The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says the ministry will leverage on the cultural industry of the nation to employ many people, especially the youth. He spoke during the inauguration of the “One Lagos Fiesta’’ at Agege Stadium, Lagos on Sunday night.
Lai-Mohammed“I can assure you that by January 2016, when we will start rolling out our programmes, we will be able to mop up as many unemployed youths as possible using the cultural platform,’’ he said. He said that the Federal Government had earmarked N500 billion in 2016 budge to help young people who wanted to acquire skills and trade.
“What we have decided to do is to cooperate with all states and ask each state to give us 10 cities in their state, 10 festivals and 10 cultural industries. “With this, we can have 360 festivals plus another five in Abuja making 365 festivals in Nigeria. “This will mean that for every day, there will be festival taking place in one part of Nigeria,’’ he said.
Mohammed said that the idea would enable Nigeria to have a compendium of cultural festivals and dates. He added that the compendium would be sent abroad to intimate people with the festivals available in the country at a particular time.
Also Speaking, Gov. Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State said that the fiesta was part of his administration’s efforts to bring governance to the communities and to have a government of inclusion. According to him, the fiesta is about the people living in the state. The highlights of the fiesta included live performance by musicians, including Seun Kuti, Dbanj and Sasha, among others.
The fiesta is organised by the Lagos State Government to enliven the New Year crossover celebration. The festival-like event is scheduled to hold simultaneously in five different locations of the state from Dec. 27 to Jan.1, 2016.
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is this how to create jobs ? why can't we learn from other countries that has succeeded in this area.
ReplyDeleteFestival year in 2016 for Lie Moh'd
ReplyDeleteGod will this administration to achieve all these and many more. God bless Nigeria
ReplyDeleteWhen the time com,Na Jonathan Make them no create this job they promised . This old man called lai has made himself a laughing stock.Lai Lai old man.
ReplyDeletelolzzz@ 10 cities in each Nigerian State...you wander if he actually mean 10 villages...hahahaha...quite a nice sign of ignorance of the area of operation.
ReplyDeleteWe are not interested on how you gonna create jobs, Nigerians need actions. Let's do away with theories and dwell in practical. We are tired of empty promises from unwise leaders
ReplyDeleteFestivals and employment, how does one correlate that? APC and policies, I dey hail Una for here oooo. It is hilarious for Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture to correlate festival to employment. This signifies that unreadiness of the APC government.
ReplyDeleteI will candidly advice the government to substitute those 365 festival proposed by Lai to manufacturing industries which can gainfully employ the teaming unemployed people of the country.
It is time APC sit up and come up with policies that will benefit our economy. We have wasted over 6months in nothingness and vain promises. Pls we beg of you to act fast.