ITF to lift 7 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030, FG says

THE Federal Government has disclosed that the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has plans underway to take 7 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030.

This was made known by media aide to the Presidency, Femi Adesina, on Sunday evening during an interview with Channels TV.

“I had a projection from the ITF saying by 2030, ITF alone will take 7 million people out of poverty.

“…and you have government agencies that have given their targets of what they would do within a certain point,” Adesina said.

The media aide stressed that the talking points of different government agencies on unemployment and poverty projections are never discussed by Nigeria but rather, “equivocation and problems over decades that we continue to focus on.”

“Let us look at the positive things for a change, it will help our psyche,” he said.

“It’s not one government that will do it (fix poverty), if the Buhari government says that it will take 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in ten years, that government will not be available for the next ten years because it has about 2 years and 2 months to go, its a progression in Nigeria,” Adesina added.

It can be recalled that NaijaTimes reported last week that Nigeria’s unemployment level is now the second highest in the World with over 23.2 million Nigerians unemployed, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.