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5,500 tourist and cultural pictures go online

Each of the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory now have an ample opportunity to showcase their potentials in areas of heritage, festivals, landmarks and tourist appeals on the internet, as a Nigerian Information Technology company is building a photo web site of 5500 Nigerian pictures and graphical history of each state.

The initiative, which is crystallizing in a new website, www.nigeriantourism.com, is conceived and designed by Mr. Bola Adewara, CEO of Livingprojects Media Network. The website, which is still under construction but currently running on the internet, is an effort to give a more vibrant life to the Nigerian heritage on the internet, a medium on which Nigerian cultural protagonists have been silent for a long time.

Adewara, an online journalist, publishers of elifeonline.net, Africa's first online Christian magazine and xtophotos.net, also Africa's first gospel photo website, among other websites said his company, Livingprojects Media Network is embarking on a nation wide tour to take 150 pictures from each state and the Federal Capital Territory to be used on the site.

“These pictures, Adewara said “are indexed into eco tourism, beach tourism, sports tourism, religion tourism, conference tourism, etc. It also focuses on the cultural highlights of different people in all the states, festivals of traditional and religious significance, walls and ancient building, souvenir tourism, etc. The site also focuses on Nigerians native talents and professions like brass and bronze work, cap making, mat weaving, pottery, bead works, tie and dye, leather and calabash, clothe weaving, etc.”

Each of these pictures,” he added “would carry its historical synopsis, location and significance in a fashion that would engender curiosity in the minds of local and foreign site visitors and cause them to visit them.” “The ultimate purpose of the web site, according to Adewara, is to boost tourism by showing the world that Nigerian is indeed a master piece of nature and culture and a centre stage of virgin business opportunities.”

“The site will also feature a calendar of all the cultural and religious festivals in all the nooks and crannies of the 36 State. It will also carry their manuals and the contacts of their facilitators so that journalists, foreigners and interested members of the public who desire to attend the festivals would have enough information on their traditions and expectations.”

Adewara said that all Nigerians should be able to see what other states looks like even without getting there. The interest of tourist is better stimulated when they have a fore-knowledge of where they are going. The colonial buildings in Lokoja, the building where Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (late) was born in Zungeru, the first oil rig in Oloibiri, the spot where former Nigerian Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed was killed in Lagos, the negative impact of desertification in the northern states, the pains of erosion in the east, festivals in the remote villages and so many other things are important pictures to be seen.

“A press report, Adewara said “once revealed that less than 5% of Nigerians know what Abuja looks like. www.nigeriantourism.com will take the generality of Nigerians to Abuja without leaving their residences.”