FG in Talks with UAE to Supply Trained Nigerian Artisans

The federal government is in talks with the government of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the supply of 14,000 qualified Nigerian artisans from Nigeria to the country.

Director General of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Afiz Oluwatoyin, announced this in Abuja at a stakeholders meeting with executives of the association of artisans and people in the hospitality and tourism sectors.

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The International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) director-general said those to be selected would be trained and retrained by the fund under the federal government’s skill-up artisan program.

The artisans whom the federal government intends to train and retrain under the Skill Up Artisan programme (SUPA) with ITF would earn golden visas from the government of Abu Dhabi.

Responding, a member of the Council of Registered Builders in Nigeria, Bldr. Tosin Umar, urged the government to endeavour it get in touch with artisans that ITF had trained in the past and connect them to such opportunities.