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The link between  Nigeira’s indigenous culture and the political manpower needed to efficently it’s ecomonic potentianshals is missing says the Guardian’s Bridget Chiedu Onochie in her article At workshop, culture workers told to harness Nigeria’s culture-tourism potentials.

This was the focus of the Third National Workshop organised by the National Institute for Cultural Orientation held in Kaduna, last week. The conference decided that Nigera’s cultural tourism potentials should be harnessed. Through proper festivals, historical and cultural sites as well as a  tourism programe that guarantees the inflow of international tourists. Making  culture  play a vital role in international relations.

They said in order to achive this the “government has to take concrete steps to re-brand and repackage the nation’s culture in a way that it can be marketable to the rest of the world.”

To read Chiedu Onochie article click here.

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