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Niger State Government Lifts Tourism with Shagunu Beach Resort

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3 years ago

Mar 13, 2022.

The Executive Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello’s efforts to boost tourism in the state.
Honourable Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mrs Chidawa Rifkatu Adamu said ‘’it is the desire of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello led administration in the state to make Shagunu Beach Resort one of the country’s top tourism sites and a destination of first choice .’’

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the decision of a major financial group to fund the project has given a major boost to the Executive Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello’s efforts to boost tourism in the state.

The foreign investor’s decision to invest in Shagunu Beach Resort was the result of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello’s recent foreign investment drives. Shagunu Beach Resort, located in Niger state’s Borgu local government area, has been a major investment center that is believed to be on the state’s current administration’s priority list.

Disclosing this in a statement mid-week, Honourable Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mrs Chidawa Rifkatu Adamu said ‘’it is the desire of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello led administration in the state to make Shagunu Beach Resort one of the country’s top tourism sites and a destination of first choice .’’

‘’Governor Sani Bello has been committed and consistent in driving growth and developments in Niger state, and one of his focal points is how to make Shagunu Beach Resort come alive as one of Nigeria’s top tourism sites’’, Mrs Adamu revealed.

Speaking in a similar vein, Lead Consultant Chief Executive Officer of Marcom Support Services Ltd, Mr. Hakeem Adewale Akintunde said it gladdens the heart that Shagunu Beach Resort has gotten attention of global financial player, noting that for over three years now, the state government has embarked on aggressive infrastructural development of communities in the area.

He revealed that empirical evidence from Shagunu Beach Resort’s master plan indicates that Shagunu will be promoted as a rising riverside resort destination of choice in the Sahara. He stated that the project, which is envisioned as a Public-Private Partnership on Build, Operate, and Own Model, aims to put Niger state on the global tourism map while increasing the state’s internally generated revenue.

‘’It is our mandate to market and project this God given resort to the outside world and investors with the hope of making the Beach the first of its kind in Nigeria and South of the Sahara, Akintunde revealed.

The beach, situated in the widest part of the River Niger occupies a 1000 hectares of land as the river spans 34km across River Niger.

Shagunu is a rich natural environment which projects excellent opportunities to attract further economic development. As a riverside, it portends limit less prospects for positive growth associated with tourism industry development. It links up with Timbuktu in Mali, newly built Baro Ports in Niger State as well as connecting to the Niger Delta Region through the water ways.

Other side attractions and landmarks of Shagunu Beach are: Kainji National Park, the

Largest National Park of Nigeria which contains Kainji Lake, the Borgu Game Reserve and the Zugurma Game Reserve. The state government has been committed to aggressive infrastructural development of the state with special focus and attention on road construction and massive electrification of communities in Borgu local government and other parts of the state.

Niger State is a multi-culturally rich state that is agriculturally well endowed. It is a state with diverse ethnic groups, peace-loving, accommodating and industrious.

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