The Director-General, Industrial Training Fund, Joseph Ari says plans are on the way to convert the agency’s Skills Training Centres in Lagos, Kano, Kogi, Abuja and Plateau as well as the vocational wings attached to its Area Offices to hubs for innovation and entrepreneurship.
He said this in Abuja at the 3rd Annual Global Meeting of the Forum For Innovation in African Universities with the theme Strengthening Africa’s Higher Education In a Post Covid-19 World.
The ITF boss who noted that the agency has been at the forefront of innovation in Nigeria since its establishment said with the conversion of the Skills Training Centres, schools and other stakeholders could use the facilities as incubation centres and vehicles for innovation and creativity.
Stakeholders from the Higher Education Sector and the representatives of a German Skills firm took turns to speak. Key partners for the one day engagement are the Industrial Training Fund, the Forum for Innovation In African Universities and a German Skills Firm, Rohde and Schwarz.
