Innoson set to boost employment for 5,000 youths, see details

• Innoson Kiara Academy has partnered with NATA to bid and employment 5,000 youths successful the South-East implicit the adjacent 2 years
• The inaugural aims to span the spread betwixt acquisition and employment done vocational grooming successful areas similar welding, engineering and fashion
• The programme supports the “Nigeria First” argumentation and reflects Innoson's committedness to younker empowerment and promoting made-in-Nigeria products

Legit.ng writer Victor Enengedi has implicit a decade's acquisition covering Energy, MSMEs, Technology, Banking and the Economy.

Innoson Kiara Academy (IKA) has signed an statement with the Nigerian Automotive Technicians Association (NATA) to bid and employment young people crossed the South-East region.

The academy’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Endi Ezengwa, said the program is to bid astatine slightest 5,000 youths successful vocational skills implicit the adjacent 2 years.

He shared this astatine a forum held connected Tuesday, May 27, 2025, astatine the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing works successful Nnewi, Anambra State.

Innoson signs landmark woody with NATA to train, employment 5,000 youths
Source: UGC

The lawsuit was organised by IKA and the president of Innoson Group, Chief Innocent Chukwuma. It besides had representatives from the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and respective schools.

Ezengwa said the academy wants to adjacent the spread betwixt schoolhouse and enactment by creating occupation opportunities and boosting assemblage development.

He said:

“We signed MOU with NATA to bid 5,000 unemployed youths successful the South East successful the adjacent 2 years.”

He added that Innoson Kiara Academy has already trained much than 5,000 youths, including 2,500 who were trained with enactment from the German government.

According to him, the caller grooming programme supports President Bola Tinubu’s “Nigeria First” policy, which promotes locally made goods and aims to boost occupation creation.

Ezengwa said that Chief Chukwuma supports this argumentation and wants to assistance young radical summation the skills needed to nutrient goods successful Nigeria. He explained that the task would assistance trim imports, make jobs, and gain much overseas speech for the country.

Ezengwa besides explained that the academy’s trainers are from assorted departments successful the institution and that the academy works with antithetic partners to supply jobs and intelligence wellness support.

Training goes beyond car manufacturing and repairs—it includes welding, fabrication, and adjacent skills successful agriculture, engineering, and fashion, with participants coming from the 5 Southeastern states.

Chief Chukwuma urged young Nigerians to get method and vocational skills, pledging to employment a important fig of trained youths successful his factory. He besides called connected members of NATA to actively prosecute successful taking apprentices nether their guidance.

Ezengwa highlighted a captious situation wrong the welding assemblage successful Nigeria, revealing that determination are presently 300,000 unfilled occupation openings.

He further noted that skilled welders who person due grooming person the imaginable to gain up to $5,000 monthly erstwhile moving abroad.

He said:

“Some Nigerians present prosecute workers from countries similar Ghana and Togo due to the fact that our ain youths don’t person the skills. It’s clip to instrumentality vocational grooming seriously. The authorities should springiness much enactment to method education.”

At that event, galore erstwhile academy students were interviewed and subsequently offered employment astatine Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing, with lodging provided arsenic portion of the package.

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