Kogi to Build First Ever Holiday Village in Africa

The  Segun Runsewe-led Kogi State Advisory Intervention Committee on Culture and Tourism recently inaugurated by the governor of Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello to develop the first ever Holiday Village in Africa o be cited in Lokoja, the state capital has hit the ground running.

The nine-man committee, inaugurated late last year by Governor Yahaya Bello, has developed an eight-point agenda on how to actualize their mandate.

The Committee’s chairman,  Otunba Segun Runsewe, Director General of the National Council for Arts and Culture, NCAC, rose from a strategic meeting on Tuesday, and announced the ratification of the eight point agenda.

The agenda, according to Runsewe, consists of: organising a National Stakeholders’ Meeting in Kogi State; trips to farm and national sites; interface with brand names in the country, setting up of media advisory group players cosnistiing of strategic media practitioners; building a brand identity for the Holiday Village; develop feedback mechanism with the Kogi State Government House; and hosting physical meetings when necessary.

Runsewe thanked the Governor Yahaya Bello for his vision in setting up the advisory intervention committee on culture and tourism with the primary mandate of fast-tracking the development of the huge tourism potentials of Kogi State.

Kogi State, it would be recalled, boasts of many historic, cultural and tourism potentials.

Runsewe also stressed that should Governor Yahaya Bello be able to host the much-talked about National Industry-Stakeholders’ Meeting this year, Kogi State would leapfrog in culture and tourism development as well as the preservation of thee cultural heritage of Nigeria.

The NCAC  Director General commended the Governor Yahaya Bello for his initiative which, he believed, would would hugely benefit the youth as well as future generation.