ITF blames joblessness for festering insecurity

Government at all levels can no longer divorce the increasing unemployment from needless violence currently rocking the nation, the Director-General, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Joseph Ari, has said.
   
According to him, the ITF commitment to skills acquisition is premised on the fact that it remains the most viable and sustainable solution to taming rising unemployment and poverty that have continued to defy the best efforts of government and non- government approaches.
    
The ITF was established in October 1971, to promote and encourage the acquisition of skills in commerce and industry with a view to generating a pool of indigenous trained manpower sufficient to meet the needs of the economy.

Mustapha, represented by a Permanent Secretary in the OSGF, David Adejo, noted that creation of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, was underscored by the need to consolidate and build on existing achievements in the areas of creating pathways for the achievement of government’s objectives in reducing poverty and creating more jobs for youths.
    
Also in a remark, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Industry, Senator Sikiru Adebayo, warned beneficiaries of the programme against selling their start-up kits, but to use them effectively to create jobs for themselves and for others.