Sukur World Heritage Site Hope amid controversies
By MAURICE ARCHIBONG Thursday, January
28, 2010
Ten years late, the Joint Management Committee (JMC)
for Sukur Cultural Landscape, Nigeria’s first
World Heritage Site (WHS), was finally inaugurated on
Tuesday January 12, 2010. | Read
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•Calabar
Carnival supported by NTDC
Photo: MAURICE ARCHIBONG
NTDC
and Runsewe’s scorecards
‘…Tourism thrives on security’
By MAURICE ARCHIBONG Thursday, January 21,
2010
To our esteemed readers, we offer sincere apologies
for “Travels” absence last week. Although
we finished the script on time, it was impossible
to mail in the copy, due to lack of Internet access
in the village; roughly 1, 120km from Lagos, where
work had taken us. |
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Sukur
Kingdom (2)
Pain before pleasure
‘...We’ve not abandoned Sukur’
By MAURICE ARCHIBONG Thursday, December
17, 2009
Located 120km from Maiduguri, 1190km
from Lagos and 710km from Abuja; Sukur Kingdom
covers over 760 hectares of undulating highlands,
whose peaks range between 1, 000 feet and a little
over 3, 040 feet. Since there is no motorway in
these parts | Read
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