Encounters

Encounters

‘Tourism will generate income which can only be imagined’

Daily Trust: We have many tourism potentials in Nigeria. Why do policy makers and practitioners keep saying they can make the country a tourism hub wi

‘What I avoided to become professor at 40’

Daily Trust: How did you achieve this academic feat of becoming a professor at 40? Professor Nasiru Idris: In life, one needs to have a target. Actual

Meet Lagos man who designed, built ‘amphibious car’

46-year-old Durojaiye Kehinde Obasanjo claims to have built a vehicle that can move on land, sea and in the air. He said the project has been complete

‘How I found new life in fashion designing’

For seven years, Rosemary Ngozi, 33, a graduate of Public Administration from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, tried so hard to secure a job but to n

Meet Jos teen who taught herself how to make shoes

In a red hijab, pen and paper in hand, 14-year-old Zainab Mu’azu sits on a wooden stool surrounded by a sewing machine, an iron bed, and a lot o