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Nike Art Gallery to host Art Event for Social Media Week Lagos 2014
Nike Art Gallery plans to participate in the Social Media Week Lagos next week by hosting African Art and tourism enthusiasts at their amazing multi-story gallery in Lekki, Lagos, which hosts more than 15,000 (and counting) art works. The event is scheduled for 20th of February, 2014 (next week Thursday) at 11:00am at the DOT…
Here’s Your Chance to Meet Nigeria’s top Travel Bloggers… It’s coming live!
Top Nigerian travel bloggers resident here in Nigeria will be meeting up at Social Media Week (SMW) in Lagos next week, to discuss how to promote tourism in Nigeria through story-telling, the impact social and digital media on the travel, tourism and hospitality industry in Africa, as well as issues affecting domestic tourism in…
Domestic Tourism: Why it is Still Unattractive to Nigerians
The tourism and travel industry is a money- spinning industry no doubt. It is one of the few sectors that survived the recent world-wide recession and political unrests, churning out billions in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in countries serious about tourism. And charity, they say starts at home. So, why are Nigerians famed…
Lekki Leisure Lake: the fastest growing weekend hangout spot in Lagos [Photos]
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The sun danced along the skies as fingers of its light pierced through the air and race to the earth. The distant skyline blows up in shades of vivid blue hues as the sea kisses and melts into the clouds. The raging waters run towards the West-African coast in multiple waves and break into series…
Idanre, Much More than You can see
Daring heights wall shadowed valleys, Verdant forests caps granitic mounds, Rusted roofs of brown coats line ancient alleys, Mud walls, wooden stalls, ancient palaces, and inscriptions on rocks, by human hands and magic spells, they were fashioned. Massive caves with limpid springs that heal, Awesome wildlife, untouched, abundant, kept safe up on the hills….
Exclusive: Captain Matthew Ekeinde opens a new tourist resort in Badagry
The pilot husband of Nollywood actress, Omotola Jolade-Ekeinde, Captain Mathew Ekeinde recently opened an entertainment and tourist center in Badagry called “Aquatic Jungle Entertainment”. The center has planes as part of its tourist and entertainment attractions. According to Captain Matthew, his idea to embark on such a tasking and money gulping project was born after…
The Sweet Serenity, Salt, Sea & Sands of Eleko Beach, Lagos
I was lost in amazement, enraptured by the swelling blue sea, caressed and cuddled by the sweeping puff of cool breeze, and staring blankly at the sandy beach dotted here and there by tourists, tanning in the sweet Saturday noon sun. A set of fishing canoes rested near the sea shore, where the raging bulge…
Olumo Rock- pile of boulders, home of caves, residence of ancient shrines
Many rocks I’ve climbed, many hills I’ve conquered, ancient dwellings I have seen, many caves I’ve entered, but none like the magnificent rocks of Olumo… A bastion of massive granite, soaring high and proud into the ice-blue skies, smiling and glimmering upon the Ogun River and the ancient town of Abeokuta, south-western Nigeria. The climb…
Africa’s Oldest Known Boat found in Dufuna village near Yobe River, Northern Nigeria
A Fulani herdsman who roamed the desert lands of Northern Nigeria in search for pastures, descended into one of the dry valleys drained by the gentle flowing prongs of Koma Dugu Gana River in the northern part of Yobe State. It must have been a dry season. The location lies on the outskirts of…
A visit to Igbo-Ora in SW Nigeria, the town with the largest twin births in the world! [video]
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So amazing it is to know that there is a place in Nigeria where exists the largest population of twins in the world. This place is Igbo-Ora, small village in Oyo State, south-west Nigeria, where more twins are born in Igbo-Ora than anywhere else on earth and that there are just few households who do…