Month: August 2024

Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism and one of the world’s leading tourism ministers, Mr. Edmund Bartlett has congratulated the Association of Tourism Practitioners of Nigeria (ATPN) on the official flag off of its state chapter in Ekiti State. Barthlett, who is the Chairman of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre, University of West Indies, […]

Five Nigerian travel journalists have been honoured with grants in the first edition of the Fatima Garbati’s Tourism Outreach Grant. The journalists are: Justina Okpanku of Just Tours;  Obinna Emelike of BusineesDay; Franklin Ihejirika of Nigerian Frank News;  Olawale Olapade of the Nigerian Tribune, and Omololu Olumuyiwa  of Travelscope. The organisers explained that “the five […]

The Fatimah Garbati Tourism Outreach, an NGO that seek to immortalize the contributions of the former president of Nigeria Association of Tour Operators (NATOP), the late Mrs. Fatima Garbati, will be supporting practitioners in the tourism sub-sectors of travel media, schools and travel clubs with the sum of five million Naira, about 3,200 dollars. “The […]

*How God saved the career of Angel Gomes using TB Joshua The release of the latest call up names for the English Football National Team, the Three Lions by the Interim Manager Lee Carsley   marks the complete turnaround of a former Manchester United Football Club academy player Angel Gomes who has gotten his first call […]

The group chief executive officer (GCEO) of Ethiopian Airlines, Mesfin Tasew has said the airline has no immediate plans to partner with any Nigerian airline, adding that plans to establish a national carrier in collaboration with the Nigerian government and institutional investors, have ended. Tasew spoke in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday. In May […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Tourism Mrs Lola Ade-John, says the government will mobilize the country to support the National Association of Nigerian Travel Agencies (NANTA ) at this year’s World Travel Market (WTM) in London, which is the world’s leading tourism and travel trade exposition. The fair will hold in early November.  The minister who was visibly […]

The 20th edition of the Akwaaba Travel Market, West Africa’s largest travel and tourism exhibition fair, is set to be a landmark event with several high-profile newcomers making their debut. Mövenpick Hotel & Residence Nairobi from Kenya, Memorial Healthcare Group from Turkey and Costa Cruises from Italy will be participating for the first time, adding […]

When Prophet T.B. Joshua died on June, 5 2021, about a week to his 58 birthday, there was a sense of huge lost and apprehension among members of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), thousands of religious pilgrims that flock annually to the church, and many from all over the world that had been […]

The President of the Federation of Tourism Associations of Nigeria (FTAN), Mr. Nkereuwem Onung, has called for unity among practitioners in the Nigerian tourism industry. He said recent actions within the sector have raised significant concerns about potential disruptions to industry cohesion and growth. The FTAN President urged the Ministry of Tourism and its affiliated […]

Senator Dino Melaye, a former representative of Kogi West in the Red chambers of the National Assembly has attracted the ire of Nigerians over his promotion of a tourist site in Morocco. Senator Melaye for some time has been sharing his holiday experience in Morocco. In his recent post, he made a 37-second video of […]