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Lights, Camera, Review

Get your movie ticket, popcorn and be ready to roll out the red carpet! Oh yes, I’m excited to announce that I’ll be starting a new series on my blog, where I’ll be sharing my thoughts and opinions on the latest movies hitting the box office. This is an initiative I have long to unveil for a while now and finally we are here and ready to unleash them all here. So whether you’re a film buff or…

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Book Title: Where to…The Taxi Chronicle  Author: N’jio Carré  Published by: Bobelle Publishing Publication year: 2023 Humans are not some form of robots, we are social being and in all facet and at every point in our life, we want to touch life, feel life, chop life [like my Nigerian folks say] and as well interact with life as much as possible. This exactly and more were the unveilings in …

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We have Moved

Hello fun loving readers of Nifty Travel Pack. This is to specially notify you that Niftytravelpack.wordpress.com has been changed or moved to become a paid domain but still on wordpress. We have moved to become http://www.niftytravelpack.com. Our contents still remains, we just feel a need to step up our game in order to bring travel and destination stories to you in a more professional…

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Meet Femi Coker the curator of World longest drum

Meet Femi Coker the curator of World longest drum

Just before the end of the year I had the priviledge of having an interview with the founder of Femi Art House, a mixed media artist based in Badagry area of Lagos. His unimaginable understanding of art really pricked my interest and I got to work. I Interviewed him and was so glad I did after he unveiled his soon to be, Guinness World record projects. Here was how it went. Can we meet you…

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“I will say that the Benin massacre did us more good” –Sculptor Eric Ogbemudia

“I will say that the Benin massacre did us more good” –Sculptor Eric Ogbemudia #Travel #NiftyTravelPack #Travelphotography #Tourism #Travelblog#travelingram #Traveldeeper #wanderlust #Travelblogger

Your travel to Benin City is never complete without a visit to Igun Street. Igun Street happens to be the home of bronze works in the state. Igun Street, as it were, has a long-standing record of being a collection center for most of Benin artworks and the place from where lots of art and culture enthusiast gets to buy from. Artworks ranging from, Bronze works to terra-cotta, woodworks and many…

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Travel photography brings different parts of the world to you -Eti-Inyene

Travel photography brings different parts of the world to you -Eti-Inyene

Photography is one essential tool through which we tell amazing stories of our culture. Photography actually mirrors life back to us in the simplest ways possible. But then, whichever ways a photographer chooses to communicate life to you the most important denominator is for art to be felt appreciated and well communicated through this medium of expression.

In this interview with, Eti-Inyene…

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Aviation became a niche for me because I want to change the narrative of the industry- Joy Ogbebo

Aviation became a niche for me because I want to change the narrative of the industry- Joy Ogbebo #Travel

The aviation industry is one important wheel through which the economy of a nation is driven and also one medium through which air travelers travel faster and in the course, save time. In this interview with the Ceo and founder of Mamaj Aviation Consult, Mrs.Joy Ogbebo unleashes to Nifty Travel pack her twenty-six years career as an aviation professional in the Nigerian aviation sector even as…

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Mum Money and I (A Neo Critical Analysis)

Mum Money and I (A Neo Critical Analysis)

Book title: Mum Money and I

Author’s name: Odunayo Ajani

Published by: Odunayo Ajani

Publication year: 2019

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  So here is my first published title, Mum Money and I. This book was published out of my sheer desire to teach kids and all youngsters financial literacy. Today i am glad to be sharing the review on my blog.

  How to do a Neo Critical Analysis: Using Mum Money and I b…

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Rebirth (from grass to grace) by Juliana Olayode

Book title : Rebirth (from grass to grace) Author : Juliana Olayode Publisher: The love Factory

Reading about the renown Juliana Olayode (Toyo baby) in this autobiography of hers will be one way upward for artists in Nollywood. Olayode’s story of her life in this book and her fast rise in Nollywood has shown, a clearer picture of an unrefined story, told the way it happened. Ordinarily I haven’t…

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The Benin National museum in Benin City Edo state, stands as one of Nigeria’s national monuments which has been successful at housing Benin monarchical history with a proper documentation of culture, culture similarities in Nigeria and the society in general since 1973.

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The historical introduction of artifact and archaeological collections into the Benin National museum began in the year 1946 after popular writer, Chief Jacob Eghareba in partnership with the then Oba of Benin, Oba Akenzua saw reasons to document some of the heritage assets in the palace.

  The creation of the museum came to be in two eras. The Archaeology collection era and the exhibition period. Both eras played a lead role in the collection of artifacts relevant to Benin Royal Kingdom and some other tribes in Nigeria.

ALSO READ: “It is only through cultural tourism that you can attract foreigners” – Curator, National Benin Museum

  The second era took off in the year 1973 with an exhibition which was inspired by the donation of a spherical building (which presently houses the Museum today) by S.O Ogbemudia (former military governor of Edo when it was formerly referred to as Bendel). The exhibition began in 1973 and lasted through July 2016 of the same year before it was deinstalled.

