The Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has developed a comprehensive programme for the integration of the informal sector into the Employees Compensation Scheme (ECS). NSITF managing director, Oluwaseun Faleye, confirmed this in a statement on Sunday by NSITF general manager, corporate affairs, Nwachukwu Ngige. Mr Faleye said that the fund would tap into the immense potential of the informal …

Mrs. Bateren Nofisat Yinka, 50, is one of the six artisans honoured by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the Best Graduating Tradesmen in the just-concluded up-skilling programme taken across the Lagos State Skill Acquisition Centres. The trader, nominated for the course by Bamboo Marketers Association, was one of the 1,200 artisans and tradesmen across Lagos who took the intensive eight-week vocational …

Director General of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Dr. Oluwatoyin Afiz Ogun, says the directive of President Bola Tinubu that 20 million artisans across the country be empowered has begun. Dr. Ogun said the scheme, Skill Up Artisan, (SUPAR) has started yielding positive results. The ITF boss spoke in Akure, the Ondo State capital, while addressing artisans and chieftains of …

The Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has approved the biometric enumeration of traders, artisans, industrialists and members of cooperative societies in the state. While unveiling the exercise tagged ‘Ise D’otun’ in Ibadan, the Head of Service (HoS), Mrs Olubunmi Oni, stated that the exercise would help the government ascertain the details of traders, artisans, industrialists and members of cooperative societies …

Building artisans all over the country, under the aegis of the Bricklayers Association of Nigeria, have implored President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to tackle the high cost of building materials. After its national conference in Ilorin, Kwara State capital on Monday, the association’s National President, Mr. Oyebamiji Dauda lamented the scarcity of building artisans. He said that the cost of building …