NAN-H-65
Training
By Suleiman Shehu
Ibadan, Sept. 6, 2017 (NAN) The National Museum of Unity, Ibadan, has advised the 183 participants it trained in the production of adire and home care products to improve on the skills acquired during the programme.
Mr Amos Olorunnipa, the Curator of the museum, gave the advice on Wednesday in Ibadan at the closing ceremony of the capacity building workshop and presentation of certificates to graduates of the programme.
The curator said that skills learnt had to be improved upon, developed and over time refreshed and refined.
“ You have to go and improve on the good things you learnt during your training period.
“ These skills will help you achieve outstanding results and gain the respect of your communities.
“ It will also help you to learn how to take charge of your own career and become an asset to any organisation be it local, state and federal as well as the private sector,’’ the curator said.
He also advised them to understand the culture of their environment and the impact of culture on business relationship to produce unique adire cloth.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the occasion, Mr Tunde Odunlade, said the training had made the participants to become entrepreneurs.
Odunlade said youths constitute the human resource stock for the nation’s future development and should be trained in vocations that would make them to be self-reliant.
He said that the task of nation building was that of the government and other members of the society.
Odunlade called on the public to patronise the museum in order to understand the rich culture of the Nigerian society.
Earlier, Mrs Caroline Oluyemi, the Coordinator of the workshop, said that the training initiative lasted four weeks.
She said 138 youths were trained on adire making while 45 were engaged in making home care products such as disinfectants and detergents.
Oluyemi thanked the curator and other stakeholders who contributed to the successful completion of the training programme. (NAN)
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(Edited by Ifeyinwa Okonkwo/Mufutau Ojo)