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Tourism  Icon, Otunba Olawanle Akinboboye’s tourism product for week 21, ‘Tourism Half Hour’ is ready to go on air in the next few days. While speaking at the release of the product penultimate week, Otunba Akinboboye had pointed out that, ‘Tourism Half Hour’ is a weekly television programme that focuses on Knowledge, Application and Fulfillment (KAF) in relation to tourism and the creation and growth of a tourism industry in Nigeria and Africa. Tourism Half Hour among other things, will showcase and expand upon the 52 products being presented by him, in his weekly new tourism products, media presentation series. The TV programme is designed to enlighten not only tourism practitioners and members of the public, but also government officials, who will gain a better understanding of the tourism industry and the products required to create a viable tourism industry for the continent. Which also will facilitate their ability to create an enabling environment for the African tourism ind...

* Otunba Olawanle Akinboboye    The  24th product of the week, is Ijoko Rimi, says tourism icon, Otunba Olawanle Akinboboye. Though it may appear similar to last week’s presentation of is (Simi Rimi), it has distinct features that provides a complete different water experience from last week’s tourism product.   ‘Ijoko Rimi’ according to him, is a Yoruba term that means ‘sit on water’. Once again, this item is produced locally from wood and recycled vegetable oil  kegs. However, rather than being designed as a floating bed, it  incorporates the seating portion of a plastic chair (what’s left after you cut off the chair’s legs) to create an apparatus that will enable tourists gently float on water while relaxing in a seated position.   He then mentioned that the apparatus is also designed in a way that would facilitate sports fishing, so that keen anglers can spend a relaxing day attempting to catch fish.   The materials this apparatus uses are eco...

  Humanity is special. It knows no barriers. It has no colour, religion or political affiliation. It does not give interpretation to political philosophies neither does it give it consideration. Humanity has no apology for hypothetical theories, except humility and love for mankind. The love for humanity, is more real, in the coastal fishing communities of Ibeju-Lekki, in Lagos, Nigeria. The seat of government ofcourse is at Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos and the federal government is controlled from chamber houses and political halls and corridors at the federal capital territory in Abuja. Here in the coastal communities, the presence of federal, state and local governments are here, the military, the navy, policemen and so on. Security in this area is top notch. Moreso with the federal and state interest in the development of the area, especially the free trade zone. But the lifestyle of the locals is exceptionally very traditional, devoid of the esthetics of the cosmopolitan norms and exp...

  Simi Rimi , the floating bed on water, is Tourism Icon, Otunba Olawanle Akinboboye’s Tourism product for Week 23! Elaborating on this, Otunba Olawanle Akinboboye disclosed that, the abundance of water features in Nigeria (rivers, lagoons, lakes and ponds), it becomes inevitable that Nigeria’s tourism offerings would include water sports. He then went on to speak about ‘Simi Rimi’ which is a Yoruba term that means, ‘to rest or relax on water’. This item is a locally produced apparatus that falls into the category of water sports equipment. Equipments such as kayaks, hydro bikes, canoes surf boards and speed boats, which we normally think about when we think of ‘water sports’ and which, because they are usually imported, may be expensive to purchase. Simi Rimi which resembles a floating canopy bed, is eco – friendly and constructed of material that is locally sourced. The floaters that keep it suspended on top of the water are recycled vegetable oil plastic kegs while its bed frame...