Calabar Carnival and the Governor’s Booth Tourism
PHOTOGRAPH IS FROM THE CALABAR CARNIVAL'S WEBSITE . Calabar Carnival and the Governor’s Booth Tourism For instance at the stadium yesterday (during the carnival), a seat at the governor’s booth sold for N25, 000 and I think that we made more than N5 million ($35, 000). So there are products that we think we can generate revenue from and we are hoping to get to a stage where we can concession it whereby somebody comes in and says I want the governor’s booth and pay for it then market it. The same on the carnival routes, vendors on the routes are registered and pay for space . ~ Senator Liyel Imoke, Governor of Cross River State in Nigeria, in DESTINATION , page 42, TRAVEL & TOURISM SECTION of The Guardian of Nigeria on Saturday January 28, 2012. PHOTOGRAPH IS FROM THE CALABAR CARNIVAL'S WEBSITE . Only God knows how much in billions of naira the administration of Senator Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has spent so far on the so called Calabar Carvival , dubbed as Africa’s...