I've always said oil is not Nigeria's greatest asset.  One of our prime assets is our culture. With over 350 ethnic groups and different languages we have a lot to share with the world. Our country should be a natural global tourist destination. This will create a large number of jobs for our people and earn us substantial foreign exchange.…

Our country is blessed with rich exotic landscapes, historical monuments, natural forests, waterfalls, lakes, rivers and sandy beaches.  Similarly, each of the over 350 ethnic groups have a traditional festival to display or a special form of creativity to offer contemporary society. However, there are challenges limiting the benefits to society from this grossly untapped sector. These challenges are: inadequate promotion of local culture, poor support for Arts and Cultural centres across the country, demonization of Nigeria's artefacts and general under-funding.

Policy Objectives

In partnership with the private sector, we hope to transform the culture and tourism sector into one of the big earners of foreign exchange.

What We Will Do

We shall:

a. Encourage talented individuals to harness, and showcase abroad, certain aspects of our literary, material, and performance traditions.

b. Promote local traditional festivals, so as to revive the culture and traditions of our people.

c. Encourage the private sector to invest in the revival of our national parks.

d. Reinstate the Bi-Annual National Festival of Arts and Culture.

e. Encourage intervention fund and increase budget support for culture and tourism.

f. Advocate the granting of loans and grants to qualified practitioners.

g. Developed more tourist destinations in partnership with states of the federation to attract home based and foreign tourists

h. Support and promote the work of Nollywood in projecting  Nigeria's cultural productions abroad.