The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) on Tuesday kicked off its annual screening of 100,000 Skill-Up Artisans Programme (SUPA), capturing over 3,000 participants in Lagos.
The exercise is aimed at equipping artisans with free technical training, internationally recognised certification, and job placement support across trades like plumbing and tailoring, among others.
Speaking during the training, Mr Hassan Sauman, Technical Vocational Skills Training Development Department, ITF, said that the programme was part of the strategies of actualising the transformation agenda of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Sauman said that the core objective of the SUPA programme was to add value by upskilling artisans in their various trades.
He said that ITF needed to upgrade the artisans up to international standards.
