Don wants Govts to intensify campaign on national reorientation

The Rector, Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto, Sokoto State, Prof Aminu Ibrahim on Sunday urged the three tiers of government to intensity awareness campaign on national reorientation.

Ibrahim made the call in a lecture he presented at the formal handing over of renovated Press Centre to the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Sokoto.

NAN reports that the Centre was rehabilitated by Gov. Aminu Tambuwal.

He said the campaign should be geared toward institutionalising the revival of country’s traditional creative industries for socio-economic growth of the nation.

In the lecture titled, “Towards repositioning creative industries for a sustainable socio-economic development in Nigeria”

He explained that Nigeria has potentials in developing traditional creative industries that would facilitate more creativity toward encouraging self reliance so as not to rely on white color jobs.

“Such moves will surely engage our teeming youths into various skills and address issues of unemployment to promote development in the country.

“Private sectors should ensure that they make proportionate investment in the creative industries by way of funding and related services,” he said.

He further called on government at all levels to invest in the education sector to enhance socio-economic activities in the country.

“Education has been the foundation for creative skills and services as well as technologies in the society.

“There is a need for an overall reorientation and modernisation of the informal sector as the base of economy and the key strategy for both poverty eradication and economic self reliance,” he said.

He stressed the need for tertiary institutions to focus on research to ensure economic growth based on reinventing the country’s creative industries to match with the global trends.

He said that, Nigeria’s unique socio-cultural, historical and geographic features should be the basis for promotion of its own distinctive brands of cultural tourism, ecotourism, education, economic and health tourism.

“This is in addition to the possibilities of constituting itself into an important African regional tourist attraction,” he said.

In his remarks, Gov. Tambuwal, who, was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Bashir Garba, pledged to support working journalists in the state.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, represented by Ubandoman Sabon Birnin Sokoto, Alhaji Malami Maccido, commended the government for renovating the Centre and called on journalists to make the best use of the Centre.