3,000 Nigerian Youths to Benefit from China’s Capacity Building Programme

No fewer than 3,000 Nigerian youths are to benefit from the capacity building programme midwifed by the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) in collaboration with the Peoples Republic of China later in the year.

The Director General, NCAC, Otunba Segun Runsewe, revealed this to  journalists when he received in audience the Chinese Cultural Attache Lee Xuda in Abuja.

Runsewe stated that his recent visit to China gave him an opportunity to understudy the secret behind the ingenuity and creativeness of the Chinese in goods production.  According to him, there is  need for Nigerian youths to be exposed and trained in such environment to gain the needed skills and knowledge in various area of goods production.

He reiterated that this capacity building programme, when finalized, will involve selected youths from every state of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) who will be sponsored to China by the state governments in Nigeria including FCT.

“The NCAC will facilitate and coordinate the training on various skills acquisition programmes,” he said.

Runsewe maintained that at the end of the capacity building programme, the skills acquired by the youths will enhance growth and economic development in their various states and by extension Nigeria.

Responding, the Chinese Cultural Attache Lee Xuda, said Nigeria and the People’s Republic of China have a strong bilateral and economic relationship, adding that Nigeria is one of the African countries attracting the most investment from China.

He said economic and trade cooperation is the main pillar of the China and Nigeria bilateral relations, noting that it has made tremendous efforts to help Nigeria, which has abundant human and natural resources to develop her economy.

The Cultural Attachee assured the people  that the Chinese government is willing to collaborate with Nigeria in areas that will ensure the growth of the Nigerian economy.