Nigeria’s Colourful Show at the World Travel Market

The glitz and glamour of the World Travel Market held in London may have come and gone, but the event was an eye opener that African tourism remains a big force in world tourism as the continent’s representatives in unison said despite the Ebola epidemic in three West African States, nothing is going to stop tourism in Africa. Funke Olaode reports

The World Travel Market situated in Excel, East London has often been described as a place to showcase tourism and hospitality by stakeholders across the globe. And over the years, it has lived up to its expectation by parading the best.  Between November 3 and 6, the world again converged on London to brainstorm on how to make the industry better.

Leading the Nigerian delegates was the

FG monitoring 400 contacts of doctor who died of Ebola

Dr. Abdulsalami Nasidi, project director at Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, has said about 400 people are being monitored for signs of Ebola after they came in contact with a Port Harcourt doctor who died of the disease but hid the fact that he had been exposed.

Nasidi said, on Thursday, there was a sense of “hopelessness” due to the lack of proven drugs or vaccines to treat Ebola that has infected 18 people in Africa’s most populous nation.

In an interview with Reuters in Geneva, he said that more isolation wards were being opened in the oil industry hub but voiced confidence that there would not be “many cases” there.

After having contact with an Ebola patient and before his own death on

Ebola Affects Bourbon’s Operations as Company Reports Loss

The deadly Ebola outbreak in Nigeria is affecting Bourbon SA’s operations, the supplier of ships and crew to energy producers said after reporting that it swung to a loss in the first half partly on industry cost cutting.

“The mobility of our vessels coming from Nigeria has been restricted by some countries,” Bloomberg quoted the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Christian Lefevre, to have told reporters.

“Vessels coming from Nigeria can’t go directly to Cameroon or Ivory Coast”, he said.

While Bourbon has stopped sending vessels to Nigeria for maintenance, there “haven’t been any significant disruptions” to operations, he added.

The company’s Nigerian operations are centered around