Steps have been taken to position Nigeria in exploiting her greatness. This is evident in the efforts being made in recent times by the Industrial Training Fund Brain Gain Initiative.
The Director-General, ITF, Dr. Juliet Chukkas-Onaeko, said the initiative, an ITF-Diaspora volunteer skills development programme, had been designed to upgrade the quality of skills in Nigeria to international standards at little or no cost to the Federal Government. She spoke while addressing stakeholders in Lagos on the need for partnership towards the successful implementation of the mandate of ITF, and in line with the skills needs of Nigeria. She explained the drive to recuit 10,000 Nigerian experts in the diaspora specialising in renewable energy, robotics engineering, hospitality, oil and gas, and petrochemicals among others, in the next three years.These expert would train over 2 million Nigerian youths at a cost effective rate of N500,000.00 monthly (Five hundred thousand). Other innovations will be to bring in airlines and insurance companies as stakeholders so that they can help with free tickets and insurance policies to get the initiative moving as planned.“When this is computed for a three-year period, the total amount of money that will be saved by the government comes to around N180 billion for 10,000 volunteers in three years.” She noted that there is a deficit in the Human resources needed to drive the Industrialization of Nigeria and ITF is there to fill the gap.
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