From Umar Dankano Yola
The Industrial Training Fund, ITF has graduated three hundred youths from an intensive skills acquisition training on various entrepreneurship fields.
Those beneficiaries were trained for three months in tailoring-fashion design, wielding and fabrication, plumbing and pipe fitting.
Delivering his speech at the graduation ceremony held at the Banquet Hall of Government House Yola Friday, Director General of the organisation (ITF) represented by the coordinator in charge of Adamawa and Taraba states,Alhaji Ishaq Shehu said the training is part of the Federal government programs to address poverty in the country.
Shehu stated that aim of the program was to also ensure job and wealth creation among unemployed youths in our societies.
“This programme is the result of the committed efforts of the ITF in line with the Federal Government’s policy of job/wealth creation and poverty reduction.
“By equipping as many Youths as possible with Skills for employability and entrepreneurship” Shehu said.
According to him, ITF has Commenced implementation of the NISDP and steps further from merely training to equipping the Youths with knowledge, skills and providing them with start-up packs to enable them set up their businesses.
He said that the programme would benefit over 11,000 trainees across the 36 States.
Earlier in his address, Governor Muhammad Umaru Jibrilla said his administration has targeted over 100,000 unemployed Youths to be trained in various Skills acquisition programmes Jibrilla noted that one of the cardinal objectives of his administration was empowering Women and Youths for sustainable development.
“We are targeting at 100,000 unemployed Youths across the state who Will be trained in different Skills acquisition.” Jibrilla said.
The governor thanked the Federal government for the training intervention adding that doors are open for any meaningful collaboration.
Our correspondent reported that the venue of the graduation ceremony was filled with display of some of the products produced by the graduating students.
