The Industrial Training Fund in collaboration with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board have trained and equipped one hundred youths with skills in different trade areas.
The eight trade areas the graduates took part in are Information and Communication Technology, Electrical/Electronic Technology, Industrial Automation and Mechatronicsn And instrumentation and Process Control.
Others are, Building Technology, Mobile Phone Repairs and Troubleshooting Mechanical Services and Maintenance as well as Residential Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of the six months programme, the Director General, Industrial Training Fund, Joseph Ari says his agency is committed to ensure that Nigerians are equipped with skills for entrepreneurship and employability.
Represented by a Director in the Fund, Zachariah Piwuna, the ITF boss said skills have a significant role to play in combating attendant effect of poverty and unemployment which has resulted in banditry, kidnapping and robbery.
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, Simbi Wabote who admonished the graduates on need to put the skills they have acquired to use said his agency is always ready to contribute its quota in human capacity development for the overall benefit of the nation.
Earlier, the Director training of ITF, Hajia Halima Rabo admonished the trainees to put into practice what they learnt. High point of the event was the presentation of certificates and starter packs to the one hundred graduates.