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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.

Your petrol threat to shutdown stations empty, NUPENG, PENGASSAN tell IPMAN

NECA urges truce to stave price hike The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), yesterday, dismissed the threat on Sunday by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) to shut fuel stations nationwide today as empty. NUPENG’s General Secretary, Olawale Afolabi, in a chat with The Guardian, said no one was shutting down any filling station. He assured the public of continued sale of petroleum products nationwide. “No one is shutting down any filling station. It is an empty threat. The public is assured of continued regular sale of petroleum products across the country please,” Afolabi stated.

NSITF management needs urgent reform - Punch Newspapers

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 16 June 2021 THE appointment of a new managing director and the reconstitution of a management board for the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), might not rescue the outfit from its quagmire. Apart from the new appointments, the President also directed that “the former Managing Director of the Fund, Bayo Somefun, and three other former Executive Directors with the NSITF, are to refund to the treasury of the Fund a total of N181 million being alleged illegal overpayments in salaries and allowances.” The Senate is investigating N61.1 billion allegedly diverted by the NSITF in 2018.

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