ITF DG warns graduates against selling start-up kits
Graduates of the National Industrial Skills Development Programme have been warned not to sell off their start-up packs.
The Director General of the Industrial Training Fund, Afiz Oluwatoyin, gave the warning at the graduation and distribution of start-up packs to 190 beneficiaries of the NISD on Thursday in Abuja.
The event was in collaboration with the Nigerian Breweries Company.
The beneficiaries comprising of youths and women were empowered with skills in Solar Power Installation, POP and painting, amongst others.
Oluwatoyin, represented by the Director of the Technical and Vocational Skills Training Development Department James Abimbola, said the 2023 graduation is a transformative brainchild of the ITF that is implemented to fast-track the achievement of the Federal Government’s policy on job and wealth creation and tackling of unemployment and poverty in the country.
I hope to do this through the utilisation of modern technology and the enthronement of a new culture that will lead to the emergence of Nigeria as a country with the most skilled persons in Africa. In the next few weeks, we will unveil a comprehensive vision of what the ITF of the future will look like. In the interim, plans are in motion to fully execute all targets of the Fund as set by the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment especially as they relate to the National Artisan Registration and Development Programme.
He further stated that a steering committee has been inaugurated to develop the requisite framework to identify tools and facilities for skills upgrading of artisans and enforcement of artisans’ licensing and certification across the country.
