The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS, Dr. Uche Nworah will in partnership with Awka Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture convene a National Summit on Igbo Apprenticeship.
The objective of the organizers is to bring to the fore at this time, the Igbo apprenticeship scheme, which they believed, could help reposition Nigeria as it battles various issues including unemployment, banditry, ethnic agitations etc.
In an interview with the press, Dr. Nworah spoke on the Igbo apprenticeship scheme and how the scheme could be repositioned to help Nigeria as it battles various issues, including unemployment, banditry, and ethnic agitations among others.
Explaining the Igbo apprenticeship scheme, Dr. Nworah said it is an entrepreneurial model where an entrepreneur takes under tutelage an apprentice, and teaches him or her the rudiments of a particular trade for an agreed period, hence on completion, the entrepreneur gives the apprentice seed capital.
He emphasized that it is majorly indigenous to Ndigbo and over time has become part of their culture and tradition.
According to the ABS boss the keynote speaker, High Chief Dr. Obiora Okonkwo, and the high-powered panel of discussants will X-ray the Igbo apprenticeship scheme, bring out the positives while also recommending areas that should be improved upon for the scheme to continue to be relevant in the 21st century.
Dr. Nworah further stressed that the Igbo apprenticeship system that mentors, empowers and creates wealth along the lines of trained apprentices either in skills training or trading has also helped in the industrialisation of Anambra State and entire South-East.
Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS, will in partnership with Awka Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (AWKACCIMA) convene a National Summit on Igbo Apprenticeship.
The objective of the organizers is to bring to the fore at this time, the Igbo apprenticeship scheme, which they believed, could help reposition Nigeria as it battles various issues including unemployment, banditry, ethnic agitations etc.
In an interview with the press, Dr. Uche Nworah, MD/CEO of Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) spoke on the Igbo apprenticeship scheme and how the scheme could be repositioned to help Nigeria as it battles various issues, including unemployment, banditry, and ethnic agitations among others.
Explaining the Igbo apprenticeship scheme, Dr. Nworah said it is an entrepreneurial model where an entrepreneur takes under tutelage an apprentice, and teaches him or her the rudiments of a particular trade for an agreed period, hence on completion, the entrepreneur gives the apprentice seed capital.
He emphasized that it is majorly indigenous to Ndigbo and over time has become part of their culture and tradition.
According to the ABS boss the keynote speaker, High Chief Dr. Obiora Okonkwo, and the high-powered panel of discussants will X-ray the Igbo apprenticeship scheme, bring out the positives while also recommending areas that should be improved upon for the scheme to continue to be relevant in the 21st century.
Dr. Nworah further stressed that the Igbo apprenticeship system that mentors, empowers and creates wealth along the lines of trained apprentices either in skills training or trading has also helped in the industrialisation of Anambra State and entire South-East.
The summit will hold on Wednesday, 9th March, 2022 at Hilton Leisure Hotel, Regina Caeli road, Awka by 10am. Entry is free but interested sponsors can contact 08060983636, 08063855744 and 08037442606.
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