Friday, March 29, 2024

UNIDO ITPO to train Nigerian students

The Investment and Technology Promotion Office of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation has disclosed that it would interact with students in Nigerian universities and the education sector in general, to prepare them for
business life.
The Chief Technical Adviser, UNIDO-ITPO, Mr. Stanislaw Pigon, said this was in order to foster enterprise and investment promotion across every spheres of business in
Nigeria.
According to him, one of the reasons SMEs have problems with access to finance is because people in the immediate financial institutions don’t understand
their needs.
He explained that the target was, moving from the entrepreneurs to those who should assist them in the proper way.
“The focus on enterprise development was borne out of the discovery that investors in the country did not have the desired skill and knowledge of enterprise development and that this had afAfected the country’s economic growth,” he said.
Also, the organisation said it was training professionals of various associations in the private sector, financial institutions, and governmental investment promotion institutions, so that they would, in turn, train Nigerian
businesses.
While further disclosing that the UNIDO-ITPO was operating a three-year period of activities that would continue thereafter, based on outcomes, Pigon said that people would be trained on investment technology-related areas that were driving businesses in the 21st century.
The Head, UNIDO ITPO, Nigeria, Mrs. Adebisi Olumodimu, also explained that the primary target of the capacity building programme was to support the Federal Government’s bid to diversify the economy.
She said the country needed to demonstrate readiness to diversify her economy and take advantage of unlimited opportunities in the non-oil sector now, especially with the dwindling prices of crude oil in the global market.
She added that the UNIDO ITPO had been engaging with the states in this regard.
“We are in Niger State talking with them on Shea Butter; we have also started a flagship programme in Sokoto; we are in Ogun State trying to develop the stone cutting cluster,” she
noted.

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