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EKITI SET TO ESTABLISH ARTS CRAFTS TOURISM VILLAGE - COMMISSIONER
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ON NOVEMBER 2, 20201:28 AMIN NEWS
The Ekiti government is set to establish an Arts, Crafts and Tourism Village in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
The state Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism in Ekiti, Prof. Rasaki Ojo-Bakare, made the disclosure in a statement issued on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti.
He said that the establishment of the village had become imperative in order to ensure the sustainability of the culture and tourism enhancement policy of the Gov. Kayode Fayemi-led administration.
According to him, the village will warehouse all the unique traditional arts, crafts, indigenous apparel, culinary heritage, cultural occupations and creative endowments, which he describes as the trans-generational inheritance of the people but which are ebbing towards extinction.
The village, the commissioner said, would also showcase the excellent unique cultural and traditional values, which had made the state homogenous and the indigenes who they were.
Ojo-Bakare commended the governor for his keen interest and passionate commitment to the development of arts, culture and tourism in the state, saying that this had led to the creation of his ministry.
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He noted that this had also paved way for the passage of the Ekiti State Arts, Culture and Tourism bill by the House of Assembly as well as its signing into law by the governor.
The commissioner also attributed the inauguration of the state Performing Arts Company and the engagement of the private sector in the management of tourism sites in the state, creation of the ministry and the appointment of a commissioner as indicating the importance attached to the sector.
Ojo-Bakare said that due to the tenacity of purpose of the Fayemi-led administration on arts and tourism development, the state had participated in both international and local events.
He listed some of the events to include Nigeria’s independence celebration in Hungary in 2019, International Drum Festival in Abeokuta, Edo 2019, where the state emerged as the most creative and innovative state in Nigeria as well as the reinvigorated EKIFEST 2019.
The commissioner added that the governor had also sponsored a delegation to Rio de Janeiro Festival in Brazil, where the state tourism asset was marketed for investors and tourists.
He said that the COVID-19 pandemic had prevented international tourists from visiting the state in June and July.
Bakare stated that all roads would lead to the state in December, when the multi-purpose Kayode Fayemi Cultural Centre would be inaugurated, with a command performance by the newly-unveiled state Performing Arts Company.
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ASUU TO FG: WHY DO YOU WANT TO SPEND MONEY ON IPPIS WHEN UTAS IS FREE
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By Adesina Wahab
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has challenged the Federal Government to tell Nigerians why it prefers to spend money on enrolling workers on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, when the union’s University Transparency and Accountability System, UTAS, can be used for the same purpose free of charge.
The National President of ASUU, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, threw the challenge on Sunday in a chat with Vanguard.
He wondered why the government would insist on wasting scarce public resources on an investment that would in the end fail to meet expectations.
“We are close to actualising UTAS’ integrity process. We wonder why the government is insisting on IPPIS that cannot meet expectations in terms of performance. Does it make sense for the government to waste money on IPPIS?
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“For everyone listed on the IPPIS platform, they pay some money to those who brought the platform. But for UTAS, they don’t need to pay a dime. They should tell Nigerians why despite the economic challenges in the country, they are insisting on something that would take money from the national purse when some people have a better alternative that costs nothing. Definitely, something must be wrong somewhere,†he said.
On the claim by the government that most university lecturers have been enrolled in IPPIS, Ogunyemi said it was untrue.
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“From our investigations, not up to one quarters of our members are on the platform. The few ones on the platform are of three categories. The first being those close to retirement or those retiring who felt being enrolled would help secure their entitlements.
“The second category is the newly-recruited staff who also felt they wanted to secure their jobs and those who were cajoled into enrolling. The government only listed names of our members on the platform without the biometric being done by the listed lecturers and when the biometric is not done, the listing amounts to nothing.
“If they are still boasting that they have our members on the IPPIS, what are they sending teams to universities to list members on the IPPIS,†he stated.
On last week’s meeting, ASUU had with the government delegation, Ogunyemi said nothing was really achieved because matters for discussion were just opened before the meeting ended.
He added that another meeting would take place during the week but could not confirm the date yet.
ASUU has been on strike since late March this year over issues such as the revitalisation of the university system, setting up of Visitation Panels to universities, implementation of an earlier agreement reached with the government among others before the IPPIS issue cropped up.
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