 Ahead of this year's Calabar Festival, the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism Eric Andersen maintained that the event is a unifying factor capable of creating opportunities for everybody. The Commissioner regretted the two-year break which he blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic, which also affected tourism festivals across the globe. He assured of adequate security measures during the festival. We as a state and the federal government should also put more energy for export. Once you are able to encourage export of our culture and our tourism, that also will create more job opportunities for young people. So it's something we need to pay more attention to and also be patriotic. If every year you take your family out to Dubai, Ghana, Kigali, as a case maybe, who will sleep in the hotels in Nigeria? You understand what I mean? So if you don't sleep in the hotels in Nigeria, the hotels don't make money. They don't make money. They can't pay so they will start to reduce staff. So beyond all of this, I pray that we are patriotic.