The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has empowered 120 youths in Bauchi state who completed training with startup packs to enable them to put their various skills to use.
The ITF on Wednesday in Bauchi distributed implements to the beneficiaries who were trained in solar power installation, tiling, interlocking of blocks, and hairdressing, as well as plumbing and pipe fitting, and aluminium fabrication.
The State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir, who was represented at the event by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of cooperatives, Alhaji Baba Waziri Hardawa, commended the ITF for complementing government and on the successes recorded in trying to reduce poverty, not just in the State but the country as a whole.
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The Director-General of ITF, Joseph Ari, who was represented by the area manager of Bauchi, Alhaji Jibrin Loko, disclosed that NISDP is “One of the numerous skills acquisition intervention programmes introduced and implemented by the Fund to facilitate the achievement of the federal government’s policy on job and wealth creation and it focuses on skills acquisition to create jobs to stem rampant unemployment and breed a new generation of entrepreneurs, in order to transform the economic landscape of the country”.