By jimitoTa onoyume, PH

Director General of the ITF, Prof Sambo Wapmuk, who made this known  in Port Harcourt at a Chief Executive Interactive Forum, said the Federal Government had come to terms with the reality that for it to achieve its vision of the nation becoming one of the top 20 economies in the world, it had to develop training in vocational skills and adaptive technology.

He expressed the hope that when the vocational training centers are added to the existing four they would help to reduce the challenges of insecurity.

“The fund has also planned to establish 37additional skills training centers across the country”, he said, adding that such projects would help to reduce the problems of insecurity, youth restiveness and unemployment.”

While harping on the significance of human resource and vocational skills to national development, the DG said countries in the industrialized west went through a similar process.