The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Edo State Governor on Tourism and Creative Economy, in collaboration with GritinAI, held a One‑Day Intensive Practical Workshop equipping creatives and entrepreneurs with hands‑on mastery of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for image, video, and content generation.
Held at GTFoods Plus in Benin City, GRA, the workshop empowered young business owners across Edo State with immediate, hands-on training in using AI tools to enhance their business operations, marketing capabilities, and overall competitiveness, driving economic growth.
In her opening remarks, Anto Lecky, the Senior Special Assistant to the Edo State Governor on Tourism and Creative Economy welcomed the participants, describing the training as an opportunity for Edo creatives and SMEs to learn technology skills that will help them improve their services and increase their economic viability.
She reminded the participants that in order to prevent Artificial Intelligence from taking their job, they must learn how to use Artificial Intelligence to do their job better.
She kindly reminded the youth participants about the importance of timeliness and good customer service in promoting better businesses, a better state and country.
The CEO of GritinAI, Peter Nnachor, appreciated the SSA and the Edo State Government for partnering with the company to organize such an important training seminar to equip Edolites with tools that better promote their businesses and Edo State at large. “Artificial Intelligence is a leveler, helping users compete with global creatives and businesses. Edo State creatives will now be up to par with their peers across the world thanks to the SSA and state government.”
During the session, the team from GritinAI educated the participants on using AI for Branding and Visual Marketing, Sales
Copy and Communication, Customer
Service and Efficiency and Refining Outputs
and Ethical Use.
Participants engaged with AI tools to create
professional social media visuals, draft
sales pitches, website copy, product descriptions, and effective email marketing campaigns, generate FAQs and streamline
routine administrative tasks, and localise and edit AI outputs to ensure quality, professionalism, and relevance to the Edo market.
At the conclusion of the workshop, students were added to a work group portal where they will have access to more AI tools with their progress being tracked by the SSA and GritinAI. Students will also receive a certificate proving completion of the training.
A participant, Osayarion Ogbeide-Ihama, thanked the SSA and the Governor, His Excellency Sen. Monday Okpebholo, for the opportunity that provided Edo SMEs and creatives with digital AI experience and knowledge. “This initiative is truly second to none, and clearly shows how passionate His Excellency is about technology and about growing our economic ecosystem. The SSA’s role as the initiator of this project further demonstrates that the Governor made the right choice in selecting people with creative and innovative ideas to help drive our economy forward. I will certainly take what I have learned from this workshop and apply it to improve and grow my business. Indeed, Edo is shining,” he added.