  Documenting history with the collection of archaeological artifact for the Benin National Museum’s gallery will never be completed without the mention of veteran photographer, S.O Alonge. Alonge became a pioneer photographer for the Royal court of Benin and was able to store up glass plate negatives for over forty years which was later acquired by American Smithsonian group after Alonge had a discussion (which was centered on preservation and documentation of his works) with one Professor Caplan.

  Gallery classification at Benin National Museum

The exhibition gallery at the Benin National Museum has dutifully been classified into three different tiers.

  ALSO READ: Travel to Nigeria: Backpacking to Benin city

  Oba Akenzua Gallery (Ground floor)

Chief S.O Alonge Gallery (First floor)

Unity Gallery (Second floor)

  Oba Akenzua Gallery

Oba Akenzua Exhibition gallery

Oba Akenzua exhibition has been segmented into four bases. The first is Oba superiority and authority. Just as said, artifacts in this exhibition involve everything that has to do with Oba’s superiority and authority. There you see Oba bronze head. The second base you see Oba Esegie’s contact with Europeans. This involves when the Portuguese came to Benin during Oba Esegie’s reign. It involves things related to his contact with them. The third one we call it divinity. Things found in this exhibition stand involve items related to shrines, sacred items used by traditional worshippers and other items within the divinity category. The fourth one is the punitive expenditure. That is the time termed, the Benin Massacre in 1897 when the British came to Benin and carted away with object belonging to the Benin ancestry.

  Chief S.O Alonge Gallery

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Chief S.O Alonge’s gallery contains all photography works of S.O Alonge in the year 1933 during the reign of Oba Akenzua. So most of the pictures he took in the Royal Court and outside it are the pictures you will see here.

    The Unity Gallery

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At the unity gallery, the museum is trying to showcase different cultural artifacts and historical items varying from one culture to the other. The idea as suggested by the museum for this gallery is to showcase the similarities between cultures in Nigeria.

      Historical making of Benin National Museum The Benin National museum in Benin City Edo state, stands as one of Nigeria’s national monuments which has been successful at housing Benin monarchical history with a proper documentation of culture, …

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“It is only through cultural tourism that you can attract foreigners” – Curator, National Benin Museum

“It is only through cultural tourism that you can attract foreigners” – Curator, National Benin Museum

In sustaining the cultural heritage of any country there is in the world, at a given period of time, Museums are the best repository of cultural interest and such that should be focused on and generously invested in, in a bid to preserve the nation’s culture which could quickly be forgotten.

In this interview with Nifty Travel, the Curator, National Museum, Benin City, Mr. Theophilus Umogbai…

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Travel to Nigeria: Backpacking to Benin city

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Backpacking will never be tedious for me any day anytime. And on this most recent trip of mine to Benin city, Nigeria, I did it with fun, enjoying every minutes while it lasted.

Like I might have told you in one

  of my recent article, my intention is to travel to the 36 states in Nigeria and later travel to as many countries in the world, not just to be confined to my home country or Africaalone.

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Meet Evang Olatunji Ajani "Ajasco" Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi ex guitarist

Meet Evang Olatunji Ajani “Ajasco” Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi ex guitarist

There are names in Nigeria Music industry we easily wouldn’t remember today. And there are great men that have activated alot of things in the Nigerian music space that are not remembered today effectively the way they should.

I was just wandering online for some stuff which will keep me busy yesterday when i came across one of the guitarist that played for former, juju musician, cum pastor, Eben…

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6 Travel financial plans for your family trip

6 Travel financial plans for your family trip

Travel financial plans -Nifty travels and tour

Planning the finances to be incurred for a family travel could sound too familiar to you, but many people have gone on to mess up a good time they would have had with their family.

As simple as it though seems, it might involve that you plan for a whole month or at times just some few days when you have the financial expertise at your disposal. Never…

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5 Ways to plan your Family Travel Effectively

5 Ways to plan your Family Travel Effectively

Most husbands are workaholic while their wives are the opposite. We tend to pay more attention to the pay and let go of spoiling the little “child” in us. Fun is no bad idea for a family that has expended quite a lot of energy into making money, housekeeping and schooling. The fun of life comes, posing itself with lots of opportunities, but then you need to grasp it and hook on to what would be a

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Tips on how to save for your Travel trip

Tips on how to save for your Travel trip

  You wouldn’t know how much I love traveling until you set your beautiful eyes on what gives me joy the most. As far as I can remember I knew I have ventured into quite a number of things, send a number of emails and taken quite some  good numbers of challenge just to enjoy my travelmoment. You can also so the same, even though I know money can be a little barrier, hindering most people from…

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Lagos Tour: Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti Immortalized in Lagos

Lagos Tour: Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti Immortalized in Lagos

The mention of Afrobeat music in Nigeria is never complete without the mention of Nigerian musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Fela Kuti became one of the top and most celebrated artist in Nigeria at a time and the most revered where the history of Afrobeat is concerned.

He became one of the top and most celebrated artist in Nigeria at a time in the early 70s and the most revered where the history of…