'NISDP has trained 2,500 Kwara indigenes'

Date: 2017-10-05

The Director-General/Chief Executive, Industrial Training Fund, Mr. Joseph Ari, has said the agency has trained over 100,000 Nigerians in over 30 trades and crafts since the inauguration of its National Industrial Skills Development Programme.

He stated that additional 11,100 Nigerians would be trained under the programme.

According to him, the NISDP has trained 2,500 Kwara State indigenes since its inception.

He added that the programme would also equip 300 youths, aged between 18 and 35 years, with skills in wielding, metal fabrication, tailoring and fashion designing, plumbing and pipe fitting.

Ari, who was represented by the Area Manager, ITF, Ilorin Area Office, Mr. Ogbonna Simon, spoke during the commencement of the 2017 NISDP in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

He said the selected trades and crafts were chosen based on an in-depth study that revealed their projected value addition to the beneficiaries, and their potential to provide sustainable means of livelihood for the trainees upon graduation.

The DG said up to 90 per cent of the beneficiaries of the programme had sustainable means of livelihoods, either as paid workers, or as entrepreneurs.

Ari stated, “Encouraged by these successes, the roll-out today in all states is the first indication that the Fund has expanded the programme so that more Nigerians will benefit.

“In future, the Fund intends to run several streams within a phase. The expansion is premised on our belief that skills acquisition is the way to go if the country will create jobs and diversify the economy as envisioned by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.”

The DG said the most sustainable solution to combating unemployment, reducing poverty, achieving growth and realising the government’s goals, including economic diversification, job creation and wealth generation rested on the ITF’s ability as an institution and government at all levels to equip as many Nigerians as possible, with technical and vocational skills for employment and entrepreneurship.

Simon, in his speech, urged the beneficiaries to shun all vices capable of undermining the noble objectives of the programme, and advised them to join hands in building synergy for the greatness of Nigeria.

The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, represented by his Senior Special Assistant on Youths Empowerment, Mr. Babatunde Saka, noted that skill acquisition and employment generation were essential for national development.

He reiterated the commitment of his administration to job creation and youth empowerment.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Shuaib Abdulkadir     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Muazam Nayaya     Ladi Hassan     Share     Pakata Patriots     Third Estate     Jebba     Park     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     SAPZ Project     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Bolaji Nagode     Femi Agbaje     Ashiru     Michael Nzekwe     Durosinlohun Kawu     Isiaq Khadeejah     Quranic Recitation Competition     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Chief Imam Of Offa     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Titus Ashaolu     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Modibbo Kawu     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     John Olajide Adedipe     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     IEDPU     Baboko     Atiku Abubakar     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Gambari     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Transition Implementation Committee     Nigerian Medical Association     Muhammed Danjuma     Danladi     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Kulende     Segun Olawoyin     Timothy Akangbe     Ilorin East     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     GGDSS Pakata     Lawal Jimoh     Sherif Shagaya     Umar Ahmed Gunu     NaAllah     Emir Of Shonga     Haliru Yahaya     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Okin High School     Bola Tinubu     Kola Ologbondiyan     RTEAN     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Shururat Olatinwo     Balogun Ajikobi     Agbarere     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Tosin Saraki     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     NFAI     Ishola Balogun Fulani     Saba Mamman Daniel     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Shettima     Playing Host     Rabiu Kwankwaso    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Firdaos Amasa     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Mohammed Haruna     Ramadan     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Dauda Adesola     Lateef Alagbonsi     ASMAU PLAZA     Wole Oke     Apaokagi     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Olaitan Buraimoh     Amina El-Imam     Lola Olabayo     Sunday Popo-Ola     Sidikat Akaje     Guber Aspirant     Isapa     Irepodun     PharmAccess Foundation     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Lai Gobir     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Ilorin Curfew     Hassan A. Saliu     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Olupako     Folorunsho Alao     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Waheed Ibrahim     SGBN     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Salami Adekunle     Atiku     Kwara State Football Association     Hassan Oyeleke     Omu Aran     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Ayegbeni     Iyabo Adewuyi     CLAY POT     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Belgore     Plat Technologies     Olawuyi     Tsaragi     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     IESA     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Muritala Olarewaju     Igbomina     GRA     Magaji Are     Sheikh Ariyibi     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Sadiq Umar     Salary     Emir Of Ilorin     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Ijagbo     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     NULGE     Moronfoye     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Aisha Buhari     JAAC     Michael Nzekwe     Elerinjare-Ibobo     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Lawan     Samari     Special Agro-Industrial Hub