Were I one of the leaders of the ADC alliance, I would formulate a Nigerian tourism policy centred around the Koma people of Adamawa State

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We will build a mega Koma village in Adamawa State centred around the traditional culture of these people. Our goal would be to make it a global tourist attraction, a Unesco heritage site and get it to attract as much traffic as say the Eiffel Tower

[2] In Iseyin, we will construct a tomb of Samuel Ajayi Crowther to attract Christian pilgrims from all over Africa

[3] In Sokoto, we will reconstruct the tomb of Usman Dan Fodio to attract African Muslim pilgrims

[4] Nigeria is desperately crying out for a Niagra Falls type facility at Lokoja at the confluence the rivers Niger and Benue. We will replicate what they have in Canada here

[5] We will open the world’s largest cattle ranch in Sambisa Forest. It will show tourists how the livestock industry works. Kind of like what Universal Studios in Los Angeles does with acting

[6] To take Nigeria to unprecedented heights, our tourism trade will have a mega wildlife sanctuary similar to Kruge National Park in Taraba State. This will be the world’s largest wildlife park that matches the Serengeti

[7] We still have large swathes of tropical rainforest in Nigeria. Known as the lungs of the earth, the tropical rainforest has to be preserved. We will build a wildlife sanctuary in the forests along the Edo/Ondo state borders

[8] Not a lot Nigerians know that the eagle is our national animal. We must be home to the world’s largest eagle sanctuary. I would locate such an eagle facility in Niger State because it has the largest land mass of all our states

[9] Nigeria is desperately calling out for a mega slave trade museum at Badagry. We will rebuild those castles and slave dungeons to recreate the past

[10] We should honour our first true nationalist with the construction of a Jaja of Opobo mausoleum in his island

We should set ourselves a target of generating $50bn a year from tourism!

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