By Paul
The Federal Government of Nigeria has vowed to maintain skill acquisition programmes across the country in order to deepen the economy, which is valued at $420 billion.
Speaking at the ITF-NECA Technical Skills Development Project (TSDP) Stakeholders’ Dialogue Forum in Abuja, Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Mariam Katagum, said nations faced poverty, soaring unemployment, and other challenges with skills acquisition, and that Nigeria must do the same.
Katagum stated that while organisations such as the Industrial Trust Fund had taken advantage of relevant government policies to train hundreds of thousands of Nigerians through various skills intervention programmes, more needed to be done to ensure the nation’s economy’s rapid growth and development.
The ITF’s Director-General, Joseph Ari, stated that the ITF-NECA Technical Skills Development Project was launched in response to the findings of a joint study conducted by the agency and NECA, which found, among other things, skill mismatches and severe shortages in many areas of the economy.
