Craft Innovation Hub, CIH, in partnership with Kuliyan Ngari of Ilorin Emirate National Youth Summit, KULNEMS, has successfully completed a free six-day Amazon KDP and book publishing programme, with all certified participants creating publisher accounts and publishing their books online before the close of training.
The intensive programme, held at Craft Innovation Hub, Agbo Oba Area, Ilorin, was designed to move participants from beginner level to practical self-publishing readiness.
According to the uploaded class outline, the training covered Amazon KDP introduction, niche selection, title creation, content development, formatting, cover design, account creation, book upload process, keywords, categories, pricing, marketing basics, live publishing, student practical review, graduation, and certification.
The uploaded training document describes the programme as a six-day pathway from zero to published author, while the certificate pack confirms the completion period as 30 March to 4 April 2026.
The training was facilitated by Adedokun Nasirudeen Ayinde, who guided participants through the practical steps required to write, package, upload, and publish books on Amazon KDP. By the end of the programme, the result was not just classroom participation but real digital output, with participants leaving the hub as newly published authors with live publishing experience.
The graduation and certification ceremony was followed by a mentorship session led by Kuliyan Ngari of Ilorin Emirate, Prof. Yusuf OlaOlu Ali, SAN, whose presence gave further weight to the programme’s message that young people can convert knowledge into visible, legitimate, and scalable digital opportunities.
Also in attendance were the Coordinator of the Summit, Mr. Abiodun Abdulkareem, and former State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Umar Abdulwahab, among other guests.
The certified participants are Ahmed Garba Ajikobi, Salman Mujeebah Damilola, Abdulkadir Nimotallahi, Ahmed Garba A., Ibraheem Habeeb Olohuntoyin, Kehinde Habeeb Adebayo, Akanbi Muhammad-Saeed, Abdulrazaq Misturat Gbemisola, and Sidiq Yetunde Maryam.
The certificate pack contains nine completion certificates issued under the CIH and KULNEMS partnership for the same six-day Amazon KDP publishing sprint.
Speaking on the significance of the programme, organisers said the training was created to go beyond theory and ensure participants gained practical digital publishing experience within a short but intensive period.
That outcome aligns strongly with CIH’s wider mission of linking learning to real portfolio outcomes, income pathways, and practical competence. CIH’s broader programme direction emphasises practical digital skills, work readiness, and income-linked training rather than abstract classroom exposure alone.
What sets this programme apart is its outcome-based structure. Rather than ending with notes and motivation alone, the participants were required to complete actual publishing tasks.
The uploaded course pricing document also lists Amazon KDP and Book Publishing among CIH’s modular courses, showing that the programme fits directly within the hub’s practical skills ecosystem.
For many of the participants, the programme opened a new route into the global digital economy, especially at a time when young people increasingly need legitimate, low-barrier ways to monetise knowledge, creativity, and expertise.
In six days, participants moved from learning how Amazon KDP works to producing real books and publishing them online. That transformation reflects the growing relevance of short, intensive, execution-focused training models in Ilorin and across Kwara State.
Beyond the certificates awarded, the programme also demonstrated the value of strategic collaboration between innovation-driven institutions and youth-focused platforms.
For CIH, it reinforced its role as a hub for practical digital empowerment. For KULNEMS, it showed how partnership can move beyond advocacy into measurable skills development with immediate outcomes.
The completion of the free Amazon KDP programme at Agbo Oba is therefore more than a graduation story. It is a local proof point that when the right training model, the right mentorship, and the right institutional partnership come together, young people can produce market-ready output in record time.
