The Director-General of the Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies (MINILS) says the institution is now positioned to train 500,000 workers in the next year.
The Director-General of the institute, Mr. Issa Aremu, made this known to newsmen on the sidelines of a 2-day strategic planning workshop and management retreat organized by the institution on Tuesday in Ilorin, Kwara State.
He said any organizations would perish without vision and strategic agenda, adding it is part of the institute’s effort to reposition the workforce.
Aremu explained that with all the best of efforts they are far from their potentials.
He revealed that in the institute’s 40 years of existence, it had trained less than 100,000 workers out of a possible 70 million potential workforce both in the informal and formal sectors.
“With the new thinking of promoting entrepreneurial skills, we shouldn’t do it in a vacuum, it has to be strategic agenda.
“In the next one year, we want to train close to 500,000 workers; in two years one million.
“We will look for how to make this possible, who will be our strategy to connect to stakeholders who are interestingly serving on our governing council,” said the director-general.
He said the institution cannot achieve its goals alone hence the reason the MINILS is partnering with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a German political party foundation associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, that was established in 1925.
It is Germany’s oldest organization to promote democracy, political education, and promote students of outstanding intellectual abilities and personalities.
Aremu said the German foundation is about 106 years old and since MINILS is about 40 years old, it has a lot to learn from them how they survive through organizational transformation.
