Like ITFs around the world, like Nigeria’s

  To meet its statutory mandate amidst the ongoing economic recession Nigeria is experiencing, the management of Industrial Training Fund (ITF), under Sir Joseph Ari  is currently engaged in nationwide sensitization tour to bring to bring the core values of the organization to the wider majority of Nigerians so that they can tap into it […]

 

To meet its statutory mandate amidst the ongoing economic recession Nigeria is experiencing, the management of Industrial Training Fund (ITF), under Sir Joseph Ari  is currently engaged in nationwide sensitization tour to bring to bring the core values of the organization to the wider majority of Nigerians so that they can tap into it maximally. One of the aims of the tour was also to get state governments  to be  in tandem with ITF’s core mandates including job creation, wealth, skills acquisition and self reliance that is in line with the global best practices.

 

Over time, little has been achieved by the ITF due to the neglect it has suffered in the hands of previous administrations, which has led to the anomalies Ari said would be corrected. With the recession, there is no doubt that the ITF will be seen an economic propeller if the desired leverage and desired support is given to the organization so that the staff would not be well motivated and focused, but achieved the ultimate mandate wrongs.

 

 President Muhammadu Buhari, for appointing Ari, is convinced that from that this phase of the nation’s economic sub-sector that seeks to uplift the nation’ s human capital Nigeria would be given the desired push to can get us out of the recession. We have seen it in other climes such Brazil, Germany, Singapore, Canada, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Japan, and many others where their ITFs became a critical vanguard in mitigation of recession, where the workers tapped in their resources to improve their skills and raised their individual standards of living.

 

Ari, despite his rich experience, believes that he alone cannot do it, so he challenged management, staff and other key stakeholders of the agency to contribute innovative ideas, saying “we pride ourselves as the three Es – experienced staff, with great expertise, with an expansive network; and we can only portray this in our activities to get Nigeria out of economic recession”.

 

Of the countries mentioned above, Sir Ari said they used agencies similar to the Industrial Training Fund through human capital development and that is the key mandate of the ITF. Anything done outside skills development, the development of the human capital, cannot work. That is one sure way out of this recession. Nigerians expect a lot from the Industrial Training Fund, and we cannot afford to betray that trust.

 

Life is a teacher, the more we live, the more we learn. We as humans have no cause to hate anyone at all, for the destiny of a man is not in anybody’s hands but the Almighty God, the ultimate decider of destiny. What is really needed is the support of members of staff to do the needful.

 

Adanu wrote in from Abuja.