FG to empower 100,000 Nigerians, reveals application link, other details

• The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has opened up applications again for its Skill Up Artisan Programme
• Another 100,000 participants volition beryllium onboarded and trained for escaped successful grooming centres crossed Nigeria
• The Skill Up Artisans Programme was designed to capable successful the concern skills spread successful Nigeria by providing escaped grooming and certification

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The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) is acceptable to admit the adjacent batch of artisan trainees for the 2nd signifier of its Skill Up Artisans Program (SUPA).

This is coming soon aft the palmy completion of the aviator signifier of the programme, and applications are present being received for the adjacent phase.

The ITF Director General, Dr Oluwatoyin Afiz Ogun, disclosed this successful a statement. Ogun noted that the Skill Up Artisans programme was initiated to code a accomplishment spread successful Nigerian industries.

Recall that the ITF said it would bid engineers and artisans to enactment successful an Android telephone manufacturing company. Photo Credit: Onuma Inthapong /Luis Tato
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He added that it besides leverages exertion to aggregate existing and intending artisans successful Nigeria to a programme wherever they tin beryllium exposed to planetary certifications and summation entranceway into industries locally and internationally.

ITF’s escaped Skill Up programme

In his statement, the DG noted that the SUPA programme has 3 phases: the Foundation programme, SUPA I, and SUPA II.

The participants are exposed to introductions to the skills successful the instauration phase, and past they are trained and certified successful brushed skills similar Artisan Project Management, Artisan Health and Safety and Artisan Ethics and Patriotism successful the consequent phase.

Participants are duly paid stipends portion successful training, and they instrumentality certification examinations from International Awarding bodies earlier completing the programme, astatine nary outgo to them.

About 29,000 artisans from 90 senatorial districts successful Nigeria are acceptable to postgraduate from the instauration signifier of 2024, having been trained successful approved grooming centres nationwide.

Recall that the Tony Elumelu Foundation is moving a akin bid and empower programme for entrepreneurs.

How to use for ITF’s SUPA programme

Interested Nigerians can click present to registry their involvement successful the programme.

The DG promised successful his connection that the processes person been improved and onboarding and payments would beryllium much seamless now.

He said;

“The Fund is pushing to implicit the accumulation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) arsenic good arsenic get Essential Training Materials (ETMs) earlier the commencement of the programme and the 100, 000 artisans to beryllium trained successful SUPA signifier I including the 29,000 artisans who were graduated successful the Foundation signifier of the program. They are to look retired for ceremonial Notification of Admission into SUAP Letters which volition beryllium dispatched precise soon”

He noted that the database of 100,000 palmy trainees to beryllium onboarded volition besides beryllium displayed connected the SUPA website and ITF website.

Selected participants volition beryllium expected to spell done each phases of the grooming and walk the certification examinations. Photo credit: Romain perrocheau
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Ogun added that ITF is besides moving to summation the fig of grooming centres from 800 to 1500, and centre assessments would instrumentality spot soon.

ITF is besides successful precocious signifier discussions with the Nigerian Employers Consultative Association (NECA) to link SUPA graduates with gainful employment successful industries.

ITF trained technicians to nutrient Android phones

In related news, the Industrial Training Fund has said it is finalising plans to statesman the manufacture of Android Mobile phones successful Nigeria.

The agency's Director-General stated that plans are astatine the past signifier to statesman the rotation retired of the phones.

According to him, the manufacturing plants person been installed with the latest machines and that the bureau is partnering with a Nigerian and Indian steadfast to bid engineers who volition enactment successful these factories.

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Source: Legit.ng