The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has said that it was ready to key into the present administration’s effort to diversify the economy through job creation.
The Director-General of the fund, Joseph Ari, disclosed this in Abuja at an interactive forum organised for stakeholders in the power sector and said that there was the need for stakeholders in the power sector to collaborate with the agency in order to build the required pool of indigenous resource to drive investment in the sector.
He said that the agency had received directives from the Federal Government to deliver on its mandate this year.
Ari disclosed that the directive was handed to them through the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
The DG reminded employers of labour on the need to contribute one per/cent of their employees’ payroll to the Fund as required by the law for its effective operations.
Earlier, the agency’s Deputy Director/Area Manager, Alhaji Usman Sani said that the fund had started various initiatives geared towards enhancement of industrial skills, vocational training and youth empowerment.