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Fixing the giant: Can Nigeria’s textile industry regain lost glory?

This arti­cle was orig­i­nally writ­ten for www.tradeinvestnigeria.com. In May, an Indian trade mis­sion, led by Mr. Ravi Ban­gar, the deputy per­ma­nent rep­re­sen­ta­tive of India to the World Trade Organ­i­sa­tion (WTO), paid a visit to Mr. Jubril Martins-Kuye, Nigeria’s Min­is­ter for Com­merce and Indus­try. One of the major issues they dis­cussed was the pos­si­bil­ity of India

Obama’s face of Africa that is too often overlooked.

The mes­sage, In 1985, around 85,000 peo­ple vis­ited the trop­i­cal coun­try; that num­ber has now sky­rock­eted to around 600,000. In June of this year, the Ghana Tourist Board launched a pro­mo­tional ini­tia­tive with the aim of attract­ing 1 mil­lion annual vis­i­tors by the end of 2012.