The Director-General and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Sir Joseph Ari have disclosed that in the face of soaring unemployment and the growing numbers of the poor, nations all over the world have resorted to skill acquisition as a tool of equipping their citizenry for competitive skills, entrepreneurship, and employability.
Ari stated this while speaking to newsmen in Jos on his five years of being on the saddle of affairs of the fund.
He argued that there is an urgent need to address unemployment through the acquisition of skills adding that the acquisition of skills takes centre stage if the issue of addressing to the bearer minimum the unfortunate saga of unemployment in our country.
According to him, it is for these reasons that the ITF sees skills acquisition as the universal currency of the 21st century and the most sustainable vehicle for job creation as well as poverty reduction.
“The reason is simple the over 36 intervention programs we have introduced, we have discovered that one intervention programs give birth to both direct and indirect jobs and place alongside the near in possibility of getting a paid employment, skill acquisition became a ready answer to the absent of white-collar jobs.”
The DG further added that the reason is simple, you provide skill to a person, he set up his own, he became an employer of labour and continued to add value to the economy, and not only that they stand on their own, but they also became the greatest employer of the MSE sector and so on.
Ari also noted that unemployment has raised astronomically adding that all hands must be on deck among the agencies of Government both the private and public sector to come together to tackled this menace in the country.
He disclosed that there are so many other support services and stimuli that the Federal Government has brought in to boost the economy stressing that every one of them centres on the provision of skills and that is why the ITF vision was refocused.
He added that skills acquisition is the enabler that will give rise to another enabler to make industrial revolution plans succeed therefore ITF has initiated several skills acquisition programs and through those programs, they were able to equipped and empowered Hundredths of Thousands of Nigerians in the last five years with the requisite skills for employability, entrepreneurship for sustenance.
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