The Nigerian Government has reiterated commitment to partner with development partners to deepen the quality of skills and apprenticeship given to the youths to create more job opportunities in order to breach the huge unemployment gap in the country.
Minister of State, Industry, Trade and Investment, Mariam Katagum disclosed this when the Director General, Industrial Training Fund, Sir Joseph Ari led a delegation of a German company, Rhode and Schwartz to her office in Abuja.
She said, Nigeria and Germany have an existing bilateral relationship which the current partnership on technical, apprenticeship and skills development will re-enforce.
The Director General, Industrial Training Fund, Sir Joseph Ari said the partnership will boost its Model Skills Training Centre, established to develop skills acquisition and apprenticeship in Nigeria.
He noted that the partnership is targeted at promoting product design, management and capacity building for young Nigerians in different skills in order to driving the nation’s economic growth by creating jobs.
The representative of the German Company, Professor Paschal Anosike said ITF was considered for partnership because of its regards for standards.
Earlier, the ITF, Director General and his management team took their guests on facility tour of its Model Skills Training Centre in Abuja.
The impressed German team will also carry similar tours of ITF Training Centres in Lagos and Jos, plateau state before signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the agency.
