Nigeria to Liase With Google and others To Recapture Archival Materials

The Minister of Information, Culture and National Orientation, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the ministry is liaising with Google to recapture archival materials kept in various agencies to preserve the country’s national heritage.

The minister, who made this known while defending the ministry’s budget before the Senate Committee on Information, said the ministry was also liaising with the German Government and other international organisations to help preserve the materials.
Mohammed said that if nothing was done in that regard, the country may lose its heritage, thereby making it difficult for future generation to know about the country’s heritage.

Earlier, the Chairman of the committee, Senator Suleiman Adokwe, advised the minister on the urgent need to recapture the materials in order not to lose them. He also advised the ministery to liaise with the Nigerian Television Authority to recapture the materials in digital form. “This is to see if they can be kept in their original format as soon as possible before we lose all of them.”

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