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Tourism  icon, Otunba Olawanle Akinboboye this week focuses on the need for the continent of Africa, to take advantage of its advantages’, by focusing on tourism products that leverage off “our access to this large expanse of sand. With Nigeria alone, having over 884 km of sandy beaches.”   According to him, the product he spoke about last week; ‘Ijoko Yanri‘, took advantage of sand to create seating. In line with this, he would be talking about another tourism product; ‘Beach Polo’, which could leverage off the country’s access to sand. He explained that Beach Polo is a variant of a well known sporting activity known as ‘Polo’ or ‘The Game of Kings’, a sport synonymous with grassy paddocks and wealthy men wielding mallets on the back of charging horses. He mentioned that, Polo had a reputation for being a rich man’s sport and accordingly, a particularly luxurious life style had grown around the sport and the events it hosted. There was also the belief that the sport provided ...

Nigeria’s Tourism Minister, Mrs Lola Ade-John, may finally be the long awaited answer, that the nation’s Tourism sector has long been waiting for.  No sooner had she braved and fought an illness, and recovered, which made her a late starter among her committee of Ministers, Lola Ade-John resumed office looking frail, but ready to run! And run, run, run, has been her lot, since resumption. From one major tourism assignment to another, Lola Ade-John has been on the road, most part of 24 -7 of a day! And when she finally landed at the 65 acres La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort at Ikegun, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, last Friday, it was much clearer why the Minister has decided to hit the road running! Ade-John is not alone, the Minister works with a team, that knows their onions, observant and ready to deliver! And they were all here with her: the Special Adviser Community Engagement, Elizabeth Pam; Special Adviser, Policy and Legal Services, Jibike Teniola; Special Adviser, Media Communicati...

'Ijoko Yanri' is Tourism Icon, Otunba Olawanle Akinboboye's tourism product of the week! With this, Otunba Akinboboye has crossed the midpoint for the 52 tourism products he intended to present over the course of 52 weeks.  The tourism icon stated today’s product 'Ijoko Yanri,' is in the same category, as the previous four (4) products he had spoken about, which all focuses on providing seating opportunity for tourists in a creative manner that would generate unique tourism experiences.  He then mentioned that today’s product is strictly for use on the beach and the materials used to create it are freely available at little or no cost.  This means that, young people with limited capital could create a tourism product that would generate an income flow for them provided they are prepared to put in some physical effort each day.  Otunba Akinboboye explained that ‘Ijoko Yanri‘ coined from the Yoruba language meaning, ‘sit on / in sand’. He then explained that this unus...

  Otunba Olawanle Akinboboye has apologized for the slight delay in revealing  this week tourism product and gave his assurances that he is still committed to his release of 52 products over a 52 week period, as promised. This week’s product he said, is, ‘Simi Rigi.’ Though different, but aligned  with, the two previous products (Simi Rimi and Ijoko Rimi) which he has spoken about earlier. As it also involves taking advantage of your advantages.   He indicated that the product under discussion was fabricated from materials that could be easily sourced in Nigeria and so was relatively inexpensive to make. It could also be fabricated in an eco - friendly manner using recycled plastic chairs. He noted that the product, unlike the earlier products, was land based and would appeal to those who wanted to try new things but were nervous of being on water.  Otunba Akinboboye noted that, whenever a tourism site or destination is established, wherever people would si...