Nigeria offers a wide variety of tourist attractions such as extended and roomy river and ocean beaches ideal for swimming and other water sports, unique wildlife, vast tracts of unspoiled nature ranging from tropical forest, magnificent waterfalls, some new rapidly growing cities and climatic conditions in some parts particularly conducive to holidaying.
Other attractions include traditional ways of life preserved in local customs; rich and varied handicrafts and other colourful products depicting or illustrative of native arts and lifestyle, and the authentic unsophisticated but friendly attitude of many in the Nigerian population.
Udo-Obong Wants American Style for Local Athletics All Africa Sydney 2000 Olympic Games gold medalist (by default), Enefiok Udo-Obong has charged the Athletic Federation of Nigeria has been advised to adopt the American system to attain the country's former...
Nigeria sells $85 mln of one-year treasury bonds Reuters Nigeria sold 10 billion naira worth of one-year treasury bonds in a move aimed at curbing money supply growth and taming inflation, the central bank said on Friday. The bank...
Nigerian cocoa mid-crop exports rise 87 percent Reuters Adds background, table) By Tume Ahemba Nigeria's cocoa mid-crop exports climbed 87 percent to 24,939 tonnes in the four months to July, compared to the same...
Nigerian interbank rates rise on cenbank glitch Reuters Nigerian interbank lending rates climbed higher on average this week as a glitch at the central bank blocked retail banks' access to the repo-window, worsening the...
Nigerian Cbank issues 91-day T-bills at 9.0 pct Reuters Results of auctions of Nigerian treasury bills in the week to Sept. 4 as released by the central bank on Friday: (In millions of naira) PRIMARY MARKET Sept 4 Aug...
NUJ Gives Shell Ultimatum Over Detention of Journalists All Africa The Warri Chapel of the Nigeria Union Journalists yesterday demanded a written apology from the Anglo-Ducth oil company, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) over its alleged role in the...
UN to consider Somalia force when things improve Reuters The U.N. Security Council parried on Thursday a request from Somalia to send a peace-keeping force to the violence-torn nation, saying it would...
FG Accuses Donors of Lacking Transparency All Africa The Federal Government yesterday identified lack of transparency and openness in administering aid and assistance as factors militating against derivation of benefits from about N384 billion...
WAfrica Crude-Angolan firmer, Nigerian slow Reuters A few October Angolan cargoes continued to clear at firmer price levels, while Nigerian light sweet grades struggled to find buyers, traders said on Friday. ...
Stop Overheating the System, AC Tells PDP All Africa Action Congress has again challenged the PDP to stop overheating the polity through fallacious claims, saying the ruling party should not add to the problems it has already created for Nigerians...
Unesco Hails Yar All Africa Nigeria's Permanent Delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Professor Michael Omolewa, has lauded the inclusion of education for all in the seven...
NNPC, DPR Lack Oil Production Records All Africa Nigeria's daily oil production records are not captured properly by the regulatory agencies, the Chairman of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative Professor Assisi Asobie...
Resumption of Oil Exploration in the North [editorial] All Africa That is according to the Group Managing Director of the government owned Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Engineer Lawal Yar'adua. According to the NNPC boss, some novelty will be added...
Cement - Firm Embraces Strict EIA Compliance All Africa The management of Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc, a leading cement manufacturer, has reiterated that its proposed new plants will comply with both Nigeria and international standard in terms of...
Soludo Sacks Omoyeni as Wema Bank MD All Africa Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Chukwuma Soludo yesterday sacked the embattled Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Wema Bank for illegally taking over the...
CPJ Demands Release of Journalist and Translator All Africa U.s. documentary filmmaker Andrew Berends was filming women going to the market in a public waterside area of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, when he was detained by the Nigerian military, according to...
EFCC - Fear Grips Osun Lawmakers All Africa Fear of the unknown yesterday gripped all the 26 Osun lawmakers as they departed Abuja to honour the invitation of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission which is probing the lawmakers over...
Adamu Advocates Stable Fertilizer Policy All Africa To address fertiliser crisis and agriculture related problems in Nigeria, there is the need to ensure policy consistency that will be passed from one regime to another, former Governor of Nassarawa...
Local Government Misappropriated More Than N3 Trillion All Africa Days after the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, revealed that over N3 trillion was misappropriated by Local Government Chairmen across the country...
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