African Descent Leadership Summit now to hold October – Organisers
...stakeholders had been advised to take advantage of this extension to ensure adequate preparation.;
The planned African Descent Creative Industry Leadership Summit hitherto scheduled for between May 13 and May 18 in Abuja has been postponed by the organisers.
Supreme news reports that the summit is being organised by Global Initiative for Leadership Success (GILS), a non-governmental organisation (NGO).
A statement issued by the President/CEO of GILS), Chief Sunnie Chukumele, in Abuja on Sunday attributed the postponement to the need to give participants and delegates more time to prepare to attend the programme, which also includes conferment of awards.
Chukumele said that the summit, which now holds in October, would also feature pageantry of arts and crafts, fashion, runway, cultural parades, tourism and hospitality as well as the African descent beauty pageant.
He said that the African descent creative industry leadership summit, honours and pageants, which was to be hosted in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy, was aimed at creating an economic hub and bloc for the industry within the African descent community across the world.
Chukumele stated that delegates for the summit and programmes were drawn from policy makers, industry stakeholders, academics and strategic financial institutions.
He said that participants would include Ministers of Arts, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy of the entire African descent countries and the embassies and high commissions of African descent countries in Nigeria.
Others, according to him, are legislative committees on culture and tourism, commissioners for culture and tourism as well as the parastatals and agencies in the creative economy.
The CEO said that stakeholders had been advised to take advantage of this extension to ensure adequate preparation.
He further stated that participants had equally been told to seize the opportunity of the unique event to create the ambience for exchange of friendships and networking for enhancement of industrial growth, prosperity and development in the African descent community.