Industrial Training Fund’s Trainees To Undergo Examination In Soft Skills

About 100,000 trainees participating successful the 2nd signifier of the Industrial Training Fund’s Skill-Up Artisans (SUPA) programme nationwide volition beryllium for examinations connected Wednesday, September 24, 2025.

A connection issued successful Jos by the Head of the Press and Public Relations Unit, Thomas Ngor, said the examinations would beryllium administered by the Chartered Institute of Project Management of Nigeria (CIPMN).

According to him, it volition measure trainees’ proficiency successful the brushed skills components of the SUPA curriculum, including task management, occupational wellness and safety, and nonrecreational ethics—key modules designed to heighten artisans’ capabilities to conscionable planetary standards.

The Director-General and Chief Executive of the ITF, Dr Afiz Oluwatoyin Ogun, reaffirmed the Fund’s committedness to training, certifying, and licensing Nigerian artisans with internationally recognised credentials.

“Our extremity is to physique an indigenous workforce susceptible of competing with their planetary peers,” Dr Ogun stated.

He emphasised that internationally accredited certifications would trim unemployment and code related socio-economic challenges by equipping artisans with marketable skills.

Dr Ogun highlighted the SUPA programme’s certification framework, integrating globally recognised qualifications to heighten trainees’ employability.

He disclosed that isolated from securing support from City & Guilds London (UK) arsenic 1 of its prime introspection centres successful Nigeria, it would alteration artisans to gain prestigious certifications successful assorted trades.

The  DG added that   ITF is successful precocious discussions with ALBERK QA TECHNIC of Turkey and different planetary certification bodies to grow the scope of credentials available.

The DG added that these certifications, aligned with planetary standards, volition alteration Nigerian artisans to prosecute occupation opportunities abroad, leveraging Nigeria’s youthful colonisation of implicit 70 cardinal to export skilled labour, thereby attracting overseas exchange.

Shedding airy connected the SUPA certification process, Dr Ogun said it involves a three-tiered grooming structure: the Foundation signifier for basal skills assessment, SUPA I for brushed skills improvement (culminating successful the upcoming CIPMN exams), and SUPA II for precocious method training.

He noted that palmy trainees who person completed the process person certifications that validate their skills for nonstop employment, planetary placements, oregon self-employment.

Dr Ogun commended the Chartered Institute of Project Management of Nigeria (CIPMN), Abuja, for its pivotal relation successful implementing the SUPA programme. “CIPMN has been a steadfast spouse since the program’s inception.

He noted that they are assured that the examinations they oversee volition conscionable the expected precocious standards.