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.