ITF empowers 200 youths in Kaduna

From:Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has empowered two thousand youths with skills in 11 areas including cyber security, electrical, and solar installations.
Others are tailoring, carpentry, web design, leather work, welding and fabrication design, and photography.
The Area Manager of Industrial Training Fund, ITF Kaduna Area Office, Engineer Garba Hassan stated this at the closing ceremony of
T-Max programme held in Kaduna.
Engineer Garba Hassan announced that the Federal Government had approved the implementation of project T- Max, a Technical and Vocational Education and Training Programme to train fifteen thousand Nigerians in some states in the country.
He said the program T-Max commenced in the last of 2022 and trained several Nigerian youths in different trade areas and it lasted for only six months.
“ Our commitment to skills acquisition remains the only solution to rising unemployment and poverty that have continued to defy the best efforts of governmental and non-governmental approaches. There are countless reasons for us to worry as the government is vested with the arduous task of equipping Nigerians with the skills for employability and entrepreneurship”. He said.
The Engineer Garba Hassan appealed to other state governments, the organized private sector, non-governmental organizations, and politicians to collaborate with the ITF in the area of training for various skills programmes or buying start-up packs for beneficiaries of the programme.
He commended Kaduna State Government for understanding Mallam Uba Sani for contributing immensely to the training programme and for his readiness to partner with ITF.
In his address, the Director General of ITF Dr. Afiz Oluwatoyin Ogun explained that the training was done in seven states including Lagos, Enugu, Gombe, Edo, Nasarawa, Ogun, and Kaduna.