ITF trained 300,000 Ogun youths in 10 years – Area Manager

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ITF trained 300,000 Ogun youths in 10 years – Area Manager

The Industrial Training Fund says no fewer than 300,000 youths have passed through its skills acquisition centre in Abeokuta, Ogun State and learnt various skills in the last 10 years.

The Area Manager/Deputy Director of the ITF in Ogun State, Mrs Bolanle Ajibade, stated this on Thursday during a courtesy of an ITF delegation to Punch Place, the headquarters of Punch Nigeria Limited in Magboro, Ogun State.

Ajibade was accompanied on the visit by the Head of Audit, Jimba Victoria; Head of Finance and Acoounts, Oyedokun Solomon; Head of Training, Akinbola Oluwatosin; Head of Revenue, Inspectorate and Compliance, Olaniyan Samuel; and Head of Admin, Eluyemi Muyiwa.

While speaking on the success stories of the ITF in the 52 years of its existence, Ajibade said, “Besides human capital development, we have all over Nigeria 40 area offices and five skills centres, which cut across the entire nation.

“This exercise started in 2013 and it’s been on every year. In Abeokuta alone, we have trained about 300, 000 youths since the inception of the skills intervention programme.

“The ITF has been involved in training all over and incidentally, Ogun State has always been given preference.”

Ajibade said the ITF now offers subsidised training fees to encourage companies to engage the ITF for the training of their workforces.

“This issue of return on investment is a critical thing but we are evolving; we say we are in a vocal age but we are in a stage where we are destructively vocal in diverse ways. Issues keep happening and they are affecting the organisations we are dealing with, of course. We are not shy of these realities and that is why ITF subsidises; most of our training is subsidised,” she said.