FG Graduates 3,300 N-Knowledge Trainees on Animation, Scriptwriting

Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja

The federal government has completed the training and certification of 3,300 beneficiaries of the N-Knowledge expansion training programme in the six geo-political zones of the country on N-Creative training programmes with focus on animation and scriptwriting.

The training held at the Public Service Institute of Nigeria (PSIN), Abuja, was a non-graduate programme that also embodied the N-Tech Hardware and N-Tech Software.

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Farouq Umar, said the programme would help the young Nigerians acquire and develop life-long skills that would ensure they become solution providers and entrepreneurs in their communities.

The minister said the enrolees learnt the core components of the programme in the respective tracks, in well-organized curricula meant to shape them in their chosen trades to enable them become useful and develop competencies that will increase production and add to the overall growth of the society.

“You will confirm by now that N-Knowledge programme is focused on equipping young Nigerians with relevant skills and certification to become competent workers, innovators and entrepreneurs prepared for both the domestic and global digital job market. N-Knowledge programme targets to upskill 3,300 young Nigerians on the global radar as exporters of world- class services and content in the creative and information technology sectors,” Farouq Umar said.

She said the federal government documented evidence what a lot of beneficiaries came out with at the different training camps such as developing cartoon applications and other creative arts.