The Industrial Training Fund (ITF), under its 2023 Skills Intervention Programmes (SIP), has distributed startup packs to 120 youths who completed training in relevant trades to enable them to put the various skills they acquired to use.
Speaking during the SIP 2023 closing ceremony in Kano State, ITF’s Director General, Dr Afiz Oluwatoyin, stated that the fund empowered the trained youths as part of the federal government’s renewed efforts to boost the economy using the Renewed Hope agenda of the current nation’s administration.
The DG, represented by ITF’s Area Manager, Kano Area Office, Engineer Sirajo Muhammad Tukur, also called on the beneficiaries to make a decent living for themselves and their families as well as be good ambassadors of ITF in their different chosen trades.
The representative of the Kano Area Office manager, Salmanu Muhammed Lawan, said ITF activities are focused on skills acquisition to create jobs to curb the rampant unemployment situation in the country and breed a new generation of entrepreneurs in order to transform the economic landscape of the country.
One of the solar-powered training beneficiaries, Habibu Umar, said his life would never be the same again as he is determined to make a decent living with his newly acquired skills.
