23rd August, 2014
Collaborative efforts between SURE-P and the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) will help the fund to train more than two million youths every year, an official said on Thursday in Abuja.
ITF’s Director-General, Mrs Juliette Chukkas-Enaeko, said this when she paid a courtesy call on the SURE-P Chairman, retired Lt.-Gen. Martin Luther-Agwai.
“I am optimistic that the collaboration will enhance technical and vocational training services being organised by the fund in Nigeria,” she said.
She said ITF would not stop at the training only but would also liaise with some stakeholders to ensure that the youths were employed.
“ITF is into partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to ensure that the youths trained, who are mostly graduates, get employed,” Chukkas-Enaeko.
She said ITF was also into partnership with several other foreign partners to achieve its mandate of training graduates to add value to their certificates.
Responding, Luther-Agwai told the ITF director-general that SURE-P had embarked on vocational training under its empowerment programme.
“SURE-P shares a similar mandate with ITF, which is to create wealth and reduce the level of youth unemployment in the country through the development of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
“The collaboration between both of us will assist our graduates on how they can become more employable to our society, and not only in Nigeria but Africa at large.
“We need to take advantage of our institutions and population to feed Africa with expertise in numerous areas of human endeavor,” he said.
Luther-Agwai said SURE-P had renovated the ITF Training Centre at Jos, and it would also equip it with necessary facilities soon.