The Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa has reiterated the administration’s commitment to job creation using the vehicle of arts.

She spoke in Lagos, at the weekend at the unveiling of the Ananse Centre, a 1,200-square-meter facility in Lagos.

The centre’s wider goal is to enable more than 5,000 emerging fashion and design-focused creatives and create access to 50,000 jobs, with seventy percent of participants being young women.

The minister, who endorsed the centre after signing a five-year memorandum of understanding with Ananse to scale the model nationwide, said the launch of the Ananse Center for Design Lagos aligns with the commitment to advancing Nigeria’s creative economy.

Speaking during the panel session, the minister noted that one of the biggest challenges confronting designers on e-commerce is unfulfilled orders, poor access to data, and the issue of how to sustain supply chains.