ITF BOSS URGES STUDENTS TO SHUN NEGATIVE TENDENCIES

Director General, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Professor Longmas Wapmuk has charged youths in the state to shun all negative tendencies and impact positively towards the development of the society.

Receiving members of the National Association of Plateau State Students in his office, he noted that youths in the nation’s institutions have the tendency of utilizing their energy into negative activities detrimental to their educational pursuit.

He expressed concern that some students are now engaging in armed robbery and implored the youths to concentrate on their studies and work towards meaningful contribution to the state and nation at large.

As Plateau State is currently going through some form of transformation, Prof Wapmuk urged them to make their own contributions towards realising the dream.

While lamenting that the state used to be in the fore front in education, but is now experiencing decay in the sector, he challenged them to make positive contribution towards redeeming the image of the state.

Earlier in a welcome address, the President of the association, Comrade Jacob Kefas Sendi who noted that the ITF has impacted very much in the life of Nigerian students in making them more productive and useful for the labour market, appealed to the Director General to assist the union in overcoming some of its pressing needs.

Sendi who observed that the Director General has achieved a lot in his one year in office commended the Federal Government for appointing him even as he noted that he is the first indigene of Plateau State to occupy the office since the establishment of the Fund about 36 years ago.