May 3, (THEWILL)- The Director General of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Dr Afiz Oluwatoyin Ogun, has indicated that artisans and intending artisans that are undergoing screening at various centres across all senatorial districts of the country will soon be deployed to centres that have been earmarked for SUPA Training.
The DG revealed this when he received the report of the Committee on Centre Assessment and Verification for SUPA at the Fund’s Headquarters, as he said that deployment would commence after the train-the-trainer programme for officers of the Fund that are to be involved in the training of artisans for SUPA.
Commending the committee for their individual and collective efforts to ensure the success of the assessment exercise, the DG also said that the centres in the country that the committee has not visited may be outside the construction, fashion design, agriculture and agro-allied, and automobile works sectors that are the focus of this phase of the programme.
Speaking further on the ongoing screening of artisans across the country, the DG assured that artisans, who were not invited for screening under this phase would be considered in subsequent phases, stressing that SUPA has come to stay.
Presenting the report, the Chairperson of the Committee on Centre Assessment and Verification for SUPA, Mrs Chioma Ogbonna, said that over 1000 centres were visited during the exercise. She also said that of this number, 781 centres were found to have met the requirements and are suitable for training under SUPA.
Giving a breakdown of the centres found suitable, Mrs Ogbonna said 241 centres in the North Central, 102 in the North-East, 150 in the North-West, 74 in the South-East, 100 in the South-West and 114 in the South-South had met the requirements.
