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A Bright Future
technologies of printing, publishing, packaging, electronic imaging, and their allied industries; they are often referred to as the graphic arts, print, or imaging industries.2 Graphic Communications gives a Lease of Life As long as the human race exists, the graphic communication industry will be in business. The need for information makes communication inevitable. The graphic communication industry, particularly the print media sector, is a major source for meeting human needs with information material. From books to newspapers, posters, magazines, recharge cards, tickets, websites, e.t.c. the human needs for information and educational materials remain inexhaustible. The various organizations that provide these needs are business enterprises. As such, profit remains a major goal. To make profitmaking realizable, management experts have propounded different forms and types of principles. What is common to all of them is that for any business organization to make profits and remain in business the following, popularly dubbed the 4Ms, are factors to reckon with: *Material * Money * Machines and * Manpower No matter the amount of materials, money and machines available, the process of production can never be accomplished without the human factor: manpower. The graphic communication industry in spite of the advent of high sophisticated machines and equipment, depends so much on manpower (skilled and unskilled). It therefore means that at every point in time a pool of capable hands must be available for the industry to tap from. The graphic communication industry in Nigeria has a plethora of job opportunities that can go a long way in solving the unemployment problem in Nigeria. The industry offers the following benefits that can solve unemployment problems in Nigeria to a reasonable extent: