CULTURE, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT *Promoting the three Bottom lines*
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| From the Special Practical Phase of the training |
A popular saying has it that "Beliefs are harder to shake than knowledge".
In this piece, my focus is to discuss this age long popular axiom, with regard to what is expected in reality from the participants of the ongoing skills acquisition training programme in Film Making and Creative Media Production that the African Film Institute is conducting in the serene and captivating City of Jos, the Plateau state capital, North Central Nigeria.
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| A lighting equipment used for the training |
Recently, Scoreline reported that the introductory training classes conducted for the commencement of lessons for more than 300 participants of the 6 months skills acquisition programme hosted in Jos, the Plateau state capital, has come to an end.
The introductory training classes that just ended, is part of the ongoing 6 months skills acquisition training in Film Making and Creative Media Production, designed by the African Film Institute (AFI).
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| A typical introductory class session of the programme |
The over one month introductory classes of the on-going, hands on, skill acquisition training, in Film Making and Creative Media Production, holding in Jos, the Plateau state capital, North Central Nigeria, has come to an end, and a new phase begins.
The entire skill acquisition training, in Film Making and Creative Media Production programme, which is designed to run for 6 months, between the last quarter of 2025 (October to December) and first quarter of 2026 (January to March), has entered the practical phase. Though, classes for this phase is yet to commence, the participants are busy conducting the activities required of them to ensure the phase runs smoothly, Scoreline reports.
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| Investigation cum Interrogation scene. One of the classroom sessions of the programme |
"Competence and its companion, functional skill, are fundamental tools for the success minded. They are critical tools, necessary for the attainment of worthwhile results. They stand in a strategic position, and to a large extent determine the success of individuals and Nations on one hand, and on the other hand their failure.
"Competence and functional skill, are essential to sustainable growth and development. They are to success what blood is to the body"... Nnabugwu Chizoba
The statement above, though brief, captures my understanding of how important the tools of "Competence and Functional Skill" are to humans.
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| Barr Nungji Salama Bulus |
Barr Nungji Salama Bulus, a legal Practitioner, based in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria, has applauded the African Film Institute and the federal ministry of education, Nigeria, for what he described as their intervention in building the human capacity and resource base of Plateau state.
He spoke to Scoreline in Jos during the flag off ceremony of a 6 months hand on skills acquisition education and training Programme in Film Making and Creative Media Production, put together by the African Film Institute (AFI), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria.
