The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has described as fraudulent a training programme being advertised on social media platforms tagged, “Boys Industrial Training Initiative 2024 undergraduate technical internship.”
In a statement yesterday, Director-General of the Fund, Dr Afiz Oluwatoyin Ogun, noted that despite the website’s professional appearance and use of the ITF logo and name, no legitimate internship or scholarship programme exists under such an initiative.
He said that the people behind the fake advertisement were inviting unsuspecting individuals to apply for a “non-existing programme” and warned that “anyone who deals with these touts does so at his or her own risk.”
The statement read: “The attention of the industrial training fund has been drawn to a fake advertisement circulating on the Internet of a fraudulent programme titled “Boys Industrial Training Initiative 2024…
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