogun stated this in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, on Friday during the graduation ceremony of a fresh batch of graduates of the programme.
He noted that so far 100 youths in the state have participated and benefited in the three months technical and vocational training.
According to him, the beneficiaries underwent two months of intensive learning and one month of practicals/ hands on training.
“The ITF-NERGP programme is aimed at equipping our youths with the technical and vocational skills, knowledge and attitude, that will enable them become Self employed or employers of Labour.”
“The ITF-NERGP is aimed at up skilling and re-skilling our youths in different trades thereby addressing skills gap challenges in our dear Country,” he explained
Represented by the acting area manager, John Chukwuelue, Mr Ogun noted that the ITF-NERGP training covers the following trades: – furniture making, plumbing and pipe fitting, electrical installation and beauty care.
“All the participants were given Start-up- packs in accordance with the trade each learnt. The training was a huge success as most of the beneficiaries are able to demonstrate and practice what they have learnt without supervision,” he said.
Ogun further noted that the agency has over the years developed numerous skills intervention programmes aimed at tackling unemployment and poverty, promotion of entrepreneurship and the reduction of youth restiveness while also facilitating the diversification of the Nigerian economy in line with the Federal Government’s policy.
The DG encouraged the beneficiaries to make the most of the training that have acquired urging them to use the skills y learnt to build a successful career that.
