The Industrial Training Fund(ITF),has emphasized the need to deepen skills acquisition,saying it was the only sustainable avenue to end the rising unemployment in the country.
Director General of the agency,Sir Joseph Ari,disclosed in Abuja at the graduation ceremony and distribution of start-up packs to beneficiaries of the 2020 National Industrial Skills Development Programme (NISDP), which was conducted by the ITF
“Speaking as the Chief Executive of an agency responsible for skills acquisition, we had realised quite early that the only sustainable solution to reducing unemployment and poverty was skills acquisition.
“We reckoned that until we tow this path, even our population that should ordinarily be an asset will become a liability and we, as a nation, will continue to fight a losing battle against the blights of poverty and unemployment and their attendant consequences due to perilous intersection and nexus between poverty and crime rate.”
He said the Federal Government alone cannot completely solve the problems of poverty and unemployment plaguing the country.
He noted that in spite of Federal Government’s interventions aimed at stemming the tide of unemployment and poverty, more efforts and synergy were required to lift Nigerians out of poverty and unemployment.
Speaking on the efforts of ITF to address unemployment in the country, he explained that under the NISDP, thousands of Nigerian youths were trained nationwide in three trades namely tailoring, cosmetology and information and communication technology.
He said thousands of other youths were equally trained in other skills acquisition programmes including the Special Skills Development Programme (SSDP), the Federal Government Skills Empowerment Programme (FEGOSEP), the Info-Tech Skills Empowerment Programme (ISEP) and, the Agri-Preneurship Training Programme (ATP),amongst others.
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