The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development and the Industrial Training Fund have signed an agreement to train Nigerian Youth in various vocations.
This agreement was secured following the working visit of the Youth and Sports Minister, Mr. Sunday Dare to the ITF Headquarters in Jos.
The training would provide opportunities for the Nigerian youth to become self employed.
According to the ITF Director General, Mr. Joe Ari, 23, 000 youth would benefit in different vocational skills from the partnership with the ministry.
The the DG of ITF reiterated the need for Nigerian youth to be well trained in varied areas of vocational skills, to enable them become gainfully employed as well as become fledgling entrepreneurs in the Nigerian economy.
The minister informed the DG that the ministry is pursuing securing training for the Nigerian youth in different sectors such as Digital Skills training, Vocational Skills training, Technical Skills training as well as Autotronics training in line with ITF’s mandate as the foremost training organization in Nigeria.
While introducing the DEEL (Digital Skills, Entrepreneurship, Employability, Leadership & Mentoring) programme of FMYSD, the minister said he is looking forward to partnering with the ITF to train a minimum of 20,000 youth in by next year.
Following months of deliberations, FMYSD and ITF signed an MOU to train 23,000 youth in 21 vocational skills areas across the 36 states of the Federation and FCT.
The scheme to train the youth is the Youth Skills and Entrepreneurship Programme, Y-SEP.
The scheme will commence in a few weeks time.