The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has empowered with starter packs 300 youth who were trained in various skills acquisition programmes in Calabar, the Cross River state capital.
Deputy governor of Cross River state, Prof Ivara Esu, who spoke in Calabar, weekend, during the closing ceremony of 2019 National Industrial Skills Development Programme in which the starter packs were given out, warned the trainees against selling their packs but advised them to make judicious use of them to improve their lives economically
He disclosed that the trainees would be groomed to form part of the skilled workforce that would feed the State government’s industrial parks located in the three senatorial districts of the state.
In his reactions, the Director General/ Chief Executive of ITF, Sir Joseph Ari, said the trainees could become a new generation of entrepreneurs and employers of labour who could transform the economic landscape of Nigeria in the near future.
Represented by Director, Revenue Inspectorate/ Compliance Department, Mr. Stephen Ojigho, the director General lauded the Cross River state government for its industrialization drive, saying Governor Ben Ayade “had been a tremendous source of inspiration and bulwark of support for the implementation of our various skills acquisition programmes in Cross River State.”
He disclosed further that over eleven thousand youths had already been equipped with skills in wielding/fabrication, catering and event management, tiling, production and laying interlock tiles, furniture making, solar energy installation and others.
