SURE-P says will train 2m youths annually, rehabilitates 8 skills acquisition centres

The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) will collaborate with the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) under its Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) component to actualize its target of training two million youths annually, a statement from the agency has said.

The statement quoted the Chairman of SURE-P, retired General Martin Luther Agwai who disclosed this recently at the commissioning of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity Skills Acquisition Centre, Bauchi and the Industrial Training Fund Centre of Excellence, Jos

According to him, the ability of government to continue to provide adequate and appropriate training for the nation’s teeming youths relied critically on the establishment of some form of sustainability.

Agwai, who was represented by the Project Technical Adviser on TVET, Mr. Olukayode Soremekun disclosed that “additional skills training effort is planned to impact more than 5000 beneficiaries who have indicated interest on SURE-P portal.”

He added that SURE-P would soon graduate over 5,000 Nigerians who are currently undergoing clientbased training in different entities under the SURE-P TVET.

Commissioning the training centres, Minister of Labour and Productivity Chief Emeka Wogu urged the youths to take advantage of the centres, while calling on those particularly in the North East to embrace the project, which he said “is better than taking to insurgency and other activities which are inimical to the growth of the region.”