Festival News
The Director General of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Mr. Obi Asika, has said this year’s edition of National Festival for Arts and Culture (NAFEST) is being rebranded.
Asika said rebranding the festival was important to focus more on capacity building for creatives and talent discovery as well as development.
The NCAC boss announced this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that NCAC is saddled with the responsibility of annually organising NAFEST and the International Arts and Craft Expo (INAC).
According to him, the plan is to further bring culture to the centre of the Nigerian economy.
Asika said the festival, scheduled to hold from November 22 to November 30 in Abuja, would feature programmes Dambe, cooking competition, Jollof rice war, Swag show, fashion show, dance-off, sing-off, traditional games competition and more.
“This year’s NAFEST is critical to us. We are planning on rebranding NAFEST as we have engaged development partners, private sector partners, reality show development partners and more,” he said.
