In this interview with IFEANYI ONUBA, the Director-General, Industrial Training Fund, Joseph Ari, talks about the soaring unemployment among graduates, and a lot of opportunities that exist in professional trade areas, among others
The ITF conducted an assessment of skills gap in six critical sectors of the economy. What were the findings from that assessment? On the assessment of skill gaps in six critical sectors of the national economy, what we did as an institution was to let other players in the industry be aware of where the gap exists.
This is what I refer to as underemployment. From the assessment, we were able to find that under-employment was even very devastating to our national life. In one of the six sectors, construction, we found that 19.7 per cent gap exists. That is, jobs of 19.7 per cent are available in the construction industry, but we do not have qualified Nigerians with the requisite skills to fill those gaps.
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