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LASG trains 100 youths to build careers in event planning

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  • The Lagos State Government has trained 100 youths in event planning and management to foster careers and businesses in the growing industry.
  • Graduates of the maiden training program received certificates, equipped with practical skills for event coordination, production, catering, and hospitality.
  • Officials urged the graduates to pursue event planning professionally, emphasizing the need for organizational, digital, and financial skills beyond passion to build sustainable careers and create employment.

The Lagos State Government has equipped 100 young individuals with essential skills through its maiden Events Planning and Management Training Programme. This initiative aims to empower them to build careers and establish businesses within the state's expanding events industry.

The initiative was aimed at moving young Lagosians beyond having creative interests to developing those interests into sustainable careers and businesses.

— Akinyemi AjigbotafeExplaining the objective of the event planning training program.

The beneficiaries, who graduated from the program organized by the Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment in collaboration with Zapphire Training School, received certificates. The training focused on providing practical skills applicable to various aspects of the industry, including event coordination, production, catering, logistics, photography, entertainment, and hospitality.

Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Akinyemi Ajigbotafe, stated that the program is designed to help young Lagosians transform their creative interests into sustainable careers and businesses. He noted that the events industry now demands more than just creativity, requiring practitioners to possess strong organizational, digital, financial, and professional competencies. The government's intervention seeks to provide market-relevant skills to enhance employment and entrepreneurship prospects.

Ajigbotafe said the events industry had developed into a significant economic sector requiring more than creativity, with practitioners increasingly expected to possess organisational, digital, financial and professional skills.

— Akinyemi AjigbotafeDescribing the evolving demands of the events industry.

Chairman of the House Committee on Wealth Creation and Employment, Stella Osafile, encouraged the graduates to view event planning as a serious profession capable of generating wealth, rather than a mere side activity. She stressed that success hinges on discipline, knowledge, professionalism, and continuous skill development, urging them to aim at creating employment opportunities for others.

She said passion alone would not guarantee success in the industry, stressing the importance of discipline, knowledge, professionalism and continuous skills development.

— Stella OsafileAdvising the graduates on the key elements for success in event planning.

The program included practical training and industry exposure through internships with professional event teams. Funke Bucknor, Managing Director of Zapphire Events, highlighted that these internships provided trainees with hands-on experience in planning, production, coordination, and on-site event management, underscoring the industry's diverse opportunities across interconnected businesses.

Osafile also challenged the beneficiaries to build enterprises that could create employment for other young people instead of limiting their ambitions to securing jobs.

— Stella OsafileEncouraging the graduates to become employers themselves.
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