ITF Partners Ministry To Train 23,000 Youth

The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development and the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) have signed an agreement to train Nigerian Youth in various vocations.

AllNews reports that this agreement was secured following the working visit of the Youth and Sports Minister, Sunday Dare on Monday to the ITF Headquarters in Jos, the Plateau State capital.

The training would provide opportunities for Nigerian youth to become self-employed, authorities say.

According to the ITF Director-General, Joe Ari,  23,000 youth would benefit from different vocational skills from the partnership with the Ministry. 

The DG of ITF reiterated the need for Nigeria’s youth to be well trained in varied areas of vocational skills, to enable them to become gainfully employed as well as become fledgling entrepreneurs in the Nigerian economy.

The Minister informed the DG  that the Ministry was pursuing training for the Nigerian youth in different sectors such as Digital Skills Training, Vocational Skills Training, Technical Skills training as well as Autotronics training, in line with the ITF’s mandate as the foremost training organization in Nigeria.

While introducing the DEEL (Digital Skills, Entrepreneurship, Employability, Leadership & Mentoring) programme of the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development (FMYSD), the Minister said he was looking forward to partnering with the ITF to train a minimum of 20,000 youth in year 2021.

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Following months of deliberations, FMYSD and ITF signed an MOU to train 23,000 youth in 21 vocational skills areas across the 36 States of Nigeria and FCT.

The scheme is expected to train Nigerian youths in the Youth Skills and Entrepreneurship Programme (Y-SEP). 

It will commence in a few weeks time, AllNews understands.