ITF distributes startup packs to 120 trained youths in Bauchi
Story from Ahmad SAKA, Bauchi
The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has distributed startup packs to 120 youths who had completed training in relevant trades to enable them to put their various skills acquired to immediate use as part of the Federal Government’s renewed efforts at reducing the poverty rate in Bauchi State.
Items were distributed to the beneficiaries who were trained in solar power installation, tiling, interlocking of blocks, hairdressing, plumbing, pipe fitting and aluminium fabrication.
The Director-General of ITF, Joseph Ari, who was represented by the area manager of Bauchi State, Alhaji Jibrin Loko, said: “The National Industrial Skills Development Programme (NISDP) is one of the numerous skills acquisition intervention programmes introduced and implemented by the fund to facilitate the achievement of the federal government’s policy on job and wealth creation. It focuses on skills acquisition to create jobs to stem rampant unemployment and breed a new generation of entrepreneurs, in order to transform the economic landscape of the country”.
“Since its inception, the NISDP has equipped over 500,000 Nigerians nationwide and 20,000 from Bauchi State with skills for employability and entrepreneurship. Given the intensity and the very practical nature of the training, the beneficiaries were equipped with the necessary skills and attitude for them to thrive as employees or entrepreneurs.”
According to the Director-General, the event is replicated across the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
He said: “The training which lasted for three months comprised of theoretical, practical, and entrepreneurial aspects.
“Many of the beneficiaries interviewed appreciated the effort of ITF in empowering them and assured of their commitment to putting the knowledge gained to better use”.
The State Governor, Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir, who was represented at the event by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Cooperatives, Alhaji Baba Waziri Hardawa commended ITF for complimenting the government on the successes recorded in trying to reduce poverty not just in the state but the country as a whole.
He said: “Countries in the world are equipping their citizens with relevant skills hence, what ITF is doing is in order and tasked the beneficiaries to make good use of the tools provided to improve their lot and train others too to be self-reliant”.
The Governor assured ITF of the government’s continued support and partnership for the success of all its laudable policies and programmes.
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