ITF Pledges to Create Viable Workforce

Dr. Aliyu Idi Hong, minister of Commerce and Industry has said that Industrial Training Fund (ITF) will continue to train versatile workforce that would lead the country into the much desired vision 2020 of the millennium development goals.
Hong stated this at the 17th national training conference and exhibition of the industrial Training Fund, organized by ITF at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.
He said there was the need for the country to seek for more appropriate ways of which human resource development policy be achieved and deployed to enable the country met up to the challengers of vision 2020 and the global economy. He said that ITF and other agencies entrusted with training facilities meant for developing the nation’s human resources be provided with enabling environment to do so.
According to the minister “in guiding the training of Nigeria’s human resource ITF is today’s the watchdog and vanguard that is making the nation to create a viable workshop that will be able to stand the yearnings of vision 2020”
He said without a skilled labour force, there can be no question of optimal use or proper maintenance of physical capital in a key note address Prof. Longmas Sambo Wapmuk, ITF director general, said he looked forward to the day, Nigeria would be like it counterpart in Brazil, China and India, which had used technical vocational skills to create wealth empower their people and bring about self – reliance in their National economic development, even as they lacked the capacities of Nigeria, in terms of human and material resources.