Akwaaba travel fair brings the world to Nigeria
As this year’s edition of Africa Travel Market (AFTM), a travel and tourism trade exhibition is billed to open in Lagos tomorrow, Mr. Ikechi Uko, publisher of the Africa Travel Quarterly magazine and organiser of the fair in this interview said it is a platform that best represents the ideas of Business to Business (B2B).
Eaglets’ skipper promises to emulate Ghana’s feat
Captain of the Golden Eaglets, Fortune Chukwudi has said that the team would draw a lot of inspiration from the victory of the Ghanaian U-20 football team over Brazil when they take on the rest of the world in the FIFA U-17 World Cup beginning in Nigeria October 24.
43 years after, Ahmadu Bello lives on
“Northern Nigeria is a large and heavily populated country, full of vitality and promise. In such a large country there is inevitably a great deal of diversity, but in this diversity, as in your great country, lies our strength.
Ambrose Alli University resumes Oct 25
Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, yesterday announced Sunday, October 25, 2009, as date for the continuation of the 2008/2009 academic session which was interrupted by the strike embarked upon by the various unions in the university.
U-17 World Cup: Nigeria shatters FIFA records
By the time the first ball is kicked between defending Champions Nigeria and Germany, Nigeria would have shot into FIFA’s books as the first country to host a ‘shambolic’ FIFA U-17 World Cup. The country that before now commands so much respect from the world soccer-governing body to have won the inaugural FIFA/JVC U-16 World Cup in Beijing, China in 1985 would dent that record after hosting the tourney.
Will Talakawa lead to capitalist revolution in Jigawa?
Officially, the programme is called State Grant to Low Income Entrepreneurs. It is not charity, it is not patronage, it is not a case of anybody pitying anybody. It is neither the Villagisation in Julius Nyerere’s ujamaa nor Stalin’s Collectivization in Soviet Communism.
