Culture council trains 400 on skills, businesses

The National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) has issued certificates to over 400 Nigerians residents who partook in different skills acquisition programmes organized by the council.

The Director General of the council, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe yesterday while presenting the certificates at the NCAC auditorium in Abuja.

He told the gathering that training, offered free was aimed at unlocking the potentials of “so many idle youths thereby creating the desired employment for the teaming population of Nigerian youths”.

The trainings which includes e-marketing of arts and crafts products, liquid soup making, perfume making, bead making amongst others was in line with the present administrations agenda to reduce unemployment.

Otunba told the trainees to use the skills they have acquired to enrich themselves, and contribute to the development of the nation’s economy.

One of the beneficiaries Chidi Emmanuel told Daily Trust the training has empowered him financially.

He said he has employed 5 staff and now teaches several schools in Kaduna, Lokoja and Abuja entrepreneurship skills including soap making, perfume making, dettol and izal among others.

“I don’t search for jobs anymore, now the jobs look for me; I teach 15 schools on entrepreneurship development every week making at least N50,000 per day. And this is huge for me considering before the training I was running everywhere searching for job,” he said.

The training was held at the 2017 African Arts and Craft festival (AFAC) and the 2017 National Festival for Arts and Culture (NAFEST) in Abuja and Kaduna respectively late last year.