Nigeria's minister of information and culture, Mr Lai Mohammed disclosed on Wednesday at the opening of French, Japanese and Nigerian animated film festival in the nation's capital that a Canadian company will be training over 3000 Nigerian film makers on animation.


According to Mr Lai Mohammed, a Montreal-based company, Toon Boom, will train Nigerian youths in animation. "The firm will provide what is industry grade certification and tools so that those Nigerians can compete for global work. The firm works for Disney, Nickeledeom. It is Nigerians who will do the actual training. It’s a train the trainer and certification programme similar to what happened in India”, he said. On the whole we envisage 5,000 Nigerian youths being trained but we are starting with 3,000”, he added.
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