Wofai Samuel: March 2016

Friday, 18 March 2016

JOHN KAYODE FAYEMI, WOFAI SAMUEL, EMMANUEL UDUAGHAN, RUNSEWE AT THE NEW TELEGRAPH ECONOMIC SUMMIT, BEYOND THE OIL ECONOMY.

The former Governor of Ekiti State , now Honourable Minister for Solid Minerals - John Kayode Fayemi, Former Governor of Delta State- Dr.Emmanuel Uduaghan, Deputy Governor of Central Bank- Dr. Sarah Alade, Secretary to the Government of Lagos State - Tunji Bello, Ex Director General of NTDC- High Chief Runsewe, Wofai Samuel were among dignitaries gathered together to chart a new course for Nigeria's economy, looking beyond oil.
While Kayode Fayemi spoke vividly about the potentials in solid minerals and mining, Dr. Uduaghan talked about the prospects in different fields of tourism. Wofai Samuel made brilliant suggestions on how Nigeria can further strengthen it's tourism sector thus creating employment for it's teaming populace.
She stated clearly that tourism would not thrive without arts and culture, thus every state has a culture or a festival with the potential of attracting visitors, she said if these festivals are refined in a more sophisticated form like the calabar carnival and the eyo festival of lagos, visitors from all parts of the world who attend would always want to return to their destinations with memorabilia', thus Nigerians would get more creative with their crafts. Also she spoke about the sector working closely with both national and international media, saying the media needs to spread the word and further enlighten ten its masses about the need for tourism , what tourism is really about and how they can key into these potentials.
Shortly after these points were raised by Wofai Samuel, Runsewe and Uduaghan affirmed to them as brilliant and commendable. Otunba Gani Adams had to react to the comments Wofai made about festivals saying that NTDC in the past leadership of Runsewe seldom honoured invitations to festivals organized by groups in different climes especially his.
This sort of created a controversy which led to a stern argument between these creative minds. In the end of it all, the session was a brilliant one with so much value added.