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Delegates from 166 member countries of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) are billed to participate at its 2022 conference scheduled to hold in Lagos between Nov. 14 and Nov. 16.

Preparations to host the 1st UNWTO global conference on ‘Linking Tourism, Culture and the Creative Industries in Nigeria, is on top gear

The General Manager of the National Arts Theatre, Professor Sunday Ododo, has said that over 16,000 jobs would be created during and after the ongoing renovation of the complex. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ododo, on Thursday in Lagos, said that most of the jobs in the 44-year-old complex would come from the fields of music, movies, fashion and information technology. He said, “ Some of the jobs will be direct. Others will be indirect. The National Theatre will definitely be...

Banking innovator, ProvidusBank, international consulting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and pensions giant, ARM Pension Managers, lead the team of corporates that have thrown their weight behind the 10th edition of the Daniel Ogechi Akujobi Memorial Foundation Charity Golf tournament, and event organized to raise funds for intervention in two key sectors, one of which is healthcare. Others lending support for the Foundation’s intervention programs are: Fidelity Bank, LandWey Investment Limite...

National Theatre transformation: Private touch will be Midas touch On By Osa Amadi, Arts Editor Government, in this part of our world, has never been good managers of anything. Government businesses and properties are regarded as nobody’s business or property and therefore allowed to fall and waste, or even run aground by citizens who are employed to manage those businesses and properties. Interestingly, and it has been the trend; whenever any failing government business or property is offer...

Share Issues about the National Theatre’s redevelopment seem to have ended with last week’s agreement between the Federal Government and bankers. AKIN ABODUNRIN examines the issues that have bedevilled a once upon a time national treasure. TWENTY years after the journey to ‘privatise’, ‘concession’ and ‘transform into Entertainment City’ began, the National Theatre’s pesky issue appears to have been resolved. Last Sunday, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)/Bankers’ Committee ...

The government says the renovation will create thousands of jobs.

Share The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele has projected that over 25,000 people would be engaged in different sections of work at the National Theatre when fully renovated by the Bankers Committee in the next 15 months. Emefiele disclosed this on Sunday at the handover of the National Theatre Iganmu, Lagos to the Bankers Committee. He expressed joy that the signing of the contract for the restoration and refurbishment of the National Arts Theatre has become a reali...