LAGOS GOVT. BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL VILLAGE

The Lagos State Government has started the development of a cultural village in Iran, Alimosho Local Government Area of the state.

Talking at the historic function of the cultural village on Saturday, Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf, the commissioner for Tourism, Arts, and Culture, said the venture would enact the rich, different culture and legacy assets in Alimosho.

Ms. Akinbile-Yusuf noticed that this would advance the reasonable improvement of the travel industry as a feasible area of the economy.

As indicated by her, upon fulfillment, the middle will situate Lagos as following the travel industry objective as it is normal to draw in sightseers to Lagos and increment the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the state.

“The idea of the cultural village is to replicate how the Yoruba people used to live in the past before the modern times and as a way of preserving our culture for the younger generation,” the official said.

“It is designed to attract tourists from the diaspora; the project will include a traditional Oba’s palace with a complete Yoruba cultural setting.

“There will be shrines for the celebrated Yoruba traditional gods like Ogun, Obatala, and Sango, among others.

“The village will also feature a research center, a museum for the display of cultural artifacts, and shops for dire makers where visitors can also have their adire materials sown into a boubou while waiting,” she said.

The commissioner noted that tourists could also visit salons to have their hair made in the traditional style or eat at restaurants that will serve local cuisines and palm wine, among others.

The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Commerce, Industries and Cooperatives, Bisi Yusuf, said the project had been in the pipeline and would be sustained by the community.

He expressed gratitude to the Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture for seeing the larger picture and realizing the project’s tourism potential for the state.

“The cultural village is a project that can transform the community, create jobs and boost commercial activities while engendering prosperity for the inhabitants of the area,” he said.

The Chairman of Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area, Bola Sobowale, commended Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for commencing the project.

Ms. Sobowale said it would further develop the area and transform it into an important tourism site.

She assured the state government of the support and cooperation of all indigenes of the community, saying that everybody was looking forward to the speedy completion of the project.