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Nigeria partners Sudan on creative cultural business, digital economy

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said Nigeria will partner with the Republic of Sudan on Creative Cultural Business and Digital Economy.

Mohammed stated this on Tuesday when he received the Ambassador of Sudan to Nigeria, Ibrahim Bushira Ali, who paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja.

The Minister said it was high time the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Republic of the Sudan changed the concept of economic co-operation and stop restricting economic co-operation to just buying of oil or selling of machineries.

In his words: “We should look today to a broader interpretation and meaning of cultural and economic relationship to bring the two countries together and create economic development.

“The two countries have excellent diplomatic and bilateral relations with cultural cooperation which can transcend into economic development and can create employment of youth and women not as symbol of friendship between the two countries but as basis for economic development.”

The Minister disclosed that the creative industry is one major area that Nigeria and Sudan can strengthen their relationship just as the Kannywood in the Northern part of Nigeria is making waves in Sudan.

He stressed that Nigeria is ready to deepen the creative and cultural relations in film making and capacity building with Sudan as economy built on creativity and cultural economy engenders more understanding, more friendship and more money.

Mohammed expressed the readiness of Nigeria to welcome and train Sudanese artistes on Children films and Animation.

Earlier, Ali stated that Sudan is ready to work closely with Nigeria to deepen the economic relations between the two countries, noting that more than five million Nigerians are living in Sudan and have contributed significantly to the socio-economic development of Sudan.

He expressed his readiness to work with the Ministry in the areas of economic development, cultural relations and capacity building in order to deepen the existing relations between the two countries.

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