COVID-19 has placed the whole world on lock-down, with new research from the World Tourism Organization showing that 100 per4 cent of global destinations continue to have restrictions on travel in place, and 72 per cent have completely closed their borders to international tourism. From the start of the crisis, the United Nations specialized agency […]
Stalk-holders Call for COVID-19 Committee on Tourism
*Tourism industry needs N150b Stalk-holders in the tourism industry have called the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to, as a matter of urgency, set up a COVID-19 tourism committee just like the one for the creative sector. This, they say, has become necessary in the light of tourism and hospitality sector being […]
Civil War Artifacts
Nigeria gradually losing them all January 15, 2019 marked the 49th anniversary of the end of the Nigerian civil war. The generation that took active parts in the war, particularly in the South East, then part of the defunct Biafra Republic, is gradually dying out. To many young men in the South East, the civil […]
Ijala: Delta State community where the Kings never die
Where trees serve as eternal tombstones In the Royal Cemetery, Ijala, Delta State of Nigeria, the Itsekiris have a place that comes close to the Valley of Kings in Egypt. It is a grove known as Ijala and it has a history that is 520 years old with about 18 kings buried in it. However, […]
Kigali Genocide Memorial:
Horror chambers that teach peace. Can there be closure to painful memories of the past? Can one ever overcome the horror of a bad dream that became reality, having loved ones hacked to death and their bodies disposed of in the most undignifying manner? Kigali Genocide Memorial in the Rwandan capital is pitched at the […]