NPower creative focuses on harnessing untapped skills among Nigerian youths- FG

The federal government on Thursday in Benin-City, Edo State said that it is focusing on ways through which untapped skills among Nigerian youths can be harnessed.
Part of this effort is the investment to boost creative talent among youths as part of measures to exploit the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) to create jobs and grow the economy. Government said.

Speaking in Benin-City on Thursday, the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Job Creation, Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, said N-Creative is a component of the N-Power programme which is focused on harnessing and developing the untapped skills among youths in creative arts and entertainment and enable them compete globally.

Imoukhuede said 3,000 youths are being trained under N-creative programme across the country, with 1,500 beneficiaries from the southern and northern parts of the country.

He added that the 1,500 youths from the 17 southern states had completed a four-week creative training in the first phase while training for the northern states would commence soon.

The Presidential aide said that the participants were trained on animation, voice acting, post-production, graphics and illustration, script writing and were given work tools for practical demonstrations.

He explained that “The next phase for the youths is  studio training to practice what was learnt in phase one.”

On his part, the Edo State governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki Obaseki said that his administration was putting in place the basic infrastructure that would  support the growth of animation industry in the state.

The governor said: "We are putting in place the core infrastructure required to set up animation industry, we are laying fibre optics, strengthening our basic education sector, creating alternate sources of energy and building a Benin Enterprise park."