Mustafa Abubakar
30 April 2008
Ilorin — The Federal Government in conjunction with the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is to review the National Cultural Policy in order to make it more compliant with global trends.
The Director and country representative of UNESCO in Nigeria, Mr. Abhimanyu Singh disclosed this in Ilorin recently.
The country representative who was himself represented by the National professional Officer (culture), Lizzy Ihezue also commended the Esie community for their efforts at getting the National Museum Esie listed a world heritage.
"The present government of Nigeria places a lot of premium on tourism development as the Federal Ministry of Tourism and Culture is putting in place a heritage conservation master plan as well as a tourism master plan", he said.
He said the objective of these master plans were to ensure that mass tourism does not develop at the expense of cultural heritage, adding that the Heritage Conservation Master plan would build capacities and encourage states and communities to plan for and promote sustainable economic development.
He stressed that in 2008/2009, UNESCO in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation and NATCOM would embark on the mapping and documentation of heritage sites in the country, one of which includes the Esie Soapstone sites.
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