ITF collaborates on skill acquisition, employability of youths

The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) says it is collaborating with Rohde & Schwalz Germany, a leading company in technology expertise, to boost skills acquisition and employability of youths.

The Director-General of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Mr Joseph Ari, said this when he took the team from Rohde& Schwalz to inspect some of its facilities at its Training centre in Jos.

Ari said that the partnership would go beyond the fund, as it would lead to the development of the human resources by the training of young Nigerians, which would in turn lead to the creation of jobs and boosting of the economy.

He further said that the partnership would lead to the availability of more state-of-the-art machinery that would keep the youths trained abreast with very modern technological expertise.

Prof. Pascal Anosike, a consultant to Rohde & Schwarz, who inspected some of the facilities of the fund, said that the partnership would scale up the institutional capacity of the fund, not just in terms of human capacity, but with the right equipment and new technologies.

Anosike said the partnership would also scale up the fund’s internship capacity and it would also lead to international apprenticeship skills programme making the fund a training hub for other African countries.

Similarly, Mr Klans Schneider, also a consultant with Rohde & Schwarz, commended the fund for operating based on global standard.

He said the partnership would make the trained Nigerian youths start up their own businesses and in turn be employers of labour and grow the internally generated revenue of the country.