It was a must do – call it the ultimate opportunity to go to the cradle of Yoruba land. The marathon activities projected itself as a one time opportunity to see two greats at once – the great OAU and the great Ile-Ife city itself. So bag in hand the road trip began. A day before the Ile-Ife Heritage Marathon…
I sat at a workers meeting in January and heard this phrase and it just stayed with me. Leaders. are.tour.guides.not.travel.agents. A travel agent as defined by Webster is a person who provides travel and tourism related services to the public on behalf of suppliers such as activities, airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways, travel insurance, and package tours. A tour guide on the other…
Gun laws and the need for them to be checked has been a perennial issue and floated yet again to the fore as headline news. There are those who are for (some are against it) and the divide continues to cause a rift with the people from the “land of the free and the home of the brave”. In a…
We are a well-read people. Nigerians desire and thirst for every degree and certification there is which in itself is laudable. There is a sense of wanting more, achieving more, desiring more, going a level higher cerebrally that seems to be somehow encoded in our DNA somewhere. The puzzling question to ask ourselves is “to what end”? It’s important that…