The Industrial Training Fund, (ITF), has partnered with the National Commission for Refugees for Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, (NCRIP), to equip Nigerian migrants from Libya and other parts of the world with life skills for sustainable livelihood.
Sir Joseph Ari, Director General of the Industrial Training Fund, said in a press statement that the training will commence as soon as profiling and needs assessments of the returnees are concluded.
Ari said the returnees will be trained using the existing initiative and strategies by the ITF that are targeted at equipping the youths and indigents in Nigeria with skills for employ ability and entrepreneurship.
He listed the vehicles to be used to include: the National Skills Development Programme, (NISDP), the Passion to Profession Programme, (P2PP), the Technical Skills Development Project (TSDP), the Construction Skills Empowerment Programme, CONSEP) as well as the Agri-preneurship.
He added that the Fund’s three mobile workshops, which are equipped with modern facilities for training of Nigerians in Welding and Fabrication, Tailoring and Fashion Design, Air conditioning and Instrumentation, will also be deployed for capacity development for the returnees just as the Fund’s five Industrial Skills Training Centres located in Ikeja, Lokoja, Abuja, Kano and Jos will also be used.
In another development, the Fund said it was set to expand the number of its skills centres across the country in order to open up more opportunities for Nigerians willing to acquire skills.
A new Industrial Skills Training Centre in AbiaState, will soon come on board, it added.
Rising from a 3-day Retreat at the HBC Resort, Kuru, the Fund also resolved to establish a special Training Centre in Oil and Gas in Port Harcourt with emphasis on equipping Nigerians with skills in underwater welding, instrumentation and electronics.
The new Training Centres, which will be completed between 2019 and 2021, will bring the number of the Fund’s Skills Training Centres to seven.
