The Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Zulum has expressed the readiness of his governments to partner with the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) to empower the youths of the state with requisite vocational skills for self-reliance and sustainability.
According to a statement signed by the Director Public Affairs of ITF, Mrs Suleyol Chagu, Governor Zulum indicated the interest of his state to partner with ITF when he visited the Fund Model Skills Training Centre (MSTC) in Abuja on Wednesday.
Prof. Zulum said his visit and tour of the facilities at the Model Skills Training Centre was to enable the Government to understudy the system and deploy the same in the state.
Zulum who was impressed by the state-of-the-art equipment at the centre said Borno State would partner the ITF in Electrical Installations, Mechatronics, Plumbing, and Culinary services as well as to adapt the Training Centre’s model for the skills acquisition centres already established in Borno State.
In his remarks, the Director-General of ITF, Mr Joseph N. Ari, who was represented by the Director, Technical Vocational Skills Training Department of the ITF, Mrs Lami Dakwak, said the visit by Prof. Zulum was a welcome development as the ITF had always sought such high-level partnerships to equip the teeming unemployed youths in Nigeria with requisite skills.
He assured the governor that with the Fund’s wealth of experience and modern equipment, it has the capacity to assist the Borno State Government in ameliorating insecurity, poverty and youth unemployment in the state.
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