Post insurgency:  ITF trains 1,100 Borno youths in vocational skills, trades

No fewer than 1, 100 youths of Borno State have been trained by the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) in various vocational skills and trades.

The training was carried out under the National Enterprises Development Programme (NEDEP), which was aimed could fast-track the country’s industrial revolution plan to address poverty and unemployment.

Flagging off the 5th phase of National Industrial Skills Development

Programme (NISDP) at the Government House, in Maiduguri, the

Director General of ITF, Mr. Dickson Chinedum Onuoha, said that during

the implementation of the training scheme, the youths were exposed to

intensive technical and vocational training for three months.

The training, according to him, were in different skills and trades in

addressing the unemployment and poverty among the teeming youths in

the state.

Said he, “We are witnessing the flag-off of the fifth phase of the training

scheme, which shall be implemented simultaneously in 18 other states

and the Federal Capital Territory,” said Onuoha.

On selection of trainees, he said: “The ITF selected 500 young

Nigerians per state to participate in the fifth phase of the NISDP. In

the case of Borno state; the Fund selected additional 600 trainees

from the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps; bringing the total

number of trainees in the state to 1, 100.”

He said that the increase in trainees, also demonstrated the

commitments of the Federal Government to equip unemployed youths,

including the IDPs with livelihood skills for self-sustenance to fast

track the rehabilitation of displaced persons returning to liberated

communities.