The Director General of the Nigerian National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Olusegun Runsewe, has pledged to create a state-of-the-art cultural market that will offer modern shops selling a variety of artworks, pharmacy, Photoshop, business centre, restaurants for traditional cuisines, an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) gallery, traditional hair weaving centres, organised toilets, tight security, secure parking spaces, police post, and information/complaint desk.
He made this pledge during a media parley in Abuja, adding that the market would create 500 direct and indirect jobs for the nation’s teeming unemployed youths and artists, besides strengthening the economy.
He also said that the NCAC would officially unveil the structure to the public in the next few weeks, and after its first nine months of operation, the cultural market would embrace other businesses like night-out events, birthday shopping, and a quarterly media interaction on how to manage, maintain, and improve the standard of the facility.