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October 6, 2019
The Central Bank ofNigeria CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele alongside the Bankers’ Committee,reiterated their commitment to transform the National Arts Theatre with atarget of creating additional 20 million jobs in the country.
Emefiele and hiscounterparts on the project, said this in Lagos, during an assessment tour ofthe facility, alongside the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Sharing same interestin seeing the theatre brought back to life, Sanwo-Olu also assured Nigeriansthat the seemingly dead National Arts Theartre would be resuscitated andconverted to an incoming-generating edifice, just as Wigwe promised that theteam would raise enough private funds to push through with the project.
Emefiele said thefocus of the Bankers’ Committee was to develop skills in the creative sector ofthe economy, which he said was bristling with talent that must be properlyharnessed to grow the economy and develop the country.
Emefiele reiteratedthat Nigerians go out to different seminars, saying, there was a time withinthree months, when Nigerian businessmen were always flying to South Africa toattend seminars, because of the absence of a convention centre.