Big boost for tourism as Tinubu becomes global envoy for Ipada initiative, carnival 2024

To Rally Nigerians, Africans As Chief Host

Ahead of the November day for Ipada Carnival 2024, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has confirmed his attendance astatine the lawsuit arsenic the main host. This is coming connected the backmost of the President’s earlier endorsement and enactment of the carnival and the ongoing Ipada Initiative being promoted by the Founder and President of La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort, Otunba Wanle Akinboboye, successful collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Tourism.

This improvement was conveyed successful a ceremonial missive by the Chief of Staff to the President, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila. In the August 9 dated letter, Gbajabiamila stated; ‘‘His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has confirmed his attendance for the Ipada Carnival lawsuit arsenic the Chief Host.’’

Besides the President’s attendance arsenic main host, the missive further stated that the President has besides agreed to instrumentality connected a overmuch bigger relation astatine the event, which helium has earlier noted is precise beloved to him due to the fact that it is simply a veritable level to beforehand Nigeria and Africa connected the planetary signifier owed to the benefits to the state and the full African continent.

To this end, Gbajabiamila disclosed that Tinubu; “has graciously accepted the roles of being the Grand Patron and Chief Global Ambassador of the Carnival and Ipada Initiative.” With these expansive roles by him, the President has enactment his authoritative stamp connected the task arsenic having the afloat backing of the Nigerian government.

This is expected to service arsenic a large boost to the improvement and promotion of Nigerian tourism, which successful caller years has witnessed its lowest infinitesimal pursuing deficiency of attraction to its improvement by government.

However, President Tinubu has connected presumption of bureau implicit a twelvemonth agone turned attraction to the assemblage by creating abstracted ministries for Tourism and Culture respectively. Tourism and Culture were hitherto lumped unneurotic nether the Ministry of Information and Culture by the erstwhile administration.

This move, which is seen arsenic portion of achieving the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President that is aimed astatine improving Nigeria’s system by focusing connected tourism, is simply a historical one, arsenic it would beryllium the archetypal clip successful the annals of Nigeria’s taste tourism ecosystem that a sitting President would not lone propulsion his afloat value and that of the Federal Government down a backstage initiative, geared astatine promoting the sector, the state and the continent, but besides personally serving arsenic a rallying constituent arsenic some the main big and planetary ambassador

Ipada Initiative is simply a Motherland Beckons’ activation by Akinboboye that is designed to ignite wide question of Africans successful the Diaspora each implicit the satellite to Africa – Motherland – utilizing Lagos arsenic a gateway to others parts of Africa.

The inaugural is already ongoing, with countless of tourists touching down play astatine the multiple-awards winning African themed La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort located successful Ikegun Village, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos and overflowing to respective different hotels successful the country.

While Ipada Carnival 2024 is going to beryllium the biggest ever cultural, arts, fashion, philharmonic concerts and potpourri of amusement astatine La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort, the lawsuit is scheduled to clasp officially betwixt November 28 and December 8, 2024. Both events are expected to pull rather a batch of tourer to Nigeria and different African countries connected a yearly basis.

The 10 days lawsuit volition connection a memorable level for tourists, some concern and leisure travellers, to research the abundant and colourful taste acquisition that would beryllium uniquely curated for them and concern opportunities successful Africa done the Business Unusual programme, which entails a fig of activations.

It would beryllium recalled that too the President successful his earlier missive of endorsement calling connected authorities astatine each levels to enactment the programme and giving directive to the Minister of Tourism, Mrs Lola Ade-John, to mobilise each government’s apparatuses including Ministries, Departments and Agencies, a fig of authorities governments person connected their ain endorsed and declared afloat enactment for Ipada Initiative and the carnival.

This see the big authorities government, Lagos and past Ekiti, and Ondo portion others are expected to enactment up down Akinboboye and the Ministry of Tourism successful the realisation of this historical task successful the coming days, pursuing the President’s afloat engagement successful ensuring the occurrence of the task for the bully of the federation and the continent.