About 100 youth is set to be trained in sewing, garment making and management consultant.
Joseph Ari, the Director-General, Industrial Training Fund (ITF) said this in Abuja at the opening of the first batch of the “20 Train the Trainees’’ workshop.
He said the fund was emulating the Brazilian model which uses mobile workshop to train its youths.
Ari said it was one of the special intervention programmes to drive the Nigeria Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.
According to him, the mobile workshop was introduced in the country in 2013 and was not put into use until he assumed office.
Ari said that the fund had designed strategies to enable it achieve its mandate through the use of mobile workshops.
He noted that the training will be in five batches.
“This training will go a long way in creating jobs as well as reduce restiveness among the youth,’’ Ari said.
One of the participants, Ms Yinka Ayeni said the programme would enable them to create employment and cater for their families.
Ayeni called on government to do more of such trainings for Nigerian youths to prevent them from engaging in anti-social vices.
