Cross River has identified the many benefits of the Calabar Festival extravaganza 2024, which showcased the richness of Calabar culture. With the theme: ‘Our Shared Prosperity’, the 2024 Calabar Carnival lasted for 32 days, featuring a wide range of activities and events. Some of the notable events included the Christmas Tree Lighting, Carnival Calabar Dry […]
Nigeria has so much to offer the world, from its culture to tourist destinations, but foreigners who may want to visit the country face hostility at Nigeria’s airports due to actions of security operatives. Over the years travellers leaving and coming to Nigeria narrate harrowing experience about the hostility, harassment and extortion that go on at the […]
The Minister of Tourism, Mrs. Lola Ade-John, recently linked up with her counterpart in the aviation sector, Festus Keyamo, to discuss issues concerning travel and tourism in Nigeria. Both ministers have a mandate from the President to improve travellers experience in Nigeria. The two ministers discussed the role of aviation in developing travel and tourism […]
A group of tour operators and journalists embarked on road trip recently from Nigeria to Ghana to attend the Accra Weizo, West Africa travel expo; visiting tourist attractions in Benin, Togo and Ghana. Chinedu Eze who was part of the team reports that a country known for Voodooism, Benin has unexplored cultural trends and a […]
Travel expert and organiser of Akwaaba African Travel Market, Ambassador Ikechi Uko, spoke about how Nigeria could take advantage of its huge population and natural endowments to develop tourism and attract investors, like other countries in Africa. In those days, the West Coast used to be lucrative for Nigerian airlines, during the era of […]
