Admin l Tuesday, March 30, 2021
NASARAWA, Nigeria – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has paid a visit to the famous Farin Ruwa Falls in Nasarawa State. The Minister who visited the Farin Ruwa Falls in company of Alhaji Nura Sani Kangiwa, Director General of the National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR) and Mr. Folorunsho Coker, Director General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC).
They team also visited other tourist attractions in the state. Speaking during the tour, Minister of Information pledged the support of the Federal Government (FG) to boost the tourism potentials of Nasarawa state for its socio-economic growth and development.
He stressed the need for collaboration with the private sector to address critical infrastructural deficits to tourism sites and overcome skill gaps in manpower requirements of the hospitality and tourism industry of the state.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed pledges FG’s support when he paid a courtesy visit on the Governor of the state, Engr. Abdullahi Sule in Lafiya, the state capital during a two-day working visit to Nasarawa. He
He said the National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR) the nation’s apex public training Institute under his Ministry will offer training to youths of the state free on tour guiding as a way of enhancing the capacity needs of the state tourism industry.
Noting that Nasarawa has massive tourism sites and products to be tapped, the minister called on private sector investors to partner with both the state and the FG to develop the untapped tourism potentials that the state is endowed with..
Lai Mohammed said with collaborative efforts of government and the private sector in the areas of tourism sites development, construction of infrastructural facilities at relevant places of tourism attractions and aggressive marketing of the potential tourism products and attractions, the state can comfortably be strategically placed on the map of global tourism.
The Deputy Governor had earlier expressed the commitment of Governor Sule Abdullahi’s administration to develop the state’s tourism potentials for the socio-economic development of the state in particular, and the country in general.
He called on the federal government to assist the state as infrastructural facility development needed to boost tourism activities in the state are capital intensive.
