The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and the National Automotive Council (NAC) plan to establish three centres where automobile parts will be manufactured to meet local demands and create jobs for the youth.
The acting Director- General of the ITF, Mr Dickson Chinedum Onuoha, said last week, in Abuja that the development was aimed at driving federal government's initiative on the local manufacturing of automobile parts in Nigeria.
Onuoha disclosed that the National Automotive Parts Manufacturing and Training centres would be sited in Badagry, Lagos, Kano and Aba.
Industrial Training Fund (ITF) boss, said it has started discussion with National Automotive Council NAC to establish National Automotive Parts Manufacturing and Training Centres as part of its skills acquisition programme.
Onuoha, who addressed the press, said apart from conserving foreign exchange that is expended on the importation of auto parts, the centres will ensure that needed auto parts are produced in the country.
He said youths will also be trained for employment in the automobile parts’ manufacturing sector of the economy, adding that the ITF is also working on the expansion of facilities at existing skills centres in Ikeja, Kano and Abuja.
“At the model skills training centre in Abuja, adequate provision has been made in 2016 budget to acquire the remaining complement of equipment required to graduate all trainees at the centre and admit new ones.
“The Fund is also fast-tracking plans to commence the long term skills training programme at Industrial Skills Training Centre (ISTC), Kano while arrangements are in top gear to commission the mechatronic and mechanical workshop that have been built in the centre."
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