Tinubu approves inaugurates inter-ministerial c’ttee on African Global Festival Nigeria

The federal government has inaugurated an eight-man Inter-Ministerial Committee on African Global Festival Nigeria (AGLOFEST) in a bid to promote Nigeria’s cultural heritage and economic diversification drive in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

While inaugurating the committee on Tuesday in Abuja, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, said the committee was approved by President Tinubu with the aim of diversifying Nigeria’s economy from oil-centrism to tapping into the potentials in the nation’s cultural gold mine to improve the nation’s Gross Domestic Products (GDP).

Akume, represented by the Permanent Secretary, General Services Office (GSO), Dr. Nnamdi Maurice Mbaeri, assured that the African Global Festival will serve as a game changer in providing job opportunities to the teeming population of youths in the country.

The Inter-Ministerial Committee which has the SGF, Senator Akume, as Chairman and the Permanent Secretary, GSO as a member and Secretary, has membership drawn from the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy; Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment; Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC); Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Department of State Services (DSS); and the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun.

Speaking earlier, the Convener of the African Global Festival Nigeria (AGLOFEST), Dr. Mac Alabi Babatunde said that when fully harnessed, the African Global Festival will in the next five years yield around $20bn worth of investment into the various sectors of the creative economy.