ITF needs N300bn to train 2m people annually, says D-G

The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) on Tuesday said it required N300 billion to train two million manpower on various skills annually in the country.

The ITF director-general, Juliet Chukkas-Onaeko, made this known at the 5th ITF Trainers’ Forum in Abuja. Chukkas-Onaeko said the agency had the capacity to train over two million Nigerians annually on various skills to boost the national industrial revolution plan of the Federal Government.

She said the agency’s set back was fund, and appealed to its partners and other stakeholders to support this good course which had the capacity to industrialise the country. The theme of the forum is ‘The Place of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the Actualisation of the Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP)’.

The director-general said the train the trainers’ conference was not only apt but timely, given the current thrust of the present management to pursue a 4-point training agenda.