Governor Willie Obiano has said that the Anambra State Government will establish Innovation Centre in the state to provide opportunities for talented individuals to explore their potentials.
The governor disclosed this during the Anambra Technical and Creativity Day held in Awka.
The 2018 State Technical and Creativity event was put together by the State Ministry of Youths Empowerment and Creative Economy in collaboration with the Ministry of Basic Education, which featured series of competitions and contests among various applicants across the areas of Technovation, Script Writing, Acting, Music and Dancing.
In the end, winners emerged and were presented with cheques of various sums.
Also at the ceremony, the Government Technical Colleges in the state had the opportunity to exhibit the various creative works of craft done by their students, including furniture, sports equipment, building accessories, modernized cooking equipment and robot as well as confectionary.
Governor Obiano said the state government will sponsor seven persons, including government and non-government officials to understudy the Cambridge Innovation Centre, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, to enable his government replicate the system in the state.
He revealed that the reason his government made technical education in the state free since his inception of office is to give vent to the creative tendencies of Anambra youths, who he said are highly productive and creative.
The governor noted that in keeping with his administration’s resolve to adequately empower youths, it will continue to support the efforts of both ministries that have great prospects for youths empowerment.
The Commissioner for Youths Empowerment and Creative Economy, Mr. Bonaventure Enemali, said the integration of the creative economy by Governor Obiano in his ministry, has opened up a new dimension in government’s efforts to effectively address the challenges facing the youths, adding that they are also collaborating with NGOs to fully realize their mandate of discovering, developing and deploying talents in youths.
On her part, the Basic Education Commissioner, Prof. Kate Omenugha, said the collaboration between the two ministries is in keeping with the state government’s vision of availing Anambra children education that is globally competitive; noting that through the governor’s intervention, twenty-six trade subjects have received full accreditation in the technical colleges in the state.
Some of the students, including Master Churchill Iwuala from GTC, Onitsha, and Miss Ifeoma Aguiyi from GTC, Enugwu Agidi, while expressing their appreciations for the opportunity created for them to develop their talents, appealed to the state government to assist the colleges with the provision of equipment and funds to enable them practicalize what they are taught.
The winner in the Acting Category, a 14-year-old Miss Christabelle Ezenekwe, who got the sum of five hundred thousand naira, thanked Gov. Obiano for the encouragement which she said, would help her further her education and acting career.
The event also featured the unveiling of the Anambra Young Innovators, a group of youths with ideas on how to provide solutions through technology as well as the Anambra Youths Art Group.
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