The Federal Government will hold a three-day national summit on
culture and tourism later in April 2016 in furtherance of its economic diversification agenda, the Minister of Information and
Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said.

The minister announced this in Abuja on Tuesday while declaring
open a session between the Federal Ministry of Information and
Culture and the British Council on the planned collaboration
between both organisations.

Mohammed, according to a statement issued by his Special
Assistant, Mr. Segun Adeyemi, said, “As you are very much
aware, a major plank of this administration’s policy is the
diversification of the economy away from oil. To further this
agenda, we in the Ministry of Information and Culture have been
putting in place measures to fast track the diversification agenda
in the culture and tourism sectors.

“One of such measures is to critically assess veritable avenues of
using culture to drive tourism in order to achieve a significant
boost in the vast tourism potentials of the country. In view of
this, we are happy to announce that the ministry will host a three-
day national summit on culture and tourism this April.”

Mohammed said that the Summit, which has the theme:
Repositioning Culture and Tourism in a Diversified Economy ,
would attract stakeholders in the culture and tourism Sectors.
He commended the British Council for its efforts in forging the
partnership with the ministry in the culture sector.

The minister said, “Ahead of a formal partnership between this
ministry and the British Council, we have convened this meeting,
or working session if you like, to provide the platform for better
understanding between us, discuss the proposed areas of
collaboration as well as to agree on an implementation plan for
delivery of the agreed areas under the partnership.

“I am optimistic that this meeting will firm up our collaboration so
that we can then have a comprehensive schedule of joint projects
and the details of their implementation, especially regarding the
areas to be handled by each partner.”

Earlier, the British Council’s Country Representative, Ms. Connie
Price, who led a five-member team, said the session was aimed
at understanding the ministry’s priorities in the area of culture in
order to facilitate an agreement on the specific actions to be
implemented.

http://www.punchng.com/fg-to-hold-national-summit-on-culture-tourism/

Nice.

Lai Mohammed is back.

Oh not again. Mr Liar are we going to trek to the venue? We need fuel please talk to your master first about what is more important for now.

Pasmac14:
Nice.

THAT THEY ARE GOING TO HOST CULTURES SHOW EACH DAY FOR THE NEXT 365 DAYS OF THE YEAR FOR FOUR YEARS?

Lia Mohammed is back..... Pls who opened his mouth?

Fooolishness everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gGEv_yF1zo

[size=15pt]Culture and Tourism contributes less than 1.5% of Nigeria's GDP[/size]