The Federal Government has identified unemployment and poverty as triggers responsible for various anti- social behaviours ravaging the country.
The Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Mariam Katagum made this known on at the closing ceremony of the 2020 National Industrial Skills Development Programme in Abuja.
She said to contain the danger posed by poverty and unemployment, government has rolled out policies and measures aimed at reversing the trend.
Some of these policies, according to her, include the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, the National Youth Investment Fund, and the Economic Sustainability Plan including the MSMEs Survival Fund among several others. Some key stakeholders shared their views on the excellent job ITF is doing in address the huge unemployment gab in the country.
Earlier, the ITF Director- General Joseph Ari while assuring that his agency will do what it could to take the youths out of the streets said no fewer than 11,100 unemployed Nigerian youths have benefitted from skills acquisition of the Industrial Training Fund’s National Industrial Skills Development programme.
The NISDP is one of the skills intervention programmes of the Industrial Training Fund.