Industrial Training Fund Commences Nationwide SUPA Exams To Certify Artisans

The Industrial Training Fund (ITF), successful concern with the Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria (CIPMN), has commenced the nationwide rollout of the SUPA Project Management Examination, a certification workout aimed astatine upgrading task transportation skills among artisans, craftsmen, and organisations.

The examination, which kicked disconnected yesterday successful centres crossed the country, is simply a cardinal constituent of the 2nd signifier of ITF’s flagship Skill-Up Artisans (SUPA) programme.

ITF director-general, Dr. Afiz Ogun, disclosed during an inspection of introspection centres successful Abuja that astir 100,000 trainees are enrolled nationwide, though assessments are being conducted successful batches of 30,000 owed to the constricted fig of internationally standardised grooming facilities.

“The programme is designed to train, certify, and licence Nigerian artisans with internationally recognised credentials,” Ogun said. He explained that the SUPA model is structured into 3 tiers: the instauration signifier for basal skills; SUPA I, focused connected brushed skills and culminating successful the ongoing CIPMN examinations; and SUPA II, which covers precocious method training.

The existent signifier evaluates 3 soft-skill modules: task management, concern safety, and patriotism. Ogun revealed that ITF, moving with the National Orientation Agency (NOA), has developed a patriotism and nonrecreational morals module to complement method training.

Successful candidates, helium said, volition not lone get certifications that validate their skills for employment, planetary placements, oregon self-employment, but besides summation entree to ITF’s occupation placement marketplace.

To code gaps successful grooming infrastructure, Ogun urged backstage investors to found much skills acquisition centres, assuring that the ITF would supply trainees and screen grooming costs arsenic good arsenic stipends for instructors.

A large result of the SUPA certification, according to Ogun, volition beryllium the structured export of Nigerian skills nether the National Talent Export Programme of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment (FMITI).

He disclosed that for trainees beneath the property of 35, erstwhile they unafraid their licence and planetary certification, the ITF volition modulation them into the National Talent Export Programme (NATEP) nether the supervision of its genitor ministry.

The ITF, helium added, volition besides enactment intimately with the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (NACCIMA), which volition collaborate with chambers of commerce successful different countries to place accomplishment demands. Feedback from specified engagements volition alteration ITF to plan tailor-made grooming programmes that hole Nigerian artisans for targeted planetary opportunities.

Ogun emphasised that the inaugural is not lone expected to make sustainable occupation opportunities overseas but besides fortify overseas speech inflows, positioning Nigeria arsenic a competitory root of skilled labour crossed Africa, the Middle East, and beyond.

Registrar-general of CIPMN, Mr. Henry Mbadiwe, described the SUPA exam arsenic a game-changer that validates the skills of artisans, integrates them into ceremonial task absorption practice, and opens pathways for maturation some locally and internationally.

He noted that the ITF-CIPMN concern marks a strategical involution aimed astatine mounting a caller modular for task absorption successful Nigeria, with a deliberate absorption connected integrating artisans and grassroots organisations into the country’s development agenda.