From Ahmad Muhammad, Bauchi
The Industrial Training Fund, ITF, has distributed startup packs to 120 youths who had completed training in relevant trades to enable them put their various skills acquired to immediate use.
The ITF empowered the trained youths as part of the federal government renewed efforts at reducing the poverty rate in Bauchi State.
Items distributed as implements to the beneficiaries who were trained in solar Power installation, Tiling , Interlocking of blocks, and Hairdressing as well as plumbing and pipe fitting and aluminum fabrication.
The Director-General of ITF, Joseph Ari who was represented by the area manager Bauchi State Alhaji Jibrin Loko disclosed that, “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 and 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.”
He said that “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 form them to thrive as employees or entrepreneurs.”
Director General said the event that we are witnessing today is replicated across the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory .
Ari said this Phase of the training in the last quarter of 2022 trained several Nigerian youths.
“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 put the knowledge gained to better use.
The State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir who was represented at the event by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of cooperatives Alhaji Baba Waziri Hardawa commended ITF for complimenting government on the successes recorded in trying to reduce poverty not just in the State but the country as a whole.
