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Tackling Poverty, Unemployment the ITF Way

The Industrial Training Fund has taken it upon itself to de-escalate the surging poverty and unemployment rate in the country by consistently providing skills acquisition to equip the teeming unemployed Nigerians to stand on their feet. Seriki Adinoyi writes The World Bank recently gave Nigeria a worrisome rating on poverty index, disclosing that in the year 2020 alone, seven million Nigerians were pushed below the poverty line. Expectedly, this has generated reactions from many quarters, most of which were devoted to blaming the government as the cause of the current surging inflation and general hardship in the country. But as usual, not so many proffered any solution to the damning report.

ITF tackles unemployment, empowers 11,100 youths

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 21 May 2021 The Director General of the Industrial Training Fund, Joseph Ari, on Thursday said the organisation has empowered 11,100 youths with technical skills through the 2020 National Industry Skills Development Programme. He said the aim of the programme was to tackle unemployment and poverty in the country. Ari spoke at the graduation of the programme’s trainees in Abuja. He said, “The 2020 National Industrial Skills Development Programme which was conducted by the Industrial Training Fund amidst the COVID-19 pandemic was part of our efforts to provide Nigerians with technical skills for job and wealth creation. “There were 300 beneficiaries in each state; multiply it by 37, the number of states in the country.”

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